Before every Ohio State men\u2019s basketball game, Connor Lemons gets you ready for that day\u2019s action with key stats, players to know, and prevalent storylines for that day\u2019s game on the \u201cGood Hoops Morning\u201d podcast. <\/p>\n
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No. 2 Michigan Wolverines (-9.5) vs. Ohio State Buckeyes| over\/under 159.5<\/p>\n
Game Date\/Time: Sunday, February 8, at 1:00 p.m. ET
Location: Columbus, Ohio
TV: CBS
Radio: 97.1 FM\/ 971thefan.com<\/p>\n
Ohio State (15-7, 7-5) gets another shot against No. 2 Michigan (21-1, 11-1) Sunday afternoon in Columbus. The Wolverines won the first matchup last month, 74-62, as the Buckeyes briefly held a second-half lead in Ann Arbor but fizzled out over the final seven or so minutes.<\/p>\n
Michigan is enjoying its best start in program history, is No. 1 in the NET rankings and No. 2 in both the AP Poll and KenPom. The Wolverines lead the Big Ten in points per game and field goals made per game, and scored 110 in their most recent victory over Penn State on Thursday night. Dusty May would improve to 3-0 against Jake Diebler with a win, and former Buckeye Roddy Gayle would improve to 3-0 against his former teammate and close friend Bruce Thornton.<\/p>\n
Thornton is 22 points away from passing Kelvin Ransey to become 5th all-time in scoring in program history.<\/p>\n
Connor\u2019s prediction: No. 2 Michigan 80, Ohio State 75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before every Ohio State men\u2019s basketball game, Connor Lemons gets you ready for that day\u2019s action with key…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,231,772,1544,69740,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-590415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaab","13":"tag-ohio-state-podcasts","14":"tag-ohio-state-mens-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116034900100834968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}