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C Jantel Lavender - 4-time Big Ten Player of the Year (LA Sparks)

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Women's basketball: Lavender a first-team All-American
OSU's Prahalis an honorable mention pick
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
By Jim Massie
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Ohio State junior Jantel Lavender had finished her first postseason basketball workout yesterday when she learned that she had been voted a first-team All-America by the Associated Press.

"It's a great honor," Lavender said. "It shows that it pays off if you work hard, do what you need to do and never give up on yourself."

Lavender led the Buckeyes to a sixth consecutive Big Ten championship and a program-best 31 wins. She averaged 21.4 points and 10.3 rebounds and was named the conference player of the year for the third time.
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Women's basketball: Lavender a first-team All-American | BuckeyeXtra
 
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Ohio State basketball: Jantel Lavender preseason POY, women picked to win Big Ten, men picked second
Published: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

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Cleveland native Jantel Lavender in her senior season is expected to be exactly what she was during her first three seasons at Ohio State - the best player in the Big Ten.

The Central Catholic grad was the Big Ten Player of the Year as a freshman, sophomore and junior and was picked as the conference's preseason player of the year by both the media and the coaches, it was announced during the Big Ten basketball meetings today.

Ohio State was also announced as the conference favorite, picked to win a seventh straight Big Ten title. Iowa was picked to finish second by both the coaches and the media.
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http://www.cleveland.com/buckeyeblog/index.ssf/2010/10/ohio_state_basketball_jantel_l.html
 
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Katie Smith was the first female Buckeye athlete to have her number retired. If Lavender can win another Big Ten POY award, and be picked to her second AP All-American team, she may become the second female to get a number retired.
 
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Senior Jantel Lavender of Ohio State was named yesterday to the Associated Press' women's basketball preseason All-America team.

Lavender averaged 21.4 points and 10.3 rebounds in helping Ohio State to a 31-5 record and another Big Ten title. It's the second straight season that Lavender was honored as a preseason All-American.

Lavender was joined on the preseason squad by Connecticut's Maya Moore, Baylor's Brittney Griner, Stanford's Nnemkadi Ogwumike and Oklahoma's Danielle Robinson.

Samantha Prahalis, an Ohio State junior, was among other players receiving votes from a national media panel.

Moore, a UConn senior, became the second player to be a two-time unanimous choice on the preseason All-America team, receiving all 40 votes.
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Big Poppa Pump;1804022; said:
Katie Smith was the first female Buckeye athlete to have her number retired. If Lavender can win another Big Ten POY award, and be picked to her second AP All-American team, she may become the second female to get a number retired.
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BuckTwenty;1804029; said:
Agreed. Most likely a formality at this point. Jantel's one of the greatest women's basketball players to play here, without question.
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No "may" or "most likely" here. Even if she didn't win her fourth conference POY, she'd rate getting her number retired, but being conference POY all four years is an accomplishment that could never been beaten.
 
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Lavender has last chance to leave her ideal legacy
By Ben Axelrod
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Published: Monday, November 8, 2010

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Ohio State's Jantel Lavender attempts to get around an Oklahoma State defender during the Buckeyes' 93-72 victory over the Cowgirls on Nov. 22.
women's preseason big ten team

In her first three seasons at Ohio State, Jantel Lavender has accomplished almost everything one could expect from the Cleveland-native center.

But OSU coach Jim Foster thinks her career is yet to be defined.

"I think Jantel's career will be measured by championships more so than points scored," Foster said.

Postseason success is the biggest element missing from Lavender's resume. In Lavender's time at OSU, only once has her team advanced past the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

"We haven't had the postseason run that we need to," Lavender said. "Our team just has to be more strong and more together and, you know, more cohesive, for us to go far."

Lavender enters the 2010-11 season as one of the most decorated players in college basketball. She was selected to the Associated Press Preseason All-American team and the watch list for the Wooden Award, which is awarded to the best male and female athletes in college basketball.

She was also named the Preseason Big Ten Player of the Year. Should Lavender win her fourth straight Big Ten Player of the Year award after the season, she would be the first in conference history to do so.

Lavender said she has her sights set beyond just earning all-conference honors.

"The goal is to be a national player of the year," Lavender said.

She has all the tools to earn that honor. In her first three seasons at OSU, Lavender has averaged 20 points and 10.3 rebounds per game and is 534 points shy of Katie Smith's OSU career scoring record, as well as 63 rebounds short of Tracey Hall's OSU career rebounding record.

Lavender said individual accomplishments come second to team goals.

"If my team needs me to get 30, or if my team needs me to get 18 points and 25 rebounds, then that's what I'm trying to do," she said.
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http://www.thelantern.com/sports/lavender-has-last-chance-to-leave-her-ideal-legacy-1.1764182
 
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Ohio State's Lavender Named Big Ten Player Of Week
Monday, November 15, 2010
WBNS-10TV

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Ohio State senior center Jantel Lavender was named the Big Ten player of the week on Monday in honor of her performance against Temple and Eastern Michigan this past weekend.

The Cleveland native scored 63 points, grabbed 21 rebounds, dished out 10 assists and blocked five shots as Ohio State started off 2-0. She shot 66.7 percent from the field and 91.7 percent from the free throw line in the two wins.

Against Temple Friday, she scored a career-high 37 points on 16-of-22 from the field to go along with 12 boards. Then against EMU, she scored 26 points on 10-of-17 from the field to go along with nine boards, seven assists and three blocks. She has now scored in double figures in all 104 career games, the longest active streak in the nation.
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http://www.10tv.com/live/content/os...sketball-jantel-lavender-big-ten.html?sid=102
 
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Big Poppa Pump;1804022; said:
Katie Smith was the first female Buckeye athlete to have her number retired. If Lavender can win another Big Ten POY award, and be picked to her second AP All-American team, she may become the second female to get a number retired.
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Lavender is already a two-time All-American. Didn't Tracie Hall number get retired last season??
 
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Jantel Lavender Named Big Ten Player of the Week
From Big Ten Press Release

Jantel Lavender earns her second Big Ten Player of the Week honor of the season after averaging 22.5 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.5 blocks, shooting 69.0 percent (20-of-29) from the field in two Ohio State wins last week.

The 6-4 senior center and Cleveland native scored 20 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and blocked four shots in the Buckeyes? 80-47 win over East Tennessee State on Monday.

She followed with 25 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks in an 88-69 triumph over UNC Wilmington on Sunday.

Lavender set a school record for career field goals in Sunday?s win with 879.
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http://www.the-ozone.net/hoops/10-11Women/UNCW/lavenderPOW.html
 
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Congrats to Jantel on becoming tOSU's career scoring leader, with 2,587 points (breaking the 2,578 at tOSU scored by 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Smith).

Jantel also set an NCAA women's record with her 126th straight game scoring in double-digits.

The record for most non-consecutive double-digit scoring games is 137 (in 141 games) by Maya Moore, now a senior at UConn.

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