Motivation is a tricky thing. For NCAA athletes, it isn’t too tough to come by, especially at a school like Ohio State, who’s athletic’s department rivals any other school in the country.
Coaches push motivation, rivalries amplify it and players find it on their own. For the Ohio State women’s basketball team, freshman forward Cotie McMahon is using it in a way that’s helped put the Buckeyes in position for their best season in team history.
For a program that dates back to the mid-1960s (1899 if you look back to student-organized teams), no team has done what the current Buckeyes are doing right now.