Ohio State was more competitive than it has been recently, but the outcome was all too familiar Friday at Iowa in another road failure that shovels more dirt on its NCAA Tournament hopes. (PressPros file photo).
The former pride of Reading High School would go on to have an 18-year major league career and win 196 games - and 20 games twice. But at 17 he came within a phone call of becoming a Buckeye.
The good feelings surrounding Ohio State football in January continued when Will Howard, Seth McLaughlin, Caleb Downs, Quinshon Judkins (above) and Will Kacmarek met with the media for the first time.
Bruce Thornton's game-long struggles and a frigid first-half finish froze Ohio State from the lead and invited 10th-ranked Illinois' getaway to a comfortable win Tuesday night at Value City Arena, bumping the Buckeyes farther from the NCAA Bubble. (PressPros Magazine photo by Sonny Fulks).
A road trip to Northwestern used to be an automatic W, not just for Ohio State, but for everyone. But those days are gone amid the Wildcats' improvement and OSU's all-to-familiar January swoon. Bruce Hooley returns to write for Press Pros.
