Ohio State announces guard Taison Chatman to miss 2024-25 season due to knee injury

Ohio State sophomore guard Taison Chatman will miss the entire upcoming men’s basketball season for the Buckeyes, the program announced on Wednesday. Chatman will be sidelined by a knee injury.

Chatman suffered the injury recently, per the release, during one of Ohio State’s summer workouts. He’s already had a surgery on the injury and is proceeding with rehab.

“I’m incredibly sad for Taison that he’s going to miss the entire year,” head coach Jake Diebler said in the release announcing Chatman’s injury. “After a tough start to his collegiate career, he worked his way back and played a role for us at the end of last season. He continued that development this spring and was working out really well. I was looking forward to watching him take the next step this year. But I know he’ll work hard and get back to form as soon as he can.”

During his true freshman season in 2023-24, Chatman was slowed by injuries early in the year. He eventually went on to play in 16 games for the Buckeyes.

The Buckeyes are eying some schedule additions

Ohio State is hoping to have an official slate set here soon for their first full season under Diebler. If it’s up to him, that schedule will include at least one more quality opponent, specifically one that will come to Columbus this year.

Diebler discussed the latest on the Buckeyes’ scheduling during a recent press conference. He did share that they are attempting to lock down at least one more team from a top conference. The intention there would be that they’d be coming to Value City Arena this year. Ohio State would then make a trip to their home floor in the following season.

“We are trying,” Diebler said. “I think we’re getting close to finalizing another home-and-home deal that would be with another high major team.”

“Our preference is to start that at home this year,” Diebler added. “I think our fans? It’s great for our fans to be able to have that.”

However, Diebler said that that has been difficult with what other potential teams have in mind for their own schedules. He’s finding that many of them aren’t as interested in that as they are in playing at a neutral location.

“Listen, scheduling? It’s hard right now,” Diebler said. “We’ve reached out to just, really, tons and tons of teams who would be probably, in the last few years, considered to be the top-end teams in each respective power conference to try and schedule but a lot of teams are transitioning from home-and-homes to neutral-site games. So it has been a challenge, certainly, to fill out the schedule.

“I think, when it’s all said and done, you’re going to see that we’re going to have a tough non-conference schedule, certainly, which is exciting. But, yeah, that part is different now than it was even like two, three years ago where a lot of teams are fighting to get these neutral-site games.”