Men's Basketball: Denison (0-1 Overall) at Ohio Northern (1-0 Overall)
Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, 11 a.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Tuesday's Preview: The Polar Bears will open the home portion of their 2022-23 schedule on Saturday with an 11 am contest against Denison at the ONU Sports Center ... Ohio Northern began the Neal Young era on Tuesday with a 62-58 victory at Oberlin ... Senior C.J. Napier scored 18 points and senior Heath Jeffries added 11 points for the Polar Bears ... Northern used a 12-0 run, holding the Yeomen scoreless for nearly six minutes, to take a 45-36 lead with 10:05 remaining in the game ... OC chipped away and pulled within 54-52 with 3:20 left, but Napier nailed a 3-pointer with 2:50 to go to extend the lead to 57-52 ... After the Yeomen got within 57-54, freshman Mason Studer made one of two free throws with 39.1 seconds to go to make it 58-54 ... The Polar Bear defense got two stops and freshman Will Miller made a free throw with 14.5 seconds left and it was 59-54 ... Junior Carson Conley got fouled with 6.6 seconds remaining and made a pair of free throws and it was 61-57 ...OC made a free throw with 3.7 seconds left, but Napier drilled one of two free ones with 2.8 seconds to ice the game ... ONU returns six lettermen and four starters from last year's team that was 10-15 overall and 3-13 in the OAC ... Denison opened its season with a 78-72 loss at No. 18-ranked Case Western Reserve on Tuesday ... DU then won 66-42 at Bluffton on Friday night ... Sophomore Ricky Radtke leasds the Big Red in scoring with an average of 16.5 ppg ... Sophomore Tyler Miller is second in scoring at 14.0 ppg and senior Will Hunter had 11 points and nine rebounds ... Denison returns 13 lettermen and five starters from last year's squad that finished 13-13 overall.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Scoring | Rebounding | 3FGs | Assists | Steals | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Napier | 18.0 | 1. | Napier | 7.0 | 1. | Bell | 2 | 1. | Long | 4 | 1. | Miller | 3 | ||||
| 2. | Jeffries | 11.0 | 2. | Miller | 5.0 | 2. | Long | 1 | 2. | Bell | 3 | Studer | 3 | |||||
| 3. | Scott | 8.0 | 3. | Berner | 4.0 | Napier | 1 | 3. | Conley | 2 | 3. | Long | 1 | |||||
| Scott | 4.0 | Scott | 2 | Conley | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Studer | 4.0 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Denison by an 18-14 margin ... ONU has won the last three meetings, including an 80-70 win at Granville on 11/15/19.
Head Coach Neal Young: Young is in his first season at ONU and has a 1-0 record. He is 129-121 in 10 seasons overall after going five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) and four seasons as head coach at Goshen (Ind.)
