June 8, 2026

No. 16 Ohio State loses at final buzzer, falls 76-74 No. 7 Maryland

Through the first 19 games of the season, the Ohio State women’s basketball team was on a roll. The Buckeyes absorbed injuries to both Jacy Sheldon and Madison Greene and, somehow, still kept winning. That luck ran out a month ago, when Iowa handed Ohio State its first loss of the season. Suddenly, what had started as a dream season — 19 straight wins for the second time in program history, and the team’s best start ever — began to fall apart. The Buckeyes lost to Indiana, then Purdue, then Maryland, then Indiana again over the course of three weeks, only managing to win against the bottom feeders of the Big Ten. But after a win at No. 12 Michigan on Monday, Ohio State coach Kevin McGuff felt something different about his team. The Buckeyes were getting back to the form that carried them through the first 19 games of the…

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