This program would make almost any other university a basketball school.
Instead, Buckeye Hoops get to play home games in a sterile arena few fans will ever defend, right across the street from the beloved local football cathedral. In normal years (wistful shout-out to normal) the OSU Athletic Band plays Across the Field during basketball games.
That, of course, is a beloved school song about moving the chains and time of possession.
The Buckeyes are 11-1 in NCAA Tournament openers in this current millennium. They have a couple of Final Fours and four additional Sweet Sixteens tucked into that span, having reset the program twice in crisis.