CHICAGO — When coaches determine which players they are going to send to Big Ten media day, more often than not it’s a senior or high-profile player. Sometimes those players are both of those things.
Ohio State head coach Thad Matta was in a bit of a different boat this season, though. He has no seniors and, right now, he probably doesn’t know who his best player is.
So Matta opted to send junior forward Marc Loving — the Buckeyes’ oldest scholarship player on the roster — and sophomore forward Jae’Sean Tate, who is the team’s lone returning starter to Chicago this year for the league's annual event.