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Ohio State’s leading scorer in each contest has been a true freshman, and one in particular. En route to three Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, Brice Sensabaugh has dropped 20 or more points in four of his past six performances with opponents like North Carolina, then-No. 1 Purdue and Maryland all standing witness. Even in the two games that Sensabaugh didn’t crack 20 points, he still paced the Buckeyes in scoring. You might as well get used to it, because Sensabaugh isn’t slowing up. In fact, he only seems to be picking up steam as the Buckeyes near the halfway point of the 2022-23 campaign. “AT THE END OF THE DAY, HE’S A BUCKET-GETTER. I THINK SOMETIMES YOU CAN OVERANALYZE IT, BUT SOME GUYS HAVE A GIFT. AND I THINK HE HAS IT.” – JAKE DIEBLER ON BRICE SENSABAUGH Sensabaugh hasn’t just been good by freshman standards this season. The first-year sensation not only leads the Buckeyes with his average of 16.7 points per game, but he’s also the seventh-place scoring leader in the entire Big Ten. Only 26 forwards in the country are averaging more points than the Orlando, Florida, native, and just two previous players in the Chris Holtmann era at Ohio State (Keita Bates-Diop and E.J. Liddell) have finished a season with a higher scoring average. Needless to say, those accolades belie Sensabaugh’s age. But if you want to place a freshman tag on him, his exploits are made all the more impressive. In terms of scoring, Sensabaugh is the top freshman in the conference. Michigan’s Jett Howard is second with an average of 14.3 points per game, but he’s not the Wolverines’ top scorer (Hunter Dickinson, 18.7 points per game), and Howard ranks six places below Sensabaugh on the Big Ten’s overall leaderboard.
