Ohio State and Indiana are playing on Sunday afternoon in a Big Ten college basketball conference game and the Hoosiers will be hosting the Buckeyes at 4:00 pm ET from Assembly Hall and the game is streaming online from CBS.
The Buckeyes are coming into things after a loss against Penn State and that put the team at 9-7 on the season in the Big Ten and they next will matchup with Michigan State and that will be on Sunday and is the final game on the schedule for the two teams before the conference tournament. The Buckeyes have been up and down in the conference this season and a win against MSU would give the Buckeyes some momentum heading into the tournament and they now are ranked 22nd in the nation in the AP Top 25 rankings.
The team is coming in after winning three of the last four games and that had three wins in a row against Minnesota, Illinois and northwestern and now they have the matchup with Indiana before playing against Michigan State. The Buckeyes had a very rough stretch during the season with losses to Michigan State, Iowa and Nebraska and that came during a stretch when the team lost five of six games. The Buckeyes also lost after that to Penn State in overtime and they lost both games to PSU this season and they also had a nice stretch with wins against ranked Wisconsin and Iowa back to back.
Ohio State started the season at 15-0 on the year before losing to Michigan State in overtime and now Michigan is in position to win the Big Ten regular season title, as they are in first ahead of Wisconsin and Michigan State. Indiana comes into the day eighth in the conference standings and after a win against 20th ranked Iowa and they end the year with matchups against Nebraska and Michigan, who are ranked 16th in the nation and that game will be on the road in Ann Arbor to end the schedule.
Indiana lost to Wisconsin in the game before Iowa and now they finish up a stretch of three straight ranked teams on the schedule and they had won two of the previous three games, but before that they lost three in a row. The team has a nice win over Michigan and they will play them at the Crisler Center to end the year and they can make up for last season's performance with a nice run in the conference tournament.