With football season officially complete, here's everything Ohio State fans need to know to catch up on the men's basketball season.

Ohio State has been all over the place in terms of performance this season. Good enough to beat Kentucky, but bad enough to nearly be beaten by Big Ten basement dwellers Minnesota. So Indiana needs to attack certainties. One of them is that Ohio State will foul a lot.

With Indiana sitting just 79th in adjusted offensive efficiency, it’s going to struggle against a quietly stout Ohio State Buckeyes defense. Ohio State is 29th in adjusted defensive efficiency and holding opponents to 71.1 ppg.

Indiana continues the 2024-25 season Friday against the Ohio State Buckeyes at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Here's how to watch.

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Indiana men’s basketball (13-5, 4-3 Big Ten) will play its third game in less than a week when it faces Ohio State (10-7, 2-4 Big Ten) at 8 p.m. Friday inside Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio.

Largely propped up by a victory over No. 8 University of Kentucky and three ... The one thing any team can control is effort, and Indiana showed almost none of it in the past two games. Against Ohio State, it was different — and ultimately, the effort ...

And of course, quarterback Riley Leonard is from Fairhope, Ala., southeast of Mobile. He came to Notre Dame via transfer from Duke, but he also grew up a Fighting Irish fan, his great grandfather having played for Notre Dame in the 1940s.

In fact, the Ohio State University Alumni Association has coined Walk-On's the spot to watch the game in central Indiana. "They are great people," Johnson said. "They represent the Midwest to the Nth degree. We actually play the trumpet and all the fanfare ...

Ohio State and the Big Ten flexed its muscle on the college football stage. But as the Times-Union power rankings reveal, the SEC is king for overall strength.