In the middle of last week, for one of the first times all season, Chris Holtmann sat in front of the virtual media and espoused positivity about Kyle Young’s health. The conversation about the senior forward this year had often gone to the lower-leg pain he has battled for years, and more recently the head coach had spoken about the concussion he suffered in February that led him to miss a late-season game. But on Wednesday, Holtmann said Young was “feeling good right now” and “everything’s fine there.”
That, of course, didn’t last long.
Young took an inadvertent elbow to the head from Trevion Williams during the second half of Ohio State’s overtime win against Purdue in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten tournament, stayed in the game for a few possessions, then exited to once again get evaluated.