Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball | ||||
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University | Ohio State University | |||
First season | 1898 | |||
Conference | Big Ten | |||
Location | Columbus, OH | |||
Head coach | Thad Matta (13th year) | |||
Arena |
Value City Arena (Capacity: 18,809) |
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Nickname | Buckeyes | |||
Student section | Nuthouse | |||
Colors | Scarlet and Gray |
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Uniforms | ||||
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NCAA Tournament champions | ||||
1960 | ||||
NCAA Tournament runner-up | ||||
1939, 1961, 1962, 2007 | ||||
NCAA Tournament Final Four | ||||
1939, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1999*, 2007, 2012 | ||||
NCAA Tournament Elite Eight | ||||
1939, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1992, 1999*, 2007, 2012, 2013 | ||||
NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
1960, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1980, 1983, 1991, 1992, 1999*, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, | ||||
NCAA Tournament appearances | ||||
1939, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1999*, 2000*, 2001*, 2002*, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 *vacated by NCAA |
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Conference tournament champions | ||||
2002*, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013 | ||||
Conference regular season champions | ||||
1925, 1933, 1939, 1944, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1991, 1992, 2000*, 2002*, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 |
The Ohio State men's basketball team represents The Ohio State University in NCAA Division I college basketball competition. The Buckeyes are a member of the Big Ten Conference. The Buckeyes won their only National Championship in 1960 and have made a total of 26 NCAA Tournament appearances (plus 4 appearances that were later vacated by the NCAA). The Buckeyes share a classic rivalry with the Michigan Wolverines, in which OSU has an 93–71 series lead. The Ohio State University is one of only two teams (the other being Villanova) to make an NCAA tournament appearance every decade since the 1930s.
The Buckeyes play their home games at Value City Arena in The Jerome Schottenstein Center which opened in 1998. The official capacity of the center is 19,200. Ohio State ranks 18th in the nation in average home attendance.
Thad Matta was named the head coach of Ohio State in 2004 to replace coach Jim O'Brien after being involved in supposed NCAA violations which cost Ohio State over 113 wins between 1998 and 2002.
The first basketball team at The Ohio State University was formed in 1898, playing their first game against East High. Sparing success followed the Buckeyes throughout their time as an independent school. In the year 1912, some thirteen years after forming their first basketball team, the Buckeyes joined the Big Nine Conference, which would eventually be known as the Big Ten Conference. Within the first years in the Big Ten conference, the Buckeyes were not able to mount a sustained run and continued to waiver inside the conference standings, never finishing higher than second in the conference standings[1]. In 1923, Harold Olsen became head coach for the Buckeyes, launching the longest basketball coaching dynasty for OSU (24 seasons) Harold Olsen began to see success at Ohio State with the Buckeyes first conference championship during the 1922–1923 season. The Olsen era is also highlighted by appearing in the final game for the first ever NCAA Championship Tournament in 1939 where the Buckeyes lost to Oregon 33–46. The Buckeyes would make three more Final Four appearances under Olsen, along with winning five Big Ten championships. Following Harold Olsen as head coach Tippy Dye and Floyd Stahl made their stints with the Buckeyes. While not seeing the same amount of success as Olsen did, Dye and Stahl with one NCAA Tournament appearance between the two men. With the closing of the 1950s, the Ohio State basketball team was not considered a national powerhouse and continued to grow and develop and led to the hiring of a man who would change basketball at Ohio State and bring national fame to the university.