What To Watch: Holtmann unveils team with Cedarville exhibition
Ohio State men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann will unveil his 2019-20 team with an exhibition game against Cedarville University, an NCAA Division II program, at 7 p.m. tonight at Value City Arena.
There will be no live television for the exhibition game. It will be part of a pay-per-view webcast through the BTN-Plus platform. Click here for more information on how to access that webcast. It appears the site charges $14.95 for a monthly access pass. OSU’s Nov. 22 regular season game with Purdue-Fort Wayne is also scheduled to be available on the BTN-Plus pay-per-view service.
OSU opens the regular season against instate rival Cincinnati next Wednesday, Nov. 6, at Value City Arena. That game, set for an 8:30 p.m. tip, will be televised nationally by Fox Sports 1.
Ohio State goes into the 2019-20 season ranked 18th in the Associated Press media poll and 16th in the USA Today coaches poll. This will mark the first time OSU is ranked in the preseason since OSU was ranked 20th going into the 2014-15 season for previous coach Thad Matta.
Holtmann is beginning his third season as the OSU head coach. He brings back three starters from his 2018-19 team that went 20-15 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament before a loss to Houston in Tulsa. Those starters are senior wing Andre Wesson, junior center Kaleb Wesson and sophomore guard Luther Muhammad.
Anticipation is also high to see the debut of OSU’s talented four-man recruiting class, including point guard D.J. Carton, forwards E.J. Liddell and Alonzo Gaffney and center Ibrahima Diallo.
(Check out comments from Holtmann from Tuesday above; check out comments from guards C.J. Walker and Duane Washington Jr. below.)
“We are excited about our second scrimmage-slash-exhibition here and playing somebody else before we get started for real here against a really good Cincinnati team,” Holtmann said. “With Cedarville, Pat had talked to me for a couple of years about playing. We always want to play Ohio schools with this exhibition. We had a unique situation last year with the chance to play a former coach (UNC-Pembroke with Eldon Miller).
“We will typically play one and it will be a different one every year. (Coach) Pat (Estepp) does a great job. He has a veteran team that is picked third in their league. They have a veteran team coming back off a team that won over 20 games last year.
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- by Steve Helwagen
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Ohio State men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann will unveil his 2019-20 team with an exhibition game against Cedarville University, an NCAA Division II program, at 7 p.m. tonight at Value City Arena.
There will be no live television for the exhibition game. It will be part of a pay-per-view webcast through the BTN-Plus platform. Click here for more information on how to access that webcast. It appears the site charges $14.95 for a monthly access pass. OSU’s Nov. 22 regular season game with Purdue-Fort Wayne is also scheduled to be available on the BTN-Plus pay-per-view service.
OSU opens the regular season against instate rival Cincinnati next Wednesday, Nov. 6, at Value City Arena. That game, set for an 8:30 p.m. tip, will be televised nationally by Fox Sports 1.
Ohio State goes into the 2019-20 season ranked 18th in the Associated Press media poll and 16th in the USA Today coaches poll. This will mark the first time OSU is ranked in the preseason since OSU was ranked 20th going into the 2014-15 season for previous coach Thad Matta.
Holtmann is beginning his third season as the OSU head coach. He brings back three starters from his 2018-19 team that went 20-15 and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament before a loss to Houston in Tulsa. Those starters are senior wing Andre Wesson, junior center Kaleb Wesson and sophomore guard Luther Muhammad.
Anticipation is also high to see the debut of OSU’s talented four-man recruiting class, including point guard D.J. Carton, forwards E.J. Liddell and Alonzo Gaffney and center Ibrahima Diallo.
(Check out comments from Holtmann from Tuesday above; check out comments from guards C.J. Walker and Duane Washington Jr. below.)
“We are excited about our second scrimmage-slash-exhibition here and playing somebody else before we get started for real here against a really good Cincinnati team,” Holtmann said. “With Cedarville, Pat had talked to me for a couple of years about playing. We always want to play Ohio schools with this exhibition. We had a unique situation last year with the chance to play a former coach (UNC-Pembroke with Eldon Miller).
“We will typically play one and it will be a different one every year. (Coach) Pat (Estepp) does a great job. He has a veteran team that is picked third in their league. They have a veteran team coming back off a team that won over 20 games last year.
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