Ohio State loses to Iowa, its third defeat in a row. Three takeaways.

The Ohio State basketball team is suddenly reeling, having lost its third straight game, this time a blowout at the hands of Iowa.

After looking almost unbeatable over the last month of the season, the Ohio State basketball team has now dropped three in a row, this time to the Iowa Hawkeyes at home 73-57.

The loss drops the Buckeyes to fourth place in the Big Ten, and elevates Iowa to third place as we get ever so closer to the end of the regular season with a top-four seed on the line to get that double-bye in the conference tournament. Purdue is right on the heels of Ohio State.

OSU has just one game remaining in the regular season, and a season that had been so promising now has some answers that will need to be figured out as the postseason nears.

As usual, here are three takeaways from the game.

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