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Indiana women’s basketball dominant in upset of No. 8 Ohio State
BLOOMINGTON — There were shades of the 2022-23 Big Ten Tournament on Thursday night as the Indiana women’s basketball team struggled to put away No. 8 Ohio State.
The Hoosiers went into the fourth quarter up by 18 points, but there were some tense moments at Assembly Hall as they struggled to find consistent offense. It brought back memories from when IU lost as the conference’s top seed to the Buckeyes after leading by 24 points in the second half.
Yarden Garzon, who was on the floor for that game two years ago, made sure history didn’t repeat itself. After Ohio State threatened to cut the lead under 10 points, she scored seven straight points to give her team a 71-61 win. She finished the game with 16 points, 11 rebounds and six assists as one of four Hoosiers in double digits.
It was a critical Quad 1 win for IU (17-9, 9-6 Big Ten) against a No. 8 Ohio State team sitting near the top of the conference.
Indiana women’s extra effort pays off against the Buckeyes
Lexus Bargesser’s extra effort late in the third quarter told the story of Thursday night’s game.
Garzon tried to hit Bargesser on a fast break with an off-balanced cross-court pass in the final minute of the third quarter. The pass could have easily gone out of bounds, but Bargesser dove to the ground and corralled the ball while IU coach Teri Moren frantically signaled for a timeout.
Bargesser’s hustle resulted in a 3-pointer at the buzzer from Shay Ciezki out of the timeout that pushed the Hoosiers lead to 18 points.
Moren has been critical of her team’s lax effort at times this season — she called out her team after a 66-56 loss to Minnesota for getting beat to every 50/50 ball — but that wasn’t a problem against the Buckeyes (22-4, 11-4). IU dominated the glass with a 34-20 edge and played tremendous defense while rotating from a 2-3 zone to man defense.
Indiana women’s basketball puts No. 8 Ohio State on notice in opening minutes
The game got off to a frenetic start.
Ohio State was 4 of 5 in the opening minutes with Jaloni Cambridge scoring six points including a contested 3-pointer. Indiana was even better — the Hoosiers hit their first five shots and forced the Buckeyes to abandon their vaunted full-court press by effortlessly getting the ball down the court.
Sydney Parrish capped off the quarter with a pair of free throws to give IU its largest lead of the game at 26-17. She built on her big performance against Purdue with 12 points and two assists in the first. She knocked down a 3-pointer with 3:58 to go that forced OSU coach Kevin McGuff to angrily call a timeout.
The Hoosiers finished the quarter with nine assists on 10 made field goals and only two turnovers.
Outside of a brief blip at the start of the second when IU turned it over on three of its first four possessions of the quarter, the Hoosiers dominated. They closed out the first half on a 14-2 run while shooting 63% in the first half and holding OSU scoreless for three-plus minutes.
Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times. You can follow him on X @michaelniziolek and read all his coverage by clicking here.
Ryan Day will have some very familiar competition in the Big 10 soon.
The son of the Ohio State football coach, R.J. Day, announced his commitment to Northwestern for the Class of 2027 on Sunday.
Northwestern plays in the same conference as Ohio State and the schools will face each other.
R.J. Day, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound quarterback from — not surprisingly — Columbus, Ohio, has started for three years at St. Francis DeSales HS as he heads towards his senior season.
According to reports, the younger Day had other offers from Purdue, Syracuse, Cincinnati and South Florida, as well as others.
Northwestern has eight quarterbacks on head coach David Braun’s roster.
And the offensive coordinator for the Wildcats is Chip Kelly, who served in the same role for Ryan Day at Ohio State when the Buckeyes won the title in 2024.
Kelly, the former head coach at UCLA and Oregon, was also the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire when Ryan Day was the team captain from 1998-2001.
Most recently, Kelly was the OC with the Las Vegas Raiders before he took the job with Northwestern.
“It’s really surreal when you think about the relationships that we’ve had with those two as a family over the years,” R.J. Day told ESPN earlier this month. “Coach Kelly coached my dad in college, so that adds another layer to it.”
Cincinnati Reds legend and well-known gambler Pete Rose was possibly more than just curious about Ohio State football’s 2012 season when he texted Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer.
Appearing on “The Triple Option” show with Alabama running back Mark Ingram May 6, Meyer told a story about his relationship with Rose.
After OSU hired Meyer, the Reds asked him to throw out the first pitch at a game. Meyer threw to his son, Nathan, and walked into the dugout, where Rose, MLB’s all-time hit leader, was waiting to greet him.
“I couldn’t get enough talking about ‘Big Red Machine,’ and he wanted to talk college football,” Meyer said on the podcast, explaining how the two spoke for hours and exchanged numbers.
Meyer said that during his first season, Rose texted him early on. He wanted information about the team, like news on Braxton Miller’s shoulder injury.
“I told that to someone, and they said, ‘You’re an idiot. Do you know he’s trying to get information from you for gambling, and you could get in trouble?’ ” Meyer said.
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Though Meyer asserted that he never disclosed much, he started to steer the conversations clear of college football after he realized Rose potentially wanted information for gambling.
The two had another conversation in Las Vegas, where Rose told Meyer he gambled daily after retiring.
Rose was banned from baseball for betting on the sport, something he admitted to in his 2004 autobiography. Rose was reinstated in 2025 and so is considered eligible for the Hall of Fame.
Still baseball’s most prolific hitter (4,256 hits), Rose died in 2024.
GIRARD, Ohio (WKBN) – Over 100 athletes came together for the 5th Annual Trumbull County Special Olympics Invitational Saturday morning in Girard.
These athletes represent five different schools across Trumbull County to compete and spread the message of inclusion, achievement, and sportsmanship.
The Invitational continued its long-standing tradition of honoring the legacy of Randy Suchanek while celebrating the dedication and accomplishments of Special Olympics athletes throughout the region.
“You can hear all the excitement for this, for the athletes that are here today,” said superintendent Bryan O’Hara. “They work hard all year long to participate. We’ve always worked hand in hand with the rotary to get this accomplished is a lot of work behind the scenes.”
Participating schools included Ashtabula, Geauga, Columbiana, Kent-Portage and Trumbull Fairhaven
“There’s a lot of nice participation from girard students as you see behind us, and a lot of participation from the community helping out,” Girard-Liberty Rotary co-president Andy Kish added.
O’Hara added that the event keeps everything in perspective, seeing the athletes compete in the spirit of fun, along with the courage and determination that they show.
Alex Sorrells contributed to this report.
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