Ohio State men's basketball shocked the college basketball realm on Saturday with an upset of then-No. 4 Kentucky.
Mercer is no slouch, but getting up for a non-conference game that starts at 9:00 on a Tuesday is a different beast for a young team like Ohio State.
Matta wanting to give his team some extra juice would explain why Ohio State pulling out its classic 1990s-style gray throwbacks—something it didn't do at all last year—for a 9:00 Tuesday game against Mercer.
Freshman guard JaQuan Lyle, the slayer of Wildcat monster, previewed the look with a tweet:
Throwbacks tonight .