Ohio State women’s basketball will play its first NCAA Tournament game since 2018 on Saturday, and the four-year wait has only made the Buckeyes hungrier to make a run this year.
Only three members of this year’s Ohio State women’s basketball team have ever been on an NCAA Tournament team, and all of their previous tournament appearances came with teams other than Ohio State.
“We felt ready and we wanted to prove something then and we weren't able to, and it feels like we were always in the position where we're having to prove ourselves,” Miller said Wednesday. “So I think that now being here this year, there's a major determination factor and hunger of wanting to just give it our all. Especially for a team that's so close, like we want to do it together and for each other, and say we did something really special.
That said, Ohio State women’s basketball has already exceeded expectations this year with its performance in the regular season, in which the Buckeyes went 14-4 in conference play to earn a share of the Big Ten championship.after first-team All-Big Ten forward Dorka Juhász transferred to UConn in the offseason. Ohio State lost another key player just before the season began when point guard Madison Greene suffered a season-ending knee injury.
“We've kind of hung our hats for most of the year on our transition offense and our ability to score the ball. So we'll have to definitely do that here in the NCAA Tournament,” McGuff said. “And I just think that we also need to pay particular attention to making sure our scouting’s on point to give our defense a chance to really give us an opportunity to not be taking the ball out of the net and get out in transition.
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