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Bob Hunter commentary: Buckeyes, Foster overcome hurdles, win with new pieces

Monday, March 3, 2008 3:01 AM
By Bob Hunter


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


There is no coaching manual that tells you what to do when you lose stars the caliber of Jessica Davenport and Brandie Hoskins, no simple list of directions with steps marked a, b, c and d. Even when some of the returning players are very good and some of the incoming players are dripping with promise, there's a good chance the new team isn't going to come close to matching its predecessors' accomplishments. It's just the way it is. There are just too many things that can go wrong, too many potholes waiting to be hit. The name on the jersey is the same; the team is completely different.
It's not easy to see that, though. When a team has won three consecutive Big Ten basketball championships the way the Ohio State women had, expectations go up and the level of difficulty for that fourth title drops, or so it seems. Winning league titles starts to seem almost like a rite of passage when it's not that easy.


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Ohio State Buckeyes' Jantel Lavender of Cleveland Central Catholic wins Big Ten Player of the Year



Tuesday, March 04, 2008 Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter



Robin Lavender wasn't sure her daughter, Jantel, would even start for Ohio State as a freshman. That's why when Jantel called Monday, Mom started screaming. Lavender, from Cleveland Central Catholic, was named the Big Ten Player of the Year by the league coaches Monday, the first freshman to win the award in its 27-year history. She's really breaking new ground. No men's player has won the award as a freshman, not even former Ohio State center Greg Oden, since it was first handed out in 1985. "All that hard work has paid off," Robin Lavender said. "We were going for Freshman of the Year, that we knew. But this is so much fun." Lavender grabbed Freshman of the Year also, as awarded by conference coaches and media. She will share the Player of the Year Award with Wisconsin senior guard Jolene Anderson, who was awarded by the media.

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Women's basketball: Coaches name OSU's Lavender Big Ten player of year

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 3:19 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH



The Big Ten women's basketball coaches liked enough of what they saw from Ohio State center Jantel Lavender in her first season to select her as the conference player of the year and unanimously as the freshman of the year. The league media also unanimously voted Lavender as the Big Ten's top freshman but chose Wisconsin senior guard Jolene Anderson as the player of the year. Lavender is the first freshman to be voted player of the year in men's or women's basketball.
Three other OSU players received honors in the voting. Sophomore guard Shavelle Little was named defensive player of the year and to the all-defensive team by the coaches. Senior guard Marscilla Packer, the top three-point shooter in the Big Ten, was named to the all-conference second team by both groups. Junior guard Ashlee Trebilcock was an honorable-mention choice.



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Women's All-Big Ten team

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 3:00 AM

Coaches team


First team: Jantel Lavender, Ohio State
Second team: Marscilla Packer, Ohio State.
Honorable mention: Ashlee Trebilcock, Ohio State;

All-defensive: Shavelle Little, Ohio State;

All-freshman: Jantel Lavender, Ohio State
Player of the year: Jantel Lavender, Ohio State;
Defensive player of the year: Shavelle Little, Ohio State;

Freshman of the year: Jantel Lavender, Ohio State
Media team

First team: Jantel Lavender, Ohio State
Second team: Marscilla Packer, Ohio State
Honorable mention: Ashlee Trebilcock, Ohio State
Freshman of the year: Jantel Lavender, Ohio State
 
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Women's basketball
Few weaklings in Big Ten tournament

Thursday, March 6, 2008 3:11 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Finding a soft touch in the Big Ten women's basketball tournament is going to be as risky as shaking the nest to find the nicest hornet in the swarm. Sure, last-place Northwestern won't necessarily sting anyone. But when play begins at noon today in Indianapolis, the standings say that the other 10 teams have enough weaponry to make a run at the championship game Sunday night in Conseco Fieldhouse.
Ohio State and Iowa, the regular-season co-champions, each lost five games in conference play. Four was the previous high for losses by a champion. That happened in 1996-97 and fourth-seeded Iowa won the tournament.
"The significance of this year's tournament is someone can come from the pack and earn (an NCAA Tournament) berth and give us a fourth team, legitimately," OSU coach Jim Foster said. "That is the intrigue of this one."

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OSU-Illinois preview

Friday, March 7, 2008 2:57 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Ohio State vs. Illinois

6 tonight
? Where: Conseco Fieldhouse
? Records: Ohio State 22-7; Illinois 17-13
? TV: Big Ten Network
? Radio: WOSU-AM (820)
? Key matchup: In sophomore Jenna Smith, Illinois has an inside force equal to OSU freshman Jantel Lavender, the conference co-player of the year. Smith finished the regular season as the second-leading scorer and rebounder in the Big Ten. Lavender was the third-leading scorer and leading rebounder. The matchup should entertain.

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OSU women's basketball: Big Ten results may have little effect on NCAA seed

Friday, March 7, 2008 2:57 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Ohio State women's basketball team enters the Big Ten Tournament tonight in Conseco Fieldhouse as the top seed for an unprecedented fourth consecutive season. What the game against ninth-seeded Illinois means is open to interpretation.
Coach Jim Foster is well aware that his 22nd-ranked Buckeyes (22-7, 13-5) have been far from invincible in the conference. He also doesn't believe his team's NCAA seeding will rise or fall much regardless of the outcome.

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