Former Captain Jamaal Brown Passes Away

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State males’s basketball is saddened by the information that former captain Jamaal Brown has handed away at his residence in Texas over the weekend. Brown was 52.

The Arlington, Texas native appeared in 127 video games, beginning 126 of these video games, from 1988-92. A flooring chief, Brown averaged 9.0 factors per sport and scored 1,139 factors in his profession. He led the Buckeyes to back-to-back Huge Ten titles in 1991 and 1992 and served as a staff captain throughout his senior season in 1992. Brown made a team-high 34 three-pointers in 1991 and was second behind Jim Jackson in 1992 with 41 threes.

The Buckeyes made three NCAA Event appearances throughout Brown’s 4 seasons, together with a Candy 16 look in 1991 and an Elite Eight look in 1992. Often called the staff’s greatest defender, he sometimes drew the opposition’s greatest participant. Within the NCAA Second Spherical sport in opposition to Georgia Tech in 1991, Brown annoyed All-American Kenny Anderson into an 8-for-28 taking pictures efficiency which helped the Buckeyes to a 65-61 victory. The spotlight of his profession was a career-high 29-point effort in main Ohio State to a 93-85 victory over No. 3 Indiana inside Meeting Corridor in January of 1991.

Brown was a communications main who ceaselessly made stops at native elementary faculties speaking to college students about life and basketball and the hazards of drug use. Teammate and fellow captain Tony White described Brown as “a man who knew how one can play the sport, didn’t make a complete lot of errors, made bounce photographs, was a bodily presence and an important defender.” Brown was from Arlington, Texas and attended Sam Houston Excessive College the place he earned All-State honors in each observe and basketball. Throughout his senior season, he was the MVP of the Texas All-Star Recreation after which set the varsity file by clearing 6-10 within the excessive bounce.