Both ranked teams to enter the RAC have fallen short against Rutgers this season, but No. 16 Ohio State will look to buck that trend on Wednesday.
Steve Pikiell’s program, which won its first NCAA Tournament game in 38 years last season, is 7-5 in conference play this season and is fresh off of one of its best wins so far: an 18-point blowout of Tom Izzo and Michigan State this past weekend.
"Tremendous respect for them. I think they're talented and really well-coached. They are just tremendous at home – they're a good team regardless, home-road they fight you – but they're obviously an elite team at home when you look at who they've beaten, their scores, their quality of play," Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann said Tuesday. "It's really as challenging of an environment on the road as really you'll see in this league.
Rutgers has had its fair share of poor performances as well this season, dropping three straight games to DePaul, Lafayette and Massachusetts during a non-conference stretch in November, but the Scarlet Knights have also knocked off a couple of the top teams in the Big Ten. The Buckeyes have won their last four games against Rutgers, and will enter the RAC as the favorite despite having suffered all five of their losses either on the road or at neutral sites this season. Ohio State is looking to win its fifth contest out of six and pick up its fourth Big Ten road victory of the season.Rutgers is 11-2 at home this season, and both of those slip-ups came by single-digit margins.
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