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LGHL Women’s basketball gets Big Ten opponents, football title odds increase
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Ohio State’s national title odds improve coming out of spring practice
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Updated scholarship count, breakdown after spring transfer portal window
Spencer Holbrook, Lettermen Row
Take Two: Post-spring analysis takes closer look at defensive ends (paywall)
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Big Ten football quarterback rankings: Post-spring projections ahead of 2024 season
Brad Crawford, 247Sports
Big Ten announces Ohio State women’s basketball 2024-25 conference opponents
Thomas Costello, Land-Grant Holy Land
By the Numbers: KenPom breakdown of where Ohio State stood in 2023-24 (paywall)
Andy Backstrom, Lettermen Row
All Ohio State spring sports updates you need, including tennis and golf postseasons, and more
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Women’s Golf: Buckeyes Move Into Fifth Place After Second Round of NCAA Regionals
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Ohio State’s national title odds improve coming out of spring practice
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Updated scholarship count, breakdown after spring transfer portal window
Spencer Holbrook, Lettermen Row
Take Two: Post-spring analysis takes closer look at defensive ends (paywall)
Austin Ward, Dotting the Eyes
Big Ten football quarterback rankings: Post-spring projections ahead of 2024 season
Brad Crawford, 247Sports
On the Hardwood
Big Ten announces Ohio State women’s basketball 2024-25 conference opponents
Thomas Costello, Land-Grant Holy Land
By the Numbers: KenPom breakdown of where Ohio State stood in 2023-24 (paywall)
Andy Backstrom, Lettermen Row
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All Ohio State spring sports updates you need, including tennis and golf postseasons, and more
Jami Jurich, Land-Grant Holy Land
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Women’s Golf: Buckeyes Move Into Fifth Place After Second Round of NCAA Regionals
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Men’s Lacrosse: Waterdogs Select Hudgins in 2024 PLL College Draft
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2027 GA LB Max Brown (Verbal Offer)
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2027 OH QB RJ Day
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Although he still has three more years of high school to go, RJ Day’s recruitment as a future college quarterback has begun.
The son of Ohio State coach Ryan Day picked up scholarship offers from Boston College and Marshall during his freshman year at Columbus’ St. Francis DeSales High School, in which he threw for 1,563 yards and 15 touchdowns and earned first-team All-Central Catholic League honors. He recently started visiting colleges, taking trips to Clemson and South Carolina in March with plans to make more visits this summer.
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This early in the recruiting process, the younger Day says his focus is on building relationships with coaches who have started recruiting him. Ultimately, he’s looking for a school that wants him because of who he is as a quarterback, not because of who his father is as a coach.
“I've been trying to find the school that gives the most towards me, not because of who my dad is or what my dad offers, but more like what I can offer, what they can offer for me as a person,” RJ Day told Eleven Warriors after participating in the Elite 11 Columbus Regional in April. “When their head coach or their position coach is talking to me and they're not talking to my dad, when they’re trying to show stuff like to my mom and towards me, that's when I start to realize that the school kind of wants to recruit me and not the image that I’m from.”
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Ryan Day is supporting his son as he begins his recruiting process, accompanying RJ on his visits to the Palmetto State. But Ryan told his son that he wants RJ to make his own decision.
“He doesn't tell me to make any decision, he just guides me,” RJ said. “He just sets me on the path. When I’ve fallen off, he kind of sets me straight. But he always tells me, it's my journey. So you got to figure it out. Because everybody else figures it out. You can't use me as a crutch. So you got to figure it out on your own.”
RJ has thought about the possibility of playing for his dad at Ohio State, and he’d certainly consider that opportunity if it was offered to him. But RJ plans to see through all of his options before making any decision.
“We’ll see,” RJ said when asked about potentially playing for Ohio State. “But it's always been a dream of mine to play in the Shoe and play for my dad. If the situation’s right, then yeah, we'll go ahead. But until then, I'll keep hunting down teams and make my decision later on.”
Playing for his father would be a natural transition for RJ, as he’s been receiving coaching from his dad ever since he started playing football. RJ says he and Ryan watch film together four times a week, and he credits his father with playing an integral role in his development as a quarterback.
“He's taught me everything that I know,” RJ said. “I try to emulate him every single time because he does a great job of handling things under pressure. So he always teaches me that there's gonna be good days, there’s gonna be bad days; you can't get too high and you can't get too low, because you can’t be extreme at the position. You have to stay even-keeled. Even when you have a great day, it’s okay. Even when you have a bad day, it's okay. Because it's gonna go back up eventually.”
RJ has also received plenty of coaching from new Ohio State offensive coordinator Chip Kelly. RJ has known Kelly his entire life because of Kelly’s close relationship with his dad, which dates back to Ryan’s playing career at New Hampshire, where Kelly was the offensive coordinator while Day was UNH’s quarterback.
“We grew up around him. Our vacation house was two doors down for him. So he's like my uncle pretty much, Uncle Chip,” RJ said. “But yeah, he's taught me wonders.”
“IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A DREAM OF MINE TO PLAY IN THE SHOE AND PLAY FOR MY DAD. IF THE SITUATION’S RIGHT, THEN YEAH, WE'LL GO AHEAD. BUT UNTIL THEN, I'LL KEEP HUNTING DOWN TEAMS AND MAKE MY DECISION LATER ON.”– RJ DAY ON POTENTIALLY PLAYING FOR OHIO STATE
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RJ Day says his father taught him “everything I know” as a quarterback but Ryan Day wants his son to make his own college decision as his recruiting process gets going.
RJ DAY SAYS FATHER HAS “TAUGHT ME EVERYTHING THAT I KNOW” ABOUT PLAYING QUARTERBACK, BUT RYAN DAY WANTS SON TO MAKE HIS OWN RECRUITING DECISION
Although he still has three more years of high school to go, RJ Day’s recruitment as a future college quarterback has begun.
The son of Ohio State coach Ryan Day picked up scholarship offers from Boston College and Marshall during his freshman year at Columbus’ St. Francis DeSales High School, in which he threw for 1,563 yards and 15 touchdowns and earned first-team All-Central Catholic League honors. He recently started visiting colleges, taking trips to Clemson and South Carolina in March with plans to make more visits this summer.
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This early in the recruiting process, the younger Day says his focus is on building relationships with coaches who have started recruiting him. Ultimately, he’s looking for a school that wants him because of who he is as a quarterback, not because of who his father is as a coach.
“I've been trying to find the school that gives the most towards me, not because of who my dad is or what my dad offers, but more like what I can offer, what they can offer for me as a person,” RJ Day told Eleven Warriors after participating in the Elite 11 Columbus Regional in April. “When their head coach or their position coach is talking to me and they're not talking to my dad, when they’re trying to show stuff like to my mom and towards me, that's when I start to realize that the school kind of wants to recruit me and not the image that I’m from.”
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Ryan Day is supporting his son as he begins his recruiting process, accompanying RJ on his visits to the Palmetto State. But Ryan told his son that he wants RJ to make his own decision.
“He doesn't tell me to make any decision, he just guides me,” RJ said. “He just sets me on the path. When I’ve fallen off, he kind of sets me straight. But he always tells me, it's my journey. So you got to figure it out. Because everybody else figures it out. You can't use me as a crutch. So you got to figure it out on your own.”
RJ has thought about the possibility of playing for his dad at Ohio State, and he’d certainly consider that opportunity if it was offered to him. But RJ plans to see through all of his options before making any decision.
“We’ll see,” RJ said when asked about potentially playing for Ohio State. “But it's always been a dream of mine to play in the Shoe and play for my dad. If the situation’s right, then yeah, we'll go ahead. But until then, I'll keep hunting down teams and make my decision later on.”
Playing for his father would be a natural transition for RJ, as he’s been receiving coaching from his dad ever since he started playing football. RJ says he and Ryan watch film together four times a week, and he credits his father with playing an integral role in his development as a quarterback.
“He's taught me everything that I know,” RJ said. “I try to emulate him every single time because he does a great job of handling things under pressure. So he always teaches me that there's gonna be good days, there’s gonna be bad days; you can't get too high and you can't get too low, because you can’t be extreme at the position. You have to stay even-keeled. Even when you have a great day, it’s okay. Even when you have a bad day, it's okay. Because it's gonna go back up eventually.”
RJ has also received plenty of coaching from new Ohio State offensive coordinator Chip Kelly. RJ has known Kelly his entire life because of Kelly’s close relationship with his dad, which dates back to Ryan’s playing career at New Hampshire, where Kelly was the offensive coordinator while Day was UNH’s quarterback.
“We grew up around him. Our vacation house was two doors down for him. So he's like my uncle pretty much, Uncle Chip,” RJ said. “But yeah, he's taught me wonders.”
“IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A DREAM OF MINE TO PLAY IN THE SHOE AND PLAY FOR MY DAD. IF THE SITUATION’S RIGHT, THEN YEAH, WE'LL GO AHEAD. BUT UNTIL THEN, I'LL KEEP HUNTING DOWN TEAMS AND MAKE MY DECISION LATER ON.”– RJ DAY ON POTENTIALLY PLAYING FOR OHIO STATE
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2026 GA WR Ryan Mosley (Verbal Offer)
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LGHL Hangout in the Holy Land: What are our biggest concerns for this upcoming season?
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The latest episode of Land-Grant Holy Land’s flagship podcast is here! Join LGHL’s Josh Dooley and Justin Golba as they discuss Ohio State football, basketball, recruiting, and much more! Come for the hot takes. Stay for the warm ones.
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For this Hangout in the Holy Land episode, we are kicking off summer theme weeks here at Land-Grant Holy Land. The first theme is Biggest Concerns, so Justin and Josh dive into their biggest concerns for this upcoming football season.
Offensive line depth, quarterback rotation, and sacks are three things that come to mind, but are they legitimate concerns or just made up in our heads? We talk each other down and float some scenarios that may help alleviate those concerns.
Before that, we discuss the Ohio State men’s basketball team bringing in Duke transfer and McDonald’s All-American Sean Stewart and what he is bringing with him to Columbus. It is the first time Ohio State has had two McDonald’s All-Americans since Greg Oden and Mike Conley, which went fairly well.
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Plus, we discuss how the Ohio State men’s basketball roster is shaping up
The latest episode of Land-Grant Holy Land’s flagship podcast is here! Join LGHL’s Josh Dooley and Justin Golba as they discuss Ohio State football, basketball, recruiting, and much more! Come for the hot takes. Stay for the warm ones.
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For this Hangout in the Holy Land episode, we are kicking off summer theme weeks here at Land-Grant Holy Land. The first theme is Biggest Concerns, so Justin and Josh dive into their biggest concerns for this upcoming football season.
Offensive line depth, quarterback rotation, and sacks are three things that come to mind, but are they legitimate concerns or just made up in our heads? We talk each other down and float some scenarios that may help alleviate those concerns.
Before that, we discuss the Ohio State men’s basketball team bringing in Duke transfer and McDonald’s All-American Sean Stewart and what he is bringing with him to Columbus. It is the first time Ohio State has had two McDonald’s All-Americans since Greg Oden and Mike Conley, which went fairly well.
Please make sure to like, rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast! And as always, Go Bucks!
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2025 CA OL Jackson Lloyd (Alabama Signee)
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LGHL All Ohio State spring sports updates you need, including tennis and golf postseasons, and more
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Follow the tennis and golf teams’ postseason, and find out how women’s softball threw a curveball into the Wolverines’ plans this weekend.
Whether you’re looking to get on the tennis train, take a few laps around the track, or root, root, root for the Buckeyes’ baseball and softball teams, here at LGHL, we’re keeping you up-to-date on what’s happening with all your Buckeye sports teams.
After routing Cleveland State and Oklahoma State last weekend to open NCAA Tournament play, the No. 1 Ohio State men’s tennis team will host No. 15 Mississippi State at noon ET this coming Saturday in the Super-Regional round.
The Buckeyes, who hold the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament, opened tournament play with a 4-0 sweep of Cleveland State last Friday.
Wins from the doubles duos of Justin Boulais/Andrew Lutschaunig and Cannon Kingsley/JJ Tracy earned the Buckeyes the doubles point. In singles play, the Buckeyes won all six first sets. They earned their final three points with victories from Robert Cash, Tracy, and Boulais.
On Saturday against Oklahoma State, the Buckeyes won, 4-1, to remain undefeated at home this season.
Kingsley and Tracy won their doubles match, 6-0. Lutschaunig and Boulais clinched the doubles point with their victory. Cash and Tracy were up when their doubles match was abandoned.
Cash, Tracy, and Alexander Bernard secured the victory with singles wins. The Cowboys’ lone point came in the singles match between Oklahoma State’s Alex Garcia and Jack Anthrop, marking Anthrop’s first singles loss of the dual season.
The Buckeyes now prepare to face the Mississippi State Bulldogs, who swept both Alabama State and Middle Tennessee State this weekend.
After defeating Toledo in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, the No. 12 women saw their season end in a second-round loss to Vanderbilt.
Ohio State swept Toledo, 4-0, on Friday, to advance to the second round. Doubles victories from Madeline Atway/Teah Chavez, as well as Audrey Spencer/Luciana Perry, secured the doubles points. The Buckeyes won the first set on all six singles courts, securing all three singles points with straight-set wins from Irina Cantos Siemers, Akanksha Bhan, and Perry.
The Vanderbilt matchup was a heartbreaker, with the Commodores winning, 3-4. It is the fourth consecutive year the teams have faced off in the second round, with OSU winning in 2021 and 2023.
The Buckeyes didn’t make it easy on Vandy. When Cantos Siemers and Shelly Bereznyak dropped their doubles match, Atway and Chavez answered quickly with a win. Spencer and Perry ultimately fell to give Vanderbilt the edge in the doubles point.
Though Chavez fell in singles, wins from Bereznyak, Spencer, and Sydni Ratliff gave the Buckeyes a 3-2 edge.
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Perry ultimately fell to even the score, and the match came down to a battle between No. 17-ranked Cantos Siemers and No. 13-ranked Celia-Belle Mohr from Vanderbilt, with the Commodores barely edging out the Buckeyes.
Cantos Siemers and Perry will compete in the NCAA Singles Championship and Perry and Ratliff will take part in the NCAA Doubles Championship, which will take place between May 20-26 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, after team play wraps.
The OSU baseball team (23-22, 8-10) won three of their five games this past week, defeating both Cincinnati and Akron before dropping this weekend’s three-game series against Illinois, 1-2.
Up first, the Buckeyes hosted Cincinnati last Tuesday, April 30, picking up a 12-6 victory. Five of the Bearcats’ runs came in the second inning.
The Buckeyes took an early 2-0 lead before the Bearcats put up five of their six total runs in the second inning. OSU had an answer, though, with a six-run inning of its own in the third to bring the score to 10-5. Three of those runs were scored off a Hunter Rosson home run, marking his fourth consecutive game going yard.
The Bearcats tacked on their final run in the fourth, and from there, the game stayed quiet until the Buckeyes added a pair of insurance runs in the eighth.
Tyler Pettorini led the Buckeyes with three hits, while Joseph Mershon, Mason Eckelman, Nick Giamarusti, and Rosson were each good for a pair. Rosson led in RBIs, sending five runners home.
Chase Herrell (2-1) notched the win for the Buckeyes, striking out four (his career high) and giving up one run and two hits in 3.1 innings.
The Buckeyes took the field again Wednesday, this time in an 18-13 win over Akron, a game marked by hot bats and heavy hitting.
The Zips jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, but the Buckeyes put up seven runs (including home runs from Henry Kaczmar and Pettorini) in the bottom of the inning and never trailed again.
Mitchell Okuley led the Buckeyes with four hits, while Kaczmar, Pettorini, Mershon, and Josh Stevenson each added a pair. Both of Pettorini’s were homers. Okuley, Mershon, and Stevenson, along with Isaac Cadena, each stole a base, and Ryan Miller led the team with four RBIs.
With six strikeouts and four runs on three hits in 5.0 innings, Colin Purcell (2-4) was the winning pitcher.
The Buckeyes then hit the road for a three-game series at Illinois. The Buckeyes dropped games two and three of the series, but they picked up the win on Friday, a 7-5 upset that marked only the second home loss for the Illini this season.
The Illini currently sit atop the Big Ten standings. They took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third, but the Buckeyes answered with a run of their own in the fourth, when Mershon hit a sac fly that sent Kaczmar home.
The Illini added a solo home run in the fourth to regain the lead, but a three-run fifth for the Buckeyes gave them a 4-2 advantage, and they wouldn’t trail again, capping the game with a solo home run from Mershon in the eighth.
Kaczmar, Mershon, Okuley, and Miller led the Buckeyes in hits, each tallying two, while Mershon and Miller each batted in a pair of runs.
Zach Brown (4-0) earned the win for the Buckeyes with one strikeout and one run on one run given up in 1.1 innings pitched. Blaine Wynk earned the save, his second of the season, after striking out two and allowing just one hit in 3.0 scoreless innings.
On Saturday, the Buckeyes fell, 10-5, but it marked the second game in a week in which Pettorini hit two home runs.
Illinois never trailed in the game, and holding the Buckeyes scoreless through four before the first of Pettorini’s two long balls went over the wall in the fifth to cut the Illini lead to 5-1.
He did it again in the top of the sixth, sending home Kaczmar and Rosson as well to make the score 5-4. The final Buckeye run came in the seventh when Okuley singled to get Mershon home.
Pettorini led the team with two hits and four RBIs, while Okuley also added two hits. Gavin Bruni (3-3) took the loss on the mound, striking out four and giving up four runs on three hits. He pitched for 2.2 innings.
Illinois won Sunday’s game in just eight innings, ending the game with the 12-2 run rule to win the series. Cadena put up a solo home run to get the Buckeyes on the board in the third, cutting the Illini lead to 3-1. He also added the Buckeyes’ only other run—a double that sent Stevenson home—in the fourth.
In addition to Cadena’s two hits and two RBIs, Kaczmar also had a pair of hits.
Gavin DeVooght (2-2) took the loss, pitching for 5.0 innings. He struck out two batters and gave up seven runs on seven hits.
Up next, it’s another five-game week for the Buckeyes, this time all at home. They’ll take on Eastern Michigan University tonight and Youngstown State Wednesday before hosting a three-game series against Northwestern this weekend.
The Buckeyes softball team (31-19, 12-11) picked up another series win to close out the regular season this weekend, this time on the road at Michigan. The Buckeyes fell in the series opener, 9-6, before picking up the next two to win the series, 2-1.
On Friday, the Buckeyes led early, but they couldn’t get hold on, and a four-run sixth for Michigan put the Wolverines ahead for good.
A sac fly from Jasmyn Burns in the first got the Buckeyes on the board, and before the inning was up, Sam Hackenbrecht added two more runs with an RBI single. Kirsten Eppele made it home in the third off a Wolverine throwing error.
Hackenbrecht added the final two runs to the Buckeyes’ tally with a two-run home run in the fifth, her ninth of the season. She led the Buckeyes, going 2-for-4 with a season-high four RBIs.
Allison Smith was Ohio State’s starting pitcher, striking out one and giving up two walks in four innings pitched.
Saturday was all Buckeyes, snapping Michigan’s 14-game win streak with a 6-0 win, thanks to a full-game shutout from pitcher Lexi Paulsen.
Paulsen gave up just three hits on the day, striking out four. The game was scoreless through two, before Taylor Heckman sent Kaitlyn Farley home with a sacrifice fly, followed by a Kami Kortokrax single that plated Tegan Cortelletti. The score stayed at 2-0 until the seventh, largely on the back of Paulsen’s pitching.
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In the seventh, Heckman walked to start the inning before McKenzie Bump singled, extending her hitting streak to five consecutive games to get Heckman home. Eppele then came up big, knocking a three-run dinger over the right-field fence, driving home the Buckeyes’ final three runs to add some insurance.
The game marked Michigan’s first home loss this season, but it wouldn’t be the last, as the Buckeyes added insult to injury on Sunday with a 2-1 win to clinch the series, again on the back of excellent pitching and offense from Eppele.
Smith took the mound Sunday, giving up just two hits in her complete-game outing. She did not walk a batter and struck out five in the win, including a game-ending strikeout with two batters in scoring position.
Eppele hit two solo home runs, one in the second to give the Buckeyes a 1-0 lead, and one in the fourth to make the score 2-0. Michigan’s lone run came on a solo homer in the bottom of the fourth.
Up next, the Buckeyes get ready for Big Ten Tournament play, which kicks off Wednesday at Iowa. The No. 6-seed Buckeyes are hot entering the tournament, having won 11 of their last 13, dropping only Friday’s game at Michigan and one game last weekend against Illinois.
They will play No. 11-seed Wisconsin on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET, with the winner facing Rutgers in the quarterfinals on Thursday. The teams faced each other in Madison in mid-April, and the Badgers took the series, 1-2. Wisconsin holds an 8-15 record in conference play this season.
The women’s golf team began NCAA Regional play in Bryan, Texas on Monday, and will continue through Wednesday, May 8.
At the time of publication, the Buckeyes have wrapped Day One of regional play and currently sit in sixth place, paced by Kary Hollenbaugh who is currently in fourth with a score of 69 (-3) after shooting five birdies and shooting par on 11 holes.
Ohio State finished the first round with a team score of 294 (+6), putting them just one stroke behind the fifth-place team and seven strokes back from LSU and SMU (who are currently tied for first).
The Buckeyes hold the No. 6 seed at the Bryan Regional. The lowest-scoring five teams, plus the lowest-scoring individual not on those five teams, will advance to the final in Carlsbad, California, later this month.
In addition to Hollenbaugh, the Buckeye lineup includes Faith Choi, Jillian Bourdage, Caley McGinty, and Emily Hummer.
The women placed sixth in the Big Ten Championships with a team score of two-under par. They have earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Regionals in all three years under head coach Lisa Strom.
The men’s golf team also earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Regionals, where they are also a No. 6 seed at the Baton Rouge Regional hosted by LSU, it was announced last week. Their 14-team regional will take place May 13-15, with the lowest-scoring five teams and an individual not on those teams advancing to the finals in Carlsbad.
The Buckeyes have six top-five finishes this season, two of which came in their last two outings. They finished runner-up at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate two weeks ago and finished fifth in the Big Ten Championships last weekend.
Celebrations continue for Janela Spencer after a pair of wins at the Penn Relays earned her Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week honors. Posting a personal best time of 13.01, Spencer won the 100m hurdles—the first Buckeye win in the event in 24 years. She also ran a leg in the winning 4x100m relay.
The track and field team is busy preparing for the 2024 Big Ten Outdoor Championships, which will take place in Ann Arbor, beginning Friday, May 10.
The Buckeyes are now in full preparation mode for the 2024 Big Ten Championships, slated for May 19 in Wisconsin. They are currently ranked No. 14 nationwide.
The Buckeyes’ season came to an end last week when they fell, 3-0, to Grand Canyon in the NCAA Quarterfinals in Long Beach, California. The Buckeyes (22-9) entered the tournament as the No. 6 seed, with Grand Canyon (26-4) holding a No. 3-seed.
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The Buckeyes lost in three straight sets, with scores of 23-25, 20-25, and 21-25. Shane Wetzel and Jacob Pasteur combined for 23 kills, while setter Michael Wright put up 37 assists. All three were recently named to the AVCA 2024 All-American team. It marked the final match for both Pasteur and Wright.
This is the second year in a row that the Buckeyes have fallen in the quarterfinals after being ousted in the same round by Penn State in 2023.
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Tennis
After routing Cleveland State and Oklahoma State last weekend to open NCAA Tournament play, the No. 1 Ohio State men’s tennis team will host No. 15 Mississippi State at noon ET this coming Saturday in the Super-Regional round.
The Buckeyes, who hold the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament, opened tournament play with a 4-0 sweep of Cleveland State last Friday.
Wins from the doubles duos of Justin Boulais/Andrew Lutschaunig and Cannon Kingsley/JJ Tracy earned the Buckeyes the doubles point. In singles play, the Buckeyes won all six first sets. They earned their final three points with victories from Robert Cash, Tracy, and Boulais.
On Saturday against Oklahoma State, the Buckeyes won, 4-1, to remain undefeated at home this season.
Kingsley and Tracy won their doubles match, 6-0. Lutschaunig and Boulais clinched the doubles point with their victory. Cash and Tracy were up when their doubles match was abandoned.
Cash, Tracy, and Alexander Bernard secured the victory with singles wins. The Cowboys’ lone point came in the singles match between Oklahoma State’s Alex Garcia and Jack Anthrop, marking Anthrop’s first singles loss of the dual season.
The Buckeyes now prepare to face the Mississippi State Bulldogs, who swept both Alabama State and Middle Tennessee State this weekend.
After defeating Toledo in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, the No. 12 women saw their season end in a second-round loss to Vanderbilt.
Ohio State swept Toledo, 4-0, on Friday, to advance to the second round. Doubles victories from Madeline Atway/Teah Chavez, as well as Audrey Spencer/Luciana Perry, secured the doubles points. The Buckeyes won the first set on all six singles courts, securing all three singles points with straight-set wins from Irina Cantos Siemers, Akanksha Bhan, and Perry.
The Vanderbilt matchup was a heartbreaker, with the Commodores winning, 3-4. It is the fourth consecutive year the teams have faced off in the second round, with OSU winning in 2021 and 2023.
The Buckeyes didn’t make it easy on Vandy. When Cantos Siemers and Shelly Bereznyak dropped their doubles match, Atway and Chavez answered quickly with a win. Spencer and Perry ultimately fell to give Vanderbilt the edge in the doubles point.
Though Chavez fell in singles, wins from Bereznyak, Spencer, and Sydni Ratliff gave the Buckeyes a 3-2 edge.
Perry ultimately fell to even the score, and the match came down to a battle between No. 17-ranked Cantos Siemers and No. 13-ranked Celia-Belle Mohr from Vanderbilt, with the Commodores barely edging out the Buckeyes.
Cantos Siemers and Perry will compete in the NCAA Singles Championship and Perry and Ratliff will take part in the NCAA Doubles Championship, which will take place between May 20-26 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, after team play wraps.
Baseball
The OSU baseball team (23-22, 8-10) won three of their five games this past week, defeating both Cincinnati and Akron before dropping this weekend’s three-game series against Illinois, 1-2.
Up first, the Buckeyes hosted Cincinnati last Tuesday, April 30, picking up a 12-6 victory. Five of the Bearcats’ runs came in the second inning.
The Buckeyes took an early 2-0 lead before the Bearcats put up five of their six total runs in the second inning. OSU had an answer, though, with a six-run inning of its own in the third to bring the score to 10-5. Three of those runs were scored off a Hunter Rosson home run, marking his fourth consecutive game going yard.
The Bearcats tacked on their final run in the fourth, and from there, the game stayed quiet until the Buckeyes added a pair of insurance runs in the eighth.
Tyler Pettorini led the Buckeyes with three hits, while Joseph Mershon, Mason Eckelman, Nick Giamarusti, and Rosson were each good for a pair. Rosson led in RBIs, sending five runners home.
Chase Herrell (2-1) notched the win for the Buckeyes, striking out four (his career high) and giving up one run and two hits in 3.1 innings.
The Buckeyes took the field again Wednesday, this time in an 18-13 win over Akron, a game marked by hot bats and heavy hitting.
The Zips jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, but the Buckeyes put up seven runs (including home runs from Henry Kaczmar and Pettorini) in the bottom of the inning and never trailed again.
Mitchell Okuley led the Buckeyes with four hits, while Kaczmar, Pettorini, Mershon, and Josh Stevenson each added a pair. Both of Pettorini’s were homers. Okuley, Mershon, and Stevenson, along with Isaac Cadena, each stole a base, and Ryan Miller led the team with four RBIs.
With six strikeouts and four runs on three hits in 5.0 innings, Colin Purcell (2-4) was the winning pitcher.
The Buckeyes then hit the road for a three-game series at Illinois. The Buckeyes dropped games two and three of the series, but they picked up the win on Friday, a 7-5 upset that marked only the second home loss for the Illini this season.
The Illini currently sit atop the Big Ten standings. They took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third, but the Buckeyes answered with a run of their own in the fourth, when Mershon hit a sac fly that sent Kaczmar home.
The Illini added a solo home run in the fourth to regain the lead, but a three-run fifth for the Buckeyes gave them a 4-2 advantage, and they wouldn’t trail again, capping the game with a solo home run from Mershon in the eighth.
Kaczmar, Mershon, Okuley, and Miller led the Buckeyes in hits, each tallying two, while Mershon and Miller each batted in a pair of runs.
Zach Brown (4-0) earned the win for the Buckeyes with one strikeout and one run on one run given up in 1.1 innings pitched. Blaine Wynk earned the save, his second of the season, after striking out two and allowing just one hit in 3.0 scoreless innings.
On Saturday, the Buckeyes fell, 10-5, but it marked the second game in a week in which Pettorini hit two home runs.
Illinois never trailed in the game, and holding the Buckeyes scoreless through four before the first of Pettorini’s two long balls went over the wall in the fifth to cut the Illini lead to 5-1.
He did it again in the top of the sixth, sending home Kaczmar and Rosson as well to make the score 5-4. The final Buckeye run came in the seventh when Okuley singled to get Mershon home.
Pettorini led the team with two hits and four RBIs, while Okuley also added two hits. Gavin Bruni (3-3) took the loss on the mound, striking out four and giving up four runs on three hits. He pitched for 2.2 innings.
Illinois won Sunday’s game in just eight innings, ending the game with the 12-2 run rule to win the series. Cadena put up a solo home run to get the Buckeyes on the board in the third, cutting the Illini lead to 3-1. He also added the Buckeyes’ only other run—a double that sent Stevenson home—in the fourth.
In addition to Cadena’s two hits and two RBIs, Kaczmar also had a pair of hits.
Gavin DeVooght (2-2) took the loss, pitching for 5.0 innings. He struck out two batters and gave up seven runs on seven hits.
Up next, it’s another five-game week for the Buckeyes, this time all at home. They’ll take on Eastern Michigan University tonight and Youngstown State Wednesday before hosting a three-game series against Northwestern this weekend.
Softball
The Buckeyes softball team (31-19, 12-11) picked up another series win to close out the regular season this weekend, this time on the road at Michigan. The Buckeyes fell in the series opener, 9-6, before picking up the next two to win the series, 2-1.
On Friday, the Buckeyes led early, but they couldn’t get hold on, and a four-run sixth for Michigan put the Wolverines ahead for good.
A sac fly from Jasmyn Burns in the first got the Buckeyes on the board, and before the inning was up, Sam Hackenbrecht added two more runs with an RBI single. Kirsten Eppele made it home in the third off a Wolverine throwing error.
Hackenbrecht added the final two runs to the Buckeyes’ tally with a two-run home run in the fifth, her ninth of the season. She led the Buckeyes, going 2-for-4 with a season-high four RBIs.
Allison Smith was Ohio State’s starting pitcher, striking out one and giving up two walks in four innings pitched.
Saturday was all Buckeyes, snapping Michigan’s 14-game win streak with a 6-0 win, thanks to a full-game shutout from pitcher Lexi Paulsen.
Paulsen gave up just three hits on the day, striking out four. The game was scoreless through two, before Taylor Heckman sent Kaitlyn Farley home with a sacrifice fly, followed by a Kami Kortokrax single that plated Tegan Cortelletti. The score stayed at 2-0 until the seventh, largely on the back of Paulsen’s pitching.
In the seventh, Heckman walked to start the inning before McKenzie Bump singled, extending her hitting streak to five consecutive games to get Heckman home. Eppele then came up big, knocking a three-run dinger over the right-field fence, driving home the Buckeyes’ final three runs to add some insurance.
The game marked Michigan’s first home loss this season, but it wouldn’t be the last, as the Buckeyes added insult to injury on Sunday with a 2-1 win to clinch the series, again on the back of excellent pitching and offense from Eppele.
Smith took the mound Sunday, giving up just two hits in her complete-game outing. She did not walk a batter and struck out five in the win, including a game-ending strikeout with two batters in scoring position.
Eppele hit two solo home runs, one in the second to give the Buckeyes a 1-0 lead, and one in the fourth to make the score 2-0. Michigan’s lone run came on a solo homer in the bottom of the fourth.
Up next, the Buckeyes get ready for Big Ten Tournament play, which kicks off Wednesday at Iowa. The No. 6-seed Buckeyes are hot entering the tournament, having won 11 of their last 13, dropping only Friday’s game at Michigan and one game last weekend against Illinois.
They will play No. 11-seed Wisconsin on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET, with the winner facing Rutgers in the quarterfinals on Thursday. The teams faced each other in Madison in mid-April, and the Badgers took the series, 1-2. Wisconsin holds an 8-15 record in conference play this season.
Golf
The women’s golf team began NCAA Regional play in Bryan, Texas on Monday, and will continue through Wednesday, May 8.
At the time of publication, the Buckeyes have wrapped Day One of regional play and currently sit in sixth place, paced by Kary Hollenbaugh who is currently in fourth with a score of 69 (-3) after shooting five birdies and shooting par on 11 holes.
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Ohio State finished the first round with a team score of 294 (+6), putting them just one stroke behind the fifth-place team and seven strokes back from LSU and SMU (who are currently tied for first).
The Buckeyes hold the No. 6 seed at the Bryan Regional. The lowest-scoring five teams, plus the lowest-scoring individual not on those five teams, will advance to the final in Carlsbad, California, later this month.
In addition to Hollenbaugh, the Buckeye lineup includes Faith Choi, Jillian Bourdage, Caley McGinty, and Emily Hummer.
The women placed sixth in the Big Ten Championships with a team score of two-under par. They have earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Regionals in all three years under head coach Lisa Strom.
The men’s golf team also earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Regionals, where they are also a No. 6 seed at the Baton Rouge Regional hosted by LSU, it was announced last week. Their 14-team regional will take place May 13-15, with the lowest-scoring five teams and an individual not on those teams advancing to the finals in Carlsbad.
The Buckeyes have six top-five finishes this season, two of which came in their last two outings. They finished runner-up at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate two weeks ago and finished fifth in the Big Ten Championships last weekend.
Track & Field
Celebrations continue for Janela Spencer after a pair of wins at the Penn Relays earned her Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week honors. Posting a personal best time of 13.01, Spencer won the 100m hurdles—the first Buckeye win in the event in 24 years. She also ran a leg in the winning 4x100m relay.
The track and field team is busy preparing for the 2024 Big Ten Outdoor Championships, which will take place in Ann Arbor, beginning Friday, May 10.
Rowing
The Buckeyes are now in full preparation mode for the 2024 Big Ten Championships, slated for May 19 in Wisconsin. They are currently ranked No. 14 nationwide.
Men’s Volleyball
The Buckeyes’ season came to an end last week when they fell, 3-0, to Grand Canyon in the NCAA Quarterfinals in Long Beach, California. The Buckeyes (22-9) entered the tournament as the No. 6 seed, with Grand Canyon (26-4) holding a No. 3-seed.
The Buckeyes lost in three straight sets, with scores of 23-25, 20-25, and 21-25. Shane Wetzel and Jacob Pasteur combined for 23 kills, while setter Michael Wright put up 37 assists. All three were recently named to the AVCA 2024 All-American team. It marked the final match for both Pasteur and Wright.
This is the second year in a row that the Buckeyes have fallen in the quarterfinals after being ousted in the same round by Penn State in 2023.
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Jordan Bowen and Luca Marchetto‘s JORDANLUCA embraces fashion erotica at every turn, commenting on unrealistic societal norms on the runway. While kinks and gimmicks have become its trademark, JORDANLUCA’s latest offering never reached the toilet, dropping its viral pee-stained denim from Fall/Winter 2023.
While the design has already sold out on multiple platforms, JORDANLUCA has tumbled fashion communities with its interpretation of the “fetishized capitalist state.” JORDANLUCA’s FW23 collection was unveiled at Milan Fashion Week early last year, remarking hypermasculine stereotypes across dramatized officewear, deconstructed paneling, and…pee-stained jeans.
JORDANLUCA’s soiled denim boasts a slim leg tapered at the ankles, with a discolored wash and darkened urine stains around the zipper. Inspired by the contradicting nature of capitalist consumer culture, JORDANLUCA’s spotted denim observes cannibalistic financial systems that never slow down — even for the bathroom.
Take a closer look at JORDANLUCA’s FW23 pee-stained jeans in the gallery above. They are available at select stockists for £635 GBP (approximately $800 USD).
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NIL-driven Las Vegas college basketball event with millions paid to schools is nearly finalized
The 'Players Era Festival' will include eight teams in 2024. In 2025 it's expected to double to 16 teams -- with huge brands
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NIL-driven Las Vegas college basketball event with millions paid to schools is nearly finalized
The 'Players Era Festival' will include eight teams in 2024. In 2025 it's expected to double to 16 teams -- with huge brands
A one-of-a-kind revolutionary regular-season men's basketball event to be staged later this year in Las Vegas is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks, CBS Sports has learned. Its selling point is based on the major factor that has drastically altered college sports over the past three years: name, image and likeness compensation for players.
Games will be played in November under the umbrella of an event dubbed the "Players Era Festival," which will also include live music and other attractions for fans amid the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip during Thanksgiving week. In a college sports first, the event will also include $1 million NIL payouts for eight participating schools. What's more, players involved will have future earnings opportunities through long-term NIL contracts, sources told CBS Sports.
Alabama, Houston, Notre Dame, Oregon, Rutgers, San Diego State and Texas A&M are all on board, sources said. The eighth and final school for the 2024 event will emerge from a small group that is still being deliberated. The Players Era Festival is not being pitched as a one-year happening, either. Plans are to double the size of the field, sources told CBS Sports, with 16 teams as the target for 2025 and beyond. Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Michigan, Syracuse and Virginia have all engaged in discussions about potentially playing in 2025. If they opt in, they'd be joined by most (if not eventually all) of the schools playing in 2024, many of which have already signed up for a three-year agreement, according to sources.
Event organizers are in the final negotiating stages with MGM Resorts International to hold games at any or all of its three major venues: T-Mobile Arena, MGM Grand Garden Arena and Michelob ULTRA Arena. The tentative schedule is to play games on Nov. 26, 27 and 29, with Thanksgiving an off-day. The 2024 format(s) for the eight teams has not been decided. Organizers are still weighing whether to have a single eight-team tournament bracket or two separate four-team multi-team events (MTEs).
The tournament would be unique in that the NIL collective of each participating school would be paid $1 million. Additional significant NIL opportunities (believed to be in the neighborhood of another $1 million) would be awarded exclusively to the winner or winners of the event, depending on the final bracket format(s). The money would then be distributed to athletes by the collectives. The athletes, while in Las Vegas, would be required to participate in multiple off-the-court activities to earn that NIL money. That quid pro quo agreement for NIL money is a key distinction and at the core of the appeal of the festival. Pay-for-play remains against NCAA rules. However, athletes can be paid for NIL work surrounding the actual games, which is the pitch here.
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Schools participating, however, see a landscape-altering opportunity at a time when programs are desperate for any fundraising to bolster recruiting prowess and increase their NIL war chests. Consider: many top-end 2024 transfers in the past month have committed to a variety of programs after being promised north of $1 million, sources said.
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Just sayin': The House vs NCAA lawsuit is a "runaway NIL train" that won't be stopped. This ↑is just the tip of the "NIL iceberg" floating our way and undoubtedly the future of college sports.
For basketball, sometime in the not too distant future a designated portion of that ↑ will be allocated to the players, etc.
LGHL Joel Klatt has the Buckeyes No. 1 following the spring, naturally
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All the Buckeye news thats fit to re-print.
Look, we get it. Your days are busy and you don’t have time to read all of the stories and tweets from the three dozen websites dedicated to covering Ohio State athletics, or the 237 Buckeye beat writers churning out hot takes and #content on a daily basis. But that’s ok, that’s what your friends at Land-Grant Holy Land are here for.
Monday through Friday, we’ll be collecting all of the articles, tweets, features, interviews, videos, podcasts, memes, photos, and whatever else we stumble across on the interwebz and putting them in our daily “Why is this News?” article. That way, you’ll have a one-stop shop for all of the most important Buckeye news, jokes, and analysis.
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All the Buckeye news thats fit to re-print.
Look, we get it. Your days are busy and you don’t have time to read all of the stories and tweets from the three dozen websites dedicated to covering Ohio State athletics, or the 237 Buckeye beat writers churning out hot takes and #content on a daily basis. But that’s ok, that’s what your friends at Land-Grant Holy Land are here for.
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Why Joel Klatt has Ohio State at No. 1 team heading into 2024
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Ohio State’s Enokk Vimahi to transfer to Washington
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Biggest Concern: Can Ryan Day get top-level quarterback play in 2024?
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On the Hardwood
Making sense of Ohio State’s offseason so far - transfer portal, coaching hires, development
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The Buckeyes learned its conference opponents for next season, including a trip to the West Coast against a pair of NCAA tournament teams
Tuesday afternoon, the Big Ten announced its first schedule news of the 2024-25 season. While the dates are still in the air, Ohio State women’s basketball knows which conference teams it’ll face.
Shifting the landscape of the Big Ten are the addition of four teams to the conference, bringing its number to 18 programs. With the new squads, schedules and rivalries are changing.
The Big Ten announced that this season, each school will play a home-and-home against only one team, and for the Buckeyes, it is the Maryland Terrapins in 2024-25. Led by head coach Brenda Frese, the Terrapins ended Ohio State’s Big Ten Tournament run on its first day last season, defeating the Buckeyes 82-61.
That means that the Buckeyes won’t have two games against the Michigan Wolverines. Instead, Ohio State travels to Ann Arbor for its lone game of the regular season. Michigan and the Michigan State Spartans will instead play each other twice, with the in-state rivalry taking precedence over the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry.
On the court, the Buckeyes and Terrapins have been even over the past few seasons. Maryland edges out Ohio State winning four of its last three, but losing both regular season games during the 23-24 season.
Ohio State also travels to face the Indiana Hoosiers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Penn State Nittany Lions, and Wisconsin Badgers, of the old Big Ten guard. The lone trip out to the West Coast will be in Los Angeles.
The Buckeyes travel to both the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins, both teams that beat Ohio State last season.
Both teams who made deep tournament runs bested the Buckeyes, and return strong groups headlined by USC’s star guard Juju Watkins and Bruins center Lauren Betts. Of last season’s games, the one against the Trojans tipped off the campaign on neutral ground, playing in Las Vegas, Nevada. UCLA’s win came at the Schottenstein Center on Dec. 18, 2023.
Big Ten teams are likely taking West Coast trips for extended periods of time. That means the Buckeyes could have games against UCLA and USC within the same week, both on the road. It creates a tough test against two already tough teams for an Ohio State side that lost three starters due to NCAA eligibility expiring.
For home matchups, head coach Kevin McGuff’s side welcomes the Illinois Fighting Illini, Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan State Spartans, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Northwestern Wildcats, and Purdue Boilermakers.
Within the group of four former Pac-12 teams, the Oregon Ducks and Washington Huskies descend on Columbus in the upcoming season. That means Buckeyes’ transfer Chance Gray, out of Winton Woods High School in Cincinnati, Ohio doesn’t have to wait long to face her former side.
The former Duck transferred after starting every game she appeared in for Oregon in her first two seasons of college basketball.
Dates for these games aren’t expected until September.
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The Buckeyes learned its conference opponents for next season, including a trip to the West Coast against a pair of NCAA tournament teams
Tuesday afternoon, the Big Ten announced its first schedule news of the 2024-25 season. While the dates are still in the air, Ohio State women’s basketball knows which conference teams it’ll face.
Shifting the landscape of the Big Ten are the addition of four teams to the conference, bringing its number to 18 programs. With the new squads, schedules and rivalries are changing.
The Big Ten announced that this season, each school will play a home-and-home against only one team, and for the Buckeyes, it is the Maryland Terrapins in 2024-25. Led by head coach Brenda Frese, the Terrapins ended Ohio State’s Big Ten Tournament run on its first day last season, defeating the Buckeyes 82-61.
That means that the Buckeyes won’t have two games against the Michigan Wolverines. Instead, Ohio State travels to Ann Arbor for its lone game of the regular season. Michigan and the Michigan State Spartans will instead play each other twice, with the in-state rivalry taking precedence over the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry.
On the court, the Buckeyes and Terrapins have been even over the past few seasons. Maryland edges out Ohio State winning four of its last three, but losing both regular season games during the 23-24 season.
Ohio State also travels to face the Indiana Hoosiers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Penn State Nittany Lions, and Wisconsin Badgers, of the old Big Ten guard. The lone trip out to the West Coast will be in Los Angeles.
The Buckeyes travel to both the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins, both teams that beat Ohio State last season.
Both teams who made deep tournament runs bested the Buckeyes, and return strong groups headlined by USC’s star guard Juju Watkins and Bruins center Lauren Betts. Of last season’s games, the one against the Trojans tipped off the campaign on neutral ground, playing in Las Vegas, Nevada. UCLA’s win came at the Schottenstein Center on Dec. 18, 2023.
Big Ten teams are likely taking West Coast trips for extended periods of time. That means the Buckeyes could have games against UCLA and USC within the same week, both on the road. It creates a tough test against two already tough teams for an Ohio State side that lost three starters due to NCAA eligibility expiring.
For home matchups, head coach Kevin McGuff’s side welcomes the Illinois Fighting Illini, Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan State Spartans, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Northwestern Wildcats, and Purdue Boilermakers.
Within the group of four former Pac-12 teams, the Oregon Ducks and Washington Huskies descend on Columbus in the upcoming season. That means Buckeyes’ transfer Chance Gray, out of Winton Woods High School in Cincinnati, Ohio doesn’t have to wait long to face her former side.
The former Duck transferred after starting every game she appeared in for Oregon in her first two seasons of college basketball.
Dates for these games aren’t expected until September.
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