Now 4-1 in the last five games, Chris Holtmann says Ohio State needed to go through “really serious struggles” in order to understand the right way to play through adversity.
Four wins in 12 days. Only one loss in the last five games. All of a sudden, Ohio State hardly looks like the second-worst team in the Big Ten.
But Chris Holtmann said the metamorphosis his team has undergone over the past couple weeks was only made possible by the struggles it endured through most of a two-month stretch at the start of the new year. On Wednesday, Ohio State led Wisconsin by 27 points in the second half before crumbling late to allow the Badgers within three points before the final buzzer. But once again, the BuckeyesHoltmann said the turning point of the season came in the first half of Ohio State’s 27-point loss to Purdue in West Lafayette on Feb. 19.
“It was really hard. I think I questioned whether I was messaging the right things at times this year because I didn't feel like always I was – you know, they were hearing me. It almost felt like we needed to go through really serious struggles for them to understand there's a way in which we have to play in terms of trusting each other,” Holtmann said.
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