Another week means another check-in with ESPN and Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology. Lunardi is known as one of the foremost experts and projecting the NCAA Tournament field as results occur. He has historically been very accurate in predicting the teams that get into the field when all the regular-season games are complete.
What he says should be paid attention to, so that’s what we’re doing.
The Buckeyes have been as high as a No. 2 seed in his projections, but we all know how things have gone since then. They continue to fall down the seed projections with each passing loss and each agonizing week recently.
So where is Ohio State after a week in which we saw it lose to Minnesota at home, but win against Northwestern on the road? The news is not so good because the scarlet and gray have moved all the way down to a No 8 seed — in what you would consider bubble territory.
Lunardi has OSU playing No. 9 seed Arkansas in the Midwest Region out in Omaha.
Now, the good news is that there’s plenty of quad 1 wins out there to bolster a resume that already has some good wins on it. The bad news is that Ohio State has to play these quality teams in the Big Ten and cannot afford to lose at the clip it has if it wants to still be a part of all the madness in March.
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