Time for the final act. No. 7 Ohio State and No. 4 Illinois meet on Saturday afternoon in Columbus for the final game of the regular season with an awful lot on the line for both teams. For starters, each team has a legitimate case to be made for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Illinois has the inside track at the moment to make that happen, but a win for the Buckeyes certainly could be enough to sneak in and steal it away. Ohio State had won 10 of 11 games through January and most of February, catapulting them to a top-5 national ranking and putting them firmly in the mix as one of the nation’s best teams. But after three consecutive losses to Michigan, Michigan State and Iowa, the Scarlet and Gray are suddenly desperate for a win. Nobody wants to go into a post-season tournament…
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