Brown Leads Buckeyes With Perfect Night From The Floor As Men’s Hoops Down Seminoles – Ohio State Buckeyes
11/23/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Nov. 23, 2000
Box Score
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-The Ohio State men’s basketball team was about as far away from Plymouth Rock as could be but was able to celebrate Thanksgiving nonetheless following a record-setting performance in the first round of the Great Alaska Shootout.
The Buckeyes downed Florida State 90-65 behind a perfect shooting performance from junior co-captain Brian Brown, who led all scorers with 23 points. Brown, who set a career-high in scoring, connected on all nine of his shots from the field while going 5-for-5 from 3-point range. He also added five assists.
Senior co-captain Ken Johnson became the all-time record holder in blocked shots with five against the Seminoles. He now has 329 in his career, passing the 328 rejected by Buckeye great Herb Williams (1978-81).
Johnson was effective offensively as well. He worked the paint for 16 points and six rebounds.
Not to be outdone were sophomore Brent Darby and junior Boban Savovic. Darby scored a career-high 18 points on 8-of-13 shooting from the field to go along with a career-best five assists.
Savovic, starting his second game as a Buckeye, contributed a solid 10 points and a game and career-high eight assists.
The Buckeyes got out of the gate early and never looked back. After the first 20 minutes, Ohio State led 48-37 after shooting 70 percent (19-27) from the field and 80 percent (8-10) from 3-point range. For the game, OSU connected on 60 percent (35-58) of its shots from the field and 67 percent (10-15) from long range.
The 10 made 3-pointers tie for 10th all-time for 3-pointers made in a game. The last time the Buckeyes hit for 10 in a game was March 19, 1999 against Detroit in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Indianapolis.
The Buckeyes advanced to face the winner of the DePaul vs. Syracuse game, which followed the OSU vs. FSU contest, at midnight (EST) Friday. The game will be televised nationally by ESPN.
Notes:
Ohio State improved to 4-0 all-time against Florida State andto 31-14 against teams representing the Atlantic Coast Conference.The Buckeyes are 3-1 in the Great Alaska Shootout following the winover FSU. The Buckeyes are 50-51 in the first game of the seasonaway from Columbus. Ohio State head coach Jim O’Brien has a careerrecord of 295-255, just five victories short of career win No. 300.The win over FSU gives O’Brien a 60-38 record at Ohio State in fourseasons as the Buckeye head coach. Ken Johnson has 94 careerstarts, with a start Friday, he will tie for 10th all-time forcareer starts at Ohio State. He will tie former guard Jay Burson(1986-89), who finished his career with 95. Johnson not only tookover the No.1 spot in career blocks at Ohio State, he also movedinto the No. 4 position in career rejections in the Big Ten. Heneeds 21 more to surpass Joe Barry Carroll (1977-80) of Purdue forthe No. 3 spot in the Big Ten. Carroll finished with 349 careerrejections. Freshman center Velimir Radinovic got the most out ofhis two minutes of action. Radinovic played the final two minutesof the game and scored a career-high six points. He hit both of hisshots from the field and was 2-for-2 from the foul line. Ohio Stateis 44-11 all time in games played in the month of November.
