Lady Buckeyes Basketball

[crazybuckfan40]

Originally Posted by LitlBuck

I agree that if our outside shooting improves next year we should be pretty good but there are so many strong women's programs across the country that he just makes it very difficult for Ohio State. I don't understand why Schultze did not get very much playing time this year until the end of the season.

Schulze was due to confidence...She really gained a ton of it as the season went on...She looked so nervous on the court against North Carolina...I think next year she will have a big year...

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

I heard the Lady Buckeyes got another verbal yesterday.........any details?

[Padraig]

Originally Posted by OSUBasketballJunkie

I heard the Lady Buckeyes got another verbal yesterday.........any details?

Scout has Brianna Sanders, Cincinnati Princeton 4/23/09
5'11" 4 star G
national rank #27 (64th overall)

added to the Buckeyes 2 commits of

Hill - 5 star G ... ranked #4 (7th overall) &
Harmon - 4 star F ... ranked #11 (32 overall)



EDIT
WHOOPS! Scout has Sanders verbal as 4-23-08 (I only missed it by a year!) LOL

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Here it is.....

New Jersey forward Martina Ellerbe to the Buckeyes
Martina Ellerbe, a 6-foot-2 forward from New Jersey's St. Mary's High School, gave her verbal commitment to Jim Foster and the Ohio State Buckeyes, according to her NYC Gauchos club team director Earl Elliotte.

[mooktarr]

Great news again for the Lady Buckeyes. good job.

[Oh8ch]

added to the Buckeyes 2

Ellerbe is the first member of the class of 2010.

[LitlBuck]

That makes the second 6'2" recruit then he has for the 2010 class. He also has Darryce Moore. Foster really needs to recruit a taller post player for 2010 to replace Lavender. More and Ellerbe are 2 nice forwards but he really needs to go after someone big-time for the 5 position.

[bkochmc]

Originally Posted by LitlBuck

Foster really needs to recruit a taller post player for 2010 to replace Lavender.

Foster needs to take a page out of the Matta recruiting book and recruit some 7-footers.

[JCOSU86]

Isn't Jantel a soph this year? She won't graduate till 2011.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Isn't Jantel a soph this year? She won't graduate till 2011.

That is correct.............

[LitlBuck]

Originally Posted by JCOSU86

Isn't Jantel a soph this year? She won't graduate till 2011.

she just finished her sophomore year. That is correct. My point was that Foster needs to stay recruiting a player to take her position when she graduates. He does not need her in this class but he certainly needs her in the 2010 recruiting class. That was the point I was trying to make.

[crazybuckfan40]

Remember these girls are listed at 6'2'' as juniors in high school...Maybe they could grow another inch or 2...

She is another big time pick up for Foster...We were missing the athletic 4/5 in the system but we have really been bringing them in, to go along with the athletic wing players...

I agree we need a C to go in that class as well, with us losing Walker that year, we would only have 1 C on the roster...

[LitlBuck]

Dispatch

I just thought that I would throw this out here because she is a Columbus native and was a very talented high school player. I don't know if she met her match in college or just did not get the opportunity. I have no idea if Foster would be interested or if Dunning would be interested. I just thought that this was interesting.

? Ayana Dunning, a 6-foot-3 freshman center from Eastmoor Academy, is transferring from LSU. She averaged 5.1 points and 4.2 rebounds in 23 games. She started nine games and averaged 13.7 minutes.

Eastmoor coach Jim Miranda said Dunning, who was the Dispatch player of the year in 2007-08, became disenchanted when she did not play against Mississippi State and Vanderbilt in the Southeastern Conference tournament and against Louisville in the NCAA Tournament.

[LitlBuck]

BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Women's basketball: OSU gets 2011 commitment

Women's basketball: OSU gets 2011 commitment
Friday, May 8, 2009 3:00 AM
By Jim Massie

At the earliest, Maleeka Kynard didn't have to choose a college for another year and a half.

A 5-foot-6 sophomore point guard with two seasons remaining to play for Toledo Start, Kynard decided that she didn't need the extra time. She cut short the recruiting process yesterday by telling Ohio State that she would play for the Buckeyes in 2011.

"One of the big reasons I chose (Ohio State) is because it's so close and my family will be able to come and see me play," Kynard said. "And I've been a fan of Ohio State since I was little."

Former OSU basketball star Jim Jackson, she added, is a family friend. She also likes the idea of playing for coach Jim Foster.

"He seems like he is pretty cool," Kynard said.

Start coach Bob Brown said that Ohio State offered Kynard a scholarship before last season, which ended with the Spartans in the Division I state championship game. They lost 52-38 to Mount Notre Dame despite 12 points from Kynard.

More

[LitlBuck]

Dookies

BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Women's basketball: Buckeyes draw Duke in Challenge

Women's basketball: Buckeyes draw Duke in Challenge
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 3:16 AM
By Jim Massie

The Ohio State women's basketball team will travel to Durham, N.C., next season to play Duke in the Big Ten-Atlantic Coast Conference Challenge.
The Dec. 3 game in Cameron Indoor Stadium will mark the first meeting between the five-time defending Big Ten champion Buckeyes and the Blue Devils.

Duke finished second in the ACC last season and was the No. 1 seed in the NCAA West Regional before being upset by Michigan State in the second round. Ohio State, a No. 3 seed, reached the Sweet 16, where it lost to Stanford.

The ACC posted a 7-4 record in the challenge last season. Duke defeated Iowa 71-47, and Ohio State lost to North Carolina 72-63.
Here are the other Challenge matchups next season:

Dec. 2: Georgia Tech at Penn State, Illinois at Wake Forest and Boston College at Iowa.

Dec. 3: Michigan at Virginia Tech, Minnesota at Maryland, North Carolina at Michigan State, Purdue at Virginia, Florida State at Indiana and Wisconsin at North Carolina State.