Head coach Chris Holtmann, feeling the tide turning, stepped out onto the court and called a timeout. His Ohio State team, which watched Northwestern turn a 12-point deficit into a one-point deficit with just a little more than four minutes remaining in Wednesday’s Big Ten matchup, needed to catch its breath, settle down and regroup.
Part of Holtmann’s philosophy with his players is to learn from games but not to harp on them. He doesn’t spend oodles of time going back on the past, rather preferring to focus with his team on gradual, day-to-day improvement. But anybody who’d seen the Buckeyes-Wildcats game on Dec.