Post Game Notes From Ohio State vs. Purdue – Ohio State Buckeyes
1/2/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 2, 2002
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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. With 16 points,Terence Dials set a career-high for the second-consecutive game. Hetallied 15 vs. UNC-Greensboro. On the season, he is 25-33 from thefield for a shooting percentage of .758. He also played acareer-high 25 minutes vs. the Boilermakers. Boban Savovic kept the3-point streak alive with his field goal at the 19:13 mark in thefirst half. Ohio State has made at least one 3-point basket in292-consecutive games. Ohio State went into halftime with a 42-32lead after connected on 70 percent of its shots at the break(16-23). The Buckeyes finished the game shooting .612 (30-49) tomark the second-consecutive contest shooting better than 60 percent(37-58, .638). Junior Brent Darby finished the game with acareer-high eight assists. He also added nine points and fiverebounds.. The Buckeyes have shot over .500 from the field in7-of-11 games this season. Ohio State has won the last six Big Tenroad games, which includes five from last season. The Buckeyes havenot won seven-consecutive road games in the league since the 1971Big Ten season when Ohio State won all seven of its league roadgames. Ohio State has won its last five games against Purdue toclose the 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. Ohio State has a record of 50-40 (.556) over 90 seasons ofBig Ten play in conference openers. The Buckeyes are 34-56 (.378)in the first road game of the Big Ten season. Jan. 2 has been agreat date to play for Ohio State. The Buckeyes have won the last12 games on Jan. 2 and are 17-3 all-time on that date. The lastloss was in 1950 to Bradley (65-46) on the road.
