COLUMBUS (AP) — Jacy Sheldon scored 18 points and Taylor Thierry posted a double-double and 17th-ranked Ohio State held off Michigan State for a 70-65 win.
Reserve Tory Ozment led Michigan State with 18 points.
With the score tied at 50-all entering the fourth, Celeste Taylor made a pair of foul shots, Sheldon and Rebeka Mikukasikova made layups and Thierry made a jump shot — all in succession — and Ohio State banked that 8-0 outburst and led the rest of the way.
Moira Joiner made a 3 with seven seconds left to reduce Michigan State’s deficit to 68-65 before Taylor made two foul shots to end it.