There were times toward the end of Ohio State’s 2013-14 season when Buckeyes coach Thad Matta would look down at the end of the bench and think to himself, ‘What if?’
Ohio State struggled to shoot the ball from deep two years ago — it shot just 32 percent from behind the 3-point line as a team — and sitting on Matta’s bench was a four-star prospect out of Baltimore who had a reputation as a big-time shooter.
The only problem: Kam Williams was redshirting. He came down with mononucleosis prior to the season and by the time he had recovered enough to play, Matta felt it would be unfair to burn his first year of eligibility for only a handful of games.