OSU Women Basketball Big 10 tourney

[victor2111]

Yes this is a post about OSU Women Basketball. No I don't care about women basketball, but I do like Ohio State doing well in other programs other than the Big 2(FB and MBB, only two I care about). I do try to keep up here and there with the other sports though(M Hockey, Baseball, M Tennis, WBB, Volleyball, Softball, etc). I try to read how they're doing even though I don't follow them.

Okay now to the point of the thread:
Everyone knew this would be a tough year for Ohio State WBB team. Jim Foster didn't leave the program a lot to work with. Kevin McGuff is doing a great job turning them around though, and making them way better. They went 15-17 in the regular season(playing one of the toughest OOC you could play), so not great. Finished 8th in the Big 10. They need to win the The BTT to make it to the Big Dance.

Yesterday they beat NW(#9 B10 seed) by like 8, Sophomore guard Alston had 30pts. So by winning that, they got to play #1 seed PSU today who beat them twice in the regular season. And.........BOOM!

Ohio State pulls off the upset 99-82 over PSU! Sophomore Alston(First team B10) had 33pts(9assist) again(her 5th or 6th 3pt game of the year). Sophomore Craft(aaron craft sister) had 24pts(6assist) today! Huge win.

Maybe they could win the Big 10 Tourney(2 wins left to do so, going to be tough) and get into the Big Dance. That would be amazing from this set of team. Would be amazing job by McGuff and this program. They play tomorrow at 3:30PM vs the winner of the #4/#5 seed game.

Future
Future looks really good. They bring in a top 2 class next year(top 2 player in class) and 2 key transfers that can start playing in January(very good transfers, one who started for GT as freshman but left due to coach leaving). Alston(First team B10) their best player returns for two more years. Craft returns also for two more years. They will probably be a top 15 team next year, and potential to be a top 5 team the year after. That is how fast McGuff is turning the program around.

[victor2111]

And season over. Great effort from the Buckeyes but could not win their 3rd game in 3 games, and playing another rank team in back-2-back the last 2.

Iowa beat them 77-73. It was tied 73-73 with less than two to go. And then with 3seconds left, Ohio State had a chance to hit the GW 3 down 75-73 but it was no good. Great effort. Season over. Next year they should be good.

[mauricxe]

so close

[victor2111]

Mar 8, 2014 20:06:01 GMT -5 mauricxe said:

so close

Yeah seems like they gave a great effort. Hopefully the men team can follow their lead and play hard in the Men BTT.

Getting rid of Foster will help the program out in the long run(starting next year). McGuff seems like he knows what he is doing. Ohio State should be dominating the 3sports again like they did 5years ago.