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COLUMBUS — Ohio State staved off a late Minnesota charge in the second half to open up Big Ten play with an 84-74 win over the Golden Gophers on Sunday in Value City Arena.

COLUMBUS — After finishing 11-1 but missing out on a spot in the final edition of the four-team College Football Playoff (CFP), No. 7 Ohio State will now head to Dallas, Texas on Dec. 29 to take on the Missouri Tigers in the 2023 Goodyear Cotton Bowl.

The Delaware Hayes boys basketball team made life difficult on both ends of the floor, consistently pressuring visiting Buckeye Valley on defense and relentlessly driving to the hoop on offense en route to a 32-14 halftime lead it parlayed into a 69-48 non-league win Friday night in Delaware.

Senior guard Kasey Schipfer scored 7 points as the Ohio Wesleyan women’s basketball team narrowed a 17-point, fourth-quarter deficit to just 4 points, but Muskingum withstood the comeback and held on for a 77-71 non-conference win on Wednesday in New Concord.

COLUMBUS — A game-high 25 points from Bruce Thornton and a career night from Felix Okpara were more than enough for Ohio State in an 88-61 beatdown of Central Michigan on Wednesday evening in the Schottenstein Center.

Ten different players scored for the Pacers — and no one managed to crack the scoring column for the Jaguars — as Delaware Hayes cruised to a 69-0 season-opening win over visiting KIPP Columbus on Tuesday night.

Trine opened the game with a 15-5 run and went on to a 93-58 non-conference win over the Ohio Wesleyan men’s basketball team on Saturday in Angola, Ind.

COLUMBUS — The Ohio High School Athletic Association and the Pro Football Hall of Fame have announced a new three-year contract that will keep the OHSAA football state championships in Canton at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium through 2026.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Ohio State found itself in a familiar position on Saturday as it headed to the halftime locker room trailing Michigan 14-10.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A closely contested first half gave way to all too familiar problems for No. 2 Ohio State in the second half as No. 3 Michigan outlasted the Buckeyes for a 30-24 win and a trip to the Big Ten Championship Game next week.