Ohio State women’s basketball played well enough this season to earn a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but it knows it needs to play better than it has if it’s going to make a deep tournament run.
The Buckeyes are 25-6 this season, but they haven’t always looked as good as their record suggests. They started the season winning 20 of their first 21 games, but just one of those wins came against a team ranked in the AP Top 25 at the end of the season (Maryland). Ohio State has gone just 5-5 in its last 10 games entering March Madness, going 0-4 in the five games it played in that span against teams who finished the year ranked in the AP poll.