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Big Ten announces Ohio State women’s basketball 2024-25 conference opponents
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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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ThomasCostello via our friends at Land-Grant Holy Land
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK
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.
Continue reading...