Anyone with even a third-grade understanding of nutrition knows you cannot eat only cupcakes your entire life and be healthy. After all, mom always pushed the vegetables, not the sweets.
Unfortunately for the Ohio State basketball team, all it has eaten in the 2014-15 season is cupcakes, and it doesn’t have a healthy resume as a result.
The Buckeyes have beaten up on the likes of Sacred Heart, Campbell, Colgate, High Point and others and missed their one opportunity to make a statement in a loss to Louisville. All is not lost, though, because there are plenty of opportunities for Ohio State to add some meat and potatoes to that cupcake diet.
It just has to take advantage of those chances.
With that in mind, here is a look at the five most important games remaining on the Buckeyes’ schedule.
Dec. 20 vs. North Carolina (in Chicago)
Unless the Buckeyes simply blow away the rest of the Big Ten, the selection committee is going to look back on their nonconference schedule in March and use it as important grading criteria when handing out those favorable seeds.
A win over a mediocre-at-best Marquette squad is not going to cut it, either. Since Ohio State lost to Louisville, the Dec. 20 showdown with North Carolina on a neutral floor is its only remaining opportunity to make a statement before Big Ten play.
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