Post Game Notes From Ohio State vs. Purdue – Ohio State Buckeyes
1/2/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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With his 14-point performance, Brian Brown moved to the No. 39position in career scoring at Ohio State. He has scored 1,015career points. He is seven points behind former teammate JasonSingleton (1996-99), who finished his career with 1,022. Brown isthe 40th Ohio State player to reach 1,000 points.%^$
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With 16 points, Terence Dials set a career-high for thesecond-consecutive game. He tallied 15 vs. UNC-Greensboro. On theseason, he is 25-33 from the field for a shooting percentage of.758. He also played a career-high 25 minutes vs. theBoilermakers.%^$
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Boban Savovic kept the 3-point streak alive with his field goalat the 19:13 mark in the first half. Ohio State has made at leastone 3-point basket in 292-consecutive games.%^$
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Ohio State went into halftime with a 42-32 lead after connectedon 70 percent of its shots at the break (16-23). The Buckeyesfinished the game shooting .612 (30-49) to mark thesecond-consecutive contest shooting better than 60 percent (37-58,.638).%^$
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Junior Brent Darby finished the game with a career-high eightassists. He also added nine points and five rebounds..%^$
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The Buckeyes have shot over .500 from the field in 7-of-11games this season.%^$
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Ohio State has won the last six Big Ten road games, whichincludes five from last season. The Buckeyes have not wonseven-consecutive road games in the league since the 1971 Big Tenseason when Ohio State won all seven of its league road games.%^$
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Ohio State has won its last five games against Purdue to closethe series gap, including the last three contests in WestLafayette. Purdue owns a 77-69 edge in the all-time series. Thelast five-game winning streak against the Boilermakers was from2/7/71 through 2/19/73. OSU also won three road games in thatstreak.%^$
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Ohio State has a record of 50-40 (.556) over 90 seasons of BigTen play in conference openers. The Buckeyes are 34-56 (.378) inthe first road game of the Big Ten season.%^$
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Jan. 2 has been a great date to play for Ohio State. TheBuckeyes have won the last 12 games on Jan. 2 and are 17-3 all-timeon that date. The last loss was in 1950 to Bradley (65-46) on theroad.%^$
