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Doctoral candidate studying relationship between musicians’ chord selections and way they play an instrument

Unused scholarships amount to $615,000 Undistributed Funds

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MAX GARRISON Lantern reporter garrison.237@osu.edu Fifty in-state students could have attended Ohio State tuition-free this past year with the amount of scholarship money colleges left unspent.

Ten colleges within Ohio State did not award $615,000 worth of undergraduate scholarships in fiscal year 2019, according to a Lantern analysis. That amounts to a tenth of available scholarship funds the colleges collectively manage, and the remaining funds

could be a result of lack of applicants and narrow criteria.

Scholarship data from fiscal year 2019 was collected from 10 of 12 Ohio State colleges that house undergraduate students.

The College of Engineering declined to provide scholarship figures, and the College of Medicine does not manage its own undergraduate scholarships.

The amounts of and reasons for unawarded money varies by college.

The College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences shelled out the most scholarship

money, at more than $2.6 million.

The College of Education and Human Ecology left the most unawarded, distributing $372,604 of its available $727,018 undergraduate scholarship funds.

Two main reasons for not giving these funds are a lack of scholarship applicants and overly narrow eligibility criteria for awards, Robin Chenoweth, a spokesperson for the College of Education and Human Ecology, said in an email.

“For example, a large EHE scholarship established 20 years ago is designated for students

from a specific country in a specific major,” Chenoweth said. “It was last awarded in 2014 because no students from that country have enrolled in that program since. The funds remain available for future students who qualify.”

Pat Whittington, assistant dean for student development and director of scholarship and financial aid for CFAES, said undistributed scholarships are a source of disappointment.

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Red guitars and pink tape Researcher bridges divide between classical and contemporary JACK LONG Special Projects Director long.1684@osu.edu Nick Shea, a doctoral candidate in music theory, asked Jason Buchea to pick up the electric guitar and get comfortable.

As Buchea sat down and started picking at the strings, Shea grabbed a roll of pink tape that was sitting in the corner of the dimly lit soundbooth at the Ohio State Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Lab. “This is the motion-capture rig, so there’s a little camera here,” Shea said as he cut off a piece of tape. “It’s going to track the color pink on your index finger.”

Buchea, professional guitarist and a graduate associate in musicology, is a participant in Shea’s research, which focuses on investigating how an instrument influences a player’s performance, how they compose music and their musical phrasing choices.

Shea said musicians often make small movements on the fretboard while playing a musical phrase, but shift a larger distance when they move in between phrases.

A musical phrase can be thought of like a grammatical phrase, where a complete thought is stated as part of a larger structure.

His research is also demonstrating that classical music theory cannot entirely explain the characteristics of modern music.

Shea’s research is offering a new way to classify the musical choices performers are making by explaining melody and chord selections through the way the instrument is played, Anna Gawboy, Shea’s dissertation co-adviser and an associate professor of music theory, said.

“They are actually performing a type of knowledge through their instrument that we

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Jason Buchea, a participant in Nick Shea’s research, demonstrates the motion-capture rig at the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Lab.

can study and we can say is absolutely essential to the way that the music sounds,” she said.

The camera device is small — a black action camera bolted to a metal brace, which is attached to a red Squier electric guitar.

Buchea wrapped the tape around his finger so the camera could track his hand as it moved around the fretboard. Shea said a computer program would then estimate the distance his hand travels.

Shea told Buchea he needed to play a series of musical chords four times: two times at a slow tempo in both a rock and pop style, and twice more in each style at a moderate tempo.

Shea handed Buchea headphones so he

could hear the synthesized drumbeat, and Shea closed the booth’s door.

Buchea set about constructing an impromptu riff to fit the chords and style.

Part of Shea’s research is looking at how professional players use their instruments to create and understand music. But Shea said he is also looking at players with little or no formal music training.

“Musical theorists talk about musical understanding in terms of chords and chord relationships most often,” Shea said. “Performers who maybe don’t have that kind of training that music theorists have still have a very intuitive and sort of performative understanding

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Drake’s post-presidency package totals $3.3 million MAX GARRISON Lantern reporter garrison.237@osu.edu Although University President Michael V. Drake may be stepping down as Ohio State’s leader, he will not immediately go without some of the position’s benefits — including his presidential salary.

The Board of Trustees’ Talent, Compensation and Governance Committee approved an amendment to Drake’s contract that could pay up to $3.3 million — excluding benefits — from when he leaves office June 30, 2020 till June 30, 2024, pending full Board approval Thursday.

Drake — who announced his retirement in November 2019 — will keep his current base salary

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The Board of Trustees’ Talent, Compensation and Governance Committee approved University President Michael V. Drake’s post-presidency package Wednesday.

of $891,946.20 for one year, serving as president emeritus.

His duties as president emeritus will include “continuing to

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of form.”

Growing up in rural Missouri, Shea started teaching himself to play the electric bass. He said he didn’t have consistent access to music education, so through his guitar, he got a grounding in the fundamentals of music.

“My way into music theory was actually through the fretboard of my electric bass,” he said. “I understood intervals as shapes on the bass. I understood chords as shapes on the bass.”

Gawboy said Shea is validating the experience of performing musicians through his research.

Modern styles of music, such as pop and rock, are often analyzed by music theorists through western classical descriptions, she said. But modern styles can’t always be explained that way, just like German can’t be explained using only English grammar.

Shea said the motion-capture experiments are just one piece of his continuing research that started four years ago.

Shea said he started by analyzing the guitar tablatures — a way to write music using diagrams of finger placement in-

stead of a traditional staff of notes — of popular pop and rock songs.

“You just have to have a pretty decent ear for rhythm, and then you’re given basically the coordinates to play the notes on the fretboard,” he said.

The analysis showed that there is an association between how a player’s hand moves on the guitar and the musical form and harmony of their compositions, Gawboy said.

From the analysis and motion-capture experiments, Shea said he has noticed performers moving around the fretboard very little during a musical phrase. But when the performer moves between two phrases, such as a verse and chorus, they are more likely to move a larger distance.

Gawboy said the performers’ movements are deliberate.

“They’re not necessarily thinking about an abstract realm of chords, where they’re putting chords together because they know it makes sense,” she said. “They’re feeling these chords on their instrument, and they’re playing, and they’re using their own selves as kind of this internal feedback to make compositional decisions.”

serve as a national leader in higher education; providing strategic advice and counsel as requested by the president of the university; providing advice and counsel on large scale issues in higher education; advocating on higher education policies: and furthering the university’s land grant mission,” the amendment reads.

If Drake stays at Ohio State past July 1, 2021, he will serve as a tenured distinguished professor in the Colleges of Medicine and Health and Human Ecology, according to the contract. He can earn up to $1.8 million in this position through June 30, 2024.

According to the amendment, the university will contribute $200,000 to Drake’s retirement fund if he stays in his position as president through June 30, 2020

and an additional $200,000 if he serves as president emeritus through June 30, 2021.

He will also be eligible for an annual performance award in 2020, which could be as much as $222,986.84, according to the amendment. His salary in 2021 and beyond will not be eligible for the bonus.

Drake will be provided with an annual research and education fund of $50,000 through June 30, 2024.

Drake will also be given a “Platinum A” parking pass and access to the Wexner Medical Center Executive Health Program for him and his wife.

The amendment is pending full Board approval Thursday.

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the money not being awarded,” Whittington said.

Colleges receive scholarship endowments from donors who often set criteria so a certain type of student receives the money.

Each college has its own scholarship application and distribution processes.

Colleges also manage the scholarship funds at different levels. CFAES manages all scholarships at the college level, Whittington said, so individual school and departmental scholarships do not have a separate application.

However, individual schools and departments within the College of Arts and Sciences administer their own scholarships, Kevin

Leonardi, spokesperson for the college, said in an email.

Next year, Ohio State plans to create a new scholarship application for the more than 400 different scholarships managed by Student Financial Aid, Ben Johnson, university spokesperson, said in an email. The university plans to incorporate college-level scholarships in the application in the future.

“The application will make it easier for students to identify and apply for scholarship opportunities,” Johnson said.

Overall, the College of Education and Human Ecology was responsible for a majority of the unused funds, with three-fifths

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ing before receiving a scholarship and planning var iances between covering in-state and out-of-state Pat Whittington students’ tuition, Brittany McClaskey, a spokesperson for the College of Pharmacy, said in an email.

The College of Pharmacy was responsible for one-eighth of unspent college-level scholarship money.

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of the total amount of unawarded college-level scholarship money across colleges.

The Fisher College of Business left approximately $124,000 unawarded of its available $1.12 million in undergraduate scholarship funds.

One of the main reasons Fisher did not award the money is a lack of applicants meeting narrow criteria set by donors, Melanie DiFeo, a spokesperson for Fisher, said.

The College of Pharmacy left approximately $78,212 unawarded of its available $177,114 in undergraduate scholarship funds.

The funds were not distributed because of a student unenroll-

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ences did not award approximately $40,000 of its available $1.04 million in undergraduate scholarship funds, a main reason being a lack of eligible applicants, Leonardi said.

When these funds are not given to students, the college either carries them over to the following year or returns them in hopes the donor will grow the investment and support more students in the future, Leonardi Don Pope-Davis said.

“In any case, these funds exist for the sole purpose of providing scholarship support to Arts and Sciences students and are not used for any other purpose,” Leonardi said.

The College of Public Health left $2,300 of its available

$11,900 undergraduate scholar- lege of Dentistry and the John ship funds unawarded.

Glenn College of Public Affairs The College of Engineering gave out all of their available declined to release specific schol- scholarship funds managed at the arship figures but tries to award more than 600 scholarship accounts every year, David Tomasko, associate dean for undergraduate eduOne way we hope to cation and student services for the college, do that is to work with said in an email. past donors to broaden Tomasko said disclosqualifications for existing ing an amount of money left unspent would be scholarships so that more misleading. students can benefit from “This ‘number’ is our donors’ generosity. akin to asking for the level in a tank that is constantly being drained DON POPE-DAVIS of the College of Education and Human and refilled,” Tomas- Dean Ecology ko said. “The level or balance at any point in time is simply meaningless and if college level in fiscal year 2019. published it would be subject to “You have to be efficient and myriad rationalizations.” effective,” Whittington of CFAES CFAES, College of Social said of distributing the college’s Work, College of Nursing, Col- scholarships. “We want to make

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sure students can start school and finish in four years.”

CFAES shelled out $2,621,254 in scholarships this past year, the most of any college at Ohio State.

It was able to provide the highest amount of scholarship money due to a single application for all scholarships and flexible criteria, Whittington said.

Students fill out one application for all college, departmental and even state 4-H scholarships, a youth agriculture program, Whittington said. Rather than departments and schools processing their own applications for scholarships separately, students are automatically considered for all that they qualify.

Whittington said CFAES makes endowment descriptions flexible in case intended criteria is not met by any students.

“We want to make sure that those guidelines are set up so scholarships could be awarded each year,” Whittington said.

In total, the colleges of Social Work, Nursing, Dentistry and Public Affairs awarded $865,074 in fiscal year 2019.

The College of Social Work distributed so much that some scholarships were not awarded due to inadequate funds, Frankie Jones-Harris said in an email.

Some of the colleges with leftover money are working on similar strategies to those of CFAES to make scholarships more accessible.

The College of Education and Human Ecology has been implementing some of these strategies under Dean Don Pope-Davis, who took over the position in mid-2018, Chenoweth said.

“My new administration has been working on infrastructure to support students effectively,” Pope-Davis said in an email. “One way we hope to do that is to work with past donors to broaden qualifications for existing scholarships so that more students can benefit from our donors’ generosity.”

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Ohio State students and faculty to present prototypes of augmented and virtual reality games for feedback Thursday.

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Hashtag Comedy to open new venue

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he Hashtag Comedy Company just said ‘Yes, and...’ to a brand new home.

The local comedy company will open its namesake theater in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in summer 2020 to offer improv, standup, sketch shows and comedy classes. “[Hashtag Comedy] is growing to the point now that we just need a new space to be able to accommodate all of our classes and all of our students that are now coming out of classes to form groups,” Sarah Storer, founder, co-owner and artistic director of Hashtag Comedy, said.

Hashtag Comedy’s new theater will feature a variety of shows with recurring cast members, including TBD: The Musical, a musical improv team, and You’ll Want to Sit Down for This,

a storytelling show, Storer said. Each team specializes in different styles of improvised comedy with distinctive flairs.

“We’ll have all of our student showcases there, and we have a bunch of other shows there that debuted over the years that will find a home,” Storer said. “There’s several more groups we already know we’ll be working with.”

Hashtag Comedy comprises about 20 performers, instructors and administrators who currently perform primarily at Shadowbox Live, according to its website. The group was founded eight years ago by a group of friends who met in an improv class and continued to grow by performing around Central Ohio and giving corporate workshops, Storer said.

“We think that we can give Columbus audiences just this really great professional comedic experience right here in the city we love.”

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Hashtag Comedy Company’s theater will open summer 2020 in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

Kenny Greer, marketing director and performer for Hashtag Comedy, said the group looks forward to having more creative freedom.

“Where we’ve been performing before, we’ve been at the mercy of their venue, timing and location,” Greer said. “So with this, we can have a creative space to change the layout of the theater and do different types of shows that we might not have been able to do before.”

Storer said she looks forward to the theater being in the up-and-coming Discovery District, surrounded by Columbus College of Art and Design and Columbus Museum of Art. “It’s really in that space, which is just growing like crazy, and it’s in the heart of this cool educational arts district, and we really feel like we found such a great home there,” Storer said.

The new theater can fit 45 to 55 patrons, but can open up for 90 for special events, according to a Hashtag

Comedy press release.

“I think one of the biggest things they have to gain is really having really great quality improv, standup and sketch comedy right in the heart of the city,” Storer said. “We think that we can give Columbus audiences just this really great professional comedic experience right here in the city we love.”

Greer said the theater will feature performers from throughout Columbus, in addition to Hashtag Comedy members. And they will be getting paid.

“Comedy for the most part, especially improv, has always been a payto-play thing,” Greer said. “And we’re just totally against that. We believe that if you perform and you get butts in seats, you deserve to get paid.”

The Hashtag Comedy theater will open in summer 2020 at 346 E. Long St. in downtown Columbus.

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hio State students will have the chance to become immersed in a new world in Sullivant Hall this week.

Students and faculty will present prototypes of augmented and virtual reality games for player feedback Thursday at “Playtest.” The event will be hosted by the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, according to ACCAD’s website.

VR is an immersive, interactive media format usually delivered through small screens in a head-mounted display to simulate a 3D space around the user. AR uses similar technology to modify the appearance of the real world.

“The concept or idea of playtesting is crucial to the development process. The idea is to take work that’s currently in production and put that in front of testers and get feedback on it,” Scott Swearingen, an assistant professor in the Department of Design, said.

Swearingen is a faculty sponsor of the event. He has worked for game developer and publisher Electronic Arts and contributed to popular video games such as The Sims 4, The Simpsons Game and Dead Space 1 and 2.

Swearingen said player feedback is imperative in ensuring a video game communicates properly with the player.

“The game needs to talk to the player,” Swearingen said. “When I do a thing, does the game tell me that it responded?

That requires a lot of finesse.”

Playtest might also serve to introduce newcomers to the unfamiliar technology of VR, Shadrick Addy, a visiting assistant professor at ACCAD, said.

“When you’re fully immersed, you are literally in this virtual world. You don’t know what to expect when you put on those goggles,” Addy said. “But with more games and experiences that are more meaningful and have been developed well, I think we can overcome that initial fear that we all have at some point when we are starting.”

Swearingen said in an email that he hopes the event will also showcase students’ abilities to create VR and AR games.

“I hope our ACCAD playtest helps to demystify the game design process by showing a variety of games midway through production,” he said in the email.

Addy said he hopes VR will be perceived as something that is tangible and present.

“VR is here,” Addy said. “It’s not an emerging technology anymore; it’s actually here.”

Playtest will take place from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Sullivant Hall Room 331. Admission is free and registration is requested, according to the Eventbrite.

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Chili cook-off fights hunger with friendly competition JULIANNE KERVER Lantern reporter kerver.3@osu

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local nonprofit organization is fighting food insecurity and hunger with an old-fashioned chili cook-off.

Souper Heroes will host its fifth annual Chili Cook-off Sunday at Seventh Son Brewing Company.

Proceeds will go toward The Holy Family Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, a Catholic food pantry serving West Columbus, Ohio.

Souper Heroes is a Columbus nonprofit that raises funds and awareness for food insecurity in the city, according to its website.

“Our mission at Souper Heroes is to have fun with food and community while providing for those who don’t have enough of either,” Tricia Keels, founder of Souper Heroes, said.

Sunday’s cook-off awards will include the People’s Choice Winner and the Overall Judges Winner, judged by Melissa Khoury of Cleveland butcher shop Saucisson; John Croke, the artistic director of local education company The Caravan; and Erin Vasicek, the food blogger behind The Spiffy Cookie, according to the event page.

Each attendee casts their vote

for the People’s Choice Winner with a ticket received upon entry.

After sampling each chili, attendees can place a ticket in the ballot box of their favorite. Attendees can vote more than once by purchasing additional tickets, according to the website.

Money is raised through the “donation slow cooker,” which is set out for attendees to fill with cash or check contributions.

Keels said the cooker is unattended, so guests have no obligation to donate.

“All our events are free. Anyone can come join us, but we do make it available and encourage people to show their gratitude and appreciation for what they have by throwing some cash in there that we can forward to whoever we’re supporting,” Keels said.

Ann Miller-Tobin, host of the cook-off and volunteer for Souper Heroes, said she hopes the event will bring attendees together and give them an increased awareness of food insecurity in Columbus.

“I want them to have a good time, fill their bellies, make new friends, bring their families and just have a really great sense of

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Melissa Khoury, Andrew Buck Michael and Daniel Godfrey judged 2019’s Souper Heroes’ Chili Cook-off.

the community from all different ages coming together to put good out into the world, to help make somebody else have a better day,” Miller-Tobin said.

Miller-Tobin was crowned the winner of the cook-off in its second year, but said she is forgoing her slow cooker this year to instead serve as host.

The Souper Heroes’ fifth annual Chili Cook-off will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Seventh Son Brewing Company.

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Souper Heroes will host its fifth annual Chili Cook-off March 1 at Seventh Son Brewing Company.

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the perfect landing spot for the Buckeyes to earn their seventh victory in nine games.

The Cornhuskers beat Iowa before embarking on their current 12-game losing streak. The Hawkeyes defeated the Buckeyes 85-76 Feb. 20. “[Our players] saw that they had Maryland, at Maryland, a chance to tie or win at the buzzer, and they’ve seen all the close scores, a number of close scores,” Holtmann said. “We know it’s gonna be a challenge, and it’s a fair point that comes down to the maturity of your group.”

Nebraska’s second-to-lastplace Big Ten standing is reflected on its stat sheet.

The Cornhuskers rank worst in the conference for several categories, including scoring defense, field goal percentage, defensive field goal percentage, scoring margin and rebounding margin.

Its rebounding is a particular deficit as a team, with just one player — freshman forward Yvan Ouedraogo — averaging at least five per game. Ouedraogo hauls in 6.1.

For comparison, Ohio State’s relied on two players to pull in at least five boards per contest, with junior forward Kaleb Wesson at 9.3 and junior forward Kyle Young at 5.8.

In total, Nebraska’s opponents pull in 10.1 more rebounds per

game than the Cornhuskers. No other Big Ten team is outrebounded by more than 4.3.

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We’re down some bodies right now.

Two guys that started the last time we played Nebraska are out.

It’ll be a variety of guys. It’s exciting in some ways because they’re gonna have the opportunity to step up here on the road.

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CHRIS HOLTMANN Ohio State men’s basketball head coach

The Buckeyes could be without Young Thursday due to a high ankle sprain, removing the team’s No. 2 rebounder and top hustle player from its lineup. Holtmann said Young will be a game-time decision Thursday, but if he does play, he’ll be limited.

There’s still no timetable for

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freshman guard D.J. Carton’s return while he deals with mental health issues.

With the lack of depth, Ohio State assistant coach Jake Diebler has had to join the scout team when Ohio State wants to go fiveon-five in practice.

“We’re down some bodies right now,” Holtmann said. “Two guys that started the last time we played Nebraska are out. It’ll be a variety of guys. It’s exciting in some ways because they’re gonna have the opportunity to step up here on the road.”

Senior forward Andre Wesson and freshman forward E.J. Liddell will likely see an uptick in minutes while Young recovers.

Andre Wesson played all 40 minutes against the Terrapins Sunday.

Sophomore guard Duane Washington said Liddell will need to “be prepared.”

“In practice, he goes really hard, and he pays attention and he locks into stuff that’s important,” Washington said. “He works on his game every day. For him just to get better little by little each day has been huge for him, huge for us.”

While the Cornhuskers’ defensive numbers are all at or near the bottom of the Big Ten, its offensive metrics fare slightly better.

Nebraska is No. 9 in the conference for scoring offense and 3-point shooting, slotting in at

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No. 6 for assists.

The Cornhuskers excel at creating transition opportunities, with a conference-best turnover margin of plus-2.8.

Sophomore guard Cam Mack leads the charge in this area as No. 3 in the Big Ten with 6.5 assists per game and a steady 2.5 assist-to-turnover ratio. His 33 steals are tied for the team lead.

Mack missed Nebraska’s pre-

vious game against Illinois due to illness. He’s a game-time decision Thursday.

“This group really tests you — in terms of Nebraska — your ability to defend. They really test you with the way they can spread you out,” Holtmann said.

Ohio State and Nebraska tip off at 9 p.m. Thursday in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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FIBA experience fuels postseason push JACK EMERSON Lantern reporter emerson.131@osu.edu

al in the 2019 U19 FIBA Basketball World Cup. “When they give you the medal, you remember all the work and In the quarterfinals of the 2019 moments with your team,” Wone U19 International Basketball Aranaz said. “It’s so rewarding.”

Federation Women’s World Cup, It’s a feeling the Buckeyes are Spain went toe to toe with a redchasing as the regular season hot Chinese team coming off of a winds down.

71-28 opening round win against All three players have gained Mozambique. experience in big games through A missed game-tying 3-pointer their FIBA careers, which will from China guard Ming Zheng be vital in the single-elimination was scooped up by Spain forward Big Ten and NCAA tournaments.

Aixa Wone Aranaz to secure a With such a young squad, Ohio 55-52 victory for Spain.

State might need to lean more on The Ohio State freshman was its international players. the hero that day. She had her best Mikulasikova stressed the imouting of the tournament, finishportance of remaining in the ing with 14 points, nine rebounds moment and not looking too far and three assists. ahead.

“When we won against [Chi“The most important thing is na], we were like, ‘Oh, my God. focusing on the next step and the We’re in the semifinals,’” Wone game we have ahead of us,” MiJOHN HUETHER | FOR THE LANTERN Aranaz said. “We were all crying Ohio State sophomore forward Dorka Juhasz (14) prepares to take a 3-point shot during the first kulasikova said. half of Ohio State-Northwestern. Ohio State lost 55-69. and super happy.”

Head coach Kevin McGuff said Eight months later, Wone he believes the experience of his Aranaz and two other European en’s basketball in its drive toward squad in player efficiency rating. State. international players will impact players with international experi- an NCAA Tournament berth.

Her experience from that tourna“I need to take my experience how the team continues to play ence are helping Ohio State womSophomore forward Dorka Ju- ment helped her settle into her po- from my national team and bring during this stretch run and into hasz of Hunga- sition at Ohio State, she said. it here too,” Mikulasikova said. the postseason. ry has become “It definitely prepared me a T h e “They have EUROPEAN COUNTRIES an essential part lot,” Juhasz said. “I matured a lot Slovakian more expeREPRESENTED of this Buckeye and gained more basketball IQ.” native has rience than

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Ohio State senior forward Andre Wesson (24) shoots a 3-pointer during the game against Purdue Feb. 15. Ohio State won 68-52.

is No. 15 in the country, 79 spots higher than the next best Big Ten team.

But that average doesn’t tell the whole story.

The Buckeyes shoot 40.8 percent from the 3-point line at home, a figure that would put them at No. 2 in the nation had they been able to sustain it across their 27 games.

But Ohio State shoots almost seven percent worse from deep when it plays on the road; a percentage that would sit at No. 146 in college basketball if it were the Buckeyes’ season avwould be erage. is tied for In Columbus, Ohio, junior forward Kaleb Wesson and in the NCAA in the NCAA sophomore guard Luther Muhammad have shot *if it were full season average exceptionally

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well from the 3-point line, with 50- and 45-percent marksmanship, respectively.

Those numbers crumble on the road, where Wesson shoots just 32.4 percent from 3, and Muhammad shoots 23 percent.

They are not the only Buckeyes who do worse away from the Schottenstein Center, however, as redshirt junior guard CJ Walker sees a 15.5-percent dip in his 3-point shooting numbers, while sophomore guard Duane Washington drops nearly seven percent.

Of the Buckeyes’ six most active scoring contributors, Washington is the lone player whose scoring average is better on the road than at home.

Junior forward Kyle Young’s scoring decline is the sharpest among the first six Buckeyes. He has scored double digits in seven of his 15 home appearances, averaging 8.9 points per contest on nearly 68-percent shooting.

In eight road games, Young has scored double digits just once, shooting 47 percent from the field for 5.25 points per game.

Wesson’s 14 points per game lead the team, but he’s attempted 10 or more shots in only five of the Buckeyes’ 16 home games.

His shot attempts have been in double digits in all but one game on the road.

The same trend is present in the shot attempts of Washington, Ohio State’s second-leading scorer.

Wesson and Washington take more shots per game on the road, but shoot significantly worse from the field, which indicates that when teammates don’t pick up the scoring slack, the pair begin to overcompensate by forcing up more attempts.

On the other side of the ball, Ohio State has the No. 24 scoring defense in the country, but it allows more than 10 more points per game to opponents on the road than it does at home.

The Buckeyes’ 3-point defense is among the worst in the country, giving up 33.7 percent to opposing teams from behind the line, and it’s even worse on the road.

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Opponents have hit 10 or more 3s in a third of the Buckeyes’ away games, an event that’s occurred in just 19 percent of their home matchups.

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www.thelantern.com Ohio State’s home-away discrepancy is not unique. Penn State and Michigan State are the only Big Ten teams with winning road records, and both stand only a game above .500 in that category.

But for those looking to diagnose a mixed-bag team that’s been plagued by inconsistency, look no further than the homeaway splits to gauge which Buckeye squad might take the floor on a given night.

With road games remaining against Nebraska Thursday and Michigan State March 8, the Buckeyes could lose eight regular season road games for the first time since 2007-08.

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The numbers behind Ohio State’s home highs and road woes

GRIFFIN STROM Sports Editor strom.25@osu.edu Erratic is one word to sum up a topsy-turvy season for Ohio State men’s basketball, but a peek behind the curtain suggests a pattern to the madness.

Simply put, if the Buckeyes play at home, they’re one of the nation’s best teams. If they’re playing in an opposing team’s backyard, they fall to a tier below

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percentages mediocre.

Taking two neutral-site games out of the equation –– a win against then-No. 6 Kentucky and a loss to then-No. 22 West Virginia –– Ohio State is 14-2 when it plays in Columbus, and its two losses to Wisconsin and Minnesota were suffered by a combined seven points.

On the road, though, the Buckeyes are 3-6, four of those losses coming by way of double-digit blowout.

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AT HOME ON THE ROAD As head coach Chris Holtmann said in November, the Buckeyes are no offensive juggernaut. Ohio State is sandwiched between Radford and VMI for the No. 148 scoring offense in the country, putting up just 71.9 points per game, and it’s nearly six points worse in road games.

However, the Buckeye offense has excelled in shooting the 3.

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We know it’s gonna be a challenge, and it’s a fair point that comes down to the maturity of your group.

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against the team at the top of the conference’s standings, then-No. 7 Maryland, with a game against the squad slotted No. 13 in the Big Ten out of 14 teams, Nebraska (7-20, 2-15).

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