With the Big Ten expanding, the number of conference foes Ohio State will play twice this basketball season shrank to three.
On Tuesday the Buckeyes learned who those three opponents will be and which teams it will face at home and on the road in single-play.
Indiana, Maryland and Nebraska are the three foes Ohio State will face twice in the regular season. The Buckeyes received home games against Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Oregon, Rutgers and Washington. They will play their lone road matchups with defending regular-season Big Ten champ Purdue, tournament champ Illinois, Minnesota, Penn State, UCLA, USC and Wisconsin.
The Buckeyes also saw Nebraska and Indiana twice this past season, dropping both games against the Hoosiers and splitting their series with the Cornhuskers. Ohio State and Maryland met just once in 2023-24, with OSU winning 79-75 in double overtime.
Ohio State finished 22-14 overall and 9-11 in Big Ten competition this past season ti finish 10th in the conference. The Buckeyes fell to the Fighting Illini in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament.
The Big Ten has decided on a 15-team format for the conference tourney this year, leaving the bottom three teams out of its postseason competition.
Ohio State will open its 2024-25 campaign in November.
