The Ohio State basketball team, after a hectic last few weeks in college basketball, have been placed as a five seed in USA Today’s most recent bracketology.
At that No. 5 seed, the Buckeyes would take on Stephen F. Austin in the Midwest Region out in Sacramento.
Thankfully, given SF Austin’s track record, this is just what USA Today predicts will happen and by no means how it will actually turn out with conference tournaments ahead. There is bound to be some changes and jostling of positions multiple times over.
Ohio State has Auburn, Duke, Seton Hall, and Kansas as their No. 4 through No. 1 seed in respective order. That’s a tough bracket and one that hopefully isn’t going to be what Ohio State sees itself battling come mid-March.
Another interesting point is that the Big Ten has the most teams in the tournament (10), but according to the site’s rankings, do not have a top-eight ranked team.
The Buckeyes, currently sitting at 20-9 and 15-2 at home, are an easy lock to make the tournament at this point no matter how the rest of the season shakes out.
They do, however, have a chance to improve their place with games against Illinois and Michigan State to go along with the Big Ten Tournament still on their schedule.
It’s only going to get more fun from here on out.
