The Ohio State Buckeyes are on track to miss the NCAA Tournament for the second season in a row. And as a result, it looks like the school has decided to part ways with head coach Chris Holtmann in the middle of the season.
According to a report from college basketball insider Jeff Goodman, the Ohio State Buckeyes have decided to part ways with Chirs Holtmann.
“BREAKING: Ohio State has parted ways with Chris Holtmann, source told @TheFieldOf68. Holtmann went to the NCAA tourney in each of his first 4 years with the Buckeyes, and was set to go the year the tourney was canceled. Went all 3 years at Butler and went to Sweet 16. Buckeyes has taken nose-dive the last two years and Gene Smith decided to make move now,” Goodman said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
The decision comes after Ohio State suffered a loss to the Wisconsin Badgers on Tuesday night, marking their 16th consecutive loss on the road going back to last season, tying a program record for the lost road losing streak in school history.
Though Ohio State made the NCAA Tournament each of Holtmann’s first five seasons with the Buckeyes – except for the 2020 season in which no NCAA Tournament took place – Ohio State missed the NCAA Tournament last year and is likely to miss the tournament again this season.