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Ranking Ohio State's Most Important Basketball Players for the 2018-19 Season

As we have talked about in length this offseason, Chris Holtmann's second team at Ohio State is going to look much different than the first.

The Buckeyes welcome in six new players, including four freshmen, and see one of the most important senior classes in school history walk out the door as Jae'Sean Tate, Keita Bates-Diop and Kam Williams are no longer in Columbus.

With that said, a new crop of Buckeyes will need to step up in 2018-19 for Ohio State to match its surprising success from a year ago. Because Holtmann is welcoming so many new faces to Columbus, we decided to rank each scholarship player in order of their importance to Ohio State's success.