Chillicothe’s Osh Brown Continues to Shine at Rutgers

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Chillicotheโ€™s Osh Brown continues to make an impact for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights Womenโ€™s Basketball team.

Sunday in a 49-45 loss to Wisconsin, , with 11-points and 10-rebounds, Brown recorded her sixth double-double of the season, and the 55th of her career (the most among all active NCAA Division I women’s basketball players).

In a 68-63 loss at Northwestern last Thursday, Brown led all scorers with 22 points on 7-of-9 shooting and an 8-of-8 mark from the free throw line. She grabbed 16 rebounds before fouling out with two minutes left in the game. 

Brown, a graduate transfer from Ball State now with 1,658 career points, is the NCAA Division I active career leader in rebounds with 1,279 and in double-doubles with 55. 

Brown grabbed her first Rutgers double-double in grand fashion in the Paradise Jam opener with a 20-point, 20-rebound performance against DePaul, Rutgers’ first 20-20 since Betnijah Laney’s in 2014 against UNC. The effort fell two shy of Brown’s career-high of 22 rebounds, set in the 2021 NCAA Tournament last season, a Ball State program record.

In 19 games this season, Brown ins averaging 9.1 ppg and 9.1 rpg. Sheโ€™s fourth in the Big Ten in rebounding. For her career, Brown has played in 134 games and averaged 12.4 ppg and 9.5 rpg.

Rutgers (7-14) is still searching for its first conference win. The Scarlet Knights play at Nebraska (13-4) Thursday and return home with Ohio State (13-3) Sunday at 1pm on ESPN2. The Buckeyes will host Rutgers on Monday February 7th at 6pm in Columbus.