The Ohio State Buckeyes are on pace to miss the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season. As a result, it sounds like the team has decided to part ways with head coach Chris Holtmann immediately instead of waiting until the end of the season.
According to a report from college basketball insider Jeff Goodman, Ohio State has decided to part ways with Chris Holtmann after another disappointing season.
“BREAKING: Ohio State has parted ways with Chris Holtmann, source told @TheFieldOf68. Holtmann went to the NCAA tourney in each of his first 4 years with the Buckeyes, and was set to go the year the tourney was canceled. Went all 3 years at Butler and went to Sweet 16. Buckeyes has taken nose-dive the last two years and Gene Smith decided to make move now,” Goodman said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
BREAKING: Ohio State has parted ways with Chris Holtmann, source told @TheFieldOf68.
Holtmann went to the NCAA tourney in each of his first 4 years with the Buckeyes, and was set to go the year the tourney was canceled. Went all 3 years at Butler and went to Sweet 16.…
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) February 14, 2024
While many expected this move to happen at some point, it was a pretty sudden change for the Buckeyes in the middle of the season, and it led to a lot of reactions on social media as a result.
Hate it for Holt who is a great dude and I will root for wherever he ends up. Also don't fully love that we did it mid-season.
But the bottom has fallen out of the program. Zero juice whatsoever. Had to be done eventually.
Doing emergency @MarkTitusShow pod now, will post ASAP https://t.co/4tWfgjaS7J
— Mark Titus (@clubtrillion) February 14, 2024
Wow. Assumed this was coming but surprised they didn’t let him finish out the season.
Big opening to start the carousel https://t.co/RDINe7Y1Qs
— Brian Rauf (@brauf33) February 14, 2024
I'm actually kinda stunned they did it in the middle of the season, but it's the best move for everyone this way imo. https://t.co/y9Zj8nJkXR
— kevin harrish (@Kevinish) February 14, 2024
This is gonna be a really interesting offseason from a coaching perspective.
First of what should be a handful of high-level openings. https://t.co/46lAHCdxEh
— Rob Cassidy (@Cassidy_Rob) February 14, 2024
It had to happen. Two total nosedives in consecutive seasons leads to Holtmann losing his job at Ohio State. https://t.co/3wF0rIo5UZ
— Sean Paul (@SeanPaulCBB) February 14, 2024
Never made it out of the first weekend at OSU which included losing as a 2 seed to 15 Oral Roberts in ‘21
Good guy but overdue for a change https://t.co/NGzYMCp3qZ
— Projection Sports (@ProjSports) February 14, 2024
It will certainly be interesting to see where Ohio State turns after this.
