Brent Darby

Who was Brent Darby?

Brent Darby was a 6-foot-1 basketball player playing guard with the Ohio State Buckeyes between 1999 and 2003 and part of two Big Ten champions. He averaged 9.6 points his sophomore season, 12.8 points as a junior and 18.3 points his senior year 4.4 assists for the Buckeyes in his senior year in 2002-03 and ranked No. 25 in the school's career scoring list with 1,368 points.

After graduation, Darby played professional basketball internationally from 2003 until 2009, in Israel, Poland, Spain, France and many years in Italy. He had to stop playing as he battled a series of blood clot problems. Doctors had implanted filters in Darby's body to break up clots before reaching his lungs and had a surgery to remove a large clot from his leg.