Men’s Basketball: Capital (4-5 Overall, 1-2 OAC) at Ohio Northern (4-4 Overall, 1-2 OAC)

Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, 2 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Saturday's Preview: The Polar Bears continue Ohio Athletic Conference play on Saturday hosting Capital in the front half of a men's-women's doubleheader … Ohio Northern is coming off last Saturday's 89-71 loss at No. 6 Mount Union … Senior Landen Long led ONU with 18 points in the game to go with four rebounds … Senior C.J. Napier added nine points and five rebounds … Napier is averaging a team-best 15.0 points per game, which ranks sixth in the OAC … Long is averaging 12.5 points per game, and senior Adam Scott is averaging 9.4 points per game … Napier is averaging a team-high 6.7 rebounds per game, which ranks sixth in the OAC … Senior Michael Berner is second on the team in rebounding with 5.3 per game … Napier has 957 career points and is just 43 shy of becoming the 40th member of ONU's 1,000-Point Club … Long has made a team-leading 10 3-pointers and is shooting 41.7% from beyond the arc … Sophomore Ethan Bell leads the team with 28 assists, which ranks fourth in the OAC … Freshman Mason Studer has a team-high 11 steals, which is tied for eighth in the OAC … Berner leads the team with 10 blocks, which is tied for sixth in the OAC … Capital is coming off Thursday's 75-57 home win over Kalamazoo (Mich.) … Sophomore Carter Combs scored a career-high 22 points to go with eight assists and seven rebounds to lead the Comets, which also got 13 points from freshman Tre Hammond … Through nine games, Combs is averaging a team-high 15.5 points per game, which ranks fifth in the OAC … Sophomore Justin Nixon and senior Joe Thompson are second and third on the team in scoring with 9.5 and 9.3 points per game, respectively … Senior Griffin Doseck is averaging a team-best 5.6 rebounds per game … Combs has a team-leading 29 assists, which ranks third in the OAC … Combs and Thompson lead CU with eight steals each … Combs has made a team-high 16 3-pointers, shooting 39% from beyond the arc.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Capital leads the all-time series with Ohio Northern by an 82-63 margin but is 30-40 against ONU in Ada … CU has won five straight meetings dating back to 2019 … CU won the lone meeting between the teams last season, 53-52 in Ada on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from David Sanford.

Head Coach Neal Young: Young is in his first season at ONU and has a 4-4 record. He is 132-125 in 10 seasons overall after five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) and four seasons as head coach at Goshen (Ind.).