Ohio State seals Big Ten title tie

The No. 5 Buckeyes clinched their third straight league crown.
COLUMBUS (AP) -- Jessica Davenport scored 26 points and Ashlee Trebilcock had 17 to help No. 5 Ohio State beat Penn State 78-61 Thursday night to clinch at least a share of its third Big Ten title in a row.
The Buckeyes (25-2, 14-1) lead Purdue by a game heading into their regular season finale at Michigan Sunday.
Star Allen added 22 points for the Buckeyes, who captured a piece of their 10th Big Ten title. Ohio State's seniors are 105-20 with three conference championships.
Tyra Grant scored 17 points, Kamela Gissendanner had 16 and Amanda Brown had 15 for the Nittany Lions (13-15, 6-9), who are 0-8 on the road this season and have lost six straight to the Buckeyes.
Davenport hit 10 of 17 shots from the field and six of seven free throws to go with seven rebounds and four assists. With her second field goal of the game, she passed Katie Smith for the school record with 827.
Sharpshooting Buckeyes
The Buckeyes shot 65 percent from the field.
Once again Ohio State had trouble putting away a team. Its 30-game Big Ten and 27-game home winning streaks were snapped in a 62-59 loss to No. 2 Michigan State Sunday.
The Buckeyes began the second half by expanding on their nine-point halftime lead. Trebilcock, in a shooting slump until the last few games, drilled a 3-pointer from the elbow and Allen scored inside to push the lead to 42-28, the largest of the night.
But the Nittany Lions, who lost the earlier meeting 63-61 on Jan. 11 on two free throws by Buckeyes' backup center Andrea Walker with 1.3 seconds left, made it close.
Grant scored eight points in a 10-2 surge that drew Penn State to 55-50. The Lions got as close as four points at 57-53 with 7:58 left before Ohio State pulled away.
Trebilcock has blossomed
Trebilcock was a seldom-used sub for most of the season until second-leading scorer Brandie Hoskins tore her Achilles' tendon four games ago. Trebilcock has since blossomed in a starting role.
She hit a 12-foot fadeaway after a timeout before Davenport hit four free throws to push the lead to 64-53. The lead never fell below eight points again.
Neither team played a spotless floor game: The Nittany Lions turned the ball over 21 times and the Buckeyes 18 times.
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