IOWA CITY, Iowa – The Ohio State men’s basketball did something Thursday that it hadn’t done in 121 previous seasons: it won for the fourth consecutive time on the road against a Top-15 team.
The seventh-ranked Buckeyes used hot 3-point shooting and a key run midway through the second half to defeat No. 8 Iowa, 89-85, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. The Buckeyes improve to 15-4 overall and 9-4 in the Big Ten while Iowa is now 13-5, 7-4.
Ohio State made 14 3-point field goals and turned a 61-50 deficit midway through the second half into a 67-66 lead at the 10:12 mark thanks to a 17-5 run. The Buckeyes took the lead for good on a Kyle Young dunk with 8:10 remaining for a 71-70 lead and iced the game when Justin Ahrens made three 3-pointers in the final four minutes of the game.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men’s hockey lost the series opener to Notre Dame Friday in Value City Arena. Notre Dame used a four-goal second period en route to a 6-1 win.
The Buckeyes (5-13-1, 5-12-0-0-1-0 B1G) and Irish (9-9-1, 7-7-1-1-2-1 B1G) will close the weekend and regular season series at 1:30 p.m. Saturday on BTN, the Fox Sports app and Ohio State radio.
Quoting Ohio State head coach Steve Rohlik
“You have to keep fighting, you have to keep digging and you have to keep clawing away and you have to keep working. That’s the only way to get better. It’s the only thing I know how to do and that’s what we are going to do. We are going to have to keep teaching and keep working at it. We are going to get it through to these guys at one point or another.”
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women’s gymnastics team will compete in the Covelli Center for the first time this season when it hosts No. 17 Michigan State and No. 20 Illinois on Sunday at 4 p.m. in a tri-meet. The competition will air live on the Big Ten Network.
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Ohio State (1-3, 1-2 Big Ten) finished second at a tri-meet with Michigan State and Nebraska last Saturday with a team score of 195.325. As a team, Ohio State claimed the vault title with a 48.975, which tied its season high. Five Buckeyes won shares of three event titles. Elexis Edwards and Sydney Jennings earned a share of the vault crown with scores of 9.825 while Colby Miller and Jenna Swartzentruber shared the bars title with a pair of 9.850s. Alexis Hankins tied for first on floor behind a 9.875.