February 2 2015

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Soccer match leads to disorderly conduct

Football ticket prices announced

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The Ohio State athletic department announced Saturday that tickets to see the Buckeyes take on Western Michigan and Hawaii in non-conference games will be reduced to $65 from the 2014 price of $79. Night games against Penn State and Michigan State will cost fans $125 and $150, respectively. OSU vice president and athletic director Gene Smith said in a released statement that the new system is meant to thank the fans for their support.

OSU goalies thrive with constant competition kaley rentz Lantern reporter rentz.21@osu.edu For the Ohio State men’s hockey team, competition is encouraged and constructive, not detrimental.

Especially when it comes to the man between the pipes.

After having six goalies on the roster last season, Logan Davis, Matt Tomkins and Christian Frey have returned for their sophomore years with the Buckeyes. Going into this season, coach Steve Rohlik stated that all three would play, with Tomkins and Frey receiving most of the playing time.

A native of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, Tomkins said the goalies don’t have much advanced notice when they’re going to start.

“We actually don’t know (who will start) until Thursday, sometimes Friday morning,” he said.

But the battle for the starting spot starts Monday at 8 a.m., 30 minutes earlier than the team’s practice.

“It’s called goalie session,” Davis said. “All three of us do goalie-specific stuff, it helps us to improve the fundamental elements of our game that we can’t focus on in team practice.”

With the Buckeyes suffering from several injuries this season, having consistent goalies to rely on has helped the team stay motivated, Frey said.

“It’s kind of a confidence boost for us (the goalies). We have now become the rocks of the team, holding the them together. We just have to be there for them every single game,” he said.

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Sophomore goaltender Matt Tomkins (31) fields the puck during a game against Michigan on Jan. 16 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 10-6.

Tomkins said the competition between goalies keeps each of them sharp and focused throughout the season.

“As a goalie, you obviously want to play as much as you can,” Tomkins said. “But in the same token, it’s a great development tool. The competition makes each of us better, the three of us push each other to be better.”

Even though the Buckeyes have struggled to maintain a consistent season, with only two wins in the Big Ten placing the team

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Logan Davis, Matt Tomkins and Christian Frey have returned for their sophomore years with the Buckeyes The battle for the starting spot starts Monday at 8 a.m. each week The goalies participate in a goalie session which helps them improve the fundamental elements of their game

A fight between friends during a soccer match turned into a disorderly conduct report with University Police.

Two friends got in a fight during a soccer game on Jan. 17. After one of the friends scored a goal, he celebrated by running over to his other friend, a 21-year-old student, and squeezing his stomach, according to a University Police report.

The student didn’t like being touched, so he reciprocated the gesture by pinching his friend’s stomach. His friend then put the student in a headlock.

When the student had difficulty breathing, he grabbed his friend’s leg and the two men fell to the ground. They then continued the soccer game, but the student told police that he thought his ear and the right side of his face were swollen, so he went to the emergency room to have it examined. Staff told the student he didn’t have any broken bones or injuries to his ear.

The next day, however, the student said he woke up with pain, and his friend agreed to compensate him for his medical expenses. He filed the police report that day to have a record of the incident should his friend not uphold the deal.

Police told the student that a disorderly conduct report would be filed because of the fight and both men were mutual combatants.

Two days after the incident, the student emailed police and said “he felt he may have taken things too seriously,” according to the report. The student said the case could be closed.

Throughout the first three weeks of Spring Semester, there have been nearly 50 reports of theft, five reports of disorderly conduct and six offenses involving underage persons.

Three of those seven underage offenses took place between Jan. 24 and Jan. 25, including one at a Sloopy’s bathroom at the Ohio Union and the other at a South Campus residence hall. Another took place late Saturday night at the Schottenstein Center.

On Jan. 20, two officers saw a man standing at the top of one of the Ohio Union parking garages, and decided to check on him.

When the officers got to the roof, they saw four men in a restricted area. One of the officers tried to talk to one of the men, but he ran away down a nearby staircase and ignored orders from the officer to stop.

The remaining three men said they didn’t know why the first man had run away and told police they were on top of the parking garage skateboarding and taking pictures of campus.

An officer also stopped two men on Jan. 18 when they saw the men urinating on the side of the Ohio Union.

When the officer approached the men, they started running down High Street. He eventually caught the men and they said they ran because they didn’t want to get in trouble, according to a police report. The men told the officer that they had already been in trouble with student conduct for a hazing incident.

The officer suggested that the men should have gone to a restroom at a bar or restaurant across the street and the two replied “yeah, we could have done that,” according to the report.

WiredOut’s move to new location gets pushed back ERIC WEITZ Lantern reporter weitz.25@osu.edu Though technology store WiredOut was set to move in January, construction was slowed by cold weather.

Construction crews are waiting for better weather to pour a concrete ramp that is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act at the new location near Oxley’s cafe, said Katharine Keune, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

“When we got to the point of ramp building, weather kind of turned unfavorable, so they weren’t able to pour concrete at that point in time” Keune said.

According to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, wheelchair ramps that fit ADA specifications are a statutory necessity that enable disabled people to get in and out of buildings safely.

“We can’t open unless there is an ADA-compliant ramp to the store, just like all of the other stores that are along that path,” Keune said.

Keune added that once crews begin to pour the ramp, they will need about two weeks to complete the work. After the ramp is finished, she said, the WiredOut staff will begin the transition to the new store.

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Wired Out’s new store location, Tech Hub, was scheduled to open in late January, but cold weather has delayed the final phase of construction.

“They will need a little time to get in, do some dry runs, and make sure they have all of their customer service points right,” Keune said, adding that the store will likely open a few weeks after the ramp is completed. “The store is moving over, but it is also becoming something really new.”

Keune cited the store’s growth and expanded product offerings as a driving factor in the move, which also comes with a new name, Tech Hub, that reflects modern technology.

“Ultimately, it is becoming something that is not wired,” she said of changing the store’s name to Tech Hub. “It is a very wireless nature now, so we wanted to give it a more fitting name to match the new offerings.”

The movement of WiredOut to Tech Hub was previously projected to cost about $600,000 for construction, signage, marketing and equipment.

“We are adding a lot more accessories,” said store manager Chris Helman.“We had been sort of limited in the past ­— we just had a little room for some computers and a little room for accessories. Now we are able to expand that and offer a few more brands.”

Helman said the new facility will also incorporate several new elements that will make the store more than just a retail outlet. The OCIO will open a new BuckeyeBar at Tech Hub to

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campus Start-up career fair aims to connect students with small businesses JAIMI JUTRAS Lantern reporter jutras.58@osu.edu An upcoming career fair aims to introduce students to small businesses, startups and community businesses.

Ohio State’s Business Builders Club, a student-run organization that seeks to promote entrepreneurship by collaborating with local and global organizations, is set to host its third small business and start-up fair Tuesday from 1-5 p.m. in the Cartoon Room of the Ohio Union.

Like other fairs, students will be able to meet directly with recruiters from several companies, including venture capital fund Drive Capital, Juiceboxx — which is run by OSU students, former students and graduates and makes cases for MacBook chargers — and Columbusbased North Market vendor Hot Chicken Takeover. The intimacy of the event, though, allows students to also have the chance to meet with company owners and presidents, said Theo Fields, the event chair for the career fair and a fourth-year in finance.

Fields said he wanted to organize this event because he has had experience working at Medical Staffing Options, a local business that recruits for traveling nurses and permanent placement career options for healthcare professionals. Fields said the company only had 16 employees while he was working there.

“I worked for two years at a small business

here in Columbus. I got to do a lot and learn a lot really quickly,” he said. “I was meeting with the president (of the company) and was able to shape where the small business went. I wanted to give other students the chance to develop their own skills.”

There will be at least 24 companies in attendance at the fair, including Juiceboxx, which was started at OSU. “It all started at the Business Builder’s Club’s … Fall Idea Pitch, where we won first place after presenting a rough concept of the pain, problem and solution,” Lucas Williamson, one of Juiceboxx’s founding members, said in an email.

Williamson and the other founding members of Juiceboxx created a case for MacBook chargers that prevented the cord from fraying.

They entered their design in the 2014 OSU Business Plan Competition and won first place and $5,000 in the undergraduate track.

Williamson gave some advice about how to prepare for the fair.

“Students should do their homework on the companies attending and learn about what they do so you can spend more time learning about how you would fit in,” he said.

As an entrepreneur, Williamson said he thinks getting students better connected with local businesses will help them develop skills that can be applied to other jobs.

“This is the only career fair at OSU that connects students with local start-up companies,” he said. “Start-ups, by nature, promote

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Members of the OSU Business Builders Club listen to a lecture on Jan. 21 at the Ohio Union. Many club events are in casual attire, while events such as the club’s career fair on Feb. 3 require a business professional dress code. resourcefulness and creativity to solve problems, both of which are highly valued at all companies, big or small.”

A complete list of companies attending is available on the OSU Business Builders Club website.

Fields said he thinks the fair will help OSU

students become better acquainted with the employment opportunities available in Columbus.

“It’s a great way to get connected in the community and also hopefully get a better experience working where you might not have otherwise,” he said.

Buck-I-SERV trip expands to one of the most dangerous U.S. cities NOAH TOUMERT Lantern reporter toumert.3@osu.edu A new Buck-I SERV trip will focus on rebuilding the community in a city consistently ranked one of the most dangerous in the United States.

During spring break, nine students and Buckeye Civic Engagement Connection administrator Patty Cunningham will be traveling to east St. Louis to help out in the struggling urban community.

Under the Ohio State Department of Student Life, OSU’s BCEC was formed in 2012 with the mission of connecting OSU with “its surrounding communities, focusing specifically on programming for individuals, families and entire communities facing poverty and its consequence,” according to its website.

During the week-long trip, which is scheduled for March 14-21 and costs $190 per student, OSU BCEC representatives

will work alongside students from Washington University in St. Louis to help combat poverty in the area.

“Wash U has the no. 1 social work program in the country.

So my thoughts were, ‘How great would it be to co-develop a program with the college, have them invested, and then when our students leave, those students will take over?’” Cunningham, who organized the trip, said.

Students will be able to sit in on a course at Washington University taught by Jack Kirkland, an African-American studies scholar who was involved as an activist and strategist in the Civil Rights Movement.

Cunningham said she thinks this trip will allow students to work with Washington University to address and fix larger community problems in east St. Louis.

According to Neighborhood Scout, a website that ranks crime for neighborhoods and cities in the United States, St. Louis is safer than only 1 percent of cities in the United States.

According to the FBI’s 2013 Uniform Crime Report, St. Louis had a violent crime rate of 1,594 per hundred thousand people

and a murder rate of 38 per hundred thousand. In a population of 318,563, the officer to population ratio was 1 to 248.

Additionally, according to U.S. Census Bureau data measured from 2008 to 2012, the amount of people living below the poverty line in St. Louis is 27 percent.

Cunningham said BCEC hopes to create a long-standing relationship with the populations within the urban community of St. Louis in need of help, and thinks the relationship will be sustained well after the OSU students return to Columbus.

“For me, solving poverty is by neighborhood,” Cunningham said. “So for us, it was important to look at the neighborhood, who can we partner with, and asking them, ‘Do you actually need help?’ instead of just pushing ourselves into that situation.”

Cunningham said she knows that problems in east St. Louis range far and wide, from city-wide problems with arson to wild turkeys roaming the streets.

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Buck-I-SERV from 2A “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Cunningham said of the turkeys. “I’ve seen them in the wild, or hunting spots. But I’ve never seen wild turkeys hanging out in a boarded-up house next to the corner store.”

DaVonti’ Haynes, an undergraduate site leader for BCEC and a third-year in public affairs, said in addition to the turkeys, he saw other problems plague east St. Louis when he visited the city. “(I don’t think) they can’t even pay for stop lights,” Haynes said. “They (cut) their stop signs down to the ground, (I think they might do it) to save money.”

Cunningham said she acknowledges the similarities between east St. Louis and central Ohio. Both areas suffer from failing public schools, high drop-out rates, nutrition problems and high infant mortality rates.

BCEC has been doing work to fight these same problems in Columbus, she said, and these similarities made east St. Louis a natural destination for BCEC so that students can use methods they have used in Columbus to help those in need there.

While in St. Louis, BCEC will partner with understaffed local Neighborhood Houses to help kids and try and increase family involvement, Cunningham said. They will help make sure kids are well fed and help maintain the curriculum set up for them by the House.

“If we lose a kid by third grade, we can already see them — suspensions, expulsions,

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second-to-last in the conference, the goalies have prospered.

“As a team, we haven’t been able to get rolling and put together back-to-back wins,” Tomkins said. “But in the same token, the other goalies and I have had to try to consistently improve our game and compete to not only start but to earn the win with the team.”

Frey said even though the wins haven’t been there for the Buckeyes, the three goaltenders still maintain a positive attitude.

“For goalies, the whole game is mental. It’s really easy to fall into a rut,” he said. “We three just have to always be there for each other.”

Tomkins said his relationship with Frey and Davis has become stronger with the competition.

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The Buckeye Civic Engagement Connection looks to change suffering communities around Ohio State’s campus, and plans to visit east St. Louis. juvenile detention centers — so we really want to help them with what we’ve learned in our work in central Ohio, specifically (with) Columbus Public schools,” Cunningham said.

Cunningham added that she knows the problems that the BCEC will face in east St. Louis will not be fixed overnight.

“I think it’s continuous,” she said. “East St. Louis is gonna need years of sustainable help. So I think that’s a long-term investment and project.”

“A lot of people probably think that with us competing for the same job that we wouldn’t get along, but it’s actually the opposite.” Tomkins said. “We just embrace the competition, in the end we are all striving for the same goals, which ultimately just helps our overall relationship.”

Tomkins added that even with the tough games — like the Buckeyes’ 10-6 loss to Michigan on Jan. 16 — Frey, Davis and he have come together to discuss the loss.

“After the Michigan game, we all got together and just talked hockey in general and goaltending,” Tomkins said. “We all give advice, we point out the mistakes and the positives. That just brings us closer together.”

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A look at the floor layout of Tech Hub, located at 2059 Millikin Road near Oxley’s Cafe.

WiredOut from 1A assist students with troubleshooting technological problems.

The store will also continue to offer hardware repair services at the new location, Helman said.

“Then, there are the educational activities that will be handled by the Office of Distance Education and eLearning,” he said.

“They will be doing software workshops and that kind of activity.”

Tech Hub also plans to offer 3-D printing services and

hopes to have a developer loaner program for students interested in experimental technology.

Helman said roughly eight to 10 students are employed each semester in addition to four full-time employees. The new store will employ four additional student employees.

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The good news of Columbus and Ohio State University is reaching far, and it is my hope that this initiative is truly university-wide.

Because the walk across Woodruff for music, mathematics and microbiology majors might be unfamiliar, a student commission tasked with educating and encouraging students not familiar with entrepreneurship, but

Letter to the editor: From the City of Light, the news of the creation of the Ohio State University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship lit up my day. Hopefully, it brightened your day, too.

Students, this is good news.

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very familiar with creativity, could be beneficial to all.

A council could connect social and serial entrepreneurs from computer science to political science and from English to education. Such a commission or council — whatever it’s called — should communicate. From student government uptown to state government downtown and from city partners to corporate partners, it would have university-wide student representation and it would inform students across all fields as to the benefits of the new center.

Having read about comparative universities’ student-led commissions, I believe that it’s very important for our goals to be enlightened by past experiences.

Therefore, I propose a council which creates collaboration between innovative organizations, publicizes entrepreneurial events and engenders the entrepreneurial ecosystem which will, with your help, evolve and benefit all.

Communication with university administrators and the leaders of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship would be critical

to a commission’s success. And, the council should be a resource for student entrepreneurs. Better stated, the commission should be a resource for any student who is expanding the boundaries of their respective study intellectually, socially or as a physical product.

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Buckeye gathering DANIKA STAHL Lantern reporter stahl.145@osu.edu “I started around the fifth grade,” said Danny Powell, a second-year in international studies, chuckling when he recalled the first time he played the card game Magic: The Gathering.

Magic: The Gathering is one of the first and oldest trading card games, celebrating its 21st anniversary this year.

Members of the Tabletops and Gaming Association at OSU said the game has seen an increase in popularity at Ohio State.

The game is played with two people and each player creates a deck of cards and uses strategy to try and take the opponent’s life points down to zero.

“I joined the TGA last year, my freshman year,” Powell said. “We get new members pretty rarely — some people just show up the first day and don’t come back, but there are a bunch of people who just got into the game or just heard about it somewhere who will just come by and we’ll tell them what we do and will play a few games with us.”

The TGA is a gaming community at OSU that plays primarily board games and card games.

Members usually meet on Saturdays in different

rooms of the Ohio Union to play games like Magic.

“I think it’s quite popular,” Powell said of the game. “I’ll be wearing one of my Magic shirts and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, you play Magic?’ and I’ll be like, ‘Yeah, I do.’”

Kevin Krymowski, treasurer of the TGA and a fourth-year in material science, said Magic has definitely seen a boost in popularity, partially because of the accessibility of the game.

“One of the big things Wizards of the Coast, the company who makes Magic, keeps bragging about is how their newest release is like the most open release ever. And they’ve said that for a few years in a row. It’s a good bragging point,” Krymowski said, noting the company’s push to make the game more comprehensible to newcomers.

Powell said he thinks Magic has seen an exponential boost in popularity over the last three years because the cards keep getting better and more exciting, and because of the amount of events including the Grand Prix (the most game’s most popular tournament), the StarCityGames.com Open Series, and even the tournament at Columbus anime convention at Ohayocon this past Friday and Saturday.

“I’ve gone to Ohayocon in the past,” Powell said. “There are quite a few people there. It’s really

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fun. You get to meet a bunch of people, play a bunch of really fun games of Magic, and it’s just a great event all around.”

Krymowski has been a member of the TGA for three years and said he has seen a increase in Magic players in his time in the club and outside.

“I’ll be walking around campus and occasionally I’ll happen to see people playing Magic,” Krymowski said. “And often times when I go to the game store, I’ll see more people from OSU playing there … it’s not rare at all to see someone playing the game around campus.”

Powell and Krymowski said they enjoy the artwork, and that it is another draw to the game as well as the social aspect, which includes discussing Magic with like-minded people at 6 p.m. Friday Night Magic tournaments at local game shops like Comic Town.

“The Magic community has impressed me a lot for just being a very, very nice community that’s easy to get into and they look out for each other,” Powell said.

Krymowski said that the game has a lot to offer from nuance to simply fooling around.

“Even if you don’t really like things one way, you can always turn it into something more enjoyable,” he said. “It’s a greatly flexible game for a lot of interests.”

Powell said when people start playing, they get hooked.

“The first thing that happens when you start playing Magic is you lose. A lot,” Powell said. “But that makes you want to get better … When you get better and start winning, the feeling’s really great so you wanna keep playing more and more and more.”

Powell said anybody is free to come to the TGA if they are interested in learning how to play.

“We can show them,” he said of new players.

“We have plenty of decks for them to use if they want to play a game with us.”

Krymowski, too, said that the group always welcomes newcomers.

“The game is pretty fun. If it looks intimidating, it’s really not,” said Powell. “If you have any questions about the game just ask somebody who plays. They’ll probably be more than happy to talk about Magic because we all just love talking about it.”

Drive for community pushes chicken restaurant SALLEE ANN RUIBAL Lantern reporter ruibal.1@osu.edu

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‘Element spatial (Spatial Element)’ — made from linen, silk, wool and metal — by Elsi Giaque

Fiber takes new form in Wex exhibit MEGAN NEARY Lantern reporter neary.38@osu.edu Fiber is for making clothes — not the fine arts.

At least that’s a perceived attitude the Wexner Center for the Arts intends to rebuke in a new exhibition.

“There has long been a bias against compositions involving fiber,” reads the curator’s statement.

“Such works were historically gendered feminine, carrying connotations of intimacy and domesticity.”

The exhibition opening Saturday, titled “Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present,” showcases a variety of fiber sculptures of modern art and is a “splendid, viscerally engaging and in many ways groundbreaking exhibition” that “adds to our sense of the deep potential of fiber as sculpture,” The Boston Globe wrote.

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At a team meeting Saturday morning before Hot Chicken Takeover opened its doors, the restaurant announced it had 709 pieces of chicken to sell that day.

It sold out in four hours.

That’s one piece of chicken sold about every 20 seconds.

“Shut up and make chicken!” staff cheered before breaking and going to work.

Hot Chicken Takeover has resided on the second floor of North Market since mid-December. Before then, it initially started in April in what owner Joe DeLoss described as “a tiny chicken window” in Olde Towne East.

But Hot Chicken Takeover’s roots lie south. During a visit to Nashville with his wife, DeLoss said he was inspired by the food and sense of community.

“It wasn’t pretentious,” DeLoss said. “It wasn’t overdone or over-polished. It was just a lot of people meeting at picnic tables with great food. It was something that I felt was missing here in Central Ohio.”

The chicken comes from Ohio farms and is delivered the day before it’s served.

The chicken is brined overnight, double deep fried and then covered in a cayenne paste.

Spice levels for the chicken include cold, warm, hot and holy.

But it’s not all about the chicken, either.

“Another important piece of our business is that we intentionally hire folks that otherwise don’t have access to employment,“ DeLoss said. “Many of whom were previously incarcerated or affected by homelessness or generally affected by poverty and are looking to move themselves forward.”

DeLoss had used this employment model earlier when creating and launching a business for Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio called Freshbox Catering. He also dabbled in the restaurant business as

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A meal from Hot Chicken Takeover, which is located on the 2nd floor of North Market a child, running a snack bar in his neighborhood that sold soda and candy bars to construction workers.

DeLoss said he was eager to get back to employing people himself with Hot Chicken Takeover.

“Our team is not necessarily ‘culinary,’ but we’re passionate about our employees and what we do,” DeLoss said.

Henry Dolin, a third-year at Ohio State in globalization studies, is an intern at Hot Chicken Takeover.

“At its core, it’s a really very peopleoriented business,” Dolin said.

Dolin said they have “fabulous regulars” and he loves seeing familiar faces.

And Hot Chicken Takeover will soon be taking over the road.

DeLoss said that after a generous

donations to the restaurant’s Kickstarter fund in October, a Hot Chicken Takeover food truck will be launching in March.

Currently open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the restaurant also plans to expand its operation to be open on Thursday as well as Friday through Sunday.

“It’s energetic and I get a very peoplecentric, caring mission about this place,” Dolin said. “I think it’s very reflective of Columbus and what people value here.”

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Rebounds equal wins for Buckeyes TIM MOODY Sports editor moody.178@osu.edu Hot shooting and tough defense can make a difference, but success for the Ohio State men’s basketball team has mainly come with rebounding.

But that hasn’t always been the Buckeyes’ strong suit, freshman forward Jae’Sean Tate said.

“Earlier on in the season, we really struggled rebounding it,” Tate said after OSU’s win against Maryland on Thursday. “That’s one of the key parts in practice.”

Early-season matchups for the Buckeyes came with success rebounding until Dec. 2.

That’s when OSU traveled to Louisville, Ky., with a 5-0 record in tow, having led each of its first five games in the rebounding category.

But against the Cardinals, the Buckeyes suffered their first loss of the season, and were outrebounded for the first time.

The next four games after that brought four wins, and OSU either outrebounded its opponent or tied them each time. Then came Dec. 20, when the Buckeyes traveled to Chicago and lost to North Carolina for their second stumble of the season. In that game, OSU had just 40 rebounds, compared to 53 for the Tar Heels.

Then two more wins on strong rebounding nights, and a loss to Iowa with the Hawkeyes easily outrebounding the Buckeyes.

The first time OSU won a game with less rebounds than its opponent was Jan. 6 against Minnesota, when the Golden Gophers had 35 boards, compared to 34 for the Buckeyes. And that win came in double overtime.

Now at 17-5 overall and 6-3 in the Big Ten, every loss for OSU has come with the opponent picking up more rebounds, and only three wins have come with the same criteria.

But against the Terrapins — who were

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OSU sophomore forward Marc Loving (2) goes up for a rebound against Iowa junior forward Jarrod Uthoff (20) during a Dec. 30 game at the Schottenstein Center. ranked No. 16 at the time — the Buckeyes’ rebounding efforts clicked to the point that they easily won, 80-56.

Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said he hadn’t experienced a game that was so lopsided in the rebound column as a coach.

“They (the Buckeyes) were tougher than we were, and I don’t know if I’ve ever had a

199 and counting When the OSU men’s tennis team beat Kentucky, 4-0, on Friday in Columbus, it marked 199 straight wins at home for the program. Now redshirt-sophomore Ralf Steinbach (pictured) and the Buckeyes have a shot to bring their more than decade-long streak to 200 when they take on USF on Feb. 8.

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team get outrebounded like that,” Turgeon said. “I’ll have a look, I doubt it. My teams usually rebound.”

The Buckeyes picked up 51 rebounds in the game, compared to just 32 for the Terrapins. That onslaught was led by freshman guard D’Angelo Russell, who tied his career high with 14 rebounds.

Russell joked about his prowess on the boards after the game, but explained that putting in work in practice has helped him — and OSU as a whole — become better in loose-ball situations.

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Freshman Mitchell flourishing with family by her side

CHRIS SLACK Lantern reporter slack.77@osu.edu

Kelsey Mitchell’s transition to college basketball hasn’t been easy, but she can count on her family being nearby.

Her family is so close in fact, they are with her on the sidelines in her first season.

Women’s basketball coach Kevin McGuff’s first true recruiting class at Ohio State was complete after he signed five freshmen to scholarships in the fall of 2013, with the hopes of long-term success headlined by a 5-foot-8-inch guard from Princeton High School.

Mitchell was the fifth-best prospect in the nation according to ESPNW, and despite coming in with five stars next to her name, Mitchell said she’s still adjusting to the collegiate level.

“The transition, I’m not going to lie, has been hard,” she said. “Especially knowing that I’m not too big and I play a lot of big girls. The IQ of the game at the college level is so much different. You have to learn the mental aspect of the whole game. It’s like preschool all over again. But it’s not that bad because I like going through the growing pains, so the growing pains will help me in the long run.”

Her twin sister, Chelsea, is also a member of the women’s basketball team. And their father, Mark Mitchell, is one of their coaches.

Assistant coach Mark Mitchell arrived at OSU for the 2013-14 season after coaching high school basketball for both men and women in the Greater Cincinnati area for over 20 years.

Well before he arrived in Columbus, he knew Kelsey Mitchell had talent.

“When she was 4 years old, she chased a little boy that pushed her down,” Mark Mitchell said. “She chased him around for the whole game. It took her the whole game to push him back. And then she got the ball and scored three or four points and won the game. At that point right there, you knew she was going to be special.”

Regardless of his daughter’s talent, Mark Mitchell didn’t always want her on the court.

“It took her the whole game to push him back, and then she got the ball and scored three or four points and won the game. At that point right there, you knew she was going to be special.”

- Assistant coach Mark Mitchell father of Kelsey Mitchell

“I always tried to deter her from playing too early too soon, so my sons at that time were in the fourth grade and she would always sit next to me and would always ask to play,” he said. “And I’d be like, ‘No you can’t.’”

One day, though, Kelsey Mitchell got to play, surprising her dad, who expected her to struggle.

“Her brother gets a steal, passes it to her and she knocks down a 10-foot shot at age 4,” Mark Mitchell said. “And she proceeded to score eight more points, in a fourth-grade boys’ game, at age 4. At that point in time, we all kind of knew she was going to be special.”

Having her family in Columbus has helped Mitchell throughout the season and also smoothed her overall transition into college life, she said.

“It makes a lot of things better knowing my family’s around,” she said. “Having my family around makes it so much better and makes me more relaxed. It helps keep a positive mindset.”

She played other sports like soccer growing up, but basketball always kept Kelsey Mitchell’s attention.

Now well over a decade since her brother assisted her on that first 10-foot shot, Kelsey Mitchell is dominating the scoreboard in her first collegiate season.

She’s the current leader in the country in points per

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Women’s basketball looks for consistency vs. Spartans JACKIE HOBSON Lantern reporter hobson.66@osu.edu Having the nation’s top scorer can be both a positive and a negative when it comes to matchups.

For the Ohio State women’s basketball team, it’s good because that leading scorer is freshman guard Kelsey Mitchell, who has averaged 25.8 points per game this season.

“She’s a really special player,” OSU coach Kevin McGuff said last week before the Buckeyes played at Wisconsin. “She’s having a great season.”

On the contrary, the presence of such

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a player can hurt a team — like it has OSU at times this season — when opposing coaches have only one thing in their game plan: stop Mitchell.

After falling to Minnesota mid-January, McGuff said the Buckeyes needed to find a second scorer to compliment Mitchell in order to win certain games.

In seven OSU losses this season, Mitchell has averaged 22.8 points while the highest scorer not named Mitchell in those games averages less than 20 points. In the case of Minnesota, Mitchell led the team with 36 points and junior guard Ameryst Alston added 18, but no other Buckeye could break single digits.

“Kelsey has been amazing,” junior guard

Cait Craft said last week. “She obviously does not play like a freshman. She is very consistent.”

Going into Thursday’s 85-73 win at Wisconsin, Craft had referenced the need to find consistency and build momentum heading into the last stretch of the Big Team season.

Since the loss to Minnesota on Jan. 15, the Buckeyes have won three straight, had more scoring contributions from players other than Mitchell and are starting to gain the consistency Craft was talking about.

“Its really inspiring,” Craft said. “The mistakes that we do make during games are

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Freshman guard Asia Doss (20) guards a Minnesota player on Jan. 15 at the Schottenstein Center.

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sports Rebounds from 7A “(I’m the) best rebounder on the team, I can’t reword it,” Russell joked. “Nah, I’m just playing, the ball bounces to me a lot. I wouldn’t say I go get ‘em, they bounce to me a lot.

“It’s just something I decided to take upon myself to rebound better as a 6-5 guard, I gotta do something down there.”

After saying he felt OSU “rebounded the ball well,” coach Thad Matta said the matchup with Maryland was the most consistent his team has been all season.

Now going forward,

the Buckeyes might have found their key to continued consistency: outrebound the opponent, and win the game — at least that’s worked so far.

Tate said the Buckeyes have to keep working to improve, which includes a “good majority” of practice time spent on rebounding.

“Every week we just gotta go out there and try to play better than we did the last week,” Tate said.

The Buckeyes are scheduled to return to the court against Purdue on Wednesday in West Lafayette, Ind. Tip is set for 6:30 p.m.

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Freshman forward Jae’Sean Tate (right) attempts to secure a rebound against Miami (Ohio).

ones we can fix and one of the best things is to have teammates that are so hungry to get better.”

The Buckeyes are not only playing better but beginning to find depth in their bench. Sophomore forward Shayla Cooper came off the bench to fuel OSU during the Wisconsin game with 17 points.

Michigan State will provide the Buckeyes with a good chance to continue their win streak — the Spartans are four games below .500 in the Big Ten — that up to this point has been road-dominated. The Spartans (11-10, 3-7) are coming into Columbus on Monday evening

on a two-game win streak despite sitting at ninth in the conference.

Michigan State is 11-20 all time when playing in Columbus with the Spartans sweeping both meetings last year.

Similarly to OSU, the Spartans are led by a powerful scorer in redshirt-sophomore forward Aerial Powers, who is averaging 21.8 points per game and closing in on 1,000 career points.

Game time is set for 6:30 p.m. at the Schottenstein Center on Monday.

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Freshman guard Kelsey Mitchell (3) looks to pass the ball during a game against Minnesota on Jan. 15 at the Schottenstein Center. OSU lost, 76-72.

Mitchell leads the nation with more than 25 points per game this season.

game with 25.8 and second in the country in three-point field goals attempted per game with 3.71. She’s also the lone freshman in the top-128 in points per game.

Her numbers speak for her basketball IQ, and show that there’s a possibility of a professional career in the future. But Mitchell said she hasn’t looked that far down the road.

“I haven’t thought that far,” she said. “But if I’m fortunate to get that far then, thank you God, but no, I haven’t thought that far ahead. I’m just trying to focus on now.”

She said if she doesn’t pursue a professional basketball career post-graduation, she would like to be an athletic director.

“I’d definitely like to become an athletic director one day,” Kelsey Mitchell, who’s major is currently exploration, said.

“And in the process, who knows, maybe I’ll become Ohio State’s. I may take Gene (Smith’s) place.”

To play professional basketball, Kelsey Mitchell might still need to work on her overall game, and junior guard Ameryst Alston said that her back court partner can only get better.

“She’s only a freshman,” Alston said. “So she obviously has three more years to where she can get even better and it’s going to make her an even dangerous player.”

Coming into the season, McGuff said he thought Mitchell would be a great addition to the team, but didn’t expect the type of play that she has brought to the Buckeyes.

“I thought she’d be very impactful from day one,” McGuff said. “And I think she’s probably doing a little bit more than I thought she would. But having spent more time around her, I’m not surprised. She loves to play the game, she’s extremely talented, got great instincts and she’s a really tough player.”

Kelsey Mitchell said the one aspect of her game that she needs to improve on is lowering the number of fouls she gets per game.

“I’ve always had at least three to four fouls, or I’ve fouled out,” she said.

But with the start she’s had, the time and dedication the two-time Big Ten Player of the Week and five-time Freshman of the Week spends on improving her craft will determine her status at OSU.

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