Calling your own team out for a lack of toughness is almost always the last card in the coaching deck. Once you've played it, you had better hope that it works because it is a sure sign that you, the coach, are completely out of ideas about how to either motivate or scheme your way into some wins during a tough stretch of games.
Against both Nebraska and Northwestern, Ohio State men's basketball looked utterly lost. Also, they lost, by a lot, but the bigger issue is that Chris Holtmann seems to have exactly zero solutions to anything that's happening on the court at this point.