North Carolina 72 Lady Buckeyes 63 (Final)

[Best Buckeye]

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WBK: No. 18 Ohio State Hosts No. 2 North Carolina in ACC/Big Ten Challenge .


Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
Value City Arena - Columbus, Ohio
No. 18 Ohio State (6-1, 0-0 Big Ten) vs. No. 2 North Carolina (8-0, 0-0 ACC)
Radio/Internet - WOSU 820-AM/www.wosu.org (Marty Bannister, Kristin Watt)
Television - Big Ten Network (Mark Neely, Mary Murphy)
Series Information: OSU leads 3-2
Last Meeting: 12/18/80, UNC, 75-67
In Columbus: OSU leads, 2-0
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The competition heats up this week when the 6-1 Buckeyes play host to No. 2 North Carolina at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Value City Arena for the 2008 ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Ohio State is coming off three-straight wins and captured the Buckeye Classic championship with wins on back-to-back days over Boston (72-47) and Dayton (76-61) at St. John Arena. The second-ranked Tar Heels enter the game on an eight-game win streak and are coming off wins on back-to-back days as well with wins against Pacific (98-62) and Oregon State (82-78) at the Junkanoo Jam in the Bahamas.

 

[osugrad21]

Dispatch

Women's basketball: Buckeyes finally get their moment
Ohio State wants to run, but not at Carolina's pace
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 5:15 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


The game fairly jumped off the Ohio State women's basketball schedule the moment it was announced in the spring. North Carolina was coming to Value City Arena on Dec. 3 as part of the annual Big Ten-Atlantic Coast Conference Challenge. This was the North Carolina, the Tar Heels with the distinctive blue uniforms and the reputation for running like no other team in women's college basketball. They were coming to play the Buckeyes in Columbus for the first time in more than a quarter of a century.
May turned to December and the collision finally will occur tonight between the No. 2 Tar Heels (8-0) and the 18th-ranked Buckeyes (6-1) in front of probably the largest crowd of the season.
The media gathered yesterday to gauge the excitement in the OSU camp. Coach Jim Foster and the assembled players offered only the slightest hint of what was on their minds. Picture a few wily trout teasing a bunch of novice nabobs with new fishing poles and no idea how to attract a bite. The first cast went toward the coach.
"They're talented," Foster said. "We're talented. It's a basketball game. And who does what they do better on that particular day determines who wins those games. We do some things pretty well. We have to try to do them well more often than not. They do some things pretty well and we've got to defend that more often than not."
Another questioner dropped a line near senior forward Star Allen.
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Dispatch

Ohio State-North Carolina preview

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 2:58 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
OHIO STATE VS. NORTH CAROLINA

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[crazybuckfan40]

This will be a true barometer...I expect the crowd to be somewhat big, but not going to fill the place...I envision 10,000 or so...

If we win this game, it would do wonders for this program...

 

[osugrad21]

Scout Free--North Carolina On Tap For Buckeye Women

 

[Best Buckeye]

Bump for the game;
GO BUCKEYES
GO BUCKEYES
GO BUCKEYES

 

[OHSportsFan]

OSU off to a quick start

6-3 Lady Bucks

Going to the line for 2

17:30 to play

Fast pace game. Only been about 2 half-court sets run so far.

 

[OHSportsFan]

9-7 Buckeyes at the 15:03 mark. TV Timeout.

This Prahalus (?) girl loves to run. She is up and down the court non-stop.

 

[bucknutz]

the lady buckeyes are burning the net down.

 

[crazybuckfan40]

Prahalis is a one girl fast break...She can break the press all by herself, and anyone questioning whether this team is going to play uptempo should have all those questions answered...

Lets just hope that we can keep up the tempo and try and take better care of the ball...

 

[crazybuckfan40]

Losing Star Allen to foul trouble has hurt us a little in this game, and I think this game is a little too much up tempo for us, when we have Schulze and Walker in the game...But the big girl from UNC is killing us so we have to go with two bigs and Allen not being in there is hurting us...

A very good first half tho...Only down 4 as UNC got the lucky break on the basket before hte half...Need to come out with some high intensity early in the second half...

Sammy Prahlis is a very special player!!!!

 

[Best Buckeye]

we have either too many people named Bredalin in the game or not quite as much depth as NC.
But I can see us winning this game with enough effort.
GO BUCKEYES
GO BUCKEYES
GO BUCKEYES

 

[bucknutz]

Good little run, they needed that bad.

 

[osugrad21]

Tied ball game. Lavender is a beast

 

[Best Buckeye]

We can do this ladies .

GO BUCKEYES
GO BUCKEYES
GO BUCKEYES

 

[bucknutz]

pretty exciting game. I think both teams needed that time out