Ohio St @ South Florida - 2/11/18

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Tampa, FL - 2:00 PM ET
TV: ESPN2 (Roy Philpott, Brooke Weisrod)

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[eebmg]

USF will make OSU look like a FF4 contender.

 

[Ralph]

this is an important game for the AAC. Time for USF to step it up.

 

[Shades]

They must have anticipated USF being very good to schedule an out of conference game like this in the middle of conference play.

 

[Shades]

I see now that USF is 9-1 at home this season

 

[mhshuskies]

I see now that USF is 9-1 at home this season

Yeah, to get a tough test between cupcakes.

 

[EricLA]

REALLY rooting for USF big time. IMHO tOSU is over rated even tho they have a bunch of star power on their team. Too much reliance on Mitchell to do her 1 on 1 thing... If USF can shut her down at all (even 10 points below her average), I think they have a great shot...

 

[MSGRET]

USF 22 - OSU 12 with 2:42 left in the first qtr. Now it's USF 31 - OSU 13 end of the 1st qtr.

 

[Shades]

USF up by 10 late in the first

 

[Shades]

Laksa tearing ish up with 15 pts in the first

Does she remind anybody of Taurasi?

 

[msf22b]

One has to remember that Ohio State eschews defense...

 

[Shades]

31-13 USF end of first

Laksa 18 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl

Mitchell 1 pt, 1 reb, 1 ast

 

[huskeynut]

Laksa with 18 in the 1st quarter.

 

[eebmg]

After what Laksa went through against UConn, I hope she has a truly great game.

 

[EricLA]

Wow. tOSU almost down by 20. That's a BIG hole to climb out of. USF is pretty disciplined. It's going to take a huge collapse by USF for tOSU to come back from this big a deficit...

 

[Kaizen]

USF will make OSU look like a FF4 contender.

May be it should be:
OSU will make USF look like a FF4 contender ...LOL

 

[Shades]

OSU slowing chipping away at the lead after USF smacked them in the mouth in the first

 

[tomcat]

Unfortunately, USF is a soft team. I'm not thinking they can hold off OSU in the second half, as much as it'd be nice.....

 

[tomcat]

Last basket proves the point, USF lets the OSU player get across midcourt with absolutely no interference. From there, it takes nothing for Mitchell to get into range and pop it. And then the USF player walks off holding her head. Really? It's hard to know what they did wrong?

 

[DefenseBB]

FINALLY! USF living up to their hype. Granted it’s at home and against a struggling tOSU team but still a great job to do this on National TV. As I have been saying, it’s disgraceful that the Big10 shows 7 teams as potential NCAA Tourney teams. This conference is terrible-all Mediocre with only MD worthy of a top 16 rank. Even then, only a 14-16 rank.

For ESPN to list tOSU as a 3 seed is ridiculous.

 

[Shades]

46-32 USF at the half

Laksa 23 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl
Jespersen 9 pts, 7 reb, 2 ast

Mavunga 15 pts, 1 reb, 1 blk
Mitchell 9 pts, 2 reb, 1 ast


Could use some more rebounding by Mavunga
USF winning the boards 28-11

 

[osceola48]

USF is respectable, and Jose Fernandez is a good coach. Interesting to note that they lead OSU by 14 at half, when UConn beat USF by 51 about a month ago.

 

[eebmg]

May be it should be:
OSU will make USF look like a FF4 contender ...LOL

 

[EricLA]

Good for USF. Holding on to their lead. A solid 15-20 point win would give USF a nice boost in the seedings and drop tOSU down a bit - closer to where they belong (not a 3 seed)...

 

[Shades]

68-50 USF end of third

Laksa up to 33 pts