A nightmare performance by the Ohio State women’s basketball team has ended its hopes of a Big Ten tournament title. The Buckeyes shot just 35 percent from the floor in the game as they fell to Purdue 71-60 in the conference tourney quarterfinals in Indianapolis.
Ohio State, the tournament’s top seed which averages 88 points a game and throttled Northwestern by 31 on Friday, managed a paltry 20 points combined in the second and third quarters, as the Boilermakers won for the third time in the three days to advance to the championship game on Sunday.
Kelsey Mitchell, the Big Ten’s leading scorer and Player of the Year, was not at all herself, scoring just nine points on a dismal 3-for-22 from the field, 1-for-12 from three-point range.