For Ohio State, we came in ranked 11th on KenPom before Ohio State. Following the loss, we dropped in incredible 15 spots down to 26 total. Absent that loss. We would be near #10. So it is dragging us down 8 spots, or 3 seed lines. So yes it is a bad loss and I’m concealing nothing. The numbers are what they are.
Vanderbilt cost us 6 spots from 16th pregame in the metrics to 22nd afterward. So yes, another bad loss. Arkansas isn’t quite as bad, but losses at home are held against you and we dropped 3 spots from 19th to 22nd.
By contrast, good losses don’t drop you spots. See Clemson - lost and went up a spot.
But indisputably, Ohio State is an albatross around our necks that we won’t shake this year.