Ohio State basketball moderate underdog to Iowa according to BetMGM

Ohio State is hitting the road Thursday night to take on the Iowa Hawkeyes. The popular BetMGM Sportsbook has the Buckeyes as an underdog.

Ohio State has a big one tonight in Iowa City. It’s a top ten matchup between the Buckeyes and Hawkeyes in what could go a long way in deciding which team stays in the hunt for the Big Ten championship vs. which one has a harder uphill climb the rest of the way.

For OSU, it’s another road contest against another highly ranked team. The Buckeyes have proven several experts and predictions wrong in games that took place in Madison, Champaign, and Piscataway. Can they do it again?

With that in mind, the oddsmakers believe Iowa is a decent favorite in this one. In fact, BetMGM Sportsbook has the Hawkeyes as a 5.5 favorite heading into the contest if you are into that sort of thing.

Odds courtesy of BetMGM Sportsbook.

Iowa has arguably the best player in the country in big man Luka Garza, and several scorers and playmaker around him, so it’ll be a challenge. We’ll have to see if Ohio State is up to the task again.

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