NEW YORK (AP) -A year removed from a loss in the national title game, Ohio State has a championship trophy to carry home.
Nevermind that it’s from the NIT. Jamar Butler and his buddies couldn’t care less.
Butler had 19 points and eight assists in his final college game, leading Ohio State to a 92-85 victory over Massachusetts on Thursday night and prompting the victory celebration inside Madison Square Garden that they couldn’t have last year in Atlanta.
The Buckeyes lost to Florida in last year’s Final Four, but never dwelled on a snub by the NCAA selection committee that kept them from playing for another trip there. They dominated each of their four opponents on the way to New York, then had enough at the end to withstand every run the Minutemen could muster.
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Ricky Harris scored 27 for UMass (25-11), hitting three 3-pointers in the closing minutes to help the Minutemen stay close.
The last of them made it 77-75 with 3:13 left, but Othello Hunter scored moments later and after Harris missed another 3 try at the other end, Butler drained a 3-pointer from the wing to give Ohio State some breathing room.
Turner took care of things from the free throw line over the final minute and a half, helping the Buckeyes wrap up the title.
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