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March 20th, 2019
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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The Ohio State Women’s Basketball team began postseason play in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) Wednesday evening, welcoming the Morehead State Eagles to Value City Arena. The Buckeyes came into Wednesday’s contest winners of five of their last seven games. It was a difficult beginning to the game...

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February 28th, 2019
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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It’s been an unconventional season for the Ohio State Women’s Basketball team. The Scarlet and Gray began the season wondering how it would replace 93% of the scoring from a year ago with the departures of players such as Kelsey Mitchell and Stephanie Muvunga. Head coach Kevin McGuff and...

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January 23rd, 2019
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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This is not what the Ohio State Buckeyes needed right now. In the midst of a four game losing streak, the Scarlet and Gray lose of its key cogs in the paint indefinitely. On Tuesday, head coach Chris Holtmann announced that sophomore forward Kyle Young will miss extended time...

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January 5th, 2019
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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The Ohio State Buckeyes returned to the court for the first time in 2019. The Scarlet and Gray welcomed legendary head coach Tom Izzo and the Michigan State Spartans to Value City Arena on Saturday afternoon. Both clubs began the game afternoon slow out of the blocks. The Buckeyes...

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December 18th, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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Playing its last game before Christmas, the Ohio State Buckeyes looked to send fans home with an early Christmas present. Looking to improve on its 25-1 record against the Horizon League, the Scarlet and Gray welcomed Youngstown State University to the Schottenstein Center on Tuesday evening. It hasn’t been...

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December 16th, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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The Ohio State Women’s Basketball team returned to historic St. John Arena on Sunday afternoon for a date with the Florida Gators. Sunday’s game marking the first time the Scarlet and Gray played at historic venue since a loss to Central Michigan in the NCAA Tournament back in the...

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December 2nd, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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Sunday proved to be a busy day of basketball in Central Ohio. The Ohio State Women began the day with a 69-56 win against the Cincinnati Bearcats, and the men hoped to follow suit against Minnesota. The Buckeyes (6-1) opened Big Ten conference play against the Minnesota Golden Gophers...

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December 2nd, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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The Ohio State Women’s Basketball team kicked off a busy Sunday slate of games at the Schottenstein Center with a matinee matchup against the Cincinnati Bearcats. Head coach Kevin McGuff and his team aimed to establish positive momentum following a big victory against the North Carolina Tar Heels on...

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November 28th, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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The ACC/Big Ten Challenge hasn’t been kind to the Ohio State Men’s Basketball team in recent years. The Scarlet and Gray are just 6-10 in 16 appearance in the competition, earning their last win on December 4th, 2013 against Maryland. This year the Buckeyes welcomed the Syracuse...

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April 14th, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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....

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March 30th, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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,...

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March 16th, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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...

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February 22nd, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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...

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February 21st, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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...

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February 8th, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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...

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February 8th, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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...

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January 31st, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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...

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January 31st, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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...

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January 28th, 2018
Posted by Ralph Schudel
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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...

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November 16th, 2017
Posted by Eric Paxton
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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...

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June 13th, 2017
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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June 12th, 2017
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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March 9th, 2017
Posted by Andy Evans
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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....

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March 4th, 2017
Posted by Eric Paxton
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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...

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January 25th, 2017
Posted by Eric Paxton
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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...

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January 15th, 2017
Posted by Eric Paxton
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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...

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April 21st, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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April 3rd, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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....

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March 20th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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....

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March 15th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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March 13th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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February 28th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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February 24th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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,...

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February 17th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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February 10th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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February 4th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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,...

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January 31st, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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January 29th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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January 25th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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January 22nd, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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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...

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January 14th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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First half, second half. Up, down. The roller coaster ride continued for the basketball Buckeyes and once again it was a tale of two halves for Ohio State, this time coming against Rutgers in Value City Arena on Wednesday night, putting together a second half where they outscored the...

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January 4th, 2016
Posted by Andy Evans
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Grimacing as he walked into the postgame press conference, it was understandable why. With two big bags of ice on each knee, Marc Loving had just come off a career-high 27 points in helping Ohio State knock off conference opponent Illinois in a thriller that came down to the...

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January 27th, 2013
Posted by 007kkb2007
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By Craig Merz Buoyed by the return from injury of senior guard Amber Stokes after missing four games and the continued excellent play of Tayler Hill, the Ohio State women gave No. 8 Penn State a scare but a nine-point halftime lead wasn”t enough as the Lady Lions roared...

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February 26th, 2012
Posted by 1994lt11968
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With a 63-60 loss to the Wisconsin Badgers Sunday, the Ohio State Buckeyes fell to 11-5 in the Big Ten, and 23-6 on the season. The loss marked the team’s third loss in February, having already been defeated by Michigan and Michigan State earlier in the month. The game...

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