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It’s time to give Ohio State women’s basketball script Buckeyes jerseys
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Time to reward a team that has won two Big Ten championships in three years.
Tuesday night, Ohio State men’s basketball rolled out the jerseys. The best basketball jerseys in the lineup of Ohio State jerseys. The crisp white jerseys with the red Buckeye script.
These beauts:
If you’ve met me, you can see right away that I don’t know much about aesthetics, but you don’t know to know what looks good to know that these jerseys look so good.
They’re clean. No frills. The loops on the letters are beautiful art and for the kids in the years of school that didn’t learn cursive, even get a glimpse at what the olds and the youngs know are a “k” and an “s.”
Ohio State, known for the script Ohio, roll out these script Buckeyes jerseys every so often throughout the season. Replacing the tired block lettering in either white or scarlet. Scroll through the photos above, and the shorts even include a nice block O with a buckeye leaf dead center in the upper half.
Everything about it is great, and I’m not even a Buckeye fan. A wicked Penn State fan even looks at it with eyes of wonderment.
For all the swooning, there is one issue with these jerseys — Ohio State women’s basketball never wears them.
This isn’t an article to shoot down one team over the other. The broiest of bros will respond that Ohio State men make the money, have higher attendance, dunk and blah blah blah blah blah.
No, this article is to support why Ohio State’s women’s team deserves the honor of wearing these jerseys at least once a year.
First, look at the success of this team. The Buckeyes have made the NCAA Tournament every year for the past three seasons, winning at least one game each year. Of those, two saw the Scarlet and Gray make it to at least the Sweet Sixteen.
Not to mention winning two Big Ten regular season championships in the past three years.
Second, the team is still good, despite high turnover in head coach Kevin McGuff’s 12th season at the helm. Ohio State has three new starters and are still as exciting as years past. Freshman Jaloni Cambridge might be the quickest name not only in the conference but the country. Former Oregon guard Chance Gray returned to her home state and is shooting better than she has in two previous seasons starting in the old Pac-12.
That doesn’t even mention the return of star forward Cotie McMahon. The junior started her NCAA career as a freshman and until the last week didn’t miss a game. In those two seasons, McMahon’s spun her way into the hearts of Buckeye fans.
Now, imagine the blur that is Cambridge in those bright white script Buckeye jerseys. How about a long three from Gray or McMahon getting pumped up after hitting a layup and earning a trip to the free throw line?
Also, the current offering of Buckeye jerseys is less than creative. They wear the same scarlet or white jerseys with the block Ohio State game-in and game-out. Except for the occasional breast cancer awareness night where they wear a gray jersey with pink outline.
It’s time to flip the script and get the women’s team into the jerseys.
I’m not asking for it in every game. Eating pizza is great but you can’t eat pizza every single day or else it loses its luster. Just once a year. Maybe twice.
The ball is always in your court physically, Ohio State. Now it is metaphorically.
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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 via Imagn Images
Time to reward a team that has won two Big Ten championships in three years.
Tuesday night, Ohio State men’s basketball rolled out the jerseys. The best basketball jerseys in the lineup of Ohio State jerseys. The crisp white jerseys with the red Buckeye script.
These beauts:
If you’ve met me, you can see right away that I don’t know much about aesthetics, but you don’t know to know what looks good to know that these jerseys look so good.
They’re clean. No frills. The loops on the letters are beautiful art and for the kids in the years of school that didn’t learn cursive, even get a glimpse at what the olds and the youngs know are a “k” and an “s.”
Ohio State, known for the script Ohio, roll out these script Buckeyes jerseys every so often throughout the season. Replacing the tired block lettering in either white or scarlet. Scroll through the photos above, and the shorts even include a nice block O with a buckeye leaf dead center in the upper half.
Everything about it is great, and I’m not even a Buckeye fan. A wicked Penn State fan even looks at it with eyes of wonderment.
For all the swooning, there is one issue with these jerseys — Ohio State women’s basketball never wears them.
This isn’t an article to shoot down one team over the other. The broiest of bros will respond that Ohio State men make the money, have higher attendance, dunk and blah blah blah blah blah.
No, this article is to support why Ohio State’s women’s team deserves the honor of wearing these jerseys at least once a year.
First, look at the success of this team. The Buckeyes have made the NCAA Tournament every year for the past three seasons, winning at least one game each year. Of those, two saw the Scarlet and Gray make it to at least the Sweet Sixteen.
Not to mention winning two Big Ten regular season championships in the past three years.
Second, the team is still good, despite high turnover in head coach Kevin McGuff’s 12th season at the helm. Ohio State has three new starters and are still as exciting as years past. Freshman Jaloni Cambridge might be the quickest name not only in the conference but the country. Former Oregon guard Chance Gray returned to her home state and is shooting better than she has in two previous seasons starting in the old Pac-12.
That doesn’t even mention the return of star forward Cotie McMahon. The junior started her NCAA career as a freshman and until the last week didn’t miss a game. In those two seasons, McMahon’s spun her way into the hearts of Buckeye fans.
Now, imagine the blur that is Cambridge in those bright white script Buckeye jerseys. How about a long three from Gray or McMahon getting pumped up after hitting a layup and earning a trip to the free throw line?
Also, the current offering of Buckeye jerseys is less than creative. They wear the same scarlet or white jerseys with the block Ohio State game-in and game-out. Except for the occasional breast cancer awareness night where they wear a gray jersey with pink outline.
It’s time to flip the script and get the women’s team into the jerseys.
I’m not asking for it in every game. Eating pizza is great but you can’t eat pizza every single day or else it loses its luster. Just once a year. Maybe twice.
The ball is always in your court physically, Ohio State. Now it is metaphorically.
Continue reading...