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THE BASICS
Score: Florida State 90, Ohio 81
Location: U.S. Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center - St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
The Short Story: Freshman guard Jordan Dartis (Newark, Ohio) scored a career-high 24 points, but the Ohio men’s basketball team (3-2) fell to Florida State (4-1), 90-81, on Monday (Nov. 23) in the fifth-place game of the 2015 U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam at the U.S. Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. 

OHIO STARTERS: #0 Treg Setty, #2 Jaaron Simmons, #11 Khari Harley, #13 Kenny Kaminski, #33 Antonio Campbell

FLORIDA STATE STARTERS: #4 Dwayne Bacon, #5 Malik Beasley, #15 Boris Bojanovsky, #22 Xavier Rathan-Mayes, #32 Montay Brandon

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Florida State scored 28 points off of 18 Ohio turnovers. The Seminoles shot 54.4 percent (31-of-57) from the field while holding the Bobcats to 50.0 percent (27-of-54). Florida State outrebounded Ohio, 33-27.
• Dartis scored a team-high 24 points in 30 minutes off of the bench, shooting 7-of-12 from the field -- including 4-of-7 from three-point land 6-of-7 from the free throw line. He also logged two assists.
• Redshirt junior forward Kenny Kaminski (Medina, Ohio) shot 6-of-11 from the field â€" including 4-of-7 from beyond the arc â€" to tally 18 points in 33 minutes. He also chipped in three rebounds, two assists and a block.
• Florida State opened the contest with a 15-2 run, with Bacon accounting for seven of those points for the Seminoles.
• Junior forward Antonio Campbell (Cincinnati, Ohio) achieved his second-straight double-double with a season-high 17 points and a game-high 11 rebounds in 28 minutes. He shot 7-of-12 from the field. He also notched a team-high two blocks to go along with a steal.
• Redshirt sophomore guard Jaaron Simmons (Dayton, Ohio) recorded a game-high seven assists to go along with three points and three rebounds in 28 minutes.
• Freshman guard Dwayne Bacon led all scorers with 25 points off of 9-of-15 shooting -- including 3-of-4 from deep and 4-of-6 from the free throw line -- in 34 minutes for the Seminoles. He also added a team-high seven boards to go along with two steals and an assist.
• Freshman guard Malik Beasley went 8-of-10 from the field â€" including 2-of-3 from three-point land and 4-of-5 from the charity stripe â€" to log 22 points over 29 minutes for Florida State. He also posted five rebounds, three assists and two steals.
• Senior center Boris Bojanovsky and sophomore guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes each totaled 14 points for the Seminoles. Bojanovsky shot 4-of-9 from the field and 6-of-8 from the free throw line. He also posted five rebounds in 32 minutes. Rathan-Mayes went 6-of-11 from the field. He dished out a team-high six assists and also recorded three rebounds and two steals.
• Florida State opened the contest with a 15-2 run, with Bacon accounting for seven of those points for the Seminoles.
• Ohio answered back with a 19-10 stretch that helped the Bobcats cut Florida State’s lead down to four with just over nine minutes remaining in the half. Eleven points by Dartis highlighted the run for Ohio -- including three treys by the rookie.
• The Seminoles used a 14-5 run to build its advantage back up to 13 at 39-26 with just under five minutes to go in the first half. Seven points by Beasley helped power Florida State back to a double-digit advantage.
• The Bobcats closed out the first half with a 12-6 run to trim Florida State’s lead down to seven going into halftime at 45-38. A three and a jumper by Kaminski, two layups by Campbell and three free throws by Block helped Ohio shave its deficit to single digits.
• Ohio carried that momentum over into the beginning of the second half, outscoring Florida State, 24-14, over the opening 10 minutes of the second half to take a 62-59 lead. Three treys from Kaminski and two free throws, a layup and a three by Dartis helped put the Bobcats in front for the first and only time of the contest.
• The Seminoles answered the challenge by putting together a 16-6 run that built the Florida State lead back up to seven at 75-68 with just over four minutes to go. Five points apiece from Beasley and Bacon during the spurt helped the Seminoles regain control.
• The Bobcats cut Florida State’s lead back down to four at 75-71 thanks to a conventional three-point play by Dartis with just under four minutes to play, but that’s as close as Ohio got to regaining the lead as the Seminoles closed out the victory by outscoring Ohio by a 15-10 count over the final three-plus minutes.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• Ohio finished the Paradise Jam with a 1-2 mark. The Bobcats fell to Tulsa, 90-88, in the opener on Friday (Nov. 20), then bounced back to beat Norfolk State, 93-71 the following day.
• The Green & White missed breaking the Paradise Jam total point record by five points, finishing the event with 262 points over three games.
• The Bobcats are now 1-2 (.333) all-time against the Seminoles.
• Dartis reached double figures for the third time this season, led the team in scoring for the second time this year and recorded his first career 20-plus point outing.
• Kaminski finished in double figures for the fourth time this year.
• Campbell recorded double-digit points for the fourth time this season and 25th time in his career. He logged his 11th career double-double.
• Simmons set a Paradise Jam record with 28 assists over three games.

QUOTABLE
Second-year Ohio head coach Saul Phillips on the loss:
"Too many times we let them out in transition, period. It’s easy to game plan that, but go ahead and try to do it against that length. It’s difficult. At one point, we had Jaaron on the bench with four fouls and two freshmen out there at the one and the two, and they did a decent job. We are very much a work in progress. I get that, but a lot of positive came out of this weekend. We’re certainly going to double down and learn a lot more when we get them back to Athens and get them in the film room."

Second-year Ohio head coach Saul Phillips on the play of freshman guard Jordan Dartis:
"Jordan Dartis apparently has something against the ACC, because he was just tremendous tonight. Twenty-four points for a freshman against a team with that length is really something. He doesn’t look anything like a freshman, in any way, shape, form. Again, he not only had to score for us; he had to put the ball on the deck and handle it against some pretty good pressure."

UP NEXT
Ohio returns home to the friendly confines of the Convocation Central in Athens to play Marshall next Tuesday (Dec. 1). Tip time is set for 7 p.m. ET.

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