There are several measurables when it comes to ranking college basketball teams. There’s the AP Poll, USA Today Poll, Ken Pom, and the relatively new NET Rankings from the NCAA.
If you don’t know, the NET Rankings were implemented last year to replace the RPI used primarily as a tool for comparing teams in a ratings metric when it comes to selection in the NCAA Tournament. For Ohio State, there’s good news there.
That’s because while the Buckeyes are barely inside the AP and USA TODAY polls as of late, they have continued to be fairly high when it comes to the NET. In fact, after the win over Michigan Sunday, OSU is now all the way up to No. 16. Ohio State continues to rise in all metrics after winning eight of its last ten, and that’s good news when it comes to Selection Sunday.
Ohio State basketball beats Michigan once again, might be peaking at the right time https://t.co/YdiQZABmTj
— Buckeyes Wire (@BuckeyesWire) March 2, 2020
Right now, most projections have OSU as a No. 6 seed, but the NET seems to indicate it is more of a No. 5 seed potentially headed to a No. 4 seed if it continues to string wins together down the stretch.
Now, there’s more that goes into it than just the NET, but there’s no doubt at this point that Ohio State will be seeded high enough to have a decent location and seed when all the fun starts in a couple of weeks.