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Second-team All-ACC safety Earl Little Jr. transfers from Florida State to Ohio State.
Ohio State women’s basketball earned its biggest win of the season to date at Maryland on Sunday.
The Buckeyes earned their first top-10 win of the year as they took down No. 8 Maryland on the road, 89-76, to improve to 15-2 overall on the season and 5-1 in Big Ten play.
| TEAM | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #19 OHIO STATE | 12 | 28 | 21 | 28 | 89 |
| #8 MARYLAND | 24 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 76 |
Star point guard Jaloni Cambridge had 28 points, nine rebounds and eight assists to lead the Buckeyes to victory. Kylee Kitts added 18 points and eight rebounds. Kennedy Cambridge (14 points) and Chance Gray (11 points) also scored in double figures while Elsa Lemmilä contributed eight points and 11 rebounds.
Ohio State, which entered Sunday’s game ranked 19th in the country, didn’t look like it was on its way to an upset win in the contest’s early minutes. Maryland outscored Ohio State 24-12 in the first quarter and extended its lead to as many as 15 points early in the second quarter.
The Buckeyes got themselves back in the game with a 12-2 run that included a pair of 3-pointers by Kennedy Cambridge. Ohio State never led the game before halftime, but knotted the score at 40-all with a 15-6 run late in the second quarter before Maryland’s Yarden Garzon scored the final points of the half to give the home team a two-point lead at the break.
| OHIO STATE | STAT | MARYLAND |
|---|---|---|
| 89 | POINTS | 76 |
| 34-68 (50%) | FGM-FGA (PCT.) | 28-68 (41.2%) |
| 11-22 (50%) | 3PM-3PA (PCT.) | 9-27 (33%) |
| 10-11 (91%) | FTM-FTA (PCT.) | 11-16 (69%) |
| 11 | TURNOVERS | 17 |
| 39 | TOTAL REBOUNDS | 39 |
| 11 | OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS | 16 |
| 28 | DEFENSIVE REBOUNDS | 23 |
| 10 | BENCH POINTS | 18 |
| 1 | BLOCKS | 3 |
| 9 | STEALS | 5 |
| 22 | ASSISTS | 18 |
Ohio State started the third quarter with a 10-4 run that included eight points by Kitts to take a four-point lead. The Buckeyes and Terrapins would trade the lead for the rest of the third quarter, with neither team leading by more than four points at any point in the period.
But after a 3-pointer by Gray gave Ohio State a two-point lead entering the fourth quarter, the Buckeyes pulled away in the final period to hand the Terrapins (16-2, 4-2) their first home loss of the season.
With Sunday’s win, Ohio State has now won four straight games and figures to climb in the rankings when the new AP Top 25 is released Monday. Ohio State’s only losses this season have come to two of the top four teams in the country, No. 1 UConn and No. 4 UCLA.
Ohio State will look to keep its winning streak going when it hosts Penn State at the Schottenstein Center on Wednesday (6:30 p.m., B1G+). Ohio State will face Maryland again – its only two-time opponent in Big Ten play this season – when it hosts the Terrapins at the Schottenstein Center on Sunday, Feb. 15 (2 p.m., FS1).
