Ohio State has a chance to make it to the NCAA Tournament by winning multiple games in the Big Ten Tournament.
The guaranteed method to go dancing, of course, is to win the Big Ten Tournament outright. Four wins would be required of the Buckeyes to obtain that feat, one they haven't accomplished since 2013 under Thad Matta. Entering as the 10th seed for the conference tourney, Ohio State would need to beat seventh-seeded Iowa, second-seeded No. 13 Illinois, likely third-seeded Nebraska and then whoever emerges from the other side of the bracket, which contains top-seeded Purdue. That seems unlikely.
But with five wins in its last six games, OSU now has a path to at-large consideration that includes winning multiple contests in its preliminary postseason foray. ESPN's Joe Lunardi and CBSSports' Jerry Palm don't have the Buckeyes among their first four or next four teams out at the moment, and only one of the 114 bracket projections aggregated byBut even those sources aren't eliminating Ohio State from the discussion. Lunardi placed the Buckeyes in the"win here, then win again" section in hisWins in their first two games in Minneapolis would give the Buckeyes one more Q2 and one more Q1 wi
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