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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-08-2009, 07:48 PM

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OSU-Wisconsin preview
Thursday, January 8, 2009 3:05 AM
By Jim Massie

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
OHIO STATE VS. WISCONSIN
9 p.m. today

• Where: The Kohl Center

• TV: Big Ten Network

• Radio: WOSU-AM (820)

• Records: Ohio State 12-2, 3-0 Big Ten; Wisconsin 12-3, 2-2

• Matchup to watch: Veteran point guard Rae Lin D'Alie, a three-year starter for the Badgers, against freshman Samantha Prahalis, in her 16th game with the Buckeyes. Each will want to establish a pace that best suits her team. For Wisconsin, that means a patient, half-court game. For Ohio State, that has to translate into a faster pace to take advantage of the Buckeyes' break. The Badgers must handle the OSU pressure to have a shot at the upset.

• Notable: Wisconsin stumbled in its last outing, a 49-46 loss Sunday at Northwestern. The Badgers are holding opponents to a Big Ten-best 54.2 points per game and used their defense to upset sixth-ranked Baylor 59-58 in November. ... The Buckeyes own a six-game winning streak. Sophomore center Jantel Lavender leads the conference in scoring at 22.1 per game. She has 856 career points in 45 games and has a chance to match Katie Smith (52 games) as the quickest to 1,000 points in program history. The Buckeyes have won the past 12 games in the series.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-08-2009, 07:49 PM

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OSU will retire Tracey Hall's No. 44
Thursday, January 8, 2009 3:06 AM
By Jim Massie
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Ohio State plans to retire the No. 44 jersey of two-time All-American Tracey Hall (Yarbrough) at halftime of the Feb. 15 game against Northwestern in Value City Arena.

Hall played for the Buckeyes from 1985 to 1988 and became the Big Ten's first two-time Kodak All-American in her final two seasons.

"I feel honored that Ohio State has thought enough about me and the contributions that I have made to the women's basketball program to recognize me with this great honor," she said. "This is an accomplishment that I would have never imagined. I will cherish the experience forever."

The university previously retired the No. 30 jersey of Katie Smith in 2001.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-09-2009, 09:37 AM

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-09-2009, 03:51 PM

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No. 16 Ohio State 55, Wisconsin 42
Women's basketball: Buckeyes find way to weather cold shooting
Stout defense, double-double by Lavender pave way for OSU

Friday, January 9, 2009 3:08 AM
By Jim Massie
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

MADISON, Wis. -- The Ohio State and Wisconsin women's basketball programs looked in the mirror at the end of last season and knew something had to change.

Even with four consecutive Big Ten championships under their belts, the Buckeyes wanted to build an up-tempo offense and pressure defense around All-America candidate Jantel Lavender that would be better suited to the postseason.

The Badgers, who had lived and died over those same four years with all-time scoring leader Jolene Anderson, decided to begin life without a superstar by sharpening their defense.

The two plans, successful to date, intersected last night in the Kohl Center where the 16th-ranked Buckeyes had to go blue collar to overcome frigid shooting from the floor and escape with a 55-42 win over the Badgers.

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-12-2009, 12:40 PM

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Women's basketball: Buckeyes get set to go back to work
Illinois defense another stiff challenge

Monday, January 12, 2009 3:05 AM
By Jim Massie
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

The difference between painting a landscape and slapping two coats of fire-engine red on a barn is all about the perception.

Finishing the job correctly can make the real barn look as beautiful to the person holding the brush as a fanciful field of flowers.

The Ohio State women's basketball team discovered as much during a Big Ten defensive showdown Thursday at Wisconsin.

The 16th-ranked Buckeyes (13-2, 4-0) pulled out the 55-42 win because they were willing to put away their palettes and don coveralls. Afterward, coach Jim Foster viewed the victory as a thing of utility, and that's not all bad.

"I always think that the games that define your season are games like this," he said. "When it's all pretty and it all flows, those are the easy nights. When you can figure it out when it's not (pretty), those are the games that define you."

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-13-2009, 01:31 PM

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Ohio State 67, Illinois 35
Women's basketball: Buckeyes get out and run right by Illini

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:18 AM
By Jim Massie
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A season ago, the Illinois women's basketball team posed some physical questions to Ohio State in three Big Ten games that left the Buckeyes out of breath and speechless.

For a while last night in Assembly Hall, the Illini appeared to be pushing conference-leading Ohio State in the direction of a third consecutive loss in the series.

Then the 15th-ranked Buckeyes (14-2, 5-0) introduced their new, more athletic selves to Illinois (4-12, 0-6) and all thoughts of an upset vanished during a 67-35 rout.

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-15-2009, 12:06 PM

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Women's basketball: Buckeyes show capacity for defensive tenacity

Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:24 AM
By Jim Massie
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Sometimes a basketball team looks so good offensively that what happens on defense gets lost.

The Ohio State women ran Big Ten rival Illinois into submission Monday night in Champaign with a dazzling fast break that added the three-point shooting of Brittany Johnson to the ever-dangerous transition tandem of Jantel Lavender and Samantha Prahalis.

While the OSU express hummed merrily along, the 15th-ranked Buckeyes (14-2, 5-0) limited the Illini to 35 points and 25 percent shooting from the field.

The latter was no more an accident than the nine assists by Prahalis. The defense applied the same kind of boa constriction to Wisconsin a few days before during a 55-42 win. The Badgers shot 25.5 percent from the field.

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-15-2009, 01:36 PM

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OSU recruit injured, out for season

Ohio State recruit Brianna Sanders, a senior guard at Princeton High School in Cincinnati, is out for the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee during a holiday tournament. She already has undergone surgery, according to OSU coach Jim Foster.

Sanders is part of a two-player class for the Buckeyes next season along with Pickerington Central forward Emilee Harmon. She was averaging 15.8 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists for the Vikings. This is the same knee that Sanders injured before her junior season.

OSU coach Jim Foster told me today that he is optimistic that Sanders will be ready for the 2009-10 season.

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-16-2009, 08:20 PM

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OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-22-2009, 12:13 PM

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