cut it a few times, and then we had some very difficult turnovers and a couple missed shots,” Pikiell said. “In these kind of games, when you’re always scrapping and fighting just got to hang around, you got to make sure you execute both ends of the floor … We just got to learn how to get over the top in those kind of situation where everything’s not going great.”
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Rutgers held the fifth-best three-point shooting team in the country (42.4% coming in) to 6-of-18 shooting beyond the arc, but it gave up 46 points in the paint, allowed Ohio State to go 14-of-17 at the rim and gave up 12 second-chance points on 10 offensive rebounds.
The Scarlet Knights let veteran guard Bruce Thornton (22 points on 8-of-13 shooting) and small forward Devin Royal (22 points on 9-of-12 shooting) run roughshod in isolation, trying matchup after matchup with no solution in sight.
“(Ohio State) stuck to their principles,” Harper said. “They listened to their coach. They just went out there and did what they were told.
