COLUMBUS, Ohio — On the night his best friend, Jared Sullinger, was honored for being last season's National High School Player of the Year, Trey Burke hit a milestone of his own.

Burke scored his 1,000th point Friday night while his future college coach, John Beilein, was in the stands.

With Northland High School leading handily midway through the fourth quarter of a 70-35 win over Brookhaven, coach Satch Sullinger called a timeout and drew up an isolation play for the 6-foot-1 point guard committed to Michigan.

Burke pulled up at the free-throw line and calmly sank the jump shot, finishing with 16 points for the night and, for now, exactly 1,000 points in his high school career.

“They were kind of telling me (from) the stands, and the timeout before I got it they told me I needed two more points, needed a bucket,” Burke said. “They got me the ball.”

After he hit the shot, Satch Sullinger stepped onto the court, called a timeout and embraced his point guard, the kid he considers part of his own family.

Earlier in the day, Burke told a visitor it had been a goal from his freshman year to score 1,000 points — and he knew how far away he was.

That he got it on the same day Jared Sullinger - now a freshman at Ohio State - was honored for his dominance as a high school senior at Northland was important to both of them.

“It’s my little brother,” Jared Sullinger said. “We did so many things together, so many things our parents don’t even know about when we was young.

“With him doing that, it takes the honor and respect to a whole other level.”

“It really is (special),” Burke said. “Once again, me and Jared being so close. It’s great seeing him getting his number retired and then me getting the thousand-point mark on the same night. It’s big for Northland High School.”

Michael Rothstein covers Michigan basketball for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at (734) 623-2558, by e-mail at michaelrothstein@annarbor.com or follow along on Twitter @mikerothstein.