Ohio State men's basketball keeps supplying the means to their own defeats, and changing that fate means holding on to leads.
not to believe in endemic attitudes in sports. By which I mean the idea of a clutch gene in certain athletes, or that specific college sports programs are forever doomed/blessed by universal karma, or that entire geographical locations are somehow cursed.
The reason I push back so hard on these kinds of narratives is that I'm a student of history, and history has a very, very, very long memory. Alabama's dominance of college football has felt inevitable for the better part of two decades now, but I'm old enough to remember when Mike Shula was getting the Crimson Tide sanctioned to hell and back and losing to Minnesota in the Music City Bowl.
And I begin with all of this to say that I don't truly believe that there's something supernatural about Chris Holtmann's men's basketball teams being incapable of holding on to significant leads in games, eventually causingI'm not talking about the movie version you're probably familiar with, a kind of Malthusian nutjob who can punch guys really hard. I'm also not referringthat made a genocidal maniac into a happy nice guy for a tweet about the World Cup.
Instead, I'm referring to the comics version of the character from the 80's and 90's; a nihilist obsessed with death who is smarter and more powerful than everyone else in the room, but who also subconsciously cannot avoid planting the seeds of his own downfall, knowing as he does that he's unworthy of the power he seeks.
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