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Lady Basketball Buckeyes Tidbits 2005-2006 Season

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3/3/06


(5) Ohio St. 64, Penn St. 46Preview - Box Score - Recap
By STEVE HERMAN, AP Sports Writer
March 3, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Brandie Hoskins scored 14 points to lead No. 5 Ohio State to a 64-46 win over Penn State in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals Friday.
The top-seeded Buckeyes won their 17th straight, while the Lady Lions' finished their first losing season in 33 years.

Ohio State (26-2), seeking its first conference tourney championship, will play either Michigan State or Iowa in the semifinals on Sunday. Penn State, a two-time tournament winner, finished 13-16, its worst record since 1973.


The Buckeyes so dominated the Lady Lions from the start that leading scorer Jessica Davenport, the two-time Big Ten player of the year, was on the floor only 9 minutes in the first half and 10 minutes in the second period.

Debbie Merrill added 11 points and Marscilla Packer had 10 for the Buckeyes. Davenport, constantly double-teamed, made only 2-of-6 shots and had a season-low six points and five rebounds.

Penn State was led by Kamela Gissendanner with 15 points and Amanda Brown with 10.

Davenport had two baskets and Packer had two 3-pointers in a 16-5 start for the Buckeyes. But with Davenport on the bench most of the period, Hoskins took over, scoring 10 of her 14 points before the break.

Penn State pulled to 22-17 on a basket by Brown, but the Lady Lions, who had 15 turnovers in the first half and 21 for the game, didn't score the rest of the period. A basket and a 3-pointer by reserve Stephanie Blanton, a 3-pointer by Merrill and another basket by reserve Alice Jamen completed a 10-0 Ohio State run for a 32-17 lead at halftime. Hoskins, who averaged 12 points, reached that with her first basket of the second half, starting another 10-0 burst that pushed the Buckeyes' lead to 44-21. Ohio State's biggest lead was 59-33 with just over 4 minutes to go, and the Lions never came closer than 16 the rest of the way.
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crazybuckfan40 said:
A slipscreen is when you go to set the screen and your defender will hedge but you slip to the bucket. Kinda like a pick n' roll with out the screen.

Dominating performance by the ladies.
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Thanks, I knew what was going on, just didn't know the terminology, sounds a little made for tv to me. :biggrin: Agree on the great game, MSU is slapping Iowa around pretty good too, should be a great one Sunday!! :osu:
 
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Dispatch

3/4/06

OHIO STATE 64 | PENN STATE 46

Bench plays key role inside for Buckeyes

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Jim Massie
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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</IMG> MICHAEL CONROY | ASSOCIATED PRESS Star Allen of Ohio State shoots over Rashida Mark of Penn State. Allen scored four points in the Buckeyes’ victory.


INDIANAPOLIS — Jessica Davenport spent much of yesterday afternoon in the unfamiliar role of spectator on the Ohio State bench during the Big Ten tournament quarterfinal game between the top-seeded Buckeyes and eighth-seeded Penn State.
The All-American center and two-time conference player of the year hit the pine with two early fouls and later became an afterthought while her teammates blew the game open in Conseco Fieldhouse. Davenport, who failed to reach double figures for the first time in 48 games, contributed six points to a 64-46 victory, but the potential nightmare might have morphed into a godsend.
"At a certain point in time, we’re going to have to win a game that matters like today," coach Jim Foster said. "You lose and it’s over. Well, you have a frame of reference for a season. The frame of reference is that you’ve won without Jess Davenport before. It means you can do it again."
Simply put, Foster decided to look elsewhere for offense in the second half against the Lions (13-16). He allowed sophomores Alice Jamen and Tam Riley, and freshman Star Allen to play Davenport’s minutes and the trio responded with a combined 12 points and eight rebounds. Davenport didn’t seem to mind.
"I know when I’m not out there, other players have opportunities," Davenport said. "Everybody came in and did a good job. You see Star bringing the ball up, and that’s something a lot of people don’t know she can do. Everybody just played a good game today. Every player on this team has pride. We’re not going to let one slip away no matter what happens."
Ohio State (26-2) will play fourth-seeded Michigan State (22-8) in a semifinal at 1 p.m. Sunday. Penn State had hoped to upset that date by duplicating the effort it put together before losing 61-59 to OSU in the regular-season finale Sunday. Yesterday, the Buckeyes scarcely gave the Lions room to breathe. OSU forced 15 turnovers in the first half.
"You could sense that the fact that, ‘Oh yeah, we want them again. We should have won the last game,’ " OSU senior point guard Ashley Allen said. "We knew that. We just tried to pressure them as much as possible. We know that we need to play defense to win."
When Davenport went to the bench at 11:07 of the first half with two fouls, the Buckeyes led 20-9. For the next eight minutes, the offense went into a deep freeze and the Lions closed to 24-17. Stephanie Blanton and Debbie Merrill sparked the thaw with a 10-0 run and a 32-17 halftime lead.
"Steph got five points in a quick span," Merrill said. "When Jess is out, we need all the offense we can get from everybody on the team."
Merrill hit a three-pointer in the run that came after Foster yelled at her on the previous possession.
"Coach Foster had yelled at me," said Merrill, who had 11 points and five assists. "The play before that I had a wideopen shot but didn’t take it. I already had it in my mind no matter where I was I was going to shoot it. I think everybody stepped up. Everybody that came off the bench helped us."
Riley has been the first forward off the bench for much of the second half of the season. Jamen, however, has played in 16 of the 28 games. She was delighted to show in a game what she does daily in practice.
"It makes me really happy," Jamen said. "When I get in a game, I just want to make sure I do everything we practice — play well on defense and take my time on offense and just play basketball. Playing against Jess and Debbie in practice makes us so much better because they’re such good defensive post players."
Riley, likewise, saw meaning in winning with Davenport on the bench.
"We’re always ready for something like that to happen," Riley said. "If she gets in foul trouble or needs a breather, everybody is ready to step up. We got lucky this game. Everybody had a contribution to the team."
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