Following Ohio State’s loss to Michigan State, Chris Holtmann definitively said his team – and program – was not yet on the level of Tom Izzo’s. Kaleb Wesson disagreed, though, saying he doesn’t “think they're any better than we are.”
Four days later, the Buckeyes lost to Rutgers, dropping their second game in a row for the first time this season. The Scarlet Knights fans stormed the court, and Rutgers athletics director Patrick Hobbs called it a “great program win.”
Ohio State hasn’t lost three games since it hired Chris Holtmann to run the program in the summer of 2017, but it’s in danger of that happening.