Ohio State administrators met with Jim Foster on Tuesday morning to inform him he will no longer be the head coach of the Buckeye women’s basketball team. Associate athletics director Miechelle Willis would not say if the move would be characterized as a firing or a retirement, but Foster had at least five years left on a contract that paid an average of more than $900,000 per year. “We’re still ironing out the details of the end of Jim’s career here," Willis said Tuesday afternoon. "All I can say is he will no longer be our coach.†With a record of 279-82 record (.772) in 11 years as head coach, Foster departs Columbus as the winningest coach in program history in terms of both wins and winning percentage. The Buckeyes won an unprecedented six consecutive Big Ten regular season championships and had a run of eight straight years with a Buckeye named conference player of the year, but the month of March became a source of frustration for OSU fans as a string of early exits from the NCAA tournament got longer by the year. Ohio State won four Big Ten tournament titles but never advanced beyond the Sweet 16 in 10 NCAA tournament appearances. That was despite receiving a at least a top-4 seed five times.
