Men’s Basketball: Baldwin Wallace (7-4 Overall, 2-2 OAC) at Ohio Northern (7-4 Overall, 1-3 OAC)

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 7 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Wednesday's Preview: The Polar Bears are playing their first game in a week after Saturday's game against John Carroll was canceled and declared a no-contest per Ohio Athletic Conference COVID protocols … Last time out, Northern took a 57-53 loss at Otterbein on Jan. 5 with juniors C.J. Napier and Michael Berner scoring 15 points each … ONU is averaging 71.2 points per game and allowing 73.5 points per contest while shooting 45.2% from the field, 36.3% on 3-pointers and 61.4% from the foul line … Northern currently has four players averaging double figures in scoring with Napier (14.5 points per game), senior Brandon Waugh (13.1) and juniors Landen Long (10.6) and Adam Scott (10.5) … Napier ranks ninth in the OAC in scoring average, and his team-high 8.3 rebounds per game is tied for fourth in the conference … Waugh leads the team with 24 made 3-pointers, which is tied for sixth in the OAC, on 45.3% shooting from beyond the arc … Waugh leads ONU with 37 assists, which ranks eighth in the OAC, and his 16 steals are tied for 11th in the conference … Waugh ranks 15th on the program's all-time career steals list with 128 … Waugh's 224 career assists are 14 shy of breaking into the top 20 on the ONU leaderboard in that category … The Polar Bears will next play at Muskingum on Saturday at 4 p.m. in the second half of a women's-men's doubleheader … Baldwin Wallace is coming off Saturday's 79-67 home win over Muskingum … Sophomore Drew Wennes (28 points, 7 rebounds) and junior Anthony Mazzeo (19 points, 10 rebounds) led BWU … The Yellow Jackets are averaging 76.5 points per game while allowing 72.8 points per contest and are shooting 43.6% from the floor, 36.8% on 3-pointers and 67% from the foul line … Mazzeo (19.4 points per game), Wennes (13.9) and junior Jake Snyder (13.8) lead BWU in scoring … Mazzeo ranks third in the OAC in scoring average and has outings of 45 and 44 points this season … Mazzeo has made a team-high 36 3-pointers on 42.4% shooting from beyond the arc and also leads the team in steals (18) … Sophomore Christian Pfeiffer leads the team in rebounding with 8.4 per game, which ranks third in the OAC … Snyder has a team-high 38 assists, which ranks seventh in the OAC.

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All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Baldwin Wallace by a 67-43 margin, including a 35-17 mark at home … The teams last met in February 2020 with BWU getting an 80-67 home win.

Head Coach Rich Bensman: Bensman is in his sixth season at ONU with a 65-64 record, a winning percentage of .504.