Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball
2025–26 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team
University	Ohio State University
First season	1898–99; 128 years ago
Athletic director	Ross Bjork
Head coach	Jake Diebler 2nd season, 46–29 (.613)
Location	Columbus, Ohio
Arena	Value City Arena (18,809) St. John Arena (secondary; 13,276)
NCAA division	Division I
Conference	Big Ten
Nickname	Buckeyes
Colors	Scarlet and gray[1]
Student section	Nuthouse
All-time record	1,906–1,209 (.612)
NCAA tournament record	58–34 (.630)
NCAA Division I tournament champions
1960
Other NCAA Division I tournament results Runner-up 1939, 1961, 1962, 2007 Third place 1944, 1945, 1946, 1968 Final Four 1939, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1999*, 2007, 2012 Elite Eight 1939, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1992, 1999*, 2007, 2012, 2013 Sweet Sixteen 1960, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1980, 1983, 1991, 1992, 1999*, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Appearances 1939, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1999*, 2000*, 2001*, 2002*, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2026
NIT champions
1986, 2008
Conference tournament champions
Big Ten: 2002*, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013
Conference regular-season champions
Big Ten: 1925, 1933, 1939, 1944, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1991, 1992, 2000*, 2002*, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012
Uniforms
Home Away Alternate
* vacated by NCAA

The Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represents Ohio State University in NCAA Division I college basketball competition. The Buckeyes are a member of the Big Ten Conference.

The Buckeyes play their home games at Value City Arena in the Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, which opened in 1998. The official capacity of the center is 19,200. Ohio State ranked 28th in the nation in average home attendance as of the 2016 season.^[2]

The Buckeyes have won one national championship (1960), been the national runner-up four times, appeared in 10 Final Fours (one additional appearance has been vacated by the NCAA), and appeared in 27 NCAA Tournaments (four other appearances have been vacated).

Thad Matta was named the head coach of Ohio State in 2004 to replace coach Jim O'Brien, who was fired due to NCAA violations which made Ohio State vacate 113 games between 1998 and 2002.^[3][4] On June 5, 2017, after consecutive years of missing the NCAA Tournament, the school announced Matta would not return as head coach after 13 years and 337 wins at Ohio State. On June 9, 2017, the school hired Butler head coach Chris Holtmann as head coach.^[5]

The program is presently led by Jake Diebler, Holtmann's former assistant coach who was initially hired as an interim coach following Holtmann's firing in 2024.