Hoosiers wrap up regular season at Ohio State – The Daily Hoosier
Game Day Essentials:
Indiana (18-12, 9-10) at Ohio State (19-11, 11-8)
- Tip Time: 5:30 pm ET, Saturday
- Location: Value City Arena (19,049), Columbus, Ohio
- Television: FOX: Gus Johnson, Jimmy Jackson
- Radio: IU Radio Network (Don Fischer, Errek Suhr, John Herrick)
- Stream: Fox Sports
- Point Spread: Ohio State is round a 4.5-point favourite
- KenPom Projected Score: Ohio State 78 Indiana 73
- History: Indiana leads, 114-88
- Last Meeting: Indiana 66 USO 60 (2025)
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Latest bracketology: IU basketball at Ohio State looks like an NCAA Tournament play-in game
Ohio State’s Jake Diebler
Jake Diebler was named this system’s fifteenth head coach on March 17, 2024.
The 2025-26 season is Diebler’s tenth season at Ohio State. He was a video coordinator with this system from 2014-16 after which returned as an assistant coach previous to the 2019-20 season. He was promoted to affiliate head coach earlier than the 2021-22 season, was named interim head coach on Feb. 14, 2024 after which head coach on March 17, 2024.
As a participant at Valparaiso, Diebler ranked among the many Horizon League Top 10 in a trio of classes as a senior, ending fourth in minutes performed (33.8/sport), sixth in 3-pointers made (1.8/sport) and eighth in steals (1.3/sport). He completed his Crusader profession tenth with 130 profession steals and sixteenth all-time at Valpo with 229 profession assists.
2024-Present — Ohio State Head Coach
2024 – (11 video games) Ohio State Interim Head Coach
2022-2024 – (2 years) Ohio State Associate Head Coach
2019-2022 – (3 years) Ohio State Assistant Coach
2016-2019 – (3 years) Vanderbilt Assistant Coach
2013-2016 – (3 years) Ohio State Video Coordinator
2011-2013 – (2 years) Valparaiso Assistant Coach
2010-2011 – (1 12 months) Valparaiso Director of Operations
2009-2010 – (1 12 months) Valparaiso Graduate Assistant
Ohio State’s outcomes and roster
Ohio State’s sport notes (through OSU Athletics)
- The program will honor its seniors previous to the sport — together with gamers Brandon Noel, Christoph Tilly and celebrity Bruce Thornton.
- The Hoosiers have gained the final 5 conferences within the collection, together with the final two video games in Columbus. The final 4 conferences have all been determined by six factors or much less, which features a one-point extra time win for Indiana within the groups’ final assembly in Columbus final January.
- The Buckeyes can end wherever between 7-9 within the Big Ten standings based mostly on the result of this weekend’s video games. A win on Saturday and the Buckeyes earn a double-bye in subsequent week’s Big Ten Tournament and can both be the No. 7 or No. 8 seed. A loss, coupled with an Iowa win, would drop the Buckeyes to the No. 9 seed and they might open the match on Wednesday.
- The Buckeyes are coming off a dominant 94-62 victory on the highway on Wednesday over Penn State. The Buckeyes shot 66.7 % from the ground and was a outstanding 16-of-23 from past the arc (69.6 %). John Mobley Jr. made a career-best 8-of-9 three-point makes an attempt and tied his career-high with 28 factors. Bruce Thornton was 7-of-8 from the ground and completed with 18 factors.
- The 16 three-pointers had been essentially the most the Buckeyes have made in a 40-minute Big Ten highway sport in program historical past. The 66.7 capturing share was the most effective in a Big Ten highway sport since Dec. 2, 2017 and the 32-point margin of victory was the most effective in a Big Ten highway sport since a 34-point win at Nebraska 2012.
- Bruce Thornton is the person of the hour. He enters his senior evening simply 12 factors away passing Dennis Hopson (1984-87) for essentially the most factors in program historical past. Thornton has scored 2,085 profession factors. He is averaging a career-best 19.9 ppg this season.
- Mobley Jr. has made 16 three-pointers within the final three video games since coming back from a finger damage. He is main the Big Ten and is twelfth nationally at 43.2 % from past the arc. Despite lacking three video games, Mobley’s 86 three-pointers this 12 months are ninth-most in a single-season in program historical past.
No. 27 Ohio State’s notable KenPom numbers:
(out of 365 groups)
Tempo – No. 245 (Offense No. 213 / Defense No. 312)
Offensive Efficiency – No. 19
- Ohio State has an efficient subject aim share of 56.4 % on the 12 months (No. 21). The Buckeyes are capturing 36.0 % from three (No. 67) and 58 % on 2s (No. 24). Those capturing percentages are the standout function of the OSU offense.
- OSU additionally shoots free throws at a really excessive share (77.1%, No. 35 within the nation).
- The Buckeyes are mediocre in terms of getting offensive rebounds, with a 31.3% price, No. 154.
Defensive Efficiency – No. 54
- Opponents maintain a 49.8 % efficient subject aim share in opposition to OSU (No. 98). Teams are capturing 31.2 % from three (No. 40) and 51.9 % on 2s (No. 189).
- OSU does not power turnovers at a excessive price. Opponents are giving it away on simply 15.7% of possessions, No. 243.
- Teams are getting 40.7% of their complete photographs from three in opposition to Ohio State. 221 groups are permitting a decrease price.
- The Buckeyes do not block many photographs, simply 6.9% of makes an attempt — No. 318.
TDH PREDICTION: Ohio State 84 Indiana 72
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