No matter how many people express support for St. John Arena, Ohio State’s basketball has no plans to abandon the Schottenstein Center in favor of the historic venue. None at all.
Chris Holtmann has previously discussed the possibility of playing more than one game at the arena, but a wholesale change won’t happen. Having heard plenty of people express their hope for moving venues last year after the Buckeyes beat Cleveland State in their first game at the arena in nearly a decade, he felt like he had to make that clear.
“Please, I'm off social media, but last year when we played this I had so many of our great fans talk to me about, ‘Coach, can we move all of our games over there?