If Bruce Thornton had it his way, he wouldn’t have told anybody of his decision. He’d had just, out of the blue, sent out a four-word tweet that got straight to the point: “Committed to Ohio State.”
“Jake (Diebler) was like, ‘Wait a second,’” said Allen Whitehart, Thornton’s basketball coach at Milton High School.
- Size: 6-foot-2, 200 pounds
- Composite Rank: #30 overall, #7 point guard
Whitehart described Thornton as a “simple man” who’s “not into all the hoopla.” But when the high-end four-star point guard from Alpharetta, Georgia, told Diebler of his plan to make his decision public, the Buckeyes assistant coach told him to reconsider.