Less than 24 hours separated Ohio State from a No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press top-25 poll.
All the Buckeyes needed to do? Go on the road and beat Minnesota, a team with a 4-5 record that had the 12th highest KenPom rating among the 14 schools in the Big Ten.
That, of course, didn’t happen. The Golden Gophers sent Ohio State back to Earth by handing Chris Holtmann’s team its first loss of the season. In a game completely bereft of the qualities that helped the Buckeyes win their first nine games of the season, they lost, 84-71, at Williams Arena on Sunday night.