The Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Weasels played a barn-burner on Feb. 21 that unfortunately saw the villains leave Value City Arena victorious by a score of 92-87. But that was the regular season, and Saturday’s matchup was the postseason; and not only was it the postseason, it was the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament. Coming into the contest, the Buckeyes were 6-1 in the B1G Tournament against the Corn and Blue, with TTUN claiming the last tourney game played between the programs back in 2014.
After two unnecessarily close games in their first two postseason contests, the Buckeyes added another notch to their rivalry record as Chris Holtmann’s fifth-seeded squad picked up an unfathomably big win over Juwan Howard’s top-seeded Meerkats 68-67 in the semifinals of the conference tournament.