In a battle of first-year, Big Ten coaches, the No. 17 Ohio State Buckeyes knocked off the Indiana Hoosiers, 71-56 at the Value City Arena. There is a different timeline out there in which OSU athletic director Gene Smith decided to fire Thad Matta earlier than he eventually did, and Archie Miller ended up the new Buckeye coach, instead of taking over the Hoosiers, paving the way for Chris Holtmann to come to Columbus. At this point, you would likely be hard-pressed to find many Buckeye fans who don’t prefer our current reality to what might have been.
Ohio State gets back to their winning ways, beats Indiana, 71-56
