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Ohio State Women's Basketball (2023-24 B1G CHAMPS)

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This season not looking very good at all:(
Bad news continued to settle on the Ohio State women?s basketball team like ashes from a five-alarm forest fire tonight in Williams Arena in Minneapolis.

The Minnesota Golden Gophers burned down the slumping Buckeyes 83-74 and in the process presented Ohio State with its third Big Ten loss in three conference games this season. And this one really wasn?t as close as the final score.

Minnesota (13-4, 2-1) stripped Ohio State (10-6) to the bone in the first half while building a 50-31 lead. The Buckeyes did manage to slice a late 18-point deficit to 80-72 with 1:12 to play, but the surge was not enough to make up for the first half.

The fast start allowed the Gophers to withstand whatever Ohio State could muster in the second half. Minnesota offset the 52.4 percent shooting by the Buckeyes in the first 20 minutes by scoring 24 points off a dozen turnovers and building a 13-0 edge in second-chance points.

Ohio State?s step-slow defense also sent the Gophers to the free-throw line for 18 attempts in the first 20 minutes. They made 17 of those and 28 of 33 for the game.

After the game, OSU coach Jim Foster announced a lineup change: Junior Darryce Moore will replace fellow junior Ashley Adams at center in Monday night?s game at Purdue.

?We made a change defensively in this game, and we became a much better defensive team in the second half,? Foster said. ?We put Darryce at center and we sat Ashley. I thought Darryce played a very aggressive, intense second half.?
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The title of this article is "Defense just one of the problems". I think the other problem is Coach Foster. I believe that time has passed him by and before this program goes any further down the hill he needs to either retire or be replaced IMO
If the Big Ten stat sheet looks upside down to Ohio State women?s basketball coach Jim Foster, a good reason exists.

Three games and three losses into the conference season, the Buckeyes (10-6) are scoring 72.7 points per game. This part of the ledger doesn?t seem so wrong to Foster. The defense, however, is allowing 79.7 points per game.

?We?re second in the league in scoring and 12th in defense,? Foster said.

This is a whole new and uncomfortable world for the coach who won six Big Ten regular-season championships in his previous 10 seasons at OSU.

?Yep,? Foster said when asked if being last defensively is a first-time experience over his 35-year career. He quickly added that ?it?s nice to have a fixable problem.?

Yet a question begs: Are there enough buckets aboard to bail out the water already inside this listing ship with a game at 12th-ranked Purdue (13-2, 2-0) next up at 7:30 tonight in Mackey Arena?
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Really good effort by the women's team without their leading scorer. Triple OT loss:(
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ? The rain that had followed the Ohio State women?s basketball team through the beginning of the Big Ten season reached torrential proportions last night before the Buckeyes had even taken the court at Mackey Arena.

Ohio State, winless in its first three Big Ten games, entered Purdue?s den without leading scorer and co-captain Tayler Hill, who stayed behind in the team hotel because of flulike symptoms.

Sophomore guard Maleeka Kynard was left in Columbus on Sunday because of the same bug. Bad things seemed likely against the 12th-ranked Boilermakers. What unfolded, however, was something different. The underdog Buckeyes took the Boilermakers to three overtimes before losing 82-75. The loss, though draining, didn?t erase the effort from the remaining players.

Freshman point guard Ameryst Alston played all 55 minutes and gave the Buckeyes (10-7, 0-4) a career-high 24 points to go with six rebounds and five assists. Fellow freshman Cait Craft, who started in place of Hill, was on the court for 51 minutes. She had played a total of 73 minutes in her previous eight games. She had five points, five rebounds, three assists and three steals.


?We fought hard in that game,? Alston said. ?Fifty-five minutes is tough, but we worked and we worked. We played until the end. We didn?t even have our best player out there on the floor. So that says a lot about our team. From this game, we?re going to take it to the next with the same energy.?

Coach Jim Foster knew Hill wouldn?t play at some point during the afternoon.

?That means that Cait is and we?ve got to adjust a few things, and we did that,? Foster said.
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Ohio State guard Ameryst Alston is the Big Ten's freshman of the week in women's basketball, the conference announced today.

Alston, from Canton McKinley, averaged 19.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists in road games against Minnesota and Purdue. She had 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting against the Golden Gophers and played all 55 minutes -- scoring 24 points -- in a triple-overtime loss to the Boilermakers.
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One victory couldn?t clear away all the clouds hanging over the Ohio State women?s basketball team since Big Ten play began two weeks ago.

But a 68-45 dusting of Indiana last night at Value City Arena, which also featured the return of Tayler Hill from an illness, provided a welcome port in the storm for the Buckeyes. The team rebounded well. It didn?t foul so much, and the offense came alive in the second half to turn a six-point game into a laugher. Having an easy victory, especially after dropping a three-overtime thriller at Purdue on Monday, obviously felt good.

The road back in the Big Ten, however, remains long and winding.
?You can?t lose sight of the fact that it?s about today,? coach Jim Foster said. ?There?s no such thing as a night where you win four games. You win one. We?ve lost enough.?

Getting the Big Ten?s leading scorer back was a good start. Hill missed the Purdue game and played sick in an 83-74 loss at Minnesota last week. She gave the Buckeyes (11-7, 1-4) 15 points, eight rebounds, four assists, two blocks and a steal over 32 minutes against the Hoosiers (10-7, 1-3).

?I?m starting to feel better,? Hill said, adding that she still isn?t well. ?I?m close, though.?

She also defended Aulani Sinclair, the conference?s fourth-leading scorer, and held her to five points and 2-of-15 shooting. Foster could tell that Hill was hurting by her shooting from three-point range (1 of 6).
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Tied for last place:sad:
The Ohio State women?s basketball team discovered that rock bottom apparently has a lower level.

Wisconsin sent the Buckeyes (11-8, 1-5) to their eighth consecutive Big Ten road defeat with a 68-49 thrashing that smelled of sulfur yesterday afternoon at the Kohl Center.

The victory ended a six-game losing streak for the Badgers (9-10, 1-5) and featured total domination by the home team, which outscored the visitors 43-20 in the second half.

Morgan Paige led Wisconsin with 28 points. Jacki Gulczynski got all 14 of her points after the break to help the Badgers also end a 20-game losing streak to Ohio State.

The poor performance by the Buckeyes, who now are tied for last place with Wisconsin, defied history for Ohio State coach Jim Foster.

?Without a doubt, I?ve never seen a game like this,? he said. ?In the 11 years I?ve been here, I haven?t seen anything close to it.?
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Another loss:popcorn:
The gears didn’t mesh again for the Ohio State women’s basketball team last night in Value City Arena, and the resulting gnash of metal on metal left the Buckeyes to ponder another Big Ten game gone wrong.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers hung a 62-53 loss on the Buckeyes, their seventh defeat in eight conference games this season.

Jordan Hooper dissected the OSU zone with a 28-point performance that included five three-pointers and a seeming mid-range answer for any threat the Buckeyes (11-10) posed in the second half.

The Huskers (15-6, 5-3) made shots whenever they needed them. The Ohio State players, who were 1 of 13 from beyond the three-point arc, felt like the basket kept moving on them.

“I think it’s just the way things are going for us right now,” senior co-captain Amber Stokes said. “We had some open looks. The (ball) just wouldn’t go in the hoop.

“They were making everything. We were trying to move on defense and just got there late. Man, they’re a good team, though.”

The pressure of losing, however, is mounting because familiar problems with turnovers and rebounds continue to set too many brush fires.

“To be honest, it’s hard to come into practice and be positive,” Stokes said. “But it’s something we have to do. We have to prepare for Indiana (on Sunday).”

Nebraska broke from a 23-21 lead with an 11-0 run late in the first half that included seven points by Hooper.
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Women Win Women Win:wink:
Tayler Hill scored 16 of her 24 points in the second half to power Ohio State past Indiana 70-56 today in Assembly Hall.

The Buckeyes (12-10, 2-7) snapped a three-game Big Ten losing streak and moved out of a tie for last place in the conference with the Hoosiers (10-12, 1-8).

Darryce Moore and Amersyt Alston each scored 11 points for the Buckeyes. Jasmine McGhee led Indiana with 15.

A pair of technical fouls on the Indiana bench sent Hill to the line for what turned into six free throws. She made five and stretched a 47-41 lead to 52-41. Moore followed with a three-point play that gave OSU control of the game with 12:08 to play.
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