Conference tournament week is a great warm-up for the teams bound to either the NCAA Tournament or NIT. Win and you play another day; lose, and you pack up your stuff and head home.
The Ohio State Buckeyes won a game in the Big Ten Tournament — a much needed one at that — on Thursday, before getting wiped out by the top-seeded Michigan State Spartans. The quarterfinal game versus MSU was a combination of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Chris Holtmann’s squad was at one point down by more than 20 points before putting together a furious rally at the end.