I must admit, I have never been in attendance for a Big Ten men’s basketball game inside St. John Arena. The only conference game — and big game — atmosphere that I know surrounding the Ohio State Buckeyes basketball program has come inside the Value City Arena at the Schottenstein Center.
I was there in 2005 when Matt Sylvester hit the game-winning shot against LSU, albeit I was walking around the concourse thinking OSU was toast. When I was a student at Ohio State from 2012-16, the first men’s basketball game that attended was against Akron; the game where they unveiled and raised the 2012 Final Four banner into the rafters.