D’Angelo Russell is the best player on Ohio State, one of the best three best freshmen in the country and a future top five pick in the 2015 NBA Draft. He’s a game-changing talent, and it’s VCU’s best interest to do whatever it can to neutralize him,
D’Angelo Russell’s face covered with blood after elbow to the face
Russell returned to play.


Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
The Rams took that logic to its most extreme extent. VCU’s Doug Brooks hit Russell with a pretty elbow on this play, resulting in a flagrant-1 foul and a long delay as Russell bled all over the floor.
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