ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — UCF guard Darius Johnson scored his 1,000th point Tuesday night in the Knights' 80-69 victory against Tennessee Tech.

Keyshawn Hall scored 20 points, Jordan Ivy-Curry added 15 and UCF blew most of a 20-point lead before the Knights pulled away for a victory.

Hall finished with eight rebounds and a career-high five assists, and Ivy-Curry added four assists and four steals. Dallan “Deebo” Coleman scored 12 of his 14 points in the first half, and JJ Taylor had 11 for UCF (4-0).

Kyle Layton made 4 of 5 from 3-point range and scored all of his 16 points in the second half for Tennessee Tech (3-3), and Daniel Egbuniwe finished with 13 points. Rodney Johnson Jr. and Jaylon Johnson scored 12 points apiece.

Hall hit a 3-pointer to open the second half before Coleman scored in the paint to give UCF a 20-point lead — its biggest of the game — with 18 minutes, 41 seconds to play. Egbuniwe scored the next five points to spark a 15-3 run to cut Tennessee Tech’s deficit to single digits with 12:44 remaining. Layton hit three 3-pointers in less than 90 seconds and hit the 1-and-1 free throw on the last of those to cap a 15-3 run that made it 65-62 with 7 minutes left, but the Golden Eagles got no closer.

Darius Johnson and Rokas Jocius hit back-to-back 3-pointers to cap a 15-2 run that gave UCF a 14-point lead with 3 minutes left in the first half, and Hall made a layup at the buzzer to make it 47-32 at the break.

UCF's Johnson finished with six points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals. The senior guard became just the 21st player in program history to reach the 1,000-point milestone.