NCAA Tournament March Madness
#36 Ohio St
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Projected seed: 8
Ohio State's resume reads like a team that has steamrolled lesser nonconference opponents while producing a couple of truly meaningful moments, most notably the home squeaker over Notre Dame and the road win at Northwestern, but it also carries a damaging narrow road loss at Pittsburgh that raises questions about consistency away from Columbus. The absence so far of a signature neutral-site victory over an elite opponent keeps the resume vulnerable, yet there are multiple high-visibility opportunities coming up — a neutral slate that includes Illinois and West Virginia and a marquee neutral against North Carolina plus a string of road tests at Oregon, Washington, Michigan State and Michigan — that can flip the narrative. The committee prizes wins away from home and on neutral floors and is quick to penalize poor road losses, so Ohio State's standing will depend on whether its offense can continue to deliver against upper-tier opposition and whether the defense can tighten on the road enough to turn those upcoming chances into resume-defining results.
| Date | Opponent | Ranking | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/3 | IUPUI | 346 | W118-102 |
| 11/7 | PFW | 230 | W94-68 |
| 11/11 | Appalachian St | 277 | W75-53 |
| 11/16 | Notre Dame | 60 | W64-63 |
| 11/20 | W Michigan | 242 | W91-58 |
| 11/25 | Mt St Mary's | 308 | W113-60 |
| 11/28 | @Pittsburgh | 108 | L67-66 |
| 12/6 | @Northwestern | 61 | W86-82 |
| 12/9 | Illinois | 9 | 38% |
| 12/13 | (N)West Virginia | 73 | 65% |
| 12/20 | (N)North Carolina | 24 | 43% |
| 12/23 | Grambling | 285 | 98% |
| 1/2 | @Rutgers | 135 | 76% |
| 1/5 | Nebraska | 27 | 56% |
| 1/8 | @Oregon | 91 | 63% |
| 1/11 | @Washington | 48 | 46% |
| 1/17 | UCLA | 31 | 59% |
| 1/20 | Minnesota | 115 | 87% |
| 1/23 | @Michigan | 1 | 7% |
| 1/26 | Penn St | 110 | 86% |
| 1/31 | @Wisconsin | 38 | 40% |
| 2/5 | @Maryland | 96 | 65% |
| 2/8 | Michigan | 1 | 19% |
| 2/11 | USC | 35 | 61% |
| 2/14 | (N)Virginia | 23 | 43% |
| 2/17 | Wisconsin | 38 | 62% |
| 2/22 | @Michigan St | 12 | 21% |
| 2/25 | @Iowa | 22 | 32% |
| 3/1 | Purdue | 5 | 32% |
| 3/4 | @Penn St | 110 | 69% |
| 3/7 | Indiana | 21 | 53% |