Ohio State Buckeyes Football T Shirt

Ohio State Buckeyes Football T Shirt

 With the loss to Illinois Saturday, the Ohio State basketball team is locked in as the No. 5 seed in this week’s Big Ten Tournament. The Buckeyes had been in line for a double-bye in the tournament as a top-four seed, but four losses in a row resulted in them moving out of that position.

As a result, instead of playing its first game of the tournament on Friday, OSU will now have a game on Thursday at 2 p.m. EST against the winner of the game played a day earlier between No. 12 Minnesota and No. 13 Northwestern.

Yes, it was a disappointing end to the regular season for Ohio State, but now the March postseason begins and they don’t call it Mayem and Madness for no reason. It’s a new season really, and a new opportunity.

IT PROBABLY COULD’VE BEEN WORSE

Given the depth of the Big Ten that has made it nationally renowned as the undisputed best conference in college basketball this season, Ohio State was never going to have an easy draw. That just doesn’t exist. But this path is, perhaps, a bit easier than the alternatives.

Ohio State Buckeyes Football T Shirt

The Buckeyes, who just got done with a Murderer’s Row to end the regular season, don’t have to jump right back into a game against a ranked opponent. They avoid the trio of top-five teams in the country – Michigan, Illinois and Iowa – in the quarterfinals, instead taking on a Purdue team they have lost to twice but seems less daunting of an opponent than the three top seeds. Had Wisconsin beat the Hawkeyes on Sunday, Iowa would be the No. 4 seed that Ohio State would’ve potentially played in the quarterfinals instead of the Boilermakers.