How or Why is Ohio St still ranked in Top 25??

[HawgEyeState]

Their best win all year is beating Maryland??

They also list a Best Win as beating Illinois?

What a joke

 

[mopkins]

Complete joke. Good thing the standings don't mean a thing starting next week

 

[1hawkeye1]

Getting thoroughly pwned vs WI at the moment.

 

[LawVHawk]

They are getting blown out at home.

 

[DrKnipe]

Because of football

 

[1hawkeye1]

They are getting blown out at home.

On Senior Day no less

 

[BILLBUCKNER]

Their best win all year is beating Maryland??

They also list a Best Win as beating Illinois?

What a joke

It's a head scratcher ,but beating them twice helped our RPI and they were considered one of our best wins.

 

[HuckFinn]

What is really frustrating to me is that, yes, we beat them twice; furthermore, we drop a game to MSU at CHA and then get a bad break against Purdue when AW gets hurt. We could have been all alone in 3rd place...and, we did beat Maryland. So close to a second place finish! I know, I know, we won some close ones, too.

 

[Bigtenchamp]

Their best win all year is beating Maryland??

They also list a Best Win as beating Illinois?

What a joke

wellllll technically our best win could be Maryland... if you go by rankings.

Ohio State is not that good though.

 

[ibahawkeye]

Saw a stat that here recently, maybe even today... 1 win against top 50.

OSU will get exposed. They are not a good team.

 

[hawkfan340]

I have only seen like 2.5 Ohio St. games this year, but to me they look like a bunch of great athletes that just met each other 5 minutes before tip-off.

My $0.02.

 

[meaning]

Saw a stat that here recently, maybe even today... 1 win against top 50.

OSU will get exposed. They are not a good team.

This is all true ... but they've provided an RPI boost for us, and the wins should help with our seed. Now that we've used them for all they can do for us, they can be discarded.

 

[Benddontbreak]

The makeup of their team is sorta odd, and there’s no one besides Russell that can score. Most of their guys were good/great recruits that haven’t done anything. The seniors seem like they’ve regressed throughout their careers.

 

[Hawkeyes1982x]

I have only seen like 2.5 Ohio St. games this year, but to me they look like a bunch of great athletes that just met each other 5 minutes before tip-off.

My $0.02.

I couldn't have said it any better! Exactly.

 

[LawVHawk]

Because of football

That. Plus it is fOSU, which of course is good at everything, and Thad Matta, pretty well known to the voters, and liked.

 

[deanvogs]

OSU has been a premier school under Matta. He has won or shared the B1G title 5 times, made 5 sweet 16's 3 Elite 8's, 2 final fours and a NC game appearance.

They also bring in top 25 and top 100 recruits all the time. This next years class alone has 5 4* kids coming in. All of this is gonna bring you a certain amount of respect from AP voters.

 

[DDThompson]

two high quality losses to your Iowa Hawkeyes!

 

[Hawkfnntn]

Because of their name. They have an NBA 1st rd draft pick... And that's all I got. I'd been scratching my head on them for awhile now too.

 

[HawkeyeMike23]

Root for OSU, Illinois and Indiana in the B10 tournament, any wins by them will only help our RPI, unless of course we are playing them.

 

[blubberhawk]

Because of their name. They have an NBA 1st rd draft pick... And that's all I got. I'd been scratching my head on them for awhile now too.

Must have something to do with the OSU.

Oklahoma State hung around in the rankings for a long time, too and have lost 5 of their last six and still show up as an 8 seed. 8-10 in the league and 18-12 overall.
This OSU lost in Stillwater to South Carolina by 26 points! (South Carolina finished 6-12 in the SEC) South Carolina also beat ISU on a neutral court.