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Would of liked to see us use our bench more...I know it was hard in the situation we were in, but when we made the run back into the game Foster got the bigs some rest, but would of liked to see Prahlis get a little rest, along with triblecock...They really seemed to have no legs down the stretch as I think Prahalis played the whole game...

But it is good to see that this team can play with the top competition out there...This team should run thru the big ten once again this season...

Also they are very fun to watch...
 
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Buckeyes' offense collapses in second half By Rusty Miller
Associated Press

Published on Thursday, Dec 04, 2008
COLUMBUS: Jessica Breland scored 29 points and second-ranked North Carolina heldNo. 18 Ohio State scoreless for more than nine minutes of the second half to take a 72-63 victory Wednesday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
Breland, who is averaging 13.5 points, had 21 in the opening half as the Tar Heels (9-0) opened a 41-37 lead. Cetera DeGraffenreid added 14 points and six assists and Rashanda McCants had 10 points for North Carolina, which improved to 21-9 against the Big Ten and evened its record against the Buckeyes at 3-3.
The Tar Heels sealed the outcome with a 17-0, second-half run.
Jantel Lavender had 27 points and 13 rebounds for the Buckeyes (6-2), who led 52-49 with 11:56 left before missing their next 12 shots from the field with six turnovers over a span of nine minutes, 20 seconds. Star Allen added 12 points, Ashlee Trebilcock had 10 points and Samantha Prahalis had 13 assists.
Ahead 41-37 at the half, the Tar Heels pulled away at the outset of the second half. McCants hit a jumper before Breland scored on consecutive possessions, once on a baseline drive and then on a nifty pass from McCants to make it 47-37. They hit their first three shots of the half, and Ohio State missed its first four and had three turnovers over the opening three minutes.
Just as suddenly, the game swung the other way.
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Youthful OSU women hang with Tar Heels until final 10 minutes of 72-63 loss

by Doug Lesmerises/Plain Dealer Reporter Wednesday December 03, 2008, 10:37 PM


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Terry Gilliam/Associated PressNorth Carolina's Chay Shegog, left, gets the worst of this battle with Ohio State's Jantel Lavender over a rebound during the second half of Wednesday's game in Columbus.

COLUMBUS -- It may have been the high point of an era of Ohio State women's basketball that has been filled with success -- Big Ten titles, NCAA Tournament appearances and All-Americans. With 11:56 left in the second half on Wednesday night against the No. 2 team in the country, OSU coach Jim Foster's game-changing freshmen point guard hit a game-changing sophomore center with an inbounds pass for a layup, foul and 3-point lead over North Carolina as a crowd of 5,045, double the normal size at Value City Arena, went crazy.
This was working.
With newcomer Sammy Prahalis running the show, the Buckeyes were on a 13-0 run and keeping up with a North Carolina team that runs the court as well as any team in the country. Foster had changed his style and it looked like he'd changed the future of the program.
And then Ohio State didn't score for the next nine minutes and 20 seconds.

The Tar Heels (9-0) switched to a zone the Buckeyes couldn't handle, Ohio State missed 12 straight shots and North Carolina was off to a 72-63 victory in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
"I don't think it was the zone, I think it was us," said center Jantel Lavender, the Cleveland native who finished with 27 points and 13 rebounds. "We hurt ourselves when they went zone."
As Lavender's room in the paint vanished, the No. 18 (6-2) Buckeyes forced and missed 3-pointers and failed to maintain their previous aggression. Foster was perturbed in defeat, repeating that the Buckeyes need to find another guard to complement Prahalis, who was 1-of-8 on 3-pointers but dished out 13 assists. But he also saw what the future can be.



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Dispatch

Women's basketball: Buckeyes go cold against Heels' zone
Ohio State heats up with 13-0 run, but then offense has a meltdown
Thursday, December 4, 2008 4:46 AM
By Jim Massie


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Star Allen and Jessica Breland struggle for the ball. Allen had 12 points and six rebounds.




The chance for the one of those rare, major upsets appeared for a moment in the second half last night for the Ohio State women's basketball team and disappeared as quickly as a snowflake falling into a campfire. The 18th-ranked Buckeyes (6-2) had second-ranked North Carolina (8-0) on its heels and in trouble much to the delight of a season-high crowd of 5,045 in Value City Arena.
But after an excruciating nine-minute, 20-second span of scoreless basketball, Ohio State was left with a 72-63 loss in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
The dead spell featured 13 missed shots by five players and turned a 52-49 lead into a 66-52 deficit.
What happened? North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell answered a 13-0 OSU run by going to a zone defense. The wide-open OSU offense triggered by a career-high 13 assists from freshman point guard Samantha Prahalis ground to a halt.
"(The zone) made a big difference," Hatchell said. "We took a gamble that they would miss some of those threes. But we sputtered at times, too. We had a lead and lost it. It was ragged, but it was fun."
Ohio State coach Jim Foster tried different combinations of players, but the zone offense never clicked.
"We didn't execute the way we need to," he said. "It's that simple. We need ball movement, ball reversals. We've got to get more productivity out of our guards."
The outcome also took the luster off a 27-point, 13-rebound performance from sophomore center Jantel Lavender, her eighth double-double in as many games this season. North Carolina's Jessica Breland, a sweet-shooting junior, answered with 29 points.
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December 3, 2008

Carolina on my mind

A year ago, the Ohio State women's basketball team traveled to Maryland to participate in the inaugural Big Ten/Atlantic Coast Conference Challenge. The Terrapins overpowered the Buckeyes 77-53. It was a no contest along the lines of one of those early Mike Tyson fights. The ball would ring and the other guy would fall down a few seconds later.
It's still Wednesday night as I begin to write this but the No. 18 Ohio State team that dropped a 72-63 decision to second-ranked North Carolina a couple of hours ago in Value City Arena isn't a pushover. The Buckeyes took off on a 13-0 run in the second half that had them poised for an upset. The Tar Heels aren't pushovers, either.
Trailing 52-49, coach Sylvia Hatchell switched to a zone that shut out the Ohio State offense for nine minutes and 20 seconds. Hatchell left Columbus impressed by the team that she encountered. She already was well aware of OSU sophomore center Jantel Lavender, who had 27 points and 13 rebounds. Lavender is knocking on the first team All-American door.
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crazybuckfan40;1345921; said:
But it is good to see that this team can play with the top competition out there...This team should run thru the big ten once again this season...
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Agreed. In past seasons, Foster's teams have had the doors blown off against top-notch competition. Certainly a far more competitive game than the one against Maryland last season or the games against LSU the two seasons before that.
 
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I watched most of this game last night. Prahalis is going to be fun to watch, and I was impressed with Lavender's ability (as a big) to run the floor.
 
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