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Friday, February 16, 2007
COLUMBUS — Brandie Hoskins is gone, but the fourth-ranked Ohio State women's basketball team still has plenty of weapons to surround imposing center Jessica Davenport.
Davenport hit her average with 19 points, and Ashlee Trebilcock broke out of a slump with 15 to lead the Buckeyes past Wisconsin 83-57 Thursday night.
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"It got away from us when they started getting scoring from people other than Jessica," Wisconsin coach Lisa Stone said.
Marscilla Packer added 15 points and Star Allen had 14 for the Buckeyes (24-1, 13-0), who lead the Big Ten race by two games with three games remaining.
The Buckeyes were playing their second game since losing second-leading scorer and Chaminade-Julienne High grad Hoskins, out for the rest of the season with a torn Achilles tendon sustained last week in a win against Minnesota.
Trebilcock, a freshman transfer from UCLA starting her second game, had a career high in points. She came to Ohio State with a reputation as a scorer, but had been shooting just 34 percent from the field and averaging 3.4 points a game while seeing only scant playing time.
"Once I got in a game, and the small minutes I was playing, I'd get in and think, 'Oh, I need to be a scorer. I need to do something while I'm out here.' So some of those shots might have been more forced than they are now," she said. "That was part of it. And for whatever reason today, I was just open. It felt good."
