Buckeyes game against Iowa postponed, not yet rescheduled

COLUMBUS — Ohio State was ready to get back on the floor after its heartbreaking loss over the weekend.

The Buckeyes will be stuck waiting a couple of days longer than expected to return to game action.

Iowa was forced to postpone the game set for Thursday night inside the Schottenstein Center due to travel-related issues and the current weather in the Midwest. The Hawkeyes couldn’t make the trip to Columbus, and now the Buckeyes will have a second conference game to make up in the final five weeks of the regular season.

No make-up date has been announced by either program yet.

This is the fifth Buckeyes game of the year to be canceled or postponed. They lost three games in December due to COVID-19, including two home games and a neutral-site clash against Kentucky. Then the Nebraska game scheduled for Jan. 22 was postponed and will be made up later.

Now this.

After battling back from being down 20 on the road at Purdue — just to lose on a last-second shot — Ohio State was excited to take lessons from that game and apply them.

“We have to go back to the drawing board and look at the mistakes we made and move on to the next game,” Ohio State superstar forward E.J. Liddell said. “We will look at the film and clean it up. It’s just another lesson for the rest of the season.”

But now that will have to wait longer than originally expected.

Iowa had trouble getting to Ohio State for the game, and now the programs won’t play Thursday night.

Up next for Buckeyes

Ohio State will host Maryland on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. inside the Schottenstein Center. That game can be viewed on CBS.

The Buckeyes will play the Terrapins twice in the final five weeks of the season, once in Columbus and once in College Park.