The Ohio State Buckeyes are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Ohio State University, located in Columbus, Ohio. The athletic programs are named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Ohio and after the state tree, the Ohio buckeye. The Buckeyes participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I in all sports and the Big Ten Conference in most sports. The Ohio State women's ice hockey team competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). The school colors are scarlet and gray. The university's mascot is Brutus Buckeye. "THE" is the official trademark of the Ohio State University merchandise. Led by its gridiron program, the Buckeyes have the largest overall sports endowment of any campus in North America.
Buckeyes baseball players before a 2009 game
Ohio State Men's basketball game at Value City Arena in the Jerome Schottenstein Center
Brutus Buckeye
The Ohio State University is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The flagship institution of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one of the largest universities by enrollment in the United States, with nearly 50,000 undergraduate students and nearly 15,000 graduate students. The university consists of sixteen colleges and offers over 400 degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
University Hall was the first building on campus, built in 1873 and reconstructed in 1976
The East Atrium at the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library.
Aerial view of the main campus, with Drinko Hall and the South Oval in the foreground.
The Ohio Union was the first student union at a state university in the United States.