On his final radio show of the year, Ohio State coach Jake Diebler explained why the Buckeyes are not playing in the College Basketball Crown.

If there’s one way to summarize a lost season for the Ohio State Buckeyes, it’s that there were no shortage of opportunities to get it right. That made Wednesday’s likely men’s NCAA tournament–eliminating loss to the Iowa Hawkeyes something of a microcosm of the season,

Jake Diebler took over as the head coach of the Ohio State basketball team in the middle of last season after Chris Holtmann was fired. Diebler orchestrated an impressive turn around, and it earned him the full-time job. A lot of Buckeyes fans were skeptical of the hire, and now, a lot of them want Diebler fired.