Whether he found it himself or had it sent to him, Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann learned of a statistic he suddenly found himself.
Of the 25 most recent Big Ten games, the home team had won only 10 of them, Bart Torvik – the creator of www.barttorvik.com – tweeted on Saturday. Holtmann, in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, referenced the number.
“I hear all this about home-road,” Holtmann said. “The reality is every game's pretty much neutral.”
That’s the kind of thing a head coach says ahead of a two-game home stand like the one the No.