New coach, healthy star push Buckeyes to unexpected heights

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State's elimination from the Big Ten tournament by lowly Rutgers last March showed the depths to which Buckeyes basketball had fallen in a just few short seasons.First-year coach Chris Holtmann showed his players video cuts of that debacle before Sunday's game, the first against the Scarlet Knights since the tournament. Ohio State then went out and routed Rutgers 68-46 .On Monday the Buckeyes cracked the AP Top 25 poll for the first time in nearly three years. On Wedn