INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.- The Buckeyes won their second straight Big Ten women's basketball tournament championship by holding off Iowa 66-64 on Sunday.
No. 10 OSU joins Purdue and Penn State as the only schools to win back-to-back tournament titles.
Junior center Jantel Lavender and sophomore guard Samantha Prahalis were named to the All-Tournament team.
Lavender led Ohio State with 35 points, breaking the tournament record for points scored in a championship game.
This was the third championship for the Buckeyes, who have won all three of their championship games by three points or less (63-60 vs. Purdue in 2006; 67-66 vs. Purdue in 2009 and 66-64 vs. Iowa in 2010).
Nationwide Insurance will become the presenting sponsor of the Memorial Tournament, beginning with the 2011 event, the insurance giant, tournament officials announced Friday.
The Buckeyes made it look easy in their season opener, manhandling Marshall 45-7, but know it won't be that easy next Saturday, when the 13th-ranked Miami Hurricanes come to Ohio Stadium.
Guillermo Barros Schelotto scored a 98th-minute penalty kick and the Columbus Crew reached their first U.S. Open Cup final since 2002 with a 2-1 overtime semifinal victory over short-handed D.C. United on Wednesday.
Like a sure-footed runner eluding tacklers, Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel avoided weighing in on an ongoing controversy over rescheduling the OSU-Michigan game to some time other than the final weekend of the regular season.
LAS VEGAS - JUNE 27: A general view of the atmosphere in the trophy room at the 37th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards held at the Las Vegas Hilton on June 27, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for ATI)
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