Owen Spencer handed his father an envelope.
He opened it without any preamble or inquiry, and his eyes lit up upon inspecting the contents. Spencer’s mother peered over her husband’s shoulder to take a glance, and she immediately began welling up. They were tears of joy.
It was the same letter the Ohio State coaching staff passed along to the first-year Buckeye walk-on a short while earlier, just minutes after the program’s 93-77 win over Iowa at the Schottenstein Center Saturday.
Spencer read it aloud in front of his teammates and coaches in the Buckeye locker room.