Men's Basketball: Marietta (3-2 Overall, 1-0 OAC) at Ohio Northern (3-2 Overall, 0-0 OAC)
Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022, 2 pm - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: The Polar Bears will return to action after a 6-day break with a 2 pm home contest against Marietta on Saturday at the ONU Sports Center in the Polar Bears' OAC opener ... Ohio Northern is coming off a 75-53 victory over Alma (Mich.) on Sunday in Ada ... Senior Landen Long scored a season-high 20 points and ONU got career-highs of 13 points and five assists from freshman Will Miller ... Senior Michael Berner scored 8 points and grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds for Northern ... Senior C.J. Napier leads the team in scoring (15.8 ppg) and rebounding (7.0 rpg) ... He has 930 career points and is just 70 shy of becoming the 40th member of ONU's 1,000-Point Club ... Long is second on the team in scoring at 12.8 ppg while senior Adam Scott is third at 8.4 ppg ... Berner is second in rebounding at 5.4 rpg ... Sophomore Ethan Bell leads the team with 19 assists ... Ohio Northern ranks 3rd in the OAC in defense, allowing only 68.6 ppg ... ONU has made 73 free throws this season, while its opponents have attempted only 57 ... Long and Miller are tied for fifth in the OAC with a 50.0 3-point shooting percentage ... Napier missed the Alma game with a leg injury and is considered day-to-day ... Marietta is coming off a 66-61 win at Otterbein on Wednesday ... Senior Sahmi Willoughby led the Pioneers, posting his second double-double of the season 14 points and 10 boards ... Sophomore Lovenson Xavier finished with 13 points and junior David Sanford had 10 points for MC ... Junior Cooper Parrott leads a Pioneers scoring attack at 11.2 ppg ... Marietta was ranked #17 in the D3hoops.com preseason poll and received 26 votes (32nd-most) in the first weekly poll on Monday.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Scoring | Rebounding | 3FGs | Assists | Steals | ||||||||||||||
1. | Napier | 15.0 | 1. | Napier | 7.0 | 1. | Bell | 5 | 1. | Bell | 14 | 1. | Studer | 8 | ||||
2. | Long | 11.0 | 2. | Berner | 4.0 | Long | 5 | 2. | Long | 8 | 2. | Long | 6 | |||||
3. | Scott | 8.3 | Scott | 4.0 | Napier | 5 | 3. | Conley | 7 | 3. | Bell | 4 |
All-Time Series: ONU leads the all-time series by a 59-44 margin ... MC has won the last 10 meetings, including the last five at the ONU Sports Center.
Head Coach Neal Young: Young is in his first season at ONU and has a 3-2 record. He is 131-123 in 10 seasons overall after going five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) and four seasons as head coach at Goshen (Ind.)