{"id":349609,"date":"2026-06-25T06:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349609\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:50:15","slug":"houston-rockets-select-ohio-state-all-time-leading-scorer-bruce-thornton-in-second-round-of-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349609\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets select Ohio State all-time leading scorer Bruce Thornton in second round of NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thornton cemented his name in Buckeye history in March, breaking the school\u2019s all-time scoring record that stood for nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n

COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Ohio State guard Bruce Thornton was selected in the second round of the NBA Draft by the Houston Rockets on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Thornton cemented his name in Buckeye history in March, breaking the school\u2019s all-time scoring record that stood for nearly 40 years, which was previously held by Dennis Hopson with 2,096 points. Thornton finished his Ohio State career with 2,164 points.<\/p>\n


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The 2025-26 season was statistically Thornton\u2019s best year, averaging 19.9 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.9 assists a game. This season was also the only time Thornton made an appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Ohio State fell to TCU in the first round.<\/p>\n

Thornton arrived to Ohio State in 2022 and quickly became the team\u2019s primary playmaker and leader. He came to Ohio State as a four-star recruit in a top-10 signing class for former coach Chris Holtmann in 2022.<\/p>\n

He has spent his entire collegiate career playing for the Buckeyes, leading the team in scoring for three consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n

Thornton was the first player in program history to serve as a four-time captain.<\/p>\n

During his collegiate career, Thornton earned multiple honors, including All-Big Ten Second Team in 2025 and 2026, NABC All-District in 2025 and 2026 and Honorable Mention AP All-American in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thornton cemented his name in Buckeye history in March, breaking the school\u2019s all-time scoring record that stood for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-349609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}