June 21, 2026

Ohio State falls in Andy Katz's Power 36 college basketball rankings

We’re still months away from the start of the 2020-2021 college basketball season for Ohio State, but that doesn’t stop us from checking in on what the national media thinks of the Buckeyes’ chances to shake the tree of the sport in the winter. One guy we like to follow is the Big Ten Network and NCAA.com’s Andy Katz. He updates his Power 36 periodically through within a season, but also does the same during the offseason. And with super seniors, the pushing back of the NBA draft, and the ability of players to transfer more freely, the rankings have been a lot more variable than normal. Take the Buckeyes for instance. Katz originally had Ohio State as a top-five team in his first way-too-early projections, but that was when he believed both E.J. Liddell and Duane Washington would return. Now we all know that’s not the case. Liddell is…

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