The choice is up to you if you think today’s second-round game against two-seed Villanova is a crucial, must-win game for Chris Holtmann’s future or if the Buckeyes are simply playing with house money, but Vegas very clearly likes the Wildcats. The seven-seeded Buckeyes are currently five-point underdogs according to our friends over at DraftKings Sportsbook.
The five-point spread is actually fewer points than the other Big Ten seven-seed is getting today — the Michigan State Spartans are 6.5-point underdogs against two-seed Duke later today. While Ohio State pretty much dominated Loyola-Chicago defensively en route to a 13-point opening-round win, the Spartans did not cover their 1.