Ohio State’s getting tropical.
The basketball team already has a spot in next year’s Battle 4 Atlantis, an early-season tournament hosted in the Bahamas that features eight teams, and it’s lining up another tournament in the coming years. On Tuesday afternoon, Chris Holtmann said the Buckeyes have a “tentative agreement” to participate in the Maui Invitational “in the future.”
“So there's some things that we have coming up every year that will take us away for four, five days, and we'll play against good competition,” Holtmann said.
The scheduling of challenging non-conference games lines up with Holtmann’s comments in the past about wanting to have a slate of opponents that will test the Buckeyes in November and December.