Men’s Basketball: Heidelberg (16-7 Overall, 11-5 OAC) at Ohio Northern (9-14 Overall, 5-11 OAC)

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 7 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Wednesday's Preview: The Polar Bears open the final week of their regular season hosting Ohio Athletic Conference foe Heidelberg on Wednesday … ONU will play its final regular-season game at Muskingum on Saturday … In the teams' first meeting this season, on Jan. 18, ONU got a 65-64 win at Heidelberg thanks to a pair of free throws from senior C.J. Napier with two seconds left … Napier led ONU with a 16-point, 10-rebound double-double in the game to go with 13 points from freshman Will Miller and 11 points from senior Michael Berner … Northern is coming off Saturday's 95-89 overtime loss at home to No. 6 John Carroll … Napier led ONU with a career-high 34 points in the game to go with 15 from senior Landen Long and 12 from senior Adam Scott … Napier is the reigning OAC Player of the Week after averaging 28 points and eight rebounds per game last week … Through 23 games this season, Napier is averaging a team-best 18.1 points per game, which ranks second in the OAC … Long is averaging 10.9 points per game, and Scott is averaging 10.5 points per game … Napier is averaging a team-high 7.4 rebounds per game, which ranks third in the OAC … Berner is second on the team in rebounding with 5.0 per game … Napier has 1,248 career points and is 20th on the program's all-time scoring list … Napier has 573 career rebounds, which is 18th all-time at ONU… Long has made a team-leading 30 3-pointers this season and is shooting 37.5% from beyond the arc … Sophomore Ethan Bell leads the team with 56 assists, which ranks seventh in the OAC … Miller is tied for third in the OAC with 39 steals … Berner leads the team with 21 blocks, which is tied for eighth in the OAC … Heidelberg is currently third in the OAC standings coming off Saturday's 90-80 home win over Otterbein … Four Student Princes scored in double figures in the game led by 18 points each from graduate student Seth Hohman and sophomore Jashun Cobb … In HU's loss to ONU earlier this season, Hohman scored a team-high 15 points … Through 23 games, HU has four players averaging double figures in scoring in graduate student Emmanuel Perdue (13.3 points per game), sophomore Isaiah Young (12.6), Hohman (11.1) and senior Tre Watkins (10.9) … Perdue ranks 10th in the OAC in scoring … Junior Eric Panning is averaging 7.3 rebounds per game, which ranks fourth in the OAC … Young ranks third in the OAC with 74 assists … Hohman is tied for seventh in the OAC with 31 steals … Senior Amil Jenkins ranks third in the OAC with 30 blocks … Hohman has made an OAC-high 64 3-pointers and is shooting 44.4% from beyond the arc, which ranks fifth in the OAC.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Heidelberg by a 108-67 margin, including a 58-26 mark in Ada … In the teams' earlier matchup this season, ONU got a 65-64 road win on Jan. 18 to break a three-game losing streak in the series.

Head Coach Neal Young: Young is in his first season at ONU and has a 9-14 record. He is 137-135 in 10 seasons overall after five seasons as head coach at Covenant (Ga.) and four seasons as head coach at Goshen (Ind.).