Well, what if it goes differently?
By our projection, Illinois is pretty much stuck at the 7. But Minnesota and Rutgers are projected for identical records at the 9/10, and OSU is only a game ahead. Those could easily shuffle, with OSU at the 8, Rutgers at the 9, and Minnesota at the 10. Indiana and Nebraska are both projected for the same record, but one game improvement from Indiana would put them solidly into the 11.
OSU ends up at 8
Minnesota at 10 (flips with Rutgers)
Indiana at 11 (flips with Nebraska)
OSU is 37th in KenPom. Rutgers is 87th. I definitely see if OSU avoids a Thursday game against Minnesota, they could certainly beat Rutgers.
Minnesota is currently 50th in KenPom. If they slip to the 10, we project them playing the Illini, currently 64th in Kenpom, so you'd think they'd at least have a shot.
Conceivably, that would put Indiana (45 in KenPom) in the 11-14 game on Wednesday against 59 PSU, so they could possibly have a win before Thursday even came around. Then on Thursday they'd be up against the 6 seed, which obviously is a harder game, but right now we'd probably project that as Iowa, which IMHO is a lot easier than any of our top 5. The top 5 are all in the top 15 by KenPom, while Iowa is 27. Iowa's no slouch, but Indiana could gain 2 wins.
So you have OSU and Minnesota both winning Thursday games, and Indiana possibly picking up two wins.
Is that likely? Perhaps not... But I can certainly see it as being possible. One positive upset for Rutgers would move them into the 9 ahead of Minnesota if Minnesota plays to projection, and one positive upset for Indiana [who did knock off MSU] would put them into the 11 ahead of Nebraska. And we could avoid any logjams in that 7-10 range.