Men's Basketball: Ohio Northern (9-11 Overall, 5-8 OAC) at Capital (10-10 Overall, 6-7 OAC)

Friday, February 3, 2023, 7 p.m. - Capital Center, Columbus, Ohio

Friday's Preview: The Polar Bears continue Ohio Athletic Conference play on Friday at Capital … ONU is tied with Baldwin Wallace for seventh place in the conference standings with matching 5-8 records ... Both teams trail sixth-place Capital, who is 6-7 in league play ... With an ONU victory on Friday, the Polar Bears would move into a tie for sixth place with four games remaining in the regular season … The top six teams qualify for the OAC Tournament, which is scheduled for Feb. 21-25 … Ohio Northern and Capital met earlier this season on Dec. 17, as the Comets posted a 72-62 win at the ONU Sports Center … Freshman Will Miller led ONU with a career-high 20-point effort … Senior C.J. Napier added 13 points and senior Adam Scott had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds ... CU was led by Kaleb Crawford with 13 points and Griffin Doseck with 12 points and 12 rebounds ... Northern is coming off a 75-58 loss at Otterbein on Wednesday … Senior Landen Long tallied a season-high 15 points and senior Napier and Scott added 13 points each … Through 20 games this season, Napier leads the team and is fifth in the OAC in scoring (17.1 ppg) and rebounding (7.3 rpg) … Long is second on the team in scoring at 10.8 ppg and Scott is third at 10.7 ppg … Senior Michael Berner is second on the team in rebounding at 5.0 rpg … Napier ranks 26th all-time in ONU history with 1,174 career points … Napier also ranks 20th all-time at ONU with 549 career rebounds  … Long has made a team-leading 26 3-pointers … Sophomore Ethan Bell leads the team with 46 assists, which is eighth in the OAC … Miller is tied for fourth in the OAC with 34 steals … Berner leads the team with 20 blocks, which is tied for seventh in the OAC … Capital dropped a 76-73 decision at Wilmington on Wednesday ... Carter Combs led the Comets with 22 points ... Combs leads CU in scoring (12.2 ppg) and assists (57) ... Crawford is averaging 9.9 ppg and Joe Thompson is a close third on the team at 9.6 ppg).

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Capital leads the all-time series between the two schools by an 83-63 margin ... CU is riding a 5-game winning streak in the series and is 48-23 in games played in Columbus … ONU's last win at Capital was in 2018.

Head Coach Neal Young: Young is in his first season at ONU and has a 9-11 record ... He is 137-132 in 10 seasons overall after five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) and four seasons as head coach at Goshen (Ind.).