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Ohio State Buckeyes (-26.5) vs. Mount St. Mary’s | over/under 148.5
Game Date/Time: Tuesday, Nov. 25 at 6:30 p.m. ET
Location: Columbus, Ohio
TV: Big Ten Network
Radio: 97.1 FM/ 971thefan.com
Ohio State will try to smoothen out some things and improve their record to 6-0 for the first time since 2019, as they welcome the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers out of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to Columbus for the first time since 2015.
Mount St. Mary’s is 1-5 on the season, but has played in close games with nearly everyone on their schedule thus far, except (ironically) Western Michigan. The Mountaineers were close at halftime or later against West Virginia, Bucknell, Cincinnati, and Maryland so far, and even went to overtime against the Terrapins in College Park last week. They shoot a lot of threes, make a decent amount of them, but also turn the ball over at a debilitating rate, many of which are unforced. Mount St. Mary’s did make it to the NCAA Tournament last year as a 16-seed, beating American in the 16-16 play-in game in Dayton before getting destroyed by No. 1-seed Duke right after.
Jake Diebler said on Thursday night that he was intentionally involving his bench early in the win over Western Michigan. With the talent disparity in this game, look for him to get guys like Colin White, Gabe Cupps, and Mathieu Grujicic in the game early on Tuesday night as well.
Connor’s prediction: Ohio State 92, Mount St. Mary’s 60
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