Prior to the season beginning, neither the Ohio State Buckeyes or the Iowa basketball program sat near the top-25. Yet, after a few weeks of college basketball, the Buckeyes were 12-1 and the Hawkeyes were undefeated with two “quality” wins over Oregon and UConn. Things haven’t exactly taken a huge turn for the worse since, but these two teams have fallen slightly back to where they should have been.
The Buckeyes coming off two straight losses including one to Big Ten bottom-dweller Rutgers looks to avoid a three-game losing streak that would likely not them out of the top-25.