You've heard of Christmas in July, but for Ohio State basketball fans, it was more like March in July at Capital University on Saturday afternoon.
A collection of Thad Matta's best players to ever take the court at Ohio State were in action wearing the school colors in Bexley, Ohio, just a 20 minute drive from the Schottenstein Center where they made a name for themselves as Buckeyes. In front of around 2,000 fans wearing the scarlet and gray, a team of the same name gave them plenty to cheer about.
With their former coach in attendance, team Scarlet and Gray rolled to a 99-68 victory in the first round of The Basketball Tournament, while the majority of the current Ohio State team watched from the student section that is normally reserved to cheer for them in the winter months.