The Jake Diebler era of Ohio State basketball is here.
As expected in the modern era of collegiate sport, his first roster features a majority of new faces. The Buckeyes could potentially have four transfer portal acquisitions starting on offense, and there are a lot of inexperienced – if talented – pieces on the roster, especially in the frontcourt.
The end of the Chris Holtmann era was a joyless slog for many Buckeye basketball fans. He accomplished less in his Januarys and Februarys than a vacationing group of Santa’s elves, going 6-23 in those two months in his last two seasons. Diebler took over as interim head coach last season following the 23rd of those losses and generated a new buzz about the program…