There’s an old adage that gets repeated ad nauseam at this time of year in college basketball. It’s hard to beat a team three times in a season, the theory goes. When two teams meet for the third time, typically in a conference tournament, those who believe in the theory expect the team that lost the first two to emerge victorious from the third game. Twice in the regular season, the Ohio State women’s basketball team beat Michigan — once in Columbus, on Dec. 31, and once in Ann Arbor on Feb. 20. On Friday afternoon at the Target Center in Minneapolis, in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament, the Buckeyes and the Wolverines faced each other for the third time. Ohio State, the fourth seed in the tournament, took the lead late in a back-and-forth first quarter and fended off a comeback attempt from Michigan, the No. 5…
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