By: JON SPENCER (MansfieldNewsJournal.com) -- COLUMBUS -- If it were just a matter of speed, Jamario O'Neal would be flexing his right hand, getting ready to sign a contract with an NFL team. Representatives from 29 of the 32 NFL teams were present on the campus of The Ohio State University last week when the senior safety from Mansfield took part in the school's pro day in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. Workouts were closed to the media, but O'Neal said his best time ... Read More

From: CantonRep.com -- COLUMBUS — After a quick knockout in the NCAA tournament, for the third year in a row the big question surrounding Ohio State’s program is: Will he stay or will he go? Coach Thad Matta is awaiting official word as to whether freshmen B.J. Mullens and William Buford and sophomore Evan Turner will be back. All he knows for sure is that the turnover in players ends up hurting his team when a game comes down the stretch, as it did in ... Read More

By: Jim Naveau (LimaOhio.com) -- Fewer than 60 percent of students in general who enroll in four-year colleges have a degree six years after they first sit down in a classroom. But that only becomes an issue for many people when the student in question is a 7-foot tall basketball prodigy wrestling with the choice between instant riches or continuing his education in the classroom and in the college arena. It has become an annual debate in Ohio State men's basketball, which is facing ... Read More

From: OhioStateBuckeyes.com -- ST. LOUIS, Mo. – In front of a crowd of 17,385, J Jaggers, a senior on the Ohio State wrestling team, secured his place in Buckeye wrestling history, becoming just the third student-athlete to win two national titles. Jaggers won his second-consecutive crown in the 141-pound division at the 2009 NCAA Wrestling Championships at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo. In one of the tightest team races in recent NCAA wrestling history, Ohio State earned its second-consecutive runner-up finish ... Read More

From: SpingfieldNewsSun.com -- COLUMBUS — It was a big moment for Samantha Prahalis. She didn't waste it. Making her first appearance in an NCAA tournament basketball game, Ohio State's dynamic freshman point guard scored a career-high 23 points to go with seven assists and lead the Buckeyes past Sacred Heart 77-63 on Saturday, March 21, in the first round. Ashlee Trebilcock had 13 points and Marion Local High School graduate Maria Moeller added a career-high 12 for the Buckeyes, the regular-season and tournament champions of ... Read More

By: Bill Livingston (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- DAYTON -- The stats point fingers like those big foam-rubber "We're No. 1" digits that fans wear. Ohio State shot only 40 percent, shot just 28 percent on 3-pointers, was out-rebounded by 14 on the offensive boards, and committed 20 turnovers to only 15 assists. Yet on the critical play of a flawed, frantic game -- Siena 74, Ohio State 72, in double-overtime Friday night into Saturday morning -- it seems pointless to assign blame. The first ... Read More

By: GREG BISHOP (NYTimes.com) -- DAYTON, Ohio — After Ronald Moore sank the 3-pointer that forced a second overtime between Siena and Ohio State on Friday night, he glanced at his older brother, pointed to the sky and fought back tears. His thoughts drifted from the game to a woman named Madeline Willette, his mother’s best friend, who had watched hundreds of his games. Willette, a longtime teacher and coach in the Philadelphia area, died of cancer on March 13. She was 57. “When ... Read More

By: Bill Livingston (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Dayton - Two years ago, Ohio State escaped al most a certain loss early in the NCAA Tournament because Xavier did not foul with a 3-point lead, and Ron Lewis tied it with the Shot heard 'Round Central Ohio - and also the Queen City. Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. With a three-point lead in the final five seconds of regulation, Ohio State did not foul Siena on Friday ... Read More

By: Bill Livingston (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- DAYTON -- Two years ago, Ohio State escaped almost a certain loss early in the NCAA Tournament because Xavier did not foul with a 3-point lead and Ron Lewis tied it with the Shot heard 'Round Central Ohio and Also the Queen City. Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. With a three-point lead in the final five seconds of the first overtime, Ohio State did not foul Siena Friday night. As ... Read More

By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -- Ohio State coach Thad Matta was calling for a foul after OSU point guard P.J. Hill made two free throws with 9.1 seconds left in the first overtime against Siena on Friday night. "We were, and I don't know why it didn't happen," Matta said. "I was waiting for it but it wasn't happening." Up by three points in a first-round game in the NCAA Tournament, Matta didn't want the Saints to have a chance at ... Read More