Men's Basketball: Wilmington (2-5 Overall, 1-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (2-3 Overall, 0-1 OAC)
Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 7 pm - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Wednesday's Game: Ohio Northern will open the home portion of its schedule on Wednesday when Wilmington comes to the ONU Sports Center for a 7 pm contest ... The Dec. 11 home opener is the latest for ONU since 2008, when Heidelberg came to Ada on Dec. 17 for Ohio Northern's first home game that year ... ONU is coming off an 81-60 loss at Mount Union last Saturday ... Freshman C.J. Napier scored 21 points and added five rebounds to lead Ohio Northern, while fellow freshman Landen Long had 15 points, four assists, and three rebounds on the day for the Polar Bears ... Through 5 games this season, Napier leads the team and is fifth in the Ohio Athletic Conference in scoring at 17.8 ppg and in rebounding at 6.7 ... Napier leads the OAC with an average of 3.2 offensive rebounds per game ... Long is second in scoring at 13.6 ppg and leads the team with 12 3-pointers ... Sophomore Brandon Waugh is third in scoring at 9.0 ppg and leads the team with 20 assists and 11 steals ... As a team, ONU leads the league with an average of only 13.6 fouls per game and is second in the league allowing only 32.8 rebounds per game ... Northern will return to action on Saturday with a 2 pm home game with Capital ... Wilmington opened its OAC schedule on Saturday with a 71-69 home victory Heidelberg ... WC ended the game on a 10-1 run to overcome a 68-61 deficit with 3:20 to play ... Sophomore Jeffrey Mansfield tied his career high in scoring with 23 points and senior DaeShawn Jackson had a season-high 17 points and a team-best eight rebounds ... Mansfield leads the Quakers in scoring at 18.7 ppg, Jackson is second at 14.7 ppg, junior Abdul Kanu is third at 11.1 ppg and junior Colin Myers is fourth at 10.1 ppg.
Ohio Northern Probable Starters:
G - #1 Brandon Waugh, So. (9.6 ppg, 20 ast, 11 stls)
G - #12 Landen Long, Fr. (13.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 12 3FGs)
F - #5 Austin Allemeier, Sr., (5.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg)
F - #21 C.J. Napier, Fr. (17.8 ppg, 6.7 rpg)
C - #15 Michael Berner, Fr. (5.4 ppg, 2.6 rpg)
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Scoring | Rebounding | 3FGs | Assists | Blocked Shots | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Napier | 17.8 | 1. | Napier | 6.8 | 1. | Long | 12 | 1. | Waugh | 20 | 1. | Berner | 3 | ||||
| 2. | Long | 13.0 | 2. | Waugh | 5.2 | 2. | Waugh | 7 | 2. | Allemeier | 10 | 2. | Waugh | 2 | ||||
| 3. | Waugh | 9.6 | 3. | Allemeier | 3.0 | 3. | Phillips | 5 | 3. | Long | 7 | Scott | 2 | |||||
| Long | 3.0 | Napier | 5 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 38-30 margin ... Wilmington has won the last three meetings, including 78-60 and 93-84 wins last year ... ONU is 21-12 all-time in games played in Ada and is 16-6 in games at the ONU Sports Center.
ONU head coach Rich Bensman: Bensman is in his fourth season at ONU with a 44-40 record, a winning percentage of .524.
