Lady Bucks’ still dancing
March 25, 2009 by feed · Leave a Comment
Ohio State’s sophomore center Jantel Lavender goes up for two of her 20 points against Mississippi State. (OSU Photo)
The Ohio State women’s basketball team has advanced to the Sweet 16 after the Buckeyes defeated the 11th-seeded Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs, 64-58, in the second round of the NCAA tournament at Nationwide Arena in downtown [...]
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Buckeyes Hit FTs To Beat Mississippi State, 64-58
March 24, 2009 by feed · Leave a Comment
Jantel Lavender had 20 points and Ohio State shut out Mississippi State over the final 6:43 to win 64-58 Monday night in an NCAA second-round game.
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Buckeyes reach Sweet 16
March 23, 2009 by feed · Leave a Comment
I watched a really good basketball game yesterday in Nationwide Arena. The Buckeyes ran into a Mississippi State team every bit as athletic as the bunch from Florida State that knocked them out of the NCAA Tournament in the first…
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WBK: Buckeyes Berkeley Bound with 64-58 Win over Mississippi State
Jantel Lavender leads Ohio State with 20 points as Buckeyes reach Sweet 16
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MSU Stresses Teamwork Against OSU
March 23, 2009 by feed · Leave a Comment
The individual awards favor Ohio State. Mississippi State is fine with that. When the two teams meet in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Monday night, there’s no question which team has the most star power.
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Final Bracketology
March 15, 2009 by feed · Leave a Comment
With a half-hour before the bracket is announced, here is my final bracketology: Mississippi State’s upset of Tennessee knocks a bubble team out. It’s a pure guess as to which team got bumped, but I’m going to go with Minnesota…
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Bracketology after 3/14
March 15, 2009 by feed · Leave a Comment
Here’s where it stands right now: If Mississippi State upsets Tennessee in the SEC championship game, one “barely-in” team will be knocked out of the field. A case could be made for any of the five teams I have in…
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SB: Homeruns Rule in Buckeyes’ Shutout Wins Over Mississippi State and Hofstra
February 27, 2009 by feed · Leave a Comment
Ohio State improves to 14-3 after defeating Bulldogs, 7-0, and Pride, 2-0
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SB: Marder Homers Twice in Buckeyes’ 7-0 Win Over Mississippi State
February 27, 2009 by feed · Leave a Comment
Ohio State improves to 13-3 on the season with 1:30 p.m. game against Hofstra remaining Friday
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Big Ten recruiting winds blow to the south
January 30, 2009 by feed · Leave a Comment
Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg
When Minnesota head coach Tim Brewster checked into his hotel Tuesday morning in Shreveport, La., the woman working at the front desk spotted the Golden Gophers logo on his shirt and smiled.
"The coach from Michigan just left," she told him.
Both Minneapolis and Ann Arbor, Mich., are located more than 850 miles from Shreveport, making it an odd place for Brewster and one of his Michigan counterparts to cross paths. But these days, Big Ten coaches are just as likely to bump into one another in Shreveport, Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale and Houston as they are in Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Detroit.
When Purdue head coach Danny Hope called ESPN.com on Wednesday afternoon, he was navigating a road near Bay City, Fla. An hour earlier, Wisconsin defensive line coach Charlie Partridge phoned in from the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., area.
The Big Ten recruiting range is expanding far beyond the Midwest, and coaches are spending much of their time in the fertile states of the south and southeast.
"There's certainly great, great players in the Midwest, but just in terms of numbers, all you have to do is look at Division I signing day and the number of kids who play Division I out of this region here," said Partridge, who has recruited the Florida area for Wisconsin, Pitt and Iowa State, among others. "You can come down and get 2-3 kids who can have an impact on your program.
"People are recognizing the value of recruiting down here."