Game Notes From Ohio State’s Loss To Kansas – Ohio State Buckeyes
12/17/1999 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Dec. 17, 1999
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Ohio State is now 19-20 against teams representing the Big 12Conference and 3-4 against the Univeristy of Kansas. The Buckeyeshad five starters with 35 or more minutes played against KU. Thelast time four starters played that many minutes was Feb. 28, 1998in an overtime loss to Penn State at St John Arena, which was thelast game played St. John. Neshaun Coleman (35), Jon Sanderson(43), Carlos Davis (43) and Michael Redd (45) all saw at least 35minuts of court time in the 89-85 loss. Ohio State has now drilledat least one 3-point field goal attempt over the last 226 games.Scoonie Penn extended the streak with a 3-pointer early at the19:46 mark of the first half. Brown Brown has notchedthree-consecutive double-figure scoring outputs for the first timeafter tallying 18 vs. Coastal Carolina, 14 vs. Florida A&M and10 at Kansas. With his 20-point performance, Michael Redd hasscored in double figures in all but two of his 72 career games.Redd moved into 15th place on the all-time career points list with1,459 points, moving past Bill Hosket (1,441). Redd also drilled 3of 4 free throw attempts and is near perfect this season (19 of 20)from the charity stripe. He had a streak of 17-consecutive madefree throws broken with his lone miss in the second half. KenJohnson blocked four shots in the contest, giving him 29 throughsix games this season and 187 for his career. He stands tied forsecond in career blocked shots with Brad Sellers on the all-timeOSU blocked shots chart. Ohio State outrebounded the Jayhawks 44-25and are 4-1 this season when outrebounding the opponent. TheBuckeyes had four players in double figures led by MichaelRedd’s season-high 20 pts. The Buckeyes’ benchmanaged just two points on a pair of free throws in the finalminute by freshman Brent Darby. Redd notched his ninth-careerdouble-double with 20 points and 10 rebounds against the Jayhawks.He has two double-doubles this season after a 15-point, 11-reboundeffort against Duquesne (12/4).
