Thursday was a big day for former Ohio State Buckeye basketball players Kelsey Mitchell and Stephanie Mavunga. Both players found new homes as they were selected by the WNBA’s Indiana Fever. Mitchell was drafted No. 2 overall by the Fever and Mavunga’s name was called just 12 picks later....
Former Ohio State guard Kelsey Mitchell’s career accomplishments are lengthy. On Thursday evening the Buckeye playmaker added another achievement to her list. Mitchell collected the Dawn Staley Award. The Dawn Staley Award is given to the most outstanding collegiate guard in the country, a player who exemplifies the skills that...
Ohio State guard Kelsey Mitchell accomplished just about everything their is to accomplish for an NCAA student-athlete in the world of basketball. Her list of career achievements is a mile long and surrounded by the names of some of the greatest players to ever play the game. On Thursday,...
Coming off exciting wins on Saturday afternoon, Ohio State (28-6) and Central Michigan (29-4) got together for their second-round matchup in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. Fans greeting each team with a warm reception as they took the floor at historic St. John Arena for warmups on Monday night....
The Ohio State Women’s Basketball Team began its 25th tournament appearance on Saturday afternoon with a matchup against the George Washington Colonials. The NCAA tournament serving as the backdrop for the inaugural meeting between the two schools. The atmosphere inside the St. John Arena was electric as Ohio State...
The Ohio State Women’s Basketball Team begin its tournament march on Saturday afternoon with a first-round matchup against George Washington University. Saturday’s game marks the 25th tournament appearance for the Lady Buckeyes and the fourth straight trip to the NCAA tournament for head coach Kevin McGuff and his squad. The...
After a commanding 88-54 win over Northwestern, the Ohio State Women’s Basketball Team learned it has clinched at least a share of the Big Ten regular season title by virtue of a Maryland 71-65 loss to the Michigan Wolverines. This is Ohio State’s 16th Big Ten Championship, the most...
The Ohio State Women’s Basketball team (23-6, 12-3) looked to close out its home schedule by earning a victory against the Northwestern Wildcats (10-19, 3-12). The Buckeyes have dominated the series against the Wildcats, winning 27 of the last 30 meetings. A win for Kevin McGuff and his team...
Ohio State (23-7, 14-3) ended it’s two game losing streak on Senior Night in emphatic fashion, defeating Rutgers (13-17, 3-14) by a final score of 79-52. C.J. Jackson led the Buckeyes with 18 points off the bench while Kaleb Wesson contributed 14 and Kam Williams added 13 points on...
Heading into its final home game, The Ohio State Women’s Basketball sits at No. 14 in the latest NCAA rankings as they welcome the Northwestern Wildcats to Value City Arena on Wednesday evening. This is a pivotal game with possible postseason implications. With 21 days remaining until the Women’s...
When the calendar flipped to 2018, The Ohio State Women’s Basketball team continued its dominant winning streak, winning nine games in a row. However, the Scarlet & Gray came back to Earth on Jan. 16th with a loss to Michigan at home. The Buckeyes continued on a three game skid...
It’s difficult to miss Ohio State forward Makayla Waterman when she suits up for Ohio State. The junior stands at 6’2″ and has a personality to match her stature. The redshirt junior has a great sense of humor often joking with teammates and staying loose during pregame warmups. When...
The Ohio State Women’s Basketball team ending a three game losing streak against Michigan State on Saturday and looked to keep the momentum rolling against Penn State. The Buckeyes got rolling early on the strength of a 20-5 run. Penn State Head coach Coquese Washington used a timeout less than...
Following a victory over Michigan State on Saturday, Ohio State looks to continue their winning ways against Penn State tonight. Tonight’s matchup will be the 63rd meeting all-time between Ohio State and Penn State. The Nittany Lions are just one of two Big Ten teams who lead the all-time...
Heading into Saturday afternoon’s game against Michigan State, Ohio State senior guard Kelsey Mitchell was fast approaching a Big Ten record. With an 19 point performance Saturday, she could become the top scorer (male or female) in conference history. Throughout the game, Mitchell appeared she would eclipse the record...
On Saturday afternoon, the Ohio State Women’s Basketball team looked to reverse its recent misfortunes and halt a three game losing streak. The streak began on Jan. 16th when the Buckeyes lost to the Michigan Wolverine 84-75, and has continued with tough losses against Big Ten foes. The biggest black...
Playing its fifth game in eleven days, Ohio State (18-5, 9-1) drops it’s first conference game to Penn State (14-8, 4-5) 82-79. Penn State shot lights out from the field, going 58.6% from the field and 79% (11-14) from three-point range, to hand the Buckeyes their first loss. Keita...
The Ohio State Buckeyes (18-4, 9-0) survived the upset-minded Nebraska Cornhuskers (14-8, 5-4) 64-59 Monday evening at the Value City Arena. Playing its fourth game in eight days, the Buckeyes struggled on both sides of the ball all night but made the shots and stops when it mattered the...
Chris Holtmann and the Ohio State Buckeyes (13-4, 4-0) got their first signature win together with an emphatic 80-64 rout of the top-ranked Michigan State Spartans (15-2, 3-1). The Buckeyes came into Saturday’s game with an 0-2 record against ranked teams , with losses to No. 17 Gonzaga and...
The Ohio State Buckeyes (11-4, 2-0) closed out non-conference pay with a tougher than expected game against in-state opponent Miami (OH), besting the Redhawks 72-59 Saturday afternoon at the Value City Arena. The Buckeyes struggled early offensively, starting just 3-16 from the field in the first 11:27 of the...
The Ohio State Buckeyes defeated Appalachian State 80-67 Saturday evening, earning their fourth win in a row and improving their record to 9-3 (2-0) on the season. Jae’Sean Tate paced four Buckeyes in double digit scoring, putting up 19 points. Keita Bates-Diop scored 18, freshman Kaleb Wesson added a...
Keita Bates-Diop recorded his third double-double in as many games, leading Ohio State (3-0) through its first bit of adversity as the Buckeyes defeated Texas Southern 82-64. Bates-Diop, Jae’Sean Tate, and Micah Potter each tallied 17 points, with freshman Musa Jallow having a statement night after being inserted into...
Sunday afternoon the Ohio State Buckeyes faced a much more physical opponent than they saw in the season opener and Robert Morris as they defeated the Radford Highlanders 82-72, but not without some hiccups throughout the game. Keita Bates-Diop posted his second double-double of the season in as many...
Chris Holtmann’s tenure as head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes got off to a solid start with a 95-64 blowout victory over out-manned Robert Morris University. Keita Bates-Diop, who missed the final 21 games of last season, returned to the court with 19 points and 17 rebounds. Kam...
The Ohio State men’s basketball team seems to be still be suffering from the fallout after Thad Matta’s departure. Shortly after Chris Holtmann was named as the new head coach of the men’s basketball team earlier this month, two commits for the class of 2018 decided that OSU may...
It’s the Buckeye Leafcast, b-ball style! Normally reserved for football talk, me and the Intergalactic Buckeye Fan, Chris Stefanick, are joined by special guest (and TTUN fan) Brandon Richey! We wax poetic on the firing of Thad Matta, whether it was justified or not and is new coach Chris...
Newly hired Ohio State men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann wanted to make one thing clear during the official press conference held at the Schottenstein Center on Monday that introduced him as the new head coach: he will be putting an emphasis on getting back to recruiting the state of...
The Ohio State Buckeyes have hired Butler’s Chris Holtmann as its next men’s basketball coach. Holtmann will be the fourteenth coach in program history, succeeding Thad Matta who was let go on Monday after thirteen seasons with the program. Holtmann signed an eight-year contract work approximately $3.1 million per...
After thirteen seasons, Thad Matta’s time as the Ohio State Men’s basketball coach came to an end Monday afternoon as Athletic Director Gene Smith and Thad Matta announced Matta’s retirement in a press conference. Despite declining production over the last two years, four depending on which Ohio State fan...
On Wednesday afternoon, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith put to rest some of the rumors that have been swirling around the latter half of this season about head coach Thad Matta’s return for next year and put his official stamp of approval on Matta coming back next year....
On Marc Loving’s senior day, Ohio State couldn’t overcome it’s own lax defense and Indiana’s red hot offense as it drops the Big Ten regular season finale 96-92 at the Value City Arena. Indiana raced out to an 11-0 lead with just 2:18 gone in the first half. The...
The Ohio State Buckeyes ended a three game losing streak with their best performance of the season, an 83-73 upset of the 16th ranked Wisconsin Badgers, controlling the game from beginning to end. Ohio State moves to 16-13 on the season and 6-10 in Big Ten play with two...
The Ohio State Buckeyes avenged an early conference season loss at Minnesota with a 78-72 win at home behind a career high 19 points for Trevor Thompson to improve to 3-5 in Big Ten play. Unlike the game in Minneapolis on January 8th it was the Buckeyes who built...
It’s hard to call a mid-January game, the fifth of the Big Ten conference slate, a ‘must win’ game but that is exactly what today’s game against the Michigan State Spartans was for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Thad Matta’s team came into the game winless in their first four...
Ohio State’s second half comeback came up just short Thursday night against the 20th ranked Purdue Boilermakers, falling 76-75 at home. The Buckeyes (10-5, 0-2) led 36-35 with four minutes left in the first half before a Boilermakers 8-0 run gave them a 43-36 lead, highlighted by a five-point...
Former Ohio State player and assistant coach Chris Jent is officially a Buckeye again. Not that he was ever unofficially a Buckeye but it was formally announced today by the OSU athletic department that he has rejoined the program as an assistant coach. This marks the second time around...
If the Ohio State men’s basketball season were to start today, the starting lineup would look like this: PG – JaQuan Lyle (sophomore); SG – Kam Williams (fourth-year junior); SF – Jae’Sean Tate (junior); SF – Marc Loving (senior); PF – Keita Bates-Diop (junior). Not a bad starting lineup....
If starting both halves of their second round matchup of Sunday’s National Invitation Tournament game against the No. 2 seeded Florida Gators on the wrong end of 14-2 runs was any indication that 3rd-seeded Ohio State would have serious problems in winning the game, then you would be right....
The No. 3-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes survived a scare from sixth-seeded Akron in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament on Tuesday night and did just enough in overtime to stave off the Zips in Value City Arena, 72-63. Ohio State head coach Thad Matta said his guys...
Instead of dancing at the prom, this year’s Ohio State men’s basketball team is going to spring homecoming when they were picked as part of the 32-team field for the National Invitation Tournament. Since the modern era of the 64-team bracket, the selection committee has never shut out a...
The Big Ten Conference announced the lineup for the 2016 tournament bracket on Sunday and drawing the No. 1 seed is tenth-ranked Indiana (25-6, 15-3 Big Ten) with the second-ranked team in the country, Michigan State (26-5, 13-5), drawing the No. 2 seed. After finishing smack dab in the...
With their NCAA tournament hopes still on the bubble and only two games left in the regular season, Ohio State was needing a win to keep the bubble from popping. And on the last regular season home game of the year, their bubble kept floating as they got a...
Coming into Tuesday night’s game against Michigan State, Ohio State desperately needed a win worse than ever if they wanted to beef up their resume for the NCAA Tournament. They got a solid victory one week ago against Michigan when they handled the Wolverines for virtually the entire game,...
Maybe it was the fact that Evan Turner was being honored at halftime of Ohio State’s game against Michigan on Tuesday night that helped the Buckeyes get a sorely needed win to keep their NCAA tournament hopes alive. Maybe it was the magic they showed on the jumbotron that...
The last time Northwestern beat Ohio State in Columbus, Elvis was still alive and John Madden’s Oakland Raiders were fresh off of an NFL crowning win when they beat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl XI. It was almost 39 years to the day when the Wildcats walked out...
If the three-point line did not exist in college basketball, Ohio State may have had a chance to win their seventh Big Ten game of the season. Instead, their opponent in Wisconsin could not be stopped beyond the arc, hitting 13-of-27 on the night and drowned the Buckeyes, 79-68,...
Revenge is a dish best served cold. After getting embarrassed by Maryland earlier in the season when they suffered the worst loss of Thad Matta’s career, Ohio State was looking to avenge their 35-point spanking when they welcomed in the Terrapins to the Schottenstein Center on Sunday afternoon in...
It was another nail biter between Ohio State and Illinois on Thursday night but unlike the first showdown, in which the Buckeyes escaped a full-court buzzer-beating shot that would have given the Illini a one-point win in regulation, this one had to be settled in extra innings. In the...
Ohio State head coach Thad Matta needed to shake things up before Monday night’s game against Penn State and it showed as the Buckeyes beat the Nittany Lions, 66-46. As the two teams took center court for the tip, one guy who had started the previous 20 games for...
Click, click, click, click, click. That’s the sound of the Ohio State men’s basketball team’s roller coaster click-clacking their way up the steep hill that has been their trademark this season. But a funny thing happened on the way to their second straight loss after ending a four-out-of-the-last-five game...