The Buckeyes improve to 2-0 in conference play after downing the Illini.
One of the youngest teams in the country is certainly prone to streaky stretches of basketball. Sunday night's lone Big Ten contest was no exception.
Coming off the heels of a conference play opening win over Minnesota, Thad Matta's Buckeyes looked opportunistically at former OSU assistant John Groce's injury ravaged Illinois Fighting Illini. But the Illini had other plans.
Despite Ohio State leading by double digits and near double digits at several different junctures at the game, a plucky Illini side were game throughout much of the evening to keep clawing back and making things interesting.