It came a few weeks sooner than expected, but the end result wasn’t surprising.
With Ohio State stumbling through Big Ten play for the second year in a row, it seemed inevitable that Chris Holtmann would be fired as OSU’s men’s basketball coach at the end of the season. With six regular-season games remaining, Gene Smith decided he didn’t need to see any more on Wednesday, firing Holtmann just hours after the Buckeyes’ 62-54 loss to Wisconsin.
Why did Ohio State decide to pull the plug on Holtmann’s tenure now, and which names stand out to us as potential candidates to replace him as Ohio State’s next basketball coach? We share our immediate thoughts on Holtmann’s exit and what’s next for the Buckeyes on a new episode of Press Coverage, which you can watch in the video at the top of the page.
