COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Keita Bates-Diop, Jae’Sean Tate and Kam Williams each scored 15 points as Ohio State took advantage of poor-shooting Youngstown State in a 77-40 blowout Tuesday night.
Trevor Thompson contributed a double-double with 11 points and 15 rebounds, and C.J. Jackson had eight points for Ohio State (9-3) in a game that was never in doubt. Youngstown State (6-7) shot only 21 percent from the floor was beaten badly on the boards by the Buckeyes, who scored 48 points in the paint and shot 50 percent on the night.
Matt Donlan led Youngstown State with 10 points and six rebounds. The Horizon League team hasn’t beaten the Buckeyes in four tries.
The Penguins were just 2 for 21 from the 3-point line while Ohio State managed five baskets in 15 attempts from beyond the arc.
Ohio State rolled out to a 12-1 lead to start the game and led 42-14 at the half. The Penguins suffered a scoring drought of more than 5 minutes in the middle of the half and shot 14.8 percent in that first frame. They hit just two of their last 18 shots to finish the half 4 for 27 from the floor.
Ohio State center Micah Potter suffered a sprained ankle on the opening tip and had to be helped off the court, with Thompson taking his place. Potter, a 6-foot-9 freshman, is averaging 4.3 points and 4.1 rebounds.
LeBron James buried a go-ahead 3-pointer with 24 seconds left in overtime and the Cavaliers held on for a 114-108 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night to avenge a late November loss.
The reports began coming in overnight and by 9:00 a.m., Columbus fire officials say they had responded to more than two dozen calls about foul odors or smells of natural gas.
As the cries of hundreds of protesters could be heard outside the Senate chamber, Ohio’s 18 Electoral College members voted Monday to support Republican Donald Trump for president.
Authorities in northeast Ohio say they’ve identified two people who they believe stole an elderly woman’s purse while she was in line for Communion.
Human nature is a funny thing: Contrary, yet – to a certain extent – predictable. We believe that something is higher quality if it’s more expensive, but an OSU researcher says we also think higher-priced food is healthier, even when the key ingredient is not any better for us than the less expensive version.
In a little over a week, an effort to raise money to help the families of two dozen workers at a state park dining lodge destroyed by fire brought in over $21,000, organizers said.
A California agency that oversees judicial discipline in the state says a judge committed no misconduct when he sentenced former Stanford University swimmer and Dayton-area native Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a young woman on campus.
No. 1 UConn beat 12th-ranked Ohio State 82-63 on Monday night for the Huskies’ 85th consecutive victory.
A small group of protesters reportedly gathered outside Ohio’s Statehouse Monday as members of the Electoral College prepared to gather to sign off on Donald Trump’s victory in the state’s 2016 presidential election.
