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2008-09 Men's Basketball Polls/Seeding Projections/Rankings Discussion

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Totally agree. I think it is reasoanble that they finish maybe 5-2 to close out the regular season. 4 road games left in the Big 10? 6-1 would be a great finish but I don't see it happening. That would give them some momentum going into the Big 10 tourney if it happens but this team is still too inconsistent and young to make a deep run. Lookin' like a 6 seed to me unless they make a run @ the Big 10 tourney title (making the championship game). A Big 10 tourney win or 2 and a W in the Big Dance would be a successful season for this team. The selfish side in me wants everyone to come back hungry and make a legitimate run @ it next year.

Yertle;1404986; said:
Agreed 100%. I'm thrilled to be on this 4 game win streak. This is such a talented, but mistake prone (youth) team. I don't think I've ever had the emotional swings watching a Buckeye b-ball season as I've experienced this year.

If we can end up 4-3 to close the season, and win one in the BTT, I'll be happy. That would put us at 22-9, 11-7 in the Big 10, with some nice quality wins. That should get us a 5 or 6 seed. Not too shabby for a team that has zero active players who were here just 15 months ago.
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Likely out of the top 25 again when the polls come out today and maybe no better or worse than three or four other Big Ten teams -- Purdue, Minnesota, Penn State, Wisconsin -- that could joust the next three weeks for the remaining first-round byes in the conference tournament. More significant, one or more could lose out on what might be a diminishing number of NCAA Tournament slots for the Big Ten. The field that a mock committee of media members selected last week at NCAA headquarters included only five conference teams, Ohio State among them but not Wisconsin. A question: If the field was selected today and the Buckeyes were still without injured David Lighty, would the real committee give more weight to their full body of work this season -- or their 10-6 record (3-3 vs. ranked teams) without him?
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BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : OSU Insider
 
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In the polls for the week of Feb. 16.
TOSU dropped to 28 in the AP, with 45 points.
And plummeted to 33 in the ESPN/USA with 12 points, behind the likes of:
Florida State 20, California 16, South Carolina 14, Arizona 13, and Brigham Young 13.
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Men's basketball: Ohio State is a lock in media's mock brackets
Barring collapse, panels say OSU is easily in field
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:20 AM
By Bob Baptist

The NCAA played host to college basketball media and officials last week for a pair of one-day confabs in which the groups simulated building the NCAA men's tournament bracket that the real selection committee will construct in three weeks.

The subject of Ohio State's inclusion never came up for discussion.
"No debate at all," Big Ten Network anchor Dave Revsine said.
That's a good thing, Buckeyes fans.

"I don't think of Ohio State being in any trouble at the moment," said Jerry Palm, who operates the CollegeRPI.com Web site. "Barring some sort of collapse, I don't see a problem."

Palm was among 20 who participated in a mock selection Thursday. His group selected five Big Ten teams: Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue, Minnesota and Ohio State.

Revsine was among another 20 who repeated the process Friday. They added Wisconsin to the other five.

Palm said the computers his group used had not been updated to include the results of games Wednesday, when Wisconsin beat Iowa at home for its third straight win. On Saturday, the Badgers further enhanced their stock by beating then-No. 24 Ohio State.

The road loss did not significantly harm the Buckeyes (17-6 overall, 7-5 Big Ten), who have six games and the Big Ten tournament remaining before the field of 65 is announced March 15. They do well in many of the criteria the selection committee weigh: Rating Percentage Index ranking (No. 26), road record (4-4), wins over teams in the top 50 of the RPI (four) and conference RPI ranking (No. 2).

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BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Men's basketball: Ohio State is a lock in media's mock brackets
 
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leroyjenkins;1418712; said:
Saw some ppl posting projections in the 2009 NCAA Basketball Tournament thread but I thought it belongs here:

Lunardi has us as a #9, playing BYU, in Philly. A win and we'd be rewarded with UCONN for a 1999 Final 4 rematch.

Bracketology - ESPN 2-27-09
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OSU wasn't in the Final Four in 1999. :paranoid:
 
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