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* Poll Rankings: Ohio State, 17th in Associated Press poll, 17 th in USA Today coaches poll Akron, unranked. * Radio: OSU Radio Network (64 stations) WBNS-FM (97.1 The Fan) in Columbus (announcers: Paul Keels and Ron Stokes click here for affiliates). * TV: ESPN2 (announcers: Jason Benetti and Jon Crispin) Holtmann labeled this match-up with Akron "t he toughest home opener we’ve had in our four-plus years here.”īelow is our preview as Ohio State hosts Akron on Tuesday night. So we’re gonna do some things along those lines, hopefully bring more awareness, more opportunity to give to that organization.” Many of us in here, I'm sure, have been impacted by that. Coach struggled with Alzheimer's the last 18 months of his life. Both John and I will be wearing Alzheimer's pins. "That way it doesn’t impact the actual pace of the game. “I think what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna do something upstairs, because we have some alumni from Taylor coming up," Holtmann said. (See video with Holtmann’s comments below.) On Monday, Holtmann discussed how he and Groce will honor their college coach by wearing pins to support the fight against Alzheimer’s Disease. The Illini needed a late three-pointer to pull out that win. Groce’s Illinois defeated Holtmann’s Gardner-Webb team 63-62 on Nov. They have met once before as head coaches. Groce was an assistant coach at Ohio State for Matta from 2004-08. In addition, both coaches had similar stops along the way as Groce was an assistant coach at Butler (2000-01) and Holtmann was an assistant (2013-14) and head coach of the Bulldogs (2014-17). Holtmann was the first assistant coach that Groce hired when he took the head coaching job at Ohio U.

They each graduated in 1994 and both of them started their coaching careers at Taylor under Patterson. Groce and Holtmann played for Taylor Hall of Fame head coach Paul Patterson, who passed away in September.

It also reunites him with Holtmann, who was a college teammate of Groce’s at Taylor University in Indiana. This game is a homecoming of sorts for Akron head coach John Groce, who served as an OSU assistant under Thad Matta before head coaching stints at Ohio U. 2 seed for the NCAA Tournament but was upset by Oral Roberts in its NCAA opener. The Buckeyes reached the championship game of the Big Ten tournament before losing to Illinois. That team went 21-10 and finished fifth in the Big Ten (12-8). He has three starters coming back from last year’s squad in forwards Justice Sueing, EJ Liddell and Kyle Young. The Buckeyes will host Niagara on Friday and Bowling Green next Monday.Ĭhris Holtmann is beginning his fifth season as the Ohio State head coach.

This is the first of three home games OSU has scheduled to open the 2021-22 season. (There was a crowd of 8,302 in attendance for the team’s exhibition opener against Indianapolis last Monday.)

OSU hosted games before a largely empty arena last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will be the first regular season game fans can attend at VCA since the end of the 2019-20 season. The 123rd season of Ohio State men’s basketball will tip off Tuesday night as the 17th-ranked Buckeyes host instate foe Akron at Value City Arena.