Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball
| Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball | |||||||||||||||
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| University | Ohio State University | ||||||||||||||
| First season | 1898–99; 128 years ago | ||||||||||||||
| Athletic director | Ross Bjork | ||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Jake Diebler 2nd season, 46–29 (.613) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Columbus, Ohio | ||||||||||||||
| Arena | Value City Arena (18,809) St. John Arena (secondary; 13,276) | ||||||||||||||
| NCAA division | Division I | ||||||||||||||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Buckeyes | ||||||||||||||
| Colors | Scarlet and gray | ||||||||||||||
| Student section | Nuthouse | ||||||||||||||
| All-time record | 1,906–1,209 (.612) | ||||||||||||||
| NCAA tournament record | 58–34 (.630) | ||||||||||||||
| NCAA Division I tournament champions | |||||||||||||||
| 1960 | |||||||||||||||
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| NIT champions | |||||||||||||||
| 1986, 2008 | |||||||||||||||
| Conference tournament champions | |||||||||||||||
| Big Ten: 2002*, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013 | |||||||||||||||
| Conference regular-season champions | |||||||||||||||
| Big Ten: 1925, 1933, 1939, 1944, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1991, 1992, 2000*, 2002*, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 | |||||||||||||||
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The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in NCAA Division I college basketball competition. The Buckeyes are a member of the Big Ten Conference.
The Buckeyes play their home games at Value City Arena in the Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, which opened in 1998. The official capacity of the center is 19,200. Ohio State ranked 28th in the nation in average home attendance as of the 2016 season.
The Buckeyes have won one national championship (1960), been the national runner-up four times, appeared in 10 Final Fours (one additional appearance has been vacated by the NCAA), and appeared in 27 NCAA Tournaments (four other appearances have been vacated).
Thad Matta was named the head coach of Ohio State in 2004 to replace coach Jim O'Brien, who was fired due to NCAA violations which made Ohio State vacate 113 games between 1998 and 2002. On June 5, 2017, after consecutive years of missing the NCAA Tournament, the school announced Matta would not return as head coach after 13 years and 337 wins at Ohio State. On June 9, 2017, the school hired Butler head coach Chris Holtmann as head coach.
The program is presently led by Jake Diebler, Holtmann's former assistant coach who was initially hired as an interim coach following Holtmann's firing in 2024.