Lady Bucks Basketball Thread

[LitlBuck]

Watched a little bit of the women's game between Illinois and Wisconsin and the Lady Bucks are great to have their hands full later today. In fact, Illinois has beaten Ohio State already once the season. It should be a good game.

[Best Buckeye]

The Lady Buckeyes lose to the Illini 64 -58 in the first round of the B10 tourney.

Thanks for the Great season and Championship ladies.

Ladies Basketball

INDIANAPOLIS - Illinois never considered itself the underdog against Ohio State.

Never mind the Buckeyes' top seed or No. 22 national ranking. The Fighting Illini fully expected to win their Big Ten tournament quarterfinal game last night.

Rebecca Harris scored 22 points, and Illinois beat the Buckeyes 64-58. Lori Bjork scored 14 points and Jenna Smith added 13 for the ninth-seeded Illini (18-13), who reached the semifinals for the first time since 2001.

[osugrad21]

CPD

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
Illini knock out top-seeded OSU


Saturday, March 08, 2008 From wire reports
Rebecca Harris scored 22 points, and Illinois beat No. 22 Ohio State, 64-58, in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals in Indianapolis on Friday to knock the top seed out early.
Lori Bjork scored 14 points, and Jenna Smith added 13 for the ninth-seeded Fighting Illini (18-13), who reached the semifinals for the first time since 2001.
Marscilla Packer scored 15 of her 19 points in the second half for Ohio State (22-8), which lost its tournament opener for the first time in school history.
Jantel Lavender, the conference's co-player of the year, added 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Buckeyes.

[osugrad21]

Dispatch

Women's basketball: Illini take control of game, oust top-seeded Buckeyes

Saturday, March 8, 2008 3:13 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Darron Cummings Associated Press
Ohio State's Marscilla Packer, center, shoots under defensive pressure from Lacey Simpson, left, and Chelsea Gordon of Illinois during the first half.




INDIANAPOLIS -- History is only interesting to the winner. So what happened to the Ohio State women's basketball team last night in a quarterfinal of the Big Ten Tournament won't be told and retold around campfires for the next 100 years.
The Buckeyes, regular-season conference co-champions and the tournament's top seed, lost 64-58 to Illinois in Conseco Fieldhouse. The loss featured two bruises for the price of one.
It marked the first time in the tournament that a No. 9 seed upset the No. 1. Ohio State (22-8) also had never lost its first game in the 13-year history of the event. The postgame pain pounded like a migraine.



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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

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Illinois Sends OSU Women Home Early.....

[LitlBuck]

It would be nice to see them win a few games in the NCAA tournament. It almost always seems that they win the Big 10 regular-season championship but get bounced out early in the NCAA. I am not complaining about the Big 10 championships but I just would like to see them progressed more in the NCAA's.