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Ohio State got over the hump in a big way last week. Recently, the Buckeye basketball team lost three games in a row by a combined score of five points. All winnable games, but Jake Diebler’s team just couldn’t close them out.

Ohio State held Iowa in check Monday night, but Buckeyes fans wanted a little more and booed in the final seconds. Here's the 'fowl' reason why.

Don’t look now, but all the pieces of the Ohio State basketball team might be starting to come together. Just a game removed from knocking of a top-15 Purdue team on the road, the Buckeyes returned to Value City Arena on Monday night and handled the Iowa Hawkeyes rather handily.