Chris Holtmann didn’t want to talk about the win, at least not initially. His mind was elsewhere.
Surely having spent the better part of the past 48 hours dealing with and thinking about DJ Carton’s decision to temporarily step away from the team to improve his mental health, Holtmann had a non-basketball related item to discuss when he walked into a room filled with reporters in the bowels of the Schottenstein Center.
Forty minutes beforehand, his team had beaten Indiana, marking the first time the Buckeyes picked up consecutive wins since mid-December. But when he took a step onto the podium and sat down at a table with audio recorders piled onto it and cameras pointed at his face, Holtmann had an itinerary of topics he wanted to discuss, none of which had anything to do with the result of Saturday’s game.