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Ohio State at Penn State live score updates, highlights, how to watch Big Ten game
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Ohio State will play a familiar foe in a different place.
Thursday night, the Buckeyes will take on Penn State inside Rec Hall. It’s the former home of the Nittany Lions, one they moved out of in favor of the Bryce Jordan Center in 1996. It’s the fifth game for the men’s basketball program since it moved to newer digs, and the first time since then that the Buckeyes have visited.
Ohio State has won two straight games, while Penn State has lost two straight and six of seven.
Follow along with our Columbus Dispatch live game blog below.
Ohio State leads Penn State 16-11 with 11:26 left in the half. The start of the game has been highlighted by this sequence from sophomore center Aaron Bradshaw.
Freshman guard John Mobley Jr. has five quick points and an assist for the Buckeyes, who lead 7-4 at the first media timeout. Mobley has handled the ball more than Bruce Thornton in the early going, continuing a recent trend of the Buckeyes playing the junior more off the ball.
Thornton had the ball stripped on the last possession and, although he maintained possession, came to the bench shaking his left hand and grimacing with 15:26 left in the first half.
Here are tonight’s starters.
Ohio State: Bruce Thornton, John Mobley Jr., Micah Parrish, Devin Royal, Sean Stewart
Penn State: Ace Baldwin Jr., Nick Kern Jr., Freddie Dilione V, Zach Hicks, Yanic Konan Niederhauser
Video: Ohio State’s pregame report at Penn State
Here are some in-arena thoughts as Ohio State prepares to play Penn State.
Colin White still out for Ohio State
Freshman wing Colin White will miss his second consecutive game for the Buckeyes with a right leg injury. White suffered the injury at Purdue on Jan. 21 and watched the second half of that game and all of Monday’s win against Iowa with a walking boot on his leg.
Meechie Johnson Jr. will also miss his 11th game as he remains away from the team.
Penn State will be without Puff Johnson, who is missing his third consecutive game.
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Ohio State vs Penn State predictions, picks, odds
Odds courtesy of BetMGM as of Thursday, Jan. 30
ODDS: Ohio State +3.5
O/U: 149.5
Moneyline: Ohio State (+135) | Penn State (-160)
Ohio State vs Penn State history
- Series record: Ohio State leads, 44-22
- Ohio State’s last win: Jan. 20, 2024 (79-67)
- Penn State’s last win: Dec. 9, 2023 (83-80)
Ohio State Buckeyes 2024-25 schedule, record
Here’s a look at the Buckeyes’ schedule, along with start times, television, and radio information of upcoming games:
- Monday, Nov. 4: Ohio State 80, Texas 72 (takeaways)
- Monday, Nov. 11: Ohio State 81, Youngstown State 47 (takeaways)
- Friday, Nov. 15: Texas A&M 78, Ohio State 64 (takeaways)
- Tuesday, Nov. 19: Ohio State 80, Evansville 30 (takeaways)
- Friday, Nov. 22: Ohio State 104, Campbell 60 (takeaways)
- Monday, Nov. 25: Ohio State 102, Green Bay 69 (takeaways)
- Friday, Nov. 29: Pitt 91, Ohio State 90 (OT) (takeaways)
- NOVEMBER RECORD: 5-2
- Wednesday, Dec. 4: Maryland 83, Ohio State 59 (takeaways)
- Saturday, Dec. 7: Ohio State 80, Rutgers 66 (takeaways)
- Saturday, Dec. 14: No. 2 Auburn 91, Ohio State 53 (takeaways)
- Tuesday, Dec. 17: Ohio State 95, Valparaiso 73 (takeaways)
- Saturday, Dec. 21: Ohio State 85 No. 4 Kentucky 65 (takeaways)
- Sunday, Dec. 29: Ohio State 103, Indiana State 83 (takeaways)
- DECEMBER RECORD: 4-2
- Friday, Jan. 3: No. 18 Michigan State 69, Ohio State 62 (takeaways)
- Monday, Jan. 6: Ohio State 89, Minnesota 88, 2OT (takeaways)
- Thursday, Jan. 9: No. 15 Oregon 73, Ohio State 71 (takeaways)
- Tuesday, Jan. 14: No. 24 Wisconsin 70, Ohio State 68 (takeaways)
- Friday, Jan. 17: Indiana 77, Ohio State 76, OT (takeaways)
- Tuesday, Jan. 21: Ohio State 73, No. 11 Purdue 70 (takeaways)
- Monday, Jan. 27: Ohio State 82, Iowa 65 (takeaways)
- Thursday, Jan. 30: Ohio State at Penn State | 6:30 p.m. | FS1 | 97.1 FM
- JANUARY RECORD: 3-4
Ohio State Buckeyes vs Penn State Nittany Lions records
- Records: Ohio State 12-8, 4-5 Big Ten; Penn State 13-8, 3-7
How can I watch/listen to the Ohio State Buckeyes vs Penn State Nittany Lions game?
- TV Channel: FS1
- Livestream: Fubo | Fox Sports Go app | Sling TV | YouTube TV
- Radio: WBNS-FM (97.1)
Ohio State Buckeyes vs Penn State Nittany Lions start time
Date: Thursday, January 30
Time: 6:30 p.m. ET
Location: Rec Hall; State College, Pennsylvania
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Thirty former Ohio State football players, including some former NFL players, have agreed to join a federal lawsuit against the university over the sexual abuse of student athletes decades ago by a team doctor, a lawyer in the case said Thursday.
The lawyer, Rocky Ratliff, said in an interview that the men came forward some eight years after the first lawsuit was filed because they needed to overcome the shame of revealing that they’d been sexually abused by another man and the fear of taking on the university publicly.
They are “tearful and living with it,” Ratliff said. “But as this case progresses on, they see how Ohio State’s treating athletes from the university and I think they want people to know it’s OK, even if it is male to male (sexual abuse), to come forward.”
Ohio State has fought lawsuits in federal court since 2018 brought by former student athletes against the university over its failure to stop abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. Hundreds say they were abused by Strauss, who worked at the school from 1978 to 1998. He died in 2005.
The men have signed letters of agreement to join a lawsuit filed by other student-athletes who say they are victims of Strauss, Ratliff said.
Of the 30, only three have agreed to make their identities public, Ratliff said. They are Al Washington, Ray Ellis and Keith Ferguson, he said. All were members of the 1980 Rose Bowl team and were recruited by and played for legendary coach Woody Hayes.
Some other former football players have settled with the school in sealed agreements that kept their names a secret, Ratliff said.
In a statement, Ohio State said it has “sincerely and persistently tried to reconcile with survivors, including former football student-athletes, through monetary and non-monetary means, including settlements, counseling services and other medical treatment.”
As of April 15, the university has settled with 317 survivors for more than $61 million, and is remains actively engaged in mediation, the school said.
In an interview, Washington said it was hard to talk about the abuse he suffered and recalled being subjected to “unlawful” physical exams by Strauss when he was 18 or 19. He and the other players tried to make light of it with each other and joke about it.
“But it was really uncomfortable,” said Washington, now 67.
He didn’t discuss it with others over the decades, but watching the 2025 documentary film “Surviving Ohio State” put it back into his thoughts.
“As a matter of fact, I couldn’t make it through that movie,” Washington said. “The pain and anguish that I saw, I just couldn’t take it.”
Strauss was on the faculty and medical staff and Ohio State. He retired in 1998 with emeritus status. School trustees revoked that mark of honor three years ago.
Washington was drafted in 1981 by the New York Jets and played one season for the team. Ellis, a former defensive back, had a seven-year NFL career from 1981 to 1987, playing with the Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns. Ferguson, a former defensive end, played in the NFL from 1981 to 1990, including stints with the San Diego Chargers and the Detroit Lions.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers and former Ohio State wide receiver Emeka Egbuka is defending former Buckeye Carnell Tate.
Tate has received some scrutiny after he was selected as the first wide receiver in the 2026 NFL Draft, despite not having been Ohio State’s top receiver target in college. Appearing on the “Up and Adams” show May 6, Egbuka shut down the narrative that meant Tate would not find success with the Tennessee Titans.
“I mean, we can see the correlation,” Egbuka said. “That was the same talk that was about me when I was coming out of the draft. At the end of the day, it’s all semantics. If you can play football, you can play football, and Carnell Tate can play football.”
Selected with the No. 20 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, Egbuka finished his final college season with 1,011 receiving yards, more than 300 fewer than Jeremiah Smith in his freshman year. Egbuka led the team in receptions with 81 compared to Smith’s 76 catches.
With Buccaneers wide receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin Jr. playing fewer than 10 games during the 2025 season due to injuries, Egbuka led the team in receiving yards with 938. He finished fifth in 2025 AP Offensive Rookie of the Year voting.
Tate, the No. 4 overall pick in this year’s draft, was called a “talented player” by New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers during Bleacher Report’s draft night coverage on April 23, but Nabers questioned Tate’s selection.
“I don’t see him being a number one,” Nabers said. “He hasn’t been the number one on the team he’s been on. You have to be a number one on the team that you’re coming from to be a number one receiver on the team you’re going to. … You can’t be the second.”
Green Bay Packers edge rusher Micah Parsons, also on the broadcast, quickly dismissed Nabers’ statement by bringing up that former Buckeyes receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba was a second option while in college.
“You said you got to be number one on the team that you’re coming from. … [Jaxon Smith-Njigba] was not number one. Bro, you got to understand that the number one [Ohio State] player will be the number one pick in the draft next year. … Give him a chance to fulfill the role,” Parsons said.
Tate finished the 2025 season with 875 receiving yards and nine touchdowns, second to Smith with 1,243 receiving yards and 12 touchdowns.
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