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

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Women's college basketball Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2022-23

5. Maryland Terrapins

6. Iowa Hawkeyes

13. Ohio State Buckeyes
In one of the quietest championship seasons the Big Ten has ever seen, the Buckeyes tied Iowa for the regular season title. They should return four of the top five scorers from that team, and much will revolve around the backcourt. Taylor Mikesell's decision to take her extra season to rejoin All-American candidate Jacy Sheldon, plus a full recovery by Madison Greene -- who missed the 2020-21 with a knee injury but averaged 13.4 PPG in 2021-22 -- combine to gives Ohio State a trio that is hard to match.

17. Indiana Hoosiers

20. Nebraska Cornhuskers

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/womens-college...llege-basketball-way-too-early-top-25-2022-23

They should be (at least) serious contenders in the B1G again.
 
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Decent article but it falls a bit short. We also get Mika back and Thierry will have a season under her belt. If the starting 5 are Mika, Thierry, Mikesell, Sheldon and Greene it would be the best overall starting 5 I can remember at Ohio State for the women. 30 years worth of seeing women's games but not real in-depth following for me but that 5 would potentially be a Final Four or Championship game roster. Teams with a 6'5 or taller center are always going to be a bitch to play but the scoring from those 5 ladies could be epic
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
Decent article but it falls a bit short. We also get Mika back and Thierry will have a season under her belt. If the starting 5 are Mika, Thierry, Mikesell, Sheldon and Greene it would be the best overall starting 5 I can remember at Ohio State for the women. 30 years worth of seeing women's games but not real in-depth following for me but that 5 would potentially be a Final Four or Championship game roster. Teams with a 6'5 or taller center are always going to be a bitch to play but the scoring from those 5 ladies could be epic
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3 recruits coming in for 22-23
1.Cotie McMahon 5'11 SG from Centerville, Ohio 22 ppg.
2. Mya Perry 5'11 SG from Reynoldsburg, Ohio 15 ppg.
3. Kaia Henderson 5'5 PG from New York, broke school record
for total pts. and avg. 33 ppg as a senior.
Also a 2024 center Faith Carson, a 6'4 junior has committed.
They could definitely use some size
so they can compete on the glass as they really got killed there this year.
 
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Thanks for posting this article. I absolutely love watching Jacy Sheldon play. With Greene coming back from injury and Mikesell tearing it up from 3, Buckeyes are loaded in the backcourt. Thierry looks to be a starter in her sophomore season and they need one more big to just rebound and set picks basically with lots of good but untested bench players.
 
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Ohio State has received four years of NCAA probation for violations committed by the women’s basketball, women’s golf and fencing programs.

The NCAA’s Division I Committee on Infractions announced Tuesday that Ohio State women’s basketball, women’s golf and fencing programs were all found guilty of committing NCAA violations between 2015 and 2019.

As punishment, Ohio State has been placed on four years of NCAA probation and fined $5,000 in addition to 3% of the fencing program budget and 1% of both the women’s basketball and women’s golf budgets. Under the terms of the probation, Ohio State will be required to “continue to develop and implement a comprehensive educational program on NCAA legislation to instruct coaches, the faculty athletics representative, all athletics department personnel and all institutional staff members with responsibility for recruiting” and file annual compliance reports to the NCAA indicating the progress made with that program.

Those penalties have been assessed in addition to self-imposed penalties by Ohio State that included postseason bans for all three programs for the 2020-21 academic year as well as vacating women’s basketball and fencing wins in which ineligible athletes participated and scholarship reductions for those two programs in 2020-21. The Division I Committee on Infractions also imposed an additional 10% in scholarship reductions for the Ohio State fencing program in 2022-23.

Vacated achievements include Big Ten championships in 2017 and 2018, the Big Ten Tournament championship in 2018 and a total of 52 wins for women’s basketball, and Midwest Fencing Conference championships in 2016, 2017 and 2018 as well as NCAA runner-up finishes in 2016 and 2017 and an NCAA third-place finish in 2018 for the fencing team.

The women’s basketball program was punished as a result of violations committed by former associate head coach Patrick Klein, who also received a 10-year show-cause from the NCAA. Klein “initiated contact with student-athletes with the goal of forming personal relationships that exceeded coaching/student-athlete relationships” and “provided them with impermissible benefits, including paying for manicures, loaning money for rental cars, and purchasing textbooks for a student-athlete who was not on scholarship.”
 
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I read the NCAA findings, and compared to what NC and Kansas did, seems acutely unfair. I'm betting that this was self-reporting by tOSU. Also betting that the perpetrators of these events have already been let go or got goned from the university. Fencing is very obnoxious, which mostly stems around gaining practice time for the fencers. Wonder if any of the WBB team will xfer, as even though a good/great year is in the offing, tOSU will now allow them to compete in post season. Assume this means teh B10 tournament as well as NCAAs......ouch.
 
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