Down five points to the Buckeyes with the clock ticking under 90 seconds to play at the Schottenstein Center, Nittany Lion guard Sam Sessoms drove left and into the paint to create some offense for his team. But Sessoms found none, as the help defense of Ohio State forward Kyle Young forced a turnover down low.
Suffice to say Ohio State did not have it on offense, at least not in the manner it is accustomed to. Only, when the Buckeyes didn’t have it against Indiana on Jan. 6 – athat stands as the only game in which Ohio State has scored fewer points than it did Sunday – they had no hope of pulling out a win.
Entering Sunday, Ohio State had been giving up north of 77 points to its opponents since returning from a 22-day COVID-19 pause through December. That’s 10 more points per game than it had been averaging in the 10 games prior to that break. In the past two games before Sunday, Ohio State had given up an average of 82.5, with Northwestern putting up 87 and Wisconsin tallying 78.
"I feel like it was our defensive connectedness," Ohio State guard Eugene Brown said."The way we were able to lock in on the defensive end, get multiple stops in a row, string together a chain of stops, that allows us to get going on the offensive end. I feel like that really makes a difference in a game like this, where the scoring's not really going where it needs to be, so we can just fall back on our defense.
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