No. 3 Ohio State Travels to Minnesota Sunday Night
12/13/2019 10:37:40 AM | Men's Basketball
Ohio State Men's Basketball Gameday March 12, 2020
Opponent vs. Purdue (16-15)
Site Bankers Life Fieldhouse (18,500)
Time 6:30 p.m. ET
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Starting Five
- The Buckeyes are 1,156-415 all-time when playing in the state of Ohio (.736) … against Ohio teams, Ohio State is 237-79 (.749) all-time, regardless of location. The Buckeyes faced a pair of intrastate foes this season. Ohio State defeated Cincinnati Nov. 6 at Value City Arena (64-56) and then Kent State Nov. 25 at St. John Arena (W, 72-51). Ohio State is 179-30 vs. Ohio teams in Columbus (.856).
- Three current Buckeyes were named Mr. Basketball in their respective states. Junior Kaleb Wesson was named Ohio Mr. Basketball as a senior at Westerville South High School … freshman D.J. Carton was named Mr. Basketball in Iowa in 2019 as a senior at Bettendorf High School and freshman E.J. Liddell was named Illinois Mr. Basketball in both 2018 and 2019 after leading Belleville High School to back-to-back state titles.
- Andre and Kaleb Wesson are one of 16 sets of brothers playing in NCAA Division I this season and one of three sets in the Big Ten. Iowa (McCaffery) and Maryland (Mitchell) also have siblings on the roster.
- Ohio State has 58 players all-time with 1,000 or more career points, the ninth most nationally and the most of any Big Ten school (research credit: Duke). Kaleb Wesson is the next Buckeye on schedule to reach the milestone with 933 career points over his career.
- Against Penn State, Ohio State came in limiting its opponents’ leading scorers to 10.7 points per game, despite them averaging 15.6 points per game for the season. The Buckeyes continued the trend, limiting Lamar Stevens to 11 points on 4-for-8 shooting. For the year, Ohio State is limiting these opponents to 31.7 percent (34-for-107) from the field and 27.5 percent (11-for-40) from 3-point range.
Off the Bench
- Chris Holtmann is 5-0 in December Big Ten Conference games since taking over the program in 2017.
Kaleb Wesson Nears Exclusive Club
Ohio State junior Kaleb Wesson is close to entering both the 1,000 career point and 500 career rebound club with 933 points and 468 boards. Wesson would become the 29th Buckeye all-time with both 1,000 points and 500 rebounds in a career.
The Ohio State vs. Minnesota Series
Ohio State leads the all-time series with the Golden Gophers 87-57. Ohio State owns a 53-18 record in Columbus and is 39-31 in Minneapolis. The teams have played on a neutral court three times with the Buckeyes winning them all. When ranked in the Associated Press Top 25, Ohio State is 30-4 vs. the Gophers. When ranked in the Top 10, Ohio State is 18-1. Andre Wesson has faced Minnesota four times over his career, most of any Buckeye. He averages 6.8 points and 1.8 rebounds in the series. Younger brother Kaleb Wesson averages 15.0 points and 7.0 boards in two meetings. Duane Washington Jr. scored 10 points in his first appearance in the series a season ago in a 79-59 win last year. Ohio State has traveled to Minneapolis ranked among the Top 5 nationally in the Associated Press poll seven times (7-0). The Buckeyes, No. 3 in the poll this week, have been among the Top 3 teams four times in games played at Minnesota. The last time the Golden Gophers played host to a Top 3 Buckeye team was Feb. 6, 2011 when the No. 1 Buckeyes knocked off Minnesota at Williams Arena 82-69.
Buckeyes Open 121st Season, 108th in B1G
This is the 108th season of Big Ten membership in men’s basketball for the Buckeyes and the 121st overall for the sport at Ohio State. The Buckeyes are 99-21 in season openers and 102-17 in the first home game of the season. Ohio State is 56-63 in the first true road game of the year. In Big Ten Conference play, the Buckeyes are 59-46 in league openers, 73-33 in the first conference home game of the season and 39-66 in league road openers. Ohio State is 41-20 when the first conference game of the year is at home and 19-26 when opening conference play on the road.
Ohio State Looking for Seventh 10-0 Start
The Buckeyes, 9-0, are looking to record the seventh season all-time in which the program has started the year with 10-consecutive wins. The Buckeyes have had a streak of at least 10 wins during any point in the season 13 times previously.
