One day after losing to Minnesota by 17 points on Jan. 3, Ohio State slipped out of the Associated Press top-25 poll entirely. For the third week in a row, its ranking had dropped. At the time, voters didn’t believe Chris Holtmann’s team belonged among the nation’s 25 best.
Since getting unranked for the first time in more than 10 months, 40 days have passed and all 63 AP voters now have the Buckeyes not just inside the top-25 but within the top-10. They’re riding a five-game winning streak and have won eight of their past nine games to shoot all the way up No.