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Before starting a stretch of five consecutive games against power conference teams, including two Big Ten games, Ohio State (6-0) entertained the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers out of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference on Tuesday night in Columbus.
The Buckeyes were big favorites coming into this game, but the Mountaineers, as they’ve done recently with several high-major teams, came out with some energy in the first few minutes. After Ohio State scored the first five points of the game, Mount St. Mary’s quickly tied it 5-5.
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Despite being one of the worst offensive rebounding teams in the MAAC, averaging just 8.7 per game, the visiting Mountaineers grabbed three of them in the first five minutes against OSU. That gave Mount St. Mary’s extra possessions, kept the ball away from the Buckeyes, and kept the score close early.
However, Ohio State ended the first half on a 21-3 run over the final 7:14, doubling up the Mountaineers and taking a 52-26 lead into the locker room. That was led by a dominant performance in the paint, with Ohio State holding a 16-8 lead in the first half. The home team also only turned the ball over three times in the first 20 minutes.
Devin Royal scored seven points in the first four minutes of the second half, adding to the lopsided score and putting the Buckeyes up, 68-31. It was the first time this season where the junior looked like a mismatch playing small forward — Mount St. Mary’s wasn’t going to send their center after him with Tilly also on the floor, but there was nobody else that was able to body up the 6-foot-6, 230 pound forward from Pickerington.
There was certainly basketball being played for the final 15 minutes or so of this game, but very little of it was consequential with Ohio State pushing its lead to 30, 40, and then 50 points during the second half. When the final buzzer sounded, the Buckeyes had wrapped up a dominant 113-60 win, improving to 6-0 for the first time since 2019.
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