By: AP via CBSSports.com -

COLUMBUS, Ohio -Jim Foster is enjoying coaching quick, deep and volatile Ohio State.

“In this game, you can coach from strength and you can coach from weakness,” Foster said after his third-ranked Buckeyes rolled over Oklahoma State 93-72 Sunday to win the Preseason WNIT. “Not many of us get the opportunity to coach from strength; we’re always hiding weaknesses. We have more strengths than we’ve had. It’s a lot more fun to coach that, believe me.”

Jantel Lavender scored 26 points, Brittany Johnson had a career-high 23 and Samantha Prahalis added 22 and nine assists as the Buckeyes (5-0) pushed their season scoring average to 91 points a game.

Tayler Hill chipped in with 11 points for the Buckeyes, who really made an impression on Oklahoma State coach Kurt Budke.

“That’s a great team. They are definitely a team that could be in the Final Four,” he said. “They’ve got every piece of the puzzle that I can see. You go one through five and then off the bench, they’ve got a lot of scorers. They can get you a lot of ways - an All-American center, a great point guard.”

Lavender, a preseason Associated Press All-American and a two-time Big Ten player of the year, and Prahalis, last year’s top freshman in the conference and a showy point guard who never slows down, shared the tournament MVP honors.

Johnson scored 17 of Ohio State’s first 20 points, almost matching her career best of 18 in the game’s first 8 minutes….

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