With Chris Holtmann facing his first NCAA Tournament miss at Ohio State, GriffinStrom3 examines how each of the past five OSU coaches fared after failing to reach the Big Dance.
But upon taking over the program in 2004, Matta inherited a program that hadn’t made the NCAA Tournament in either of the previous two seasons under Jim O’Brien. Matta managed to cross the 20-win threshold in his first year with the Buckeyes, but it wasn’t good enough to clinch a spot in the Big Dance.
However, Matta bounced back the very next season. Led by Big Ten Player of the Year Terence Dials, the Buckeyes were the Big Ten regular-season champions in 2005-06 and secured a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament – its highest in 14 years. Seventh-seeded Georgetown ousted Ohio State in the second round of the tournament, but an early exit didn’t stop the season from being a turnaround success for the program.
Matta didn’t miss the NCAA Tournament again until 2016, when the Buckeyes’ 20-13 record after the Big Ten Tournament wasn’t good enough to make the cut. Ohio State won one game in the NIT before its season came to a close, but that didn’t buoy the Buckeyes into an improved effort the following year. For the first time in Matta’s career, he missed the NCAA Tournament for a second straight season in 2016-17, and Ohio State’s 17-15 record was the program’s worst since O’Brien’s final year . Matta wasn’t given a chance to return to the tournament as Ohio State parted ways with him after the season, but Holtmann got the Buckeyes back in the NCAA Tournament the next year.Like Matta, O’Brien took over an Ohio State program that hadn’t made the tournament in multiple years.
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