Buckeyes Cost Themselves Top Seed?
The good news for Ohio State is, the NCAA tournament isn’t played on the road. The bad: they’re not likely to be a one seed when they enter the Big Bracket.
OSU fell to 22-5 Saturday night — all five of those scratches coming in road games — when Columbus-bred superstar Michigan freshman Trey Burke cataylzed a 56-51 Buckeyes knock-off in Ann Arbor thanks to a couple of ridiculously tough floating layups in the final minute. Michigan’s ascendance and Burke’s superb year is another story for another time, perhaps even a post for tomorrow. What a nice home win for them tonight, one that should cement Michigan, at worst, as a five seed.
Ohio State’s stumble is the bigger story, though. There’s plenty of flux around college basketball’s soft bubble right now. Teams like Southern Miss, Illinois, Connecticut, Mississippi State and North Carolina State are giving away games like flowers at a funeral. It’s bad over there, but uncertainty abounds elsewhere, too.
