COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State (No. 16 ESPN/USA Today, No. 13 AP) plans on getting fat over the holidays.

Feasting on cream puffs such as overmatched Florida A&M -- a 99-47 victim Saturday night -- the Buckeyes (3-1) have run off three wins in a row since a disappointing loss in their opener.

	Ohio State's Scoonie Penn drives for an easy lay-up Saturday. Penn had nine points and 12 assists in the Buckeyes' 99-47 win over Florida A&M.

Ahead lie games against Coastal Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, Toledo, Oakland and American, with a game at Kansas -- the only ranked opponent before the Buckeyes begin Big Ten play next month.

Asked what his team got out of the blowout of overmatched Florida A&M, Ohio State coach Jim O'Brien said, "A lot of minutes for our young guys. They're going to need to play."

A lot sure got to play against the Rattlers (1-5) and almost all of them played well. Michael Redd scored 17 points and six teammates had career nights.

Ken Johnson had a career-high 11 rebounds and tied his previous best with seven blocked shots, while Cobe Ocokoljic (18 points), George Reese (16), Brian Brown (14) and Will Dudley (12) each had career scoring nights. Scoonie Penn added a career-best 12 assists.

It was the most lopsided game in Value City Arena's two years and Ohio State's easiest win since a 114-53 beating of Howard eight years ago.

"We got a lot of confidence that maybe we are the same team as last year," Brown said, referring to the Buckeyes' foray to the Final Four last March. "Anytime you can beat a team by 52, that's good. Maybe we spoiled the fans last year."

The biggest cheers from a crowd of 17,741 came as the Buckeyes' subs neared the 100-point mark in the closing minute. Doylan Robinson missed a pair of free throws with 14.5 seconds left that would have pushed Ohio State into triple digits.

The fans booed when the Rattlers dribbled out the final seconds rather than give the Buckeyes another shot at getting another point.

"Unfortunately, it was as if we were intimidated from the very beginning," Rattlers coach Mickey Clayton said. "That was a concern I had from the beginning, looking into their faces."

None of Ohio State's four opponents have a winning record so far and have combined for a 9-15 record.

O'Brien said he had hoped his team would win twice at home in the Preseason NIT and would draw a couple of top teams in Madison Square Garden. Instead, the Buckeyes lost to Notre Dame 59-57 in the first round on a last-second shot.

"We attempted to get to New York to play Arizona and Kentucky," he said. "We had an opportunity to play some really good teams early on but we just forfeited that opportunity ourselves."

Travis Grant III had 13 points and Michael Shipp 11 for Florida A&M (1-5), which shot just 22 percent from the field (15 of 67) and had nine shots blocked.

The game was all but over by halftime, with the Buckeyes limiting the Rattlers to just one field goal in the last 10 minutes while rolling to a 54-24 lead.

Ohio State scored 29 of the final 36 points as Florida A&M misfired on all but one of their last 16 shots from the field. The Buckeyes led 16-12 after the first 6{ minutes before going on a 9-0 run that started with Johnson's dunk off an assist from Penn. After Grant's 3-pointer cut the Buckeyes' lead to 25-17, Ohio State went on a 12-0 run. The lead never dipped below 20 points again.

"The minutes look like bad minutes but they'll help us in the long run," Penn said.