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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 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. 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.

Ohio State is one of only seven universities to have won an NCAA national championship in baseball and men’s basketball, and be recognized as a national champion in football. Ohio State has also won national championships in men’s swimming & diving, men’s outdoor track & field, men’s volleyball, men’s golf, men’s gymnastics, men’s fencing, women’s rowing, co-ed fencing, co-ed and women’s pistol, synchronized swimming, and wrestling. Since the inception of the Athletic Director’s Cup, Ohio State has finished in the top 25 each year, including top 6 finishes in three of the last five years. During the 2005–06 school year Ohio State became the first Big Ten team to win conference championships in football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball in the same season. This feat repeated in the 2006–07 season, which also included a February 25, 2007 men’s basketball game which saw the Buckeyes defeat the Wisconsin Badgers in the Big Ten’s first basketball game between the number one and number two ranked squads in the nation.

A few of the many outstanding sports figures who were student athletes at Ohio State include Jesse Owens, “The Buckeye Bullet”, John Havlicek, Jerry Lucas, and Katie Smith, Frank Howard, Jack Nicklaus, Archie Griffin, and Chic Harley. Hall of Fame coaches at Ohio State have included Paul Brown and Woody Hayes, Fred Taylor. Notable sports figures in Ohio State history may be inducted into the Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame.