Ohio State's focus on the day-by-day grind of improving within a season might be starting to pay off as the win at Illinois improves its record to 11-3.
Ohio State will be without its top two point guards against Northwestern since Jimmy Sotos has been ruled out of Wednesday's game with a shoulder injury.
Five Things on Ohio State's win at Rutgers, including Jimmy Sotos' contributions before getting hurt, the frontcourt playing "very well" and Duane Washington Jr.'s inconsistency.
Ohio State meets Rutgers in a rematch of a mid-December game that ended with center Myles Johnson declaring there'd be "no cheating shit" the next time they played.