Men's Basketball: Ohio Northern (6-7 Overall, 2-4 OAC) at Baldwin Wallace (6-7 Overall, 2-4 OAC)

Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, 7 p.m. - Ursprung Gymnasium, Berea, Ohio

Wednesday's Preview: The Polar Bears continue Ohio Athletic Conference play on Wednesday with a game at Baldwin Wallace ... ONU and BW are tied for seventh place in the OAC standings with 2-4 records ... The teams are one game behind Capital and Otterbein, who are tied for fifth with 3-3 marks ... The top six teams qualify for the OAC Tournament Feb. 21-25 … Northern is coming off a tight 68-57 loss at No. 14-ranked John Carroll on Saturday ... Senior C.J. Napier scored a team-high 14 points to lead Ohio Northern ... Freshman Will Miller nailed a 3-pointer with 6:58 left in the game to tie the contest at 53-all ... But JCU would score the next eight points and finish the game on a 15-4 run to hold off the Polar Bears … Through 13 games this season, Napier is averaging a team-best 15.9 points per game, which ranks fifth in the OAC … Senior Landen Long is averaging 11.8 points per game, and senior Adam Scott is averaging 10.1 points per game … Napier is also averaging a team-high 7.2 rebounds per game, which ranks fifth in the OAC … Senior Michael Berner is second on the team in rebounding at 5.2 per game … Napier has 1,042 career points and is the 40th member of ONU's 1,000-Point Club … Long has made a team-leading 19 3-pointers and is shooting 41.3% from beyond the arc, which ranks seventh in the OAC … Sophomore Ethan Bell leads the team with 37 assists, which is tied for fifth in the OAC … Miller has a team-high 21 steals, which is fifth in the OAC … Berner leads the team with 15 blocks, which is fifth in the OAC … Baldwin Wallace is coming off an 89-76 win at Muskingum on Saturday ... Senior Anthony Mazzeo led the Yellow Jackets with 21 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists ... Sophomore Ashton Price scored 16 points and senior Jake Snyder added 13 points and eight assists ... Mazzeo leads the team and is second in the OAC in scoring at 18.5 ppg ... Price is second on the team at 15.4 ppg, Snyder is third at 13.3 ppg and senior Jackson Simmons is averaging 10.3 points and a team-high 6.8 rebounds per contest.

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All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Baldwin Wallace by a 67-45 margin, including a 30-26 mark in Berea … BW has won three straight meetings, including 91=85 and 92-65 victories last season.

Head Coach Neal Young: Young is in his first season at ONU and has a 6-7 record. He is 134-128 in 10 seasons overall after five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) and four seasons as head coach at Goshen (Ind.).