Men's Basketball: Ohio Northern (0-0 Overall) at Oberlin (0-0 Overall)
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, 7 p.m. - Phillips Gymnasium, Oberlin, Ohio
Tuesday's Preview: The Polar Bears will open the Neal Young era on Tuesday night with a non-conference contest at Oberlin ... Ohio Northern welcomes back six lettermen and four starters from last year's squad that went 10-15 overall and was 3-13 in the OAC ... Senior C.J. Napier leads the list of returners after leading the team with averages of 16.2 points and 8.5 rebounds per game a year ago ... Napier is a three-time All-OAC honoree and needs just 133 points to become the 40th member of ONU's 1,000-Point Club ... Senior Adam Scott (10.6 ppg, 5.1 rpg), senior Landen Long (9.7 ppg, 31 3-pointers) and senior Michael Berner (8.3 ppg, 4.6 rpg) also return as starters from a year ago ... Napier, Long and Berner are all Academic All-OAC honorees as well ... Sophomore Ethan Bell (4.7 ppg, 66 assists) and junior Carson Conley (2.4 ppg) also return as lettermen ... Oberlin is also featurnig a first-year head coach at Shiva Senthil is coaching his first game for the Yeomen ... OC returns four starters from its 2021-22 ream that went 6-18 but lost 10 games by seven ofr fewer points ... The Montenegrin duo of junior Dimitrije Radusinovic and senior Dorde Otasevic headline the list of returners as they led the team in scoring last year at 14.6 and 14.3 points per game, respectively, to account for 38.8 percent of the team's point production.
ONU Returning Statistical Leaders (2021-22 Stats):
Scoring | Rebounding | 3FGs | Assists | Steals | ||||||||||||||
1. | Napier | 16.2 | 1. | Napier | 8.5 | 1. | Long | 31 | 1. | Bell | 66 | 1. | Napier | 24 | ||||
2. | Scott | 10.6 | 2. | Scott | 5.1 | 2. | Bell | 22 | 2. | Long | 48 | 2. | Bell | 17 | ||||
3. | Long | 9.7 | 3. | Berner | 4.6 | 3. | Napier | 16 | 3. | Napier | 32 | 3. | Long | 16 |
All-Time Series: Oberlin leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 16-12 margin ... The two schools have not played since the 1983-84 season, when Oberlin posted 44-37 and 62-55 vicgtories in their final season in the OAC.
Head Coach Neal Young: Young is in his first season at ONU. He is 128-121 in nine seasons overall after going five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) and four seasons as head coach at Goshen (Ind.)