Right now Ohio State men's basketball is sliding across a freshly waxed wooden floor, directly towards a staircase down to the basement.
Something might stop them, maybe. But if you're the anxious babysitter (you, me, Ohio State fans in general, Gene Smith, etc.) who got momentarily distracted by a different, better team for a few months, maybe at this point it's better to get ready for the aftermath of how this all ends instead of yelling about it in a futile attempt to circumvent the iron-clad rules of physics.
Ohio State lost to Wisconsin, which shouldn't have come as a shock to anyone who's watched any of their last nine games.