Ohio St. (18-1) vs. Nebraska (15-4) Game Thread

[Bugeaters1]

  On 1/27/2025 at 2:40 AM, Cazzie22 said:

Inconsistent officiating in Women’s basketball is a given. There were some calls that favored us and some went for OSU.  

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Most womens games are inconsistently called. As are the mens games in the B1G

[HB]

  On 1/27/2025 at 2:37 AM, Bugeaters1 said:

You don't think it was?

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It absolutely was. 

[Bugeaters1]

  On 1/27/2025 at 4:02 AM, HB said:

 

It absolutely was. 

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I didn't know how to take your reply. 

[All About the Corn]

This was not the OSU of the past few years. We had our chances too many missed threes and a few untimely errors especially in the 3rd cost us this game. So after USC, and UCLA we are right there with the next group of teams. Now we need to not loose to the teams we should beat and win some of these 50/50 games and we will be fine. 

[Fastbreaker]

They may not be the teams of previous years, they are still borderline top 10 and we went toe to toe with them. Still a team with a bunch of 5 stars  

[Tom Jones]

OSU players, In general and by comparison, were faster, quicker, more agile, and more explosive than our own.  That third quarter spurt didn't last long but hit like a bolt of lightning  - quick hands and feet enabling the steal and then the speed  to outrun defenders to the basket.  Our players are not that far behind but far enough that there has to be some compensatory advantage in order to prevail. In our case that would to have to have been three point shooting - it wasn't there for us, and that was that.

 

Part of that of course was OSU's defense which i thought was excellent - so many of the 3 pt attempts were closely contested.  

 

I will drop a few more tears into the spilled milk .... with Potts on the court, the Huskers would beat that OSU team three times out of four.

Edited January 27 by Tom Jones

[Fastbreaker]

Also should be noted Prince held their second ranked freshman in check to the point she was benched for most of the fourth quarter.

[HUD]

Not all our players shooting 3's were closely guarded as Alexis had three wide open ones and missed all three.  She is shooting 17% for the year taking 40 shots.  That's why she is so open.

[Tom Jones]

  On 1/28/2025 at 12:55 AM, HUD said:

Not all our players shooting 3's were closely guarded as Alexis had three wide open ones and missed all three.  She is shooting 17% for the year taking 40 shots.  That's why she is so open.

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Right. Teams seem to just stand back and let her shoot and concentrate on controlling the rebound.  What is especially strange is that during the entirety of her freshman year, she hit a breathtaking 50% of her threes.  I would think that she consistently hits 3s in practice - else she wouldn't have the green light. Maybe and hopefully she turns the corners soon. 

[Cazzie22]

We need Alexis on the block trying to score and/or facilitate by passing out to a shooter.  Ohio St was forcing our pick and roll or pick and pop out past the 28 Ft line.  We also need to do a little better feeding Alexis when she is showing her number to the passers.  I really don’t want to see her shooting threes.