Men's Basketball: Wilmington (5-12 Overall, 1-9 OAC) at Ohio Northern (8-9 Overall, 4-6 OAC)

Thursday, January 26, 2023, 7 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Thursday's Preview: The Polar Bears continue the second half of their double round-robin Ohio Athletic Conference play on Thursday with a home contest against Wilmington ... The game was postponed on Wednesday due to heavy snow expected in the area … ONU is in 8th place in the OAC standings and sits one-half game back of a 2-way tie for 6th between Otterbein and Baldwin Wallace … The top six teams qualify for the OAC Tournament, which is scheduled for Feb. 21-25 … Northern is coming off a 78-58 loss at Marietta on Saturday … Senior C.J. Napier led ONU with 16 points and six rebounds ... In the first meeting with Wilmington this year, Ohio Northern won 76-64 on the road on Dec. 7 ... Napier scored 20 points and seniors Adam Scott and Landen Long added 13 points each … Through 17 games this season, Napier leads the team and is fifth in the OAC in scoring at 16.7 ppg and rebounding at 6.9 rpg … Long is averaging 10.6 points per game, and Scott is averaging 10.0 points per game … Senior Michael Berner is second on the team in rebounding at 5.3 rpg … Napier ranks 29th all-time in ONU history with 1,118 career points ... He has 521 career rebounds and needs 24 more to move into ONU's top-20 career list in that category … Long has made a team-leading 20 3-pointers … Sophomore Ethan Bell leads the team with 41 assists, which ranks sixth in the OAC .. He is also sixth in the OAC with a 43.2 3-point shooting percentage … Freshman Will Miller has a team-high 27 steals, which ranks fifth in the OAC … Berner leads the team with 19 blocks, which ranks fifth in the OAC ... Wilmington is coming off an 87-57 loss to Baldwin Wallace on Saturday ... Freshman Collin Barker scored a career-high 22 points to lead WC ... Senior Abdul Kanu (13.3 ppg) and sophomore Obed Achirem (11.4 ppg) lead the Quakers in scoring this season ... Achirem leads the OAC with an average of 8.9 rebounds per game and leads the team with 29 steals ... Barker leads the team with 22 made 3-pointers ... In the first meeting this season, sophomore Bryce Bird led WC with 17 points ... WC averages 68.0 ppg on offense and allows an average of 78.2 ppg on defense.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Wilmington by a 43-32 margin ... ONU has won five straight in the series, including a 76-64 win at Wilmington on Dec. 7 this season ... ONU is 23-13 in Ada and 17-8 in the ONU Sports Center.

Head Coach Neal Young: Young is in his first season at ONU and has a 8-9 record ... He is 136-130 in 10 seasons overall after five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) and four seasons as head coach at Goshen (Ind.).