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Upset alert

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Notre Dame lost to NC State...
Duke lost to Florida State
Arizona lost to Washington State
 
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WOW, Ohio State was cruising along 19 and 0, 8 - 0 in the B1G, now they are 19 - 3 and 8 - 3 with losses to Iowa, @Indiana, and Purdue. Wonder how far they drop and will Nova be ahead of them in the polls?
 
Did I miss something with Ohio? Did someone get hurt or something that messed up their chemistry. Train has fallen off the tracks (unfortunately like our men).
 
BballFan said:
Did I miss something with Ohio? Did someone get hurt or something that messed up their chemistry. Train has fallen off the tracks (unfortunately like our men).
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They did lose a player to injury on Jan 3rd, but I don't think that's the issue. Sometimes teams just have a hot start and then one day come back down to earth.
 
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Ohio State looked like they had a decent OOC at the start of the year as they had #5 TN, #7 Louisville, and #20 Oregon on their slate, and an early conference game against #25 Michigan. In retrospect even while they moved up the rankings to #2 at 19-0, that schedule no longer looks all that impressive - the only currently ranked team the have beaten is #13 Michigan whose only ranked win was against currently #15 UNC.

I would expect tOSU to drop like a stone tomorrow after their 3 losses.
 
I think maybe everyone's problem with rankings and upsets this year has a root cause - most of the P5 conferences just aren't that special this year. SC and Stanford stand out above the rest, but even Stanford has looked less dominant than usual. The Big 12 and Big Ten and ACC do not have clearly great teams - they have three or four competitive teams, but not really complete teams. The SEC with the exception of 'maybe (they really haven't played anyone)' LSU is a bunch of mediocrity and the Pac12 while probably having the best depth of teams, those teams are also not the usual suspects so it is sort of hard to trust them.
 
UcMiami said:
Ohio State looked like they had a decent OOC at the start of the year as they had #5 TN, #7 Louisville, and #20 Oregon on their slate, and an early conference game against #25 Michigan. In retrospect even while they moved up the rankings to #2 at 19-0, that schedule no longer looks all that impressive - the only currently ranked team the have beaten is #13 Michigan whose only ranked win was against currently #15 UNC.

I would expect tOSU to drop like a stone tomorrow after their 3 losses.
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Purdue in their previous game beat a (temporarily) ranked Illinois team, so their win
over tOSU, while surprising, is perhaps not real surprising. Purdue is playing their way
into the NCAA tournament.
 
BballFan said:
Did I miss something with Ohio? Did someone get hurt or something that messed up their chemistry. Train has fallen off the tracks (unfortunately like our men).
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OSU lost their starting back court in Jacey Sheldon and Madison Greene. Sheldon was injured in a car accident and is expected back soon. She hasn't played since 11/20/22. Greene was lost for the season in the USF game 12/20/22. The injury stuff isn't just centered around UConn.
 
JordyG said:
OSU lost their starting back court in Jacey Sheldon and Madison Greene. Sheldon was injured in a car accident and is expected back soon. She hasn't played since 11/20/22. Greene was lost for the season in the USF game 12/20/22. The injury stuff isn't just centered around UConn.
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BballFan said:
Did I miss something with Ohio? Did someone get hurt or something that messed up their chemistry. Train has fallen off the tracks (unfortunately like our men).
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I thought @BballFan was asking what happened in the past week that messed up their chemistry.
Or I could be wrong, again. :)
 
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Centerstream said:
I thought @BballFan was asking what happened in the past week that messed up their chemistry.
Or I could be wrong, again. :)
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I assumed that when he said "Train has fallen off the tracks" @BballFan meant what has been the general cause of their series of loses. Perhaps it's I that is, again, wrong:(.
 
Ohio State is just now getting into the meat of their B1G schedule. They still have Maryland twice, Indiana and at Michigan. I mentioned in the thread not too long ago that we would know more about Ohio State as we head into February.

And to be fair I think they have done well playing without Jacy Sheldon and then losing Madison Greene for the season it's just they are going to be facing some challenging teams. They lost to 10 Iowa and 6 Indiana which aren't bad losses. Someone already mentioned that Purdue is on the upswing and took out a ranked Illinois team on their home court.
 
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