Ohio State Dominates Second Half, Forces 29 Turnovers to Take Down No. 5 Tennessee, 87-75, in Season Opener

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NewPhilaFan's picture

Mikesell outscored Tennessee 15-13 in the 3rd quarter.

Let's Go Bucks

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NuttyBuckeye's picture

That young lady has one hell of a stroke.  She shoots much like a man, form wise.  She is fun to watch, heck the whole team was!  May have a great run this year.

What's round on the ends and high in the middle? Tell me if you know!

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Buckfrombirth's picture

Well done, Lady Buckeyes!!! Phenomenal game!

I survived Cooper and I hate Tai Streets.

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BuckeyeRy4's picture

That was exciting basketball. That 3rd quarter was relentless!

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smibr37's picture

I loved the announcer's line that they couldn't complete a sentence/thought because the Buckeyes kept causing turnovers.

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BuckeyeRy4's picture

That WAS good and it wasn't an over exaggeration!

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LeftCoastBuckeye's picture

That was amazing! A little rusty to start, but when they got going, wow!  That was as good a defensive effort as I've ever seen, at any level of b-ball.

My aim, then, is to whip the Weasels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.   - William Tecumseh Sherman (with apologies)

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Hoody Wayes's picture

LadyBucks steamrolled a Top 5 team!

TBDSNITL: The best damn screen name in the land!

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Seattle Linga's picture

Congrats Ladies - another hard-earned Buckeye VICTORY

Always try to look for the positive ........... in the midst of a crisis !!

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awesomebucks's picture

Missing all those free throws - kind of hid how big a rout this was in second half. Great job. 

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tampatom's picture

Love the way they play. Press and push the ball, wish we could play same ball on the men's team, especially if we are deep and can rotate a lot of the frosh in 

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buckeyeinWI's picture

SWEEEET! Congrats ladies! Great win!

GO BUCKEYES!

1-2 sucks!

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CandygramForMongo's picture

Wow, 54 points in the second half against the Lady Vols!!!

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tcm1968's picture

Great win!!! Fantastic way to start the season. Love the defense and ball movement..

Go Bucks!!

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NorthPoleBuckeye's picture

to comeback from an 8 point halftime deficit to beat a top 5 team is no small accomplishment!

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PRO8's picture

Best D I have ever seen the Lady Bucks play ...

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Polk High 4 TDs's picture

Go lady bucks

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BeijingBucks's picture

Bad week to wear an orange uniform... pretty much across the board.

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Buckabroad's picture

Very aggressive play and a fantastic achievement. Well done, ladies! 

"The minute we stop expecting greatness, we become Wisconsin."

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jwilly's picture

Always enjoyable to defeat Tenn! Absolutely a Scarlett wave in the 2nd half.

JWilly3

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Icouldnotgofor3's picture

Great win needless to say but 15 turnovers and 58% from the charity stripe is shaky. Need to work on the FT's as it may cost you heavy in crunch time.

Saban on a cart eating cold pizza

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allinosu's picture

What a victory. Congrats ladies.

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Cbuswriter's picture

This was impressive to witness. I have been a women's bb fan for many years and had season tickets during the Katie Smith era (before and after too). Since then, I've watched a lot of games on television and cannot remember defense being played on such a high level, especially when you consider the opponent. That press, especially in the third quarter, was like a wave that completely engulfed the Vols and they could not figure out how to escape it.

Well done.

This is a fun team to watch with their uptempo (understatement) style, and this year holds a lot of promise.

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Kalmar's picture

I wish the Men would use the Press. Anyway, good job Buckeyes! Cut Turnovers, get better shooting FTs and 3s.

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CrazedBuckeye24_7's picture

Wow....I've never seen the Lady Bucks look better. I have a hard time watching women's college ball because frankly it looks like they just chuck the ball up like 5th graders with the exceptionof UCONN. But this game was Supreme. Both teams shot well. Looked good on layups. And what a super fast pace. I'm so impressed. Even in the first half, I felt like if the Bucks just hit some of those baskets they'd be good. That third was shark frenzy. I'm excited to watch them play more.

Jeremiah 27:9

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RochBuck68's picture

Well done! Congrats to the Lady Buckeyes!

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it...

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Buckeye Chuck's picture

I watched a little bit of this game, and it was a massive second half. I approve of the tough scheduling, but it's nice to win too. 

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letsgobucks's picture

Great job lady bucks!! They played their butts of that second half and Mikesell is the truth!! Excited to watch them get after it this year!!

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showgunz1408's picture

HUGE to get Mad Greene back, Last year it was the Sheldon, Mikesell show in the backcourt. They were asked to do soooooo much. With the return of Green and additions of some other guards, we can rest Mikesell and Sheldon and still give teams the business. This team can make a deep deep run. I am still concerned about the frontcourt production but damn them guards are good. 

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LeftCoastBuckeye's picture

It was only one game, but Mikulasikova looked a lot better too. The only shortcoming (see what I did there) that I see on this team is a lack of height. That was a problem last year when they got to the NCAA, and ran into a team like Texas that had lots of height, as well as a skilled guard or two. Lots to be excited about with this team.

My aim, then, is to whip the Weasels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.   - William Tecumseh Sherman (with apologies)

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NewPhilaFan's picture

Tennessee gave them problems in the first half with their height but then lost their composure in the second half due to the relentless pressure.  At some point, the Buckeyes got so far into the Vols heads that they couldn't perform.

Let's Go Bucks

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LeftCoastBuckeye's picture

Totally agree. TN's height might have continued to be a problem for us, if they could ever get the ball in to their bigs, which they could seldom manage in the 2nd half.

My aim, then, is to whip the Weasels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.   - William Tecumseh Sherman (with apologies)

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gr8bucks's picture

It's obviously a more talented and deeper team than last year. It's so nice to have athletic forwards for a change, they'll be better for depth and rebounding, plus the guards are really strong. Not a tall team by any stretch they'll rebound by being quicker to the ball. The ten is deep and talented but if there's a better team than this one, they will have to be really good to beat this team. Mikulasikova really put in the work over the off season, she's much improved and it looks like she may have lost some weight and it shows in her foot speed. 

This is a really nice squad, it will be fun watching them all year. 

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