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Buckskin86
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TV cameras caught her in the act and taught her a lesson, prompting Samantha Prahalis to work on controlling her temper
Friday, December 3, 2010
By Jim Massie
The Columbus Dispatch
THRILL OF THE CHASE: OSU's Samantha Prahalis, right, races North Carolina Wilmington's Jessica Freeman for a loose ball during the second half of the Buckeyes' 88-69 victory on Nov. 28. It was Prahalis' second game back after a three-game NCAA suspension to start the season. (Terry Gilliam, Associated Press)
A certain video accompanied the end of the world, at least the world inhabited by the Ohio State women's basketball team nine months ago.
The heavily favored Buckeyes suffered a humiliating upset at the hands of Mississippi State in the second round of NCAA Tournament on March 23 in Pittsburgh.
Point guard Samantha Prahalis exited the game with a technical foul and an emotional meltdown that drew every camera lens in the Petersen Events Center as surely as a summer porch light draws moths at midnight.
The moment, of course, passed for the player. But a few days later, when coach Jim Foster called Prahalis into his office to show her a video of what had happened, tension filled the room.
And in the weeks and months since, what the camera caught of Prahalis that night has multiplied from a minor, at-the-moment incident into something monumental.
"As soon as I saw it, it was twice as bad," she said. "Then I replayed it and replayed it, and it was five times as bad. It was gross. It was the worst possible moment and the worst possible I could look."
Even as a child of "new media," where cameras seem to pop up everywhere and all the time, Prahalis was stunned.
"I guess it shouldn't have been surprising," she said. "But when you're in the game, cameras aren't the first thing you think about. After that game, I wasn't thinking, 'Oh my God, the cameras got me.' I was thinking we just lost. But I had no idea all those cameras were on me."
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/buckeyextra/stories/gameday/2010/week14/cover_story.html
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ok im still at a loss...what did she do? not for the 3 game suspension but what the article keeps referring too in the game vs miss st?
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MolGenBuckeye
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brodybuck21;1829012; said:
Melted down after a questionable call, threw the ball, got T-ed up for her fifth foul.
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DZ83CK
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It's hard to believe she got suspended 3 games by the NCAA just for what she did vs. Mississippi State. This is the NCAA. It's not pro basketball. Isn't the embarrassment enough punishment? Griner got suspended one game by the NCAA for punching a player and breaking her nose (Baylor self-imposed one additional game), so emotionally protesting a call is 3x worse than breaking someone's nose? Another NCAA oddity.
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ThisIsMyUsernam
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DZ83CK;1829380; said:
Embarrassing turn of events? Yes. But I don't think her suspension had anything to do with that NCAA tourney game.
I think that article was just talking about how she's learning to control her emotions. At least that's what I took from it. Others have said the suspension came from the "improper benefits" rule & her relationship w/ Turner.
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ThisIsMyUsernam
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korchiki;1829413; said:
They were notified of the suspension the day before the season opener, so she missed the 1st 3 games, but has been back playing for a few games now.
No worries. She will be playing in the UCONN game at MSG. She had a funny quote after they beat Oklahoma yesterday. She said something like "We're not [going to NY] to look at the Christmas lights. We're going to compete."
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