2025-26 Ohio State Buckeyes
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Let's break down this whole "slippery slope" concept. Unlike the event on ESPN8 The Ocho it's accessed from the top, it's too wide to be the kind of chute or course to slide down for fun, so there must be some kind of confused miscalculation. Why would you knowingly slide down something so uncertain and unpredictable, unless you knew in advance what and where the bottom is? College basketball is one slippery slope after another. It's two jersey patches from August 1 on, but how much longer until three, twenty, the Michigan PointsBet Wolverines? NCAA president Charlie Baker can say that any player who's signed an NBA contract has forfeited their future eligibility, but all it takes is a local county circuit-court judge to overrule him. Elsewhere in Division I, Donovan Christopher "Puff" Johnson – previously seen barfing on the sidelines during UNC's remarkable No. 8 seed-to-Final Four run in 2022 – got a temporary restraining order from an Ohio court to overrule an NCAA waiver denial on a technicality and join Ohio State, effective immediately. As of this writing, Johnson has as many TROs in 2025-26 as PFs, but this is an important new tempo-free stat to keep an eye on. Got any NCAA eligbility left? Find a local lower court where the judges are also fans, file away, three question marks, profit. So where does this particularly slippery slope lead? You've been reading TMM, and you know exactly where. No. 2 is coming down from the rafters for a triumphant fourth-season goldmine cash-grab, and it's happening sooner rather than later.