Anyone who went along on the roller-coaster ride that was the 2016-2017 Ohio State men’s basketball season knows that it was a classic case of unrealized potential on both a micro and a macro level. Players showed signs of what they could do individually, but were never able to maintain their highest levels of play. In kind, eight of the team’s 15 losses on the season were by two or fewer possessions; a painful reminder of what might have been.
That is likely the reason that Rob Oller and Land-Grant’s own Matt Brown have at least a modicum of optimism about this fall’s squad.