Buckeyes Roll Past Florida Atlantic – Ohio State Buckeyes
12/17/1998 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
December 17, 1998
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%^$ COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scoonie Penn scored 21 points and had a hand in eight%^$points during a 10-0 first-half run as Ohio State matched its win total from a%^$year ago with a 99-70 victory over Florida Atlantic.%^$
%^$ The victory moved the Buckeyes, 8-22 a year ago, to 8-0 at the new%^$$110-million Value City Arena. Ohio State, which has lost both of its road%^$games, plays its next five games away from home.%^$
%^$ The streak includes landslide wins over Army and Tennessee Tech and three%^$teams who are full-fledged Division I members for the first time this season,%^$Oakland (Mich.), Tennessee-Martin and the Owls (3-6).%^$
%^$ Michael Redd, last year’s top freshman scorer in the country, led the%^$Buckeyes with 26 points. Jon Sanderson added 14 and Boban Savovic 10.%^$
%^$ Damon Arnette scored 28 points and Rino Bevis had 12.%^$
%^$ Unlike in their previous home blowouts, the Buckeyes found themselves in a%^$ballgame midway through the opening half.%^$
%^$ Arnette’s bucket at the 8:34 mark pulled the Owls to 27-25. But the Buckeyes%^$came right back on Sanderson’s 10-footer and, after Arnette missed a 3-pointer,%^$Penn popped in a short shot to make it 31-25.%^$
%^$ The Owls never got closer than four points again.%^$
%^$ Sanderson’s layup off a Penn assist at the 7:17 mark ignited a 10-0 run.%^$Penn scored five points in the surge and assisted on two other baskets.%^$
%^$ Florida Atlantic was 0-for-7 from the field to the Buckeyes’ 4-for-6 during%^$the run.%^$
%^$ Ahead 55-36 at the half, the Buckeyes reeled off 19 of the first 23 points%^$of the second half for a 74-40 lead – their largest of the game.%^$
%^$ The loudest cheers from a crowd of 16,201 came in the final seconds when%^$Kwadjo Steele missed a free throw and Savovic a 3-pointer that would have%^$allowed the Buckeyes to reach 100 points.
%^$By RUSTY MILLER
%^$AP Sports Writer%^$
