Game Notes From Ohio State’s Victory Over Purdue – Ohio State Buckeyes
1/29/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 29, 2000
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Ohio State improves to 14-3 overall and 5-1 in the Big Ten,moving into a tie for first place with Michigan State. Purdue dropsto 13-7 overall and 4-3 in Big Ten play with the defeat. OSU is now25-2 all-time at Value City Arena. The Boilermakers lead theall-time series 77-67. Michael Redd moved into 8th place all-timeat OSU in scoring with his 14-point effort tonight. Redd now has 1,617 career points. He passed Perry Carter who scored 1,613 in hiscareer at OSU. Redd is just five points behind No. 7 Dave Sorensonwho ended his OSU career with 1,622 points. With 19 points ScooniePenn passed the 1,600-point mark. Penn, who spent two years atBoston College has 1, 610 career points. Penn tallied 737 while atBC and has 873 at Ohio State. Scoonie Penn passed the 400-reboundmark with his two rebounds tonight. He now has 401 career rebounds.Ken Johnson recorded his third double-double of the season with 10points and 10 rebounds. His previous double-doubles came againstToledo (12/22/99) and Wisconsin (1/13/99). Ken Johnson is now tiedfor 6th on the all-time Big Ten list for blocked shots with 251. Heties Michigan’s Roy Tarpley (1982-86). Johnson needs 57 more blocksto pass former Buckeye Brad Sellers (1981-86). With his sevenblocks tonight Johnson moves into 3rd for single season blockedshots. He now has 93 blocks on the season needing just seven moreto tie his previous record of 100. He set the record for blockedshots in a season last season. Ohio State now is 9-1 when leadingat the half and 12-1 when its opponent scores less than 70 points.Ohio State now is 18-4 when ranked vs. Purdue. The last time Purduedefeated a ranked Ohio State team was in 1991 when unranked Purduewon 72-67 over the No. 2 Buckeyes in West Lafayette. Ohio Stateextended its 3-point field goal streak to 237. Scoonie Pennextended the streak half-way through the first half. The last timeOSU team missed all attempts from 3-point range was Feb. 2, 1992when the Buckeyes went 0 for 5 in a 68-58 OSU win over Michigan.
