Men's Basketball: Rochester (N.Y.) (4-6 Overall) at Ohio Northern (5-6 Overall)
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 - 4 pm - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Tuesday's Preview: Tuesday's game is the fifth home game of the year and the first home game of the 2015 calendar year for Ohio Northern ... The Polar Bears will play three consecutive games in the ONU Sports Center, hosting #9 Marietta on Saturday and Wilmington on Jan. 14 ... Northern is 3-1 at home this year and has won 7 of its last 9 games at the friendly confines ... ONU is looking to snap a 6-game losing streak after a 70-58 loss at Trine (Ind.) on Saturday ... Sophomore Devon Allen led Ohio Northern with 11 points, senior Isaiah Roux added 10 points and sophomore Joey Hurless and senior Lucas Pennington chipped in nine points each. ... Through 11 games this season, Pennington leads the team and is seventh in the OAC in scoring with an average of 13.2 ppg ... Sophomore Konnor Baker is second in scoring at 12.5 ppg and Roux is third at 9.8 ppg ... Sophomore Alex Radkiewicz leads the team in rebounding at 4.8 rpg and Pennington is second at 4.6 rpg ... Hurless leads the team with 33 assists ... In 86 career games, Roux has 224 assists and needs just two more to crack into ONU's all-time career top-20 in that category ... Rochester but is coming off an 88-67 exhibition victory over Canadian school Brock University from St. Catherines, Ontario, on New Year's Eve ... Mack Montague scored 21 points to spark UR in that game ... Dylan Peretz had 14 points, Sam Borst-Smith scored 12, Jared Seltzer had 11 points, and Tyler Sankes scored 10 ... Borst-Smith leads UR in scoring at 13.0 ppg, in blocked shots with 10 and in steals with 19 ... Seltzer is second in scoring at 10.7 ppg and Montague is third at 10.3 ppg ... Peretz leads the team in rebounding at 10.0 rpg and is scoring at a 6.7 ppg clip ... Kevin Sheehy has 30 assists.
Ohio Northern Probable Starters (2014-15 stats):
G - #2 Isaiah Roux, Sr. (9.8 ppg, 31 Assists)
G - #14 Konnor Baker, So. (12.5 ppg, 3.9 rpg)
G - #20 Devon Allen, So. (5.5 ppg, 3.1 rpg)
F - #42 Alex Radkiewicz, So. (4.9 ppg, 4.6 rpg)
F - #32 Lucas Pennington, Sr. (13.2 ppg, 4.4 rpg)
Series Records: This is the first meeting between the two schools ... ONU is 4-4 all-time against members of the University Athletic Association.
ONU head coach Kevin Byrne: Byrne in his third season at ONU with a 34-30 record, a winning percentage of .531.