Even with the great late-season run that saw the Buckeyes turn an otherwise dark season around, Sunday's results came as no shock.
Ohio State was not one of the 68 teams selected to participate in the NCAA Tournament Sunday evening. Its run to win six of its last eight games ultimately proved insufficient to give the Buckeyes a bid to college basketball's championship bracket.
It's the first time since the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons – its last two years under Thad Matta – that Ohio State has missed the Big Dance in back-to-back seasons. The only other time this century that Ohio State missed consecutive tournaments was when the Buckeyes failed to go three years in a row from 2002-03 to 2004-05.