BENEATH THE GLITZ of a Buckeye victory and Bruce Thornton’s climb up the record books, a DEEPLY DISTURBING truth is being exposed in college basketball. Ohio State’s 80-73 win over a hapless Rutgers wasn’t about sportsmanship—it was a BRUTAL PUBLIC EXECUTION of a program in total freefall, revealing a system where the rich CRUSH the desperate without mercy.
While Thornton notched his 20 points to pass a legend, Scarlet Knights head coach Steve Pikiell was left watching his team’s season IMPLODE to a catastrophic 0-3 Big Ten start. This isn’t a game; it’s a CANNIBALISTIC ritual. The Buckeyes, funded by a MASSIVE athletic machine, feasted on a Rutgers squad that looked lost, confused, and utterly abandoned. Tariq Francis’s 17 points off the bench? A meaningless cry for help in a program now defined by FAILURE.
The real scandal? This game PROVES the so-called “competitive balance” in the Big Ten is a LIE. While Ohio State reloads for a marquee matchup with Nebraska, Rutgers is left as CONFERENCE CARCASS, destined to be picked apart by every team on the schedule. The NCAA’s “everybody has a chance” mantra was RIPPED APART on national television, replaced by the cold reality of a TWO-TIER SYSTEM where some are built to win and others are built to be sacrificed.
What you witnessed tonight wasn’t a basketball game—it was the HARSH, UNFORGIVING BLUEPRINT for how modern college sports truly operates: with coldblooded efficiency and zero soul.



