No. 12 Buckeyes Head North for Big Ten Tournament

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 12-ranked Ohio State women's tennis team is headed to Ann Arbor, Mich., for the Big Ten Tournament hosted by Michigan.

The Buckeyes (17-6, 10-1 B1G) are the No. 2 seed in the tournament and earned a double bye. Ohio State will open play at 2 p.m. Friday vs. the winner of a match between No. 7 seed Iowa and No. 10 Penn State. The semifinals will be played at noon Saturday and the final is set for noon Sunday. Live results will be available for all matches, with a video stream available through B1G+. Note match times and coverage may be adjusted if play is moved indoors because of inclement weather.

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Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament

The Buckeyes have three B1G Tournament titles, winning in 2016, 2017 and 2021.
This is the second year in a row the Buckeyes are the No. 2 seed. The squad has been among the Top 4 seeds each tournament since 2014.
Last season, Ohio State defeated Nebraska (4-1) and Illinois (4-0) before falling to top seed Michigan in the championship match, 4-2.
All-time, the Buckeyes have reached the championship match of the Big Ten Tournament seven times (2004, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023).
Ohio State posted wins over both possible quarterfinal opponents, Penn State (7-0) and Iowa (4-1), on the road this season.
The ranked teams in the Big Ten this week are No. 2 Michigan, No. 12 Ohio State, No. 33 Wisconsin, No. 34 Northwestern, No. 38 Illinois, No. 50 Maryland, No. 65 Iowa and No. 66 Purdue.
All 14 teams compete in the tournament, with two matches Wednesday and four Thursday before the quarterfinals Friday.

In the Rankings

The Buckeyes moved up to 12th in the ITA team rankings this week. The squad has been in the Top 16 all spring, reaching a season high of No. 7 Feb. 20.
In the most recent singles rankings, Irina Cantos Siemers is No. 18, with Luciana Perry No. 53 and Sydni Ratliff No. 115.
In doubles, Ohio State has three duos in the rankings: No. 24 Perry/Ratliff, No. 31 Perry/Cantos Siemers and No. 75 Teah Chavez/Cantos Siemers.

B1G Honors for the Buckeyes

Luciana Perry was selected the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and was joined by Irina Cantos Siemers and Sydni Ratliff on the All-Big Ten Team, the conference announced Wednesday.
Perry is the seventh Buckeye, and sixth under head coach Melissa Schaub, to earn league freshman of the year honors.
Cantos Siemers, who was a unanimous selection for the fourth time, is the fourth Buckeye to earn four all-league honors.
Ratliff earned her second consecutive all-conference honor.
Madeline Atway was the recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award for Ohio State.

Buckeye This and That

Ohio State enters the weekend 17-6 on the year and was 10-1 in B1G play. The squad has won its last 10 matches, all league contests. The Buckeyes posted a 4-1 win over Northwestern and a 4-2 victory vs. Illinois last weekend in Columbus to close out the regular season.
Irina Cantos Siemers leads the Buckeyes with 14 dual match wins, followed by Shelly Bereznyak with 13. Luciana Perry, Sydni Ratliff and Audrey Spencer each have 10 victories in dual play.
Perry was 7-1 in Big Ten matches, with Shelly Bereznyak and Ratliff 6-1 and Cantos Siemers 6-2. Spencer had five wins in league matches and Akanksha Bhan recorded four, with Teah Chavez contributing three and Madeline Atway posting one.
Bereznyak has won her last 13 completed matches, with all 13 wins in straight sets. Ratliff and Perry have both won their last six completed dual matches.

The Buckeyes are 14-5 on court one this spring, with a 12-4 record on court five. Ohio State has picked up 11 wins on courts two, three and six, with nine victories from court four.
In doubles, court one is 12-5, with court two 10-6 and court three 8-8. Ohio State has won the doubles point 14 times.
Cantos Siemers broke the Buckeyes' all-time singles wins record in the match vs. UCLA Feb. 4. She now has 122 total singles wins and is tied for fourth place in career doubles victories with 94.
With a singles and a doubles win last Friday, Cantos Siemers became the program's all-time leader in combined singles/doubles victories, passing Miho Kowase who had 213 from 2014-17. Cantos Siemers now has 216 combined wins. She is tied for third in career singles dual match wins with 74 and ninth in career dual match doubles victories with 63.
Melissa Schaub, in her 12th year as head coach of the Buckeyes, is 237-78 in her career. She broke the program record for all-time coaching wins with a victory over UCLA Feb. 4.
Ten Buckeyes were recognized as Ohio State Scholar-Athletes earlier this month – Atway, Megan Basil, Bereznyak, Bhan, Cantos Siemers, Alessia Cau, Perry, Ratliff, Dani Schoenly and Spencer.
Cantos was also named a finalist for the prestigious Big Ten Medal of Honor, awarded to the top male and female senior student-athlete on each Big Ten campus.

The Schedule Ahead

The NCAA selection show will air on NCAA.com at 6:30 p.m. Monday.
The Top 16 seeds will host first and second round matches May 3-4 or 4-5 on campus sites, with eight sites hosting super regionals May 10 or 11. The quarterfinals, semifinals and final will be in Stillwater, Okla., May 17-19.
The singles and doubles championships will be in Stillwater May 20-25.

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