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To steal thoughts from a separate Buckeyes forum offering up a postmortem of Holtmann’s regular season, one thing that was pointed out is how college basketball as of late has a way of making just about anybody look bad on any given year. For example, to the OSU fans wanting Holtmann replaced with names like Iowa State’s Otzelberger or Arkansas’ Musselman – both have really hit a wall throughout conference play this season.

In the national picture big names like Boeheim has Syracuse unable to reach 20 wins in each of the past four seasons. Tom Izzo seems on the wane during the same period. Oregon’s coach, Dana Altman, usually good for at least a S16 run every other season, has hit the same recent rut. And despite his recruiting not dipping, John Calipari’s past three seasons comparatively underachieve.

Several Buckeyes posters name Collins at Northwestern as a worthwhile replacement to Holtmann, and yes, Collins is winning, but after how many years of losing? Someone pointed to Matt Painter as the Big Ten's only coach who, year by year, has a dependable handle on winning appreciably more conference games than he loses.

Rumors Kansas is trying to force Bill Self out, to hire Chris Holtman

https://twitter.com/HoopsWeiss/status/1635512114554044418?s=20

I'm hopeful but not optimistic. This would really bail out Smith.

More Buckeye fans from that thread.

Gene Smith I almost compare to Darth Sidious in the Star Wars prequels lol. We see all of these sports underachieving and try and look at those coaches when in the shadows it's Gene Smith and his hirings and reckless money spending that has the athletic department in debt. He botched tattoo gate, the zach smith situation, he hired Holtmann (and extended him), hired Greg Beals (and kept him far too long), and let's not forget he had absolutely NOTHING TO DO with the hiring of Urban. That was the board of trustees and I remember the Urban introductory press conference that Gene Smith appeared to not even want to be there and people wanted him fired at the time. He brought on Ryan Day and did not interview ANYONE ELSE which is a red flag considering Ryan had no coaching experience at the time. Absolute fish out of water during that time.

All in the mean time he props up other sports that virtually nobody cares about and gives the OSU womens hockey team a new rink when the atheltic department is in debt LMAO. No wonder the OSU athletic department is a joke to most other fanbases.

https://buckeyeswire.usatoday.com/lists/big-ten-basketball-programs-ranked-by-most-ncaa-tournament-wins-all-time-ohio-state/

B1G Programs ranked by NCAA Tournament wins:

• 72 Michigan State, 72-34, .679
• 68 Indiana, 68-36, .654
• 66 Michigan, 66-30, .688
• 58 Ohio State, 58-34, .630
• 44 Purdue, 44-34, .564
• 44 Maryland, 44-29, .603
• 42 Illinois, 42-34, .553
• 40 Wisconsin, 40-25, .615
• 31 Iowa, 31-31, .500
• 14 Minnesota, 14-14, .500
• 10 Penn State, 10-12, .456
• 6 Rutgers, 6-9, .400
• 2 Northwestern, 2-2, .500
• 0 Nebraska, 0-7 .000

Just another illustration of the obvious. 

Izzo's been to more Sweet 16s than any other Big Ten program except Indiana and Michigan.

I think that's more impressive than MSU having the most tournament wins, because they have had their entire peak during the 64 team era.  Some teams only had like 3 opportunities to win a game during a whole tournament.  But the flip side is, as soon as the made the tournament, they were already in the final 8 or 16.

Also he has 13 UPSET wins over top 4 seeds