Last call for everyone to get their brackets submitted the official Eleven Warriors Bracket Challenge.
Winner gets a $250 gift card to the fabled Eleven Warriors Dry Goods (unless it's me, in which case the gift card will be donated to the person in last place).
Word of the Day: Madness.
STILL SCOUTING. Apparently, Sister Jean is slacking.
Inside of 48 hours ahead of the NCAA Tournament showdown between her Ramblers and Ohio State, she still didn't have her scouting report done.
“I have to do a little more scouting. I’ve done some. I have to do more,” she said, confessing she is a voracious reader of box scores. “They’ll hear from me, don’t worry.”
She said her message to the players will be simple:
“I tell them they have to play with their mind and their hearts, their hands and their feet,” she said.
If the Ramblers look lost on Friday afternoon, you know who to blame.
TAKING CARE OF MOM. Moms dedicate their lives to taking care of their kids. So there are few things more special than when a kid gets a chance to return the favor.
With the NIL money now flowing in, TreVeyon Henderson is learning that.
Thanks to NIL deals that Henderson has struck with a car dealership and a cryptocurrency exchange company, he can now provide for his mother. Last month at an OSU Board of Trustees meeting, Henderson told the trustees that NIL has “completely changed my life.”
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“Oh yeah, definitely,” Henderson said. “I watched my mom have to struggle growing up and have trouble trying to take care of us and provide for us. But she always worked so hard and she always did whatever she had to do to make sure we were straight.
“And now, with NIL coming in, I can take care of her. Forever. Hopefully forever. But yeah, this is just the start now. She’s straight now. She doesn’t have to worry about anything.”
Based on how he looked as a true freshman, I think that NIL money is going to be just a small glimpse of the earnings that will come his way in the next several years.
"She doesn't have to worry about anything," will probably turn out to be just a tad of an understatement.
KING OF THE PEACH STATE. Ohio State's point guard of the future spent the past few months dominating the state of Georgia one last time before heading north, and he's been properly rewarded for his efforts.
Blessed #GatoradePOY #Gatorade pic.twitter.com/v6XHuYAnKI
— Bruce Thornton (@Bruce2T_) March 16, 2022
It's well deserved for a dude who averaged 17.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game this season.
He can basically do everything, and the Buckeyes are going to need every bit of his production pretty much as soon as he steps on campus next season because frankly, there ain't a lot of other options. With the way the roster is looking, he might just be tabbed as the team's starting point guard very early in the season.
Thornton is especially exciting because if you haven't noticed, Ohio State really hasn't had an elite point guard since D'Angelo Russell graced Columbus with his presence for one incredible, albeit brief, season.
Now, I'm not saying Thornton will be D'Angelo Russell, but I have no problem predicting he'll be by far Ohio State's best point guard since D'Angelo Russell. And that would be very good news for our friend Chris Holtmann, because his job just might depend on Thornton being Actually Good™.
BEST AT BOTH. The sport is called track *and* field. And as it turns out, the Buckeyes have the Big Ten's best in both categories.
Senior thrower Adelaide Aquilla – who is almost certainly the single most dominant athlete currently enrolled at Ohio State – was the unanimous pick for the Female Field Athlete of the Year while senior sprinter Anavia Battle was named Female Track Athlete of the Year.
Aquilla was named USTFCCCA All-American First Team following her performance at the NCAA Indoor Championships last weekend, where she finished as the runner-up in the women’s shot put (17.95m). The Big Ten Shot Put Champion (18.71m) was named the Female Field Athlete of the Championships, Big Ten Sportsmanship Honoree and All-Big Ten First Team following the conference meet. Aquilla was named the national Female Field Athlete of the Week on Jan. 25 after breaking Ohio State’s indoor shot put record (19.09m). She was honored as the conference’s Field Athlete of the Week on four occasions and earned four wins in the shot put this season.
Battle also earned a spot on the USTFCCCA All-American First Team after finishing third at the NCAA Indoor Championships in the women’s 200m (22.63). At the Big Ten Championships, Battle earned wins in the women’s 60m (7.28) and 200m (22.39). She broke the meet and facility record in the 200m in both the preliminary rounds and finals, running the fourth-fastest time in women’s NCAA history (at the time) in the event finals. Battle was the unanimous pick for Big Ten Female Track Athlete of the Championships and was selected for the All-Big Ten First Team. She earned both national and conference athlete of the week the same week and totaled eight wins on the season, going undefeated until the NCAA Championships.
Ohio State finished the indoor season ranked No. 14 nationally – by far the highest of any other team in the conference.
SONG OF THE DAY. "Cars" by Gary Numan.
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