Buckeyes in Paradise to Compete in Maui Invitational

Ohio State Maui Invitational
Date: November 21-23, 2022
Time: 9 p.m. ET | 5 pm or 10:30 pm ET | TBA
Venue: Lāhainā Civic Heart – Lāhainā, Hawaii
Watch: ESPN/ESPN2
Pay attention: Ohio State Radio Community from Learfield
Dwell Stats: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Event Web site: Championship Central
Sport Notes: Ohio State
Roster: Ohio State
Season Stats: Ohio State

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The much-anticipated journey to Hawaii is lastly right here as Ohio State has made the trek to compete within the prestigious Maui Invitational this week. The Buckeyes will play San Diego State on Monday adopted by both Arizona or Cincinnati on Tuesday. The ultimate recreation shall be on Wednesday. All three video games shall be televised on both ESPN or ESPN.

• The Buckeyes will open the match in opposition to San Diego State on Monday. The final assembly between the 2 groups additionally got here within the opening spherical of the 2003 Maui Invitational. SDSU received that recreation 83-61. All-time, San Diego State leads the sequence 2-1.
• That is the fourth look within the Maui Invitational for Ohio State. The Buckeyes completed fifth in 2003, third in 1993 and fifth in 1988. Ohio State has gone 2-1 in every of its earlier three appearances.
• This week would be the first journey to Hawaii for all however two of Ohio State’s 14 gamers. Justice Sueing, a Hawaii native, and Zed Key are the one two gamers who’ve visited the islands previously. Key’s highschool group, Lengthy Island Lutheran, performed in a vacation match in Hawaii throughout his senior season.
• Ohio State has opened the yr with three consecutive victories at house over Robert Morris, Charleston Southern and Jap Illinois. The protection has held every opponent to fewer than 60 factors and the Buckeyes haven’t misplaced beneath head coach Chris Holtmann when opponents fail to succeed in 60 factors.
• Opponents are capturing simply 30.2 p.c in opposition to the Buckeyes which is one of the best defensive capturing share within the Massive Ten and is within the Prime 10 nationally.
• Zed Key has had a double-double in every of the primary three video games and is now simply the third Buckeye within the final 40 years to open a season with three consecutive double-doubles. He joins Keita Bates-Diop (2017) and Evan Turner (2009).
• Freshman Brice Sensabaugh has been in double-figures in every of his first three collegiate video games. He scored 17 vs. Robert Morris, 14 vs. Charleston Southern and a game-high 20 vs. Jap Illinois. He’s simply the fourth Buckeye since 2000 to attain 10 or extra in his first three profession video games, becoming a member of Greg Oden in 2006, Kosta Koufos in 2007 and Jared Sullinger in 2010. Not unhealthy firm.
• The FIFA World Cup begins this week and, this may occasionally or will not be a word, however Ohio State has made the NCAA Event in every of the final six World Cup years.

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