Thad Matta knew he wasn't going to have D'Angelo Russell too long at Ohio State — way before the rest of us did.
"It was probably our preseason scrimmage at West Virginia when he had 33 and he hit the game-winner," Matta said April 23, the day after Russell announced his intentions to enter the 2015 NBA Draft. "I kind of scratched my head and said, ‘Uh oh.’ This kid, he was doing things that we hadn’t even talked about yet in terms of drill work, it was a real early scrimmage."
Russell was special in his lone season in Columbus, taking home Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors after averaging 19.