Men's Basketball: #17 Mount Union (6-1 Overall, 1-1 OAC) at Ohio Northern (5-2 Overall, 1-1 OAC)
Saturday, December 11, 2021, 4 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern enter's Saturday's game coming off a thrilling 72-68 overtime victory over Wilmington in its home opener on Wednesday ... Senior Brandon Waugh scored nine points in the final 34 seconds of regulation, including a tying 3-pointer just ahead of the final buzzer, to even the game at 64-64 and send it into overtime ... Junior C.J. Napier had his eighth career double-double with 25 points and 12 rebounds ... ONU is now 2-0 in overtime games this season with a 90-88 victory over Buffalo State (N.Y.) also in the win column ... Napier leads the Polar Bears in scoring at 14.4 ppg, in rebounding, where he is fifth in the OAC at 7.9 rpg, and in steals with 10 ... Junior Landen Long is second in scoring at 12.9 ppg, Waugh is third at 11.7 ppg and junior Adam Scott is fourth at 10.9 ppg ... Waugh currently ranks 16th all-time in ONU history with 118 career steals ... He also needs 32 assists to crack the top 20 in that category ... ONU will take next week off for finals and will return to action next Saturday with a road game at Capital ... A halftime ceremony will honor a trio of ONU basketball squads - the 1979-80 team that won the OAC title and played in the NCAA Tournament, the 1980-81 squad that defeated Okalahoma 72-69 in Norman on Dec. 23, 1980 and the 1981-82 team that won the University of Pacific Christmas Tournament with victories over Portland (48-46) and Northern Arizona (58-56) Dec. 18-19, 1981. and won the OAC title and played in the NCAA Tournament ... Mount Union enters Saturday's contest ranked No. 17 nationally by D3hoops.com ... The Purple Raiders are coming off a 93-83 win at John Carroll on Wednesday ... Senior Darrell Newsome scored a career-high 29 points and senior Ethan Sanislawski added 19 points to lead MtU ... The Raiders rank second in the OAC with an average of 87.3 ppg ... Sophomore Christian Parker leads the team and is ninth in the OAC in scoring at 15.7 ppg ... Senior Braedon Poole is second in scoring at 14.4 ppg and is fourth in the OAC in rebounding as a team-best 9.4 rpg.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Scoring | Rebounding | 3FGs | Assists | Steals | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Napier | 14.3 | 1. | Napier | 7.9 | 1. | Long | 12 | 1. | Bell | 25 | 1. | Napier | 10 | ||||
| 2. | Long | 12.9 | 2. | Long | 4.7 | Waugh | 12 | 2. | Long | 21 | 2. | Scott | 6 | |||||
| 3. | Waugh | 11.7 | 3. | Scott | 4.3 | 3. | Bell | 4 | 3. | Waugh | 19 | 3. | Waugh | 6 | ||||
| 4. | Scott | 10.9 |
All-Time Series: ONU leads the all-time series with Mount Union by a 61-44 margin ... MtU has won the last five in the series, including a 94-72 win in Alliance last season ... ONU is 34-14 in the series in games played at the ONU Sports Center.
Head Coach Rich Bensman: Bensman is in his sixth season at ONU with a 61-62 record, a winning percentage of .496.
