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PG Samantha Prahalis (B1G Champ, 2x All-American, B1G POY, B1G Career Assists Leader, OSU HOF)

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Rob Oller commentary: The plain truth--Prahalis' flash really works
Sunday, March 20, 2011
The Columbus Dispatch

Those who accuse flashy Samantha Prahalis of passing the ball to invisible players are like the pessimist who sees the hole in the doughnut.

It is true that the Ohio State point guard sometimes throws it where no one is standing. And true, she can lob it to spots where only Yao Ming could catch it. But to focus on her failures is to forget where the Buckeyes would be without her. Remove Prahalis, and Ohio State is watching the NCAA Tournament from where the junior's errant passes often end up - the stands.

Instead, Ohio State is marching into more madness, a date Monday against Georgia Tech after the Buckeyes canceled out Central Florida 80-69 before a boisterous crowd of 5,658 yesterday in St. John Arena.

Prahalis' detractors are barking their objections right about now. Praise her? This pip who makes the easy pass look hard? Yep. And make it loads of praise. Prahalis' mistakes are easy to spot because they happen in blinking neon, but also notice that the positives far outweigh the negatives.

Take yesterday's game, in which she committed five turnovers, several of the "What was she thinking?" variety. But none of the five led directly to Central Florida points. No harm, no foul. To the positive, Prahalis' 10 assists led to 21 points. They also put her at 200 assists for the season. She is the only player in school history with multiple 200-assist seasons.Yes, the sometimes-sassy basketball attributes of this Long Island native can be hard to embrace, but mostly because the women's game is pegged by purists as basketball "as it was meant to be played." Translated, that means go easy on the style and concentrate on the substance.

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Samantha Prahalis should continue streak
Nov 9 | By Pat Borzi

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AP Photo/Skip PetersonSamantha Prahalis has amazing ball-handling skills and led the league in assists last year.

For the past seven years, Ohio State centers have claimed at least a share of the Big Ten Player of the Year Award -- the first three by Jessica Davenport and the last four by Jantel Lavender, who is the only player of either gender to win one four times.

Though the Buckeyes lack a dominating post presence this season, they could land an eighth consecutive winner anyway, someone with zero resemblance to Davenport and Lavender. If you haven't seen flashy point guard Samantha Prahalis dish and deal, here's a sampling of why she has been compared to Pete Maravich in a ponytail, from a commercial produced by the school.

Penn State's Kelly Mazzante was the last guard to win Player of the Year outright, in 2004. This season, in a conference loaded with outstanding guards -- especially point guards -- Prahalis figures to rise above the rest

Last year Prahalis averaged 14.5 points while leading the Big Ten in assists at 6.9 per game, third-best in the nation. Those numbers were down from her sophomore year, however, and Prahalis fell from all-conference first team to second team. That decline may have kept her off the 25-player preseason watch list for the Wade Trophy, a list she made last year. She did make the 30-player list for the women's John Wooden Award.

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Samantha has been added to the Naismith award watch list. What a great job as our point guard.
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Nov. 30, 2011

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State senior point guard Samantha Prahalis has been named to the 2011-12 Naismith Women's watch list, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Wednesday.
Prahalis, Ohio State's all-time assists leader and the Big Ten preseason co-player of the year, is currently tied for first in the Big Ten with 19.6 ppg (with teammate Tayler Hill). She also leads the Big Ten in free throw percentage, is second in assist-turnover ratio and third with just under seven assists per game.
Prahalis, who also is on the Wooden Award watch list, is the reigning Big Ten player of the week after capping off a stellar week with 28 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in a win over No. 20 LSU.
In late February, the Atlanta Tipoff Club's Board of Selectors will compile a mid-season team of the top 30 players in the nation. Then in March, the Naismith Trophy voting academy will vote to narrow the list to the four finalists. For more information, visit www.naismithawards.com.
 
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Big Ten Player of the Week

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State senior point guard Samantha Prahalis has been named the Big Ten player of the week in recognition of her performance last week in wins over No. 20 Nebraska and Illinois.

Prahalis averaged 23.5 points, 7.5 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals as Ohio State extended its winning streak to four and climbed to No. 9 in both major polls. She nearly finished with a double-double against Nebraska Thursday, scoring 19 points with nine assists, adding a pair of steals and a block in 40 minutes of play. Then in the win over Illinois Sunday, She poured in 28 points, including eight straight in the final minutes, to go along with six assists, five rebounds and two steals while playing all 40 minutes once again. She was 3 of 5 from 3-point range in the victory.

This is Prahalis' sixth career weekly honor from the Big Ten.
Ohio State (19-1, 6-1 Big Ten) hits the road for two games this week, beginning Thursday at Indiana (8 p.m. ET, BTN) and Sunday at Minnesota (1 p.m. ET, BTN).
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Ohio State women's basketball: Prahalis a one-of-a-kind player
Nearing the end of a career known for a flashy style and fiery emotions, senior will play her final home game for Buckeyes tonight
By Jim Massie
The Columbus Dispatch
Thursday February 23, 2012

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Neal C. Lauron | Dispatch

Samantha Prahalis? emotions and passion have fired up teammates and grated on the opposition?s fans.

A slow dance traditionally ends a senior prom, something flush with strings to wrap the arms and mind around within the flood created by four years of memories.

When Samantha Prahalis takes a final spin around the Value City Arena court tonight in her last home game at Ohio State, the senior point guard should request an up-tempo number so that she can say goodbye in her own way.

Four seasons have flashed by seemingly in the time it takes for one bullet pass to end one fast break, or for a first assist to grow to an Ohio State-record 882.

?I?m a little sad because it?s my last day of playing here,? Prahalis said. ?At the same time, we still have this game (against Minnesota). We have another game Sunday (at Nebraska), and we?ve got the Big Ten tournament and the NCAA Tournament. We still have opportunities ahead of us. But, yeah, it is a little bittersweet.?

No player like Prahalis has passed through the OSU program during the NCAA era, and none is in the pipeline. Her flashy game and fiery on-court demeanor contain elements of both lightning and lightning rod.

She is either loved or hated at a level usually associated with men?s sports. Her teammates, by the way, swear by her.

?I love the way she competes,? junior guard Tayler Hill said. ?She wants to win. And she wants to make everyone around her better. So if that means embarrassing you, that?s what she is going to do. It?s not showing off at all. If you can do it, flaunt it.?

Boos sometimes follow, especially on the road.

?There are a couple of gyms that we?ve been to, like at Michigan State last year,? Hill said. ?There were two old men sitting in the front yelling her name and saying inappropriate things. You?re hating on somebody because she is better than your child or somebody in your family. It?s like, get a life.?

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She just tied Katie Smith for the all time single game points record at OSU with 40. 5 minutes left in the game.

Edit - Left the game with 42 points. New all-time single game points record. What a way to end your home career.
 
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