Ohio State, UC playing rights decades- old wrong

CINCINNATI — Picture a family reunion where fisticuffs replace fruit salad and hard feelings take the place of hard-boiled eggs. Where an uncle insults an aunt and the two parties barely speak for decades.

Loosely speaking, that has been Ohio State vs. Cincinnati in men’s basketball, where bad blood from an increasingly distant past has squelched what could and should have been one of the best rivalries in the sport. Instead, the schools have played only twice since 1962, and those games were played as part of tournaments on neutral courts far