We're at halftime of the Big Ten Tournament final.  No.5 seed Ohio State leads No. 2 Penn State, 44-39.

Here are more photos from today's Big Ten Tournament Championship Pep Rally....

A group of girls make it known who they are cheering for in the Big Ten Tournament final.

We are underway in the championship final of the 2011 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament.

With 15:54 remaining, No. 2 seed Penn State has a 12-8 advantage over No. 5 Ohio State.

Prior to the gates opening for the Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament final, a flash mob broke out in dance to Janelle Monae's Big Ten women's basketball soundtrack hit, "Tightrope."

The Ohio State pep band and cheerleaders get the crowd ready at the Big Ten Tournament Championship Pep Rally at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind. on Sunday.



After the Buckeyes took center stage, the Penn State pep band and cheerleading squad kept the crowd going!

We are all set for a Sunday showdown here at the 2011 Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament.

No. 2 seed Penn State (24-8) squares off against No. 5 Ohio State (21-9) at 3:30 p.m. ET for the tournament title.

Among the storylines, Ohio State and Penn State have met in eight of the previous 16 Big Ten Tournaments, with each team owning four wins.  The Lady Lions earned the first two contests in the series, including a victory to capture the very first Big Ten Tournament title in 1995.  PSU defeated the Buckeyes in the 1996 semifinals en route to its second straight postseason conference title, however the '96 crown was the last time Penn State won -- some 15 years ago.

The Buckeyes have claimed the past two BTT titles and three overall, with the first coming in 2006.

In the overall BTT series between the two teams, the higher seed has a 6-2 record.  The lone two losses came at the hands of the lower-seeded Buckeyes in 1997 (No. 10 over 7) and 2003 (No. 4 over 1).

In Big Ten Tournament history, the No. 2 and 5 seeds have met just once.  No. 5 Indiana defeated No. 2 Penn State 75-72 in the championship game of the 2002 Big Ten Tournament here at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

Check out the breakdown and Gametracker links below:

Game 10:  No. 2 Penn State vs. No. 5 Ohio State  (3:30 p.m. ET)
Big Ten Tournament series tied at 4-4

1995, F, No. 1 Penn State def. No. 7 Ohio State, 68-63
1996, S, No. 2 Penn State def. No. 6 Ohio State, 84-70
1997, 1st, No. 10 Ohio State def. No. 7 Penn State, 80-79
2000, Q, No. 1 Penn State def. No. 9 Ohio State, 64-48
2002, Q, No. 2 Penn State def. No. 7 Ohio State, 70-55
2003, S, No. 4 Ohio State def. No. 1 Penn State, 72-61
2006, Q, No. 1 Ohio State def. No. 8 Penn State, 64-46
2007, S, No. 1 Ohio State def. No. 5 Penn State, 73-71

Ohio State's Tayler Hill and Jantel Lavender, who set a Big Ten Tournament record of 37 points Saturday, talks about the Buckeyes' 72-57 win over Michigan State.



And so does head coach Jim Foster...

Michigan State head coach Suzy Merchant, who coached her Spartans to the Big Ten Championship, talks about her team's 72-57 loss to No. 5 seed Ohio State at the Big Ten Tournament on Saturday.

Congratulations to the fifth-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes on capturing a 72-57 victory tonight over No. 1 seed and Big Ten Champion Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament.

Ohio State advances to Sunday's 3:30 p.m. final to face No. 2 seed Penn State.

In tonight's Big Ten Tournament semifinal nightcap, Michigan State's Kalisha Keane and Ohio State's Jantel Lavender squared off in a battle of the Big Ten's Players of the Year. 

This past Monday, Keane was selected as the conference's top player by the Big Ten coaches, while Lavender earned her fourth-straight accolade by the league's media members.

Lavender won the battle between the two, scoring a Big Ten Tournament single-game record of 37 points on 15-of-20 shooting.

Here is a breakdown of how the Big Ten's Players of the Year finished:

Player	FG-FGA	PT	REB	AST	STL	TO	PF	MIN
OSU-Lavender	15-20	37	9	2	1	4	1	40
MSU-Keane	6-20	17	6	2	2	3	4	40