Ohio State officially missed out on the NCAA Tournament on Sunday despite a 6-2 late-season run under Jake Diebler.
Even with the great late-season run that saw the Buckeyes turn an otherwise dark season around, Sunday's results came as no shock.
It's the first time since the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons – its last two years under Thad Matta – that Ohio State has missed the Big Dance in back-to-back seasons. The only other time this century that Ohio State missed consecutive tournaments was when the Buckeyes failed to go three years in a row from 2002-03 to 2004-05.
Head coach Chris Holtmann was fired on Feb. 14. Four days later in its first game under then-interim head coach Jake Diebler, Ohio StateA loss in its following contest at Minnesota brought the Buckeyes back to earth only for them to be shot into the stratosphere once more with aat Michigan State on Feb. 25. The victory snapped a 17-game road losing streak for the team, the longest in program history.
The Buckeyes, who have an overall record of 20-13, didn't have a high enough NET Ranking or a good enough record in Quadrant 2 games to compete along the bubble. Three of the final four teams into the tournament had top-40 NET rankings: Colorado , Boise State and Colorado State .
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