COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State freshman forward Derek Funderburk has been suspended by new coach Chris Holtmann, the team announced in a news release on Thursday.

According to the release, Funderburk was suspended for "failure to meet team expectations." The release did not specify how long Funderburk's suspension will last.

An Ohio State spokesman told cleveland.com that the length of Funderburk's suspension will be "determined internally."

The former St. Edward product redshirted last season after signing with the Buckeyes in the 2016 recruiting class out of Hargrave Military Academy. He was a four-star prospect and No. 74 player in the country coming out of high school.

Holtmann was officially hired last Friday, so this suspension comes within a week of the new head coach taking over. Holtmann's new staff of assistant coaches was officially announced on Thursday.

Previous coach Thad Matta said at the time that Funderburk's redshirt season fell in line with "what's best for his career."

The timing was strange given that the Buckeyes lost forward Keita Bates-Diop for the season at the start of Big Ten play. Funderburk would have made sense at least position-wise as a replacement in the lineup for Bates-Diop -- someone to at least play a few minutes and keep other wings fresh. But Matta said it wouldn't have been fair to Funderburk to waste a full year of eligibility on half of a season after making him sit during non-conference play.

Funderburk told cleveland.com after Ohio State's loss to Rutgers in the Big Ten Tournament that he was not at first receptive to the move, but learned to see the benefits of sitting out a year.

"I feel like what I learned is we need somebody who's gonna bring it every single game," Funderburk said then. "Everyone isn't always gonna have a great game, but to be out there on defense and executing, that's our biggest weakness. I feel like I bring that to the table, and showing passion every game that we don't show all the time as a team. I feel like I can help us get over the hump."