Tanner Holden wasn’t even on the court when Bruce Thornton knocked down the first of two free throws to cut the Rutgers lead to two points with five seconds on the clock.
At that point, the Wright State transfer had only played six minutes in the second half and hadn’t scored a point all game. But Buckeye head coach Chris Holtmann wanted him on the floor for the final sequence.
The decision paid off.
Holden subbed in before Thornton’s second free throw, which also went down, and the latter committed an immediate foul on the inbounds pass to put Rutgers guard Caleb McConnell at the line on the other end.