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Sunday, November 12, 2006



Ohio State went 29-3 overall, 15-1 in the Big Ten. Won the Big Ten Tournament and earned the league's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament, where the Buckeyes defeated Oakland, 68-45, and then lost to Boston College, 79-69.

Player to watch

Jessica Davenport is the most decorated Buckeyes player ever, and she enters her senior season with perhaps her best chance at finally playing in a Final Four.
Davenport, who has averaged 17 points and eight rebounds for her career, is a two-time first- team Associated Press All-American and the Big Ten's player of the year the past two seasons. She has played on teams that have gone 80-18, won two conference titles, a Big Ten tournament title and have played in three NCAA tournaments.

Keys to the season

Health of Brandie Hoskins.
Hoskins tore an Achilles' tendon late in the tournament defeat and spent the rest of the spring and summer rehabbing. She has apparently conquered an injury that not so long ago left an athlete barely able to walk after six months.
Finding chemistry with six new players in the rotation.
Coach Jim Foster lost several key components from last year's team, including starting power forward Debbie Merrill and point guards Ashley Allen and Kim Wilburn.
He begins his 29th year as a Division I head coach shuffling five freshmen and acclaimed transfer Ashlee Trebilcock into the mix.
Andrea Walker, an athletic 6-5 center from West Allegheny, Pa., will learn from Davenport while trading elbows with her in practice. Foster says he may even put them together on the floor from time to time - a daunting prospect for any team hoping to get a rebound or a shot in the paint.
- Rusty Miller,
Associated Press