We’re getting into the home stretch of the college basketball regular season, and the Ohio State basketball team is making moves. It has gone from outside both major polls’ top 25 rankings, all the way into the top five in the course of about a month.
In other words, the Buckeyes are a shoo-in for all the madness in March, and are even moving up the seed line faster than a polar vortex temperature drop in February. They are a pretty solid No. 2 seed at the moment and even appear as a No. 1 seed in some bracket projections.
As we go further along and get close to figuring out what all of this means, we’ll continue to provide updates on where Ohio State is slotting in with the various expert opinions and bring it to you in our Bracketology roundup.
Here’s the first edition as we go through what CBS Sports, ESPN, USA TODAY, and the NCAA websites have to say about where the Buckeyes are at the moment.