Even after a loss on Saturday, Ohio State's confidence remains intact following three straight improved performances before postseason play begins next week.
Ohio State finished the regular season on a loss – fitting for a group that had already clinched the most defeats by a Buckeye team since 1997-98.
“We’re going in there trying to win, obviously. We’re trying to get as far as we can to win the Big Ten championship. I feel like I’m really confident in our guys, we made a lot of strides, especially over the past couple of weeks, just with our play and our togetherness. So I’m excited, and we’re gonna take it one game at a time obviously, but we’re gonna go into the off day and get better and recover.
“I loved our guys’ approach, I loved our guys’ spirit, the way they had about them, which has been consistent with what it’s been the last few weeks,” Chris Holtmann. “This is a hard place to play. Michigan State’s a good team. It’s the best-shooting Michigan State team since the Final Four team that we played against. I really believe that. They just shoot it at such a high level. They’ve got older kids that are really performing as well as they’ve performed in their career.
“We had some really good offensive possessions. We had a couple loose ones, too, but I think we had some really good possessions,” Holtmann said. “It was a combination. Like Justice almost had a triple-double, I thought he was phenomenal. Ten points, nine rebounds, seven assists. And I thought we really played quality offensive basketball, for the most part. Sure, all of us might have had a couple possessions we’d like to have back, but it was really a good offensive performance.
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