Friday-Saturday, Nov. 18-19, 2022 - Timken Gymnasium, Wooster, Ohio
Tournament Preview: The Polar Bears will compete on Friday and Saturday at the Wooster Al Van Wie Classic at the Timken Gymnasium ... Ohio Northern will begin play Friday night at 6 pm against Randolph (Va.), while Wooster will face Mt. Aloysuis (Pa.) at 8 pm ... On Saturday, the championship game is slated for 4 pm after the consolation game at 2 pm ... Senior Landen Long scored a team-high 15 points to lead ONU in a 79-75 loss to Denison in the Polar Bears' home opener on Saturday ... Senior C.J. Napier scored 14 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds, senior Michael Berner added 14 points and sophomore Ethan Bell chipped in 11 points for the Polar Bears ... In two games this season, Napier leads the team in scoring (16.0 ppg) and in rebounding (8.0 rpg) ... Long is second in scoring at 11.0 ppg and leads the team with 4 steals ... Bell is third in scoring at 8.5 ppg and has a team-high 7 assists ... Randolph is 1-1 after an 86-65 loss to North Carolina Wesleyan and an 87-83 win over Greensboro (N.C.) ... Senior Danny Bickey was named to the D3hoops.com Team of the Week lon Tuesday, averaging 30.0 points and 5 rebounds in two games last week ... Wooster has not opened its season yet, but dropped an 84-49 exhibition game at Illinois State on Oct. 30 ... Mt Aloysius is 2-1 with an 87-74 win over Carlow (Pa.) and an 81-61 win over Penn State-Dubois and a 68-54 loss at Goucher (Md.)
ONU Statistical Leaders:
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Napier |
16.0 |
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Napier |
8.0 |
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Bell |
3 |
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Bell |
7 |
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Long |
4 |
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Long |
11.0 |
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Berner |
4.0 |
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Long |
3 |
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Long |
6 |
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Studer |
3 |
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Bell |
8.5 |
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Willer |
3.0 |
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Conley |
2 |
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Conley |
4 |
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Miller |
3 |
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Miller |
2 |
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All-Time Series: Wooster leads the all-time series with Ohio Northern by a 25-17 margin ... ONU has not faced Randolph or Mt. Aloysius in the 112-year history of its men's basketball program.
Head Coach Neal Young: Young is in his first season at ONU and has a 1-1 record. He is 129-122 in 10 seasons overall after going five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) and four seasons as head coach at Goshen (Ind.)
