Fresh off a dreadful, awful, embarrassing 66-46 road loss to Indiana, Northwestern returns to Allstate Arena Wednesday night to take on one of the hottest teams in the country, led by the frontrunner for Big Ten Player of the Year.
This should go well.
Since the start of this basketball season, Northwestern and Ohio State have gone in completely opposite directions. It’s now clear that the Wildcats (11-8, 2-4 Big Ten) were wildly overrated and the Buckeyes (15-4, 6-0) vastly underrated, but it’s somewhat freaky how the teams’ coinciding decline and ascension inversely mirror each other.
In Kenpom’s season-opening rankings, Northwestern clocked in at 18, with Ohio State miles below at 78.