Let's pick this one up tonight on the drive to March!

Series History :

This will be the 13th overall meeting with the Huskies leading the series 8-4 (?!)

A few considerations on that: 1) only 4 of the games in the series have been played in Columbus, with the Buckeyes holding a 2-2 mark at home vs and 0-6 mark in Seattle. OSU holds a 2-0 advantage in neutral site games. 2) Washington had some very decent teams in the 30s, 40s, and early 50s when many of these games were played - the Huskies eclipsed 20 win seasons - a feat back then - in many of those seasons, winning 12 conference titles 1930-1955 vs only 4 Pac titles since 1955. 3) the games out West were usually played in a flurry, meaning 0 or 1 day's rest before the next one and often with travel to another Pac school.

In 1938-39, 1946-47, and 1947-48, the meetings each entailed two games and the Buckeyes came out just 1-5 in those matchups to start the series. UW's 1938-39 team finished 2nd in the Pac to only NC Oregon, who we were defeated by in the 1st ever NCG that season. 1946-47 was a down year for OSU after a flurry of three straight Final Fours just before that season, and we were swept by Cal and UW in a 4-game west coast swing. We split in 1947-48 vs a UW team that won the Pac. In 1951-52 we were smoked by a UW team that won the Pac again and which finished 3rd in the country. We got a second series win in 1955-56 vs a respectable UW team that finished 2nd in their conference. Our spectacular 1961-62 team beat them in LA en route to finishing the regular season ranked #1. Washington then upset a ranked OSU team in each of the next two meetings - 1968-69 in Columbus against 16th-ranked OSU and 1972-73 vs 10th-ranked OSU out at their place. In the most recent affair, 4th-ranked OSU beat the Huskies in 2012-13 in a neutral site game in Connecticut.

Tonight's meeting will be the first meeting to take place on this side of New Year's Day with all the previous being either November (2012) or December (all others to date).

Go Bucks!