All it took was three games.
After ho-hum performances in a trio of season-opening warmups against Robert Morris, Charleston Southern and Eastern Illinois, Bruce Thornton hit his stride. The highly-touted freshman point guard rattled off a subsequent nine-game run in which Chris Holtmann could hardly take him off the floor.
Thornton averaged 12.6 points, shot well over 50% from the floor and 3-point range and dished 3.4 assists per game as the Buckeyes went 6-3 from Nov. 21 to Dec. 29. Thornton finished with double-digit scoring numbers in eight of those nine contests, logged an average of 31.