The Ohio State basketball schedule continues to take shape for this coming season with news of a home-and-home series with an SEC school on Friday. According to Rocco Miller of The Field of 68, the Buckeyes and Commodores have agreed to play over the next two seasons, with the game this year taking place in Columbus on Nov. 24.
Ohio State and Vanderbilt have only played each other twice throughout history, with Vandy getting the best of the Buckeyes both in 1988 and 1989. In other words, it’s been a very long time since the two have done battle.
Vanderbilt had a very solid season last year, going 27-9 and earning a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament, eventually losing to No. 4 seed Nebraska in one of the best games of the postseason during the second round, 74-72. The addition of the Commodores to the nonconference slate adds to several other games with a shift against more difficult Power Four opponents, including contests against BYU in Salt Lake City, vs. Kansas in the CBS Sports Classic, at Notre Dame, and at UConn.
The team we see in the Scarlet and Gray this year will look significantly different than the one we saw bow out in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last year. It is a roster that has some nice pieces to it, but the national media is in wait-and-see mode on how the pieces will come together. We’ll get our first look when Ohio State tips off the season against BYU on Nov. 2.
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