On Monday night, the numbers were even better. Florida finished at 55.6 percent. The Buckeyes were 4-for-23 (17.4 percent).

“I think we’d rather give up a two instead of a 3 any day,” Florida’s Chris Richard said. “They had a few 3s, not anything major to get them into the game. We did a good job defending the perimeter.”

And the Gators were pretty impressive from there.

Brewer, the defensive stopper, was 3-for-8. Green, the point guard, was 3-for-3. Humphrey was 4-for-7.

That’s 10 3s among them. Somehow it seemed like a lot more than 30 points.

“They just did an incredible job of making 3s,” Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said. “That was one of the things that we wanted to hone in on and really try to limit and take away from their 3s. ... But they just hit a couple of those freakish type 3s that, you know, just were daggers for us.”

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