This year’s Ohio State team is used to ruts, which have often come up at inopportune times.
Maryland scored 10 straight points against the Buckeyes on Friday to increase its one-point lead to an 11-point advantage at the beginning of the first half. Ohio State went from having a 40-38 lead on Rutgers with 15 minutes remaining in a Big Ten matchup a couple weeks ago to trailing the Scarlet Knights 55-45 six minutes later.
Both streaks of poor play came during the Buckeyes’ current losing streak, which extended to five games on Wednesday night with a 79-67 defeat against Purdue.