Men's Basketball picks up 85-74 Senior Day victory over Marietta

ADA — The Ohio Northern men's basketball team got out to a hot start and never looked back on Senior Day as they defeated Marietta 85-74.

The Basics:

• Records: Ohio Northern (12-11 overall, 6-10 OAC), Marietta (10-13 overall, 4-12 OAC).
• Venue: ONU Sports Center — Ada, Ohio.

The Game

• Junior Will Miller (Ottoville) led the Polar Bears with 18 points.
• Sophomore Carter Reese (Westerville/South) added 17 points and also dished out 5 assists. 
• Senior Blake Michael (Fremont/St. Joseph Central Catholic) pitched in 12 points and grabbed 5 boards.
• Sophomore Jadi Cunningham Jr. (Westerville/North) contributed 10 points.
• Frank Waganfeald led the Pioneers with 22 points.
• Ohio Northern took an early lead behind a hot 11-0 start.
• Northern never looked back as they wouldn't trail at all in the entire game. 
• A made layup by Cunningham Jr. marked ONU's biggest lead at 62-40 with 4:22 gone in the 2nd half.
• MC cut the lead down to 72-64 on a made layup by De'Ovion Price with 6:21 to play, but a jumpshot by Miller 34 seconds latr would steal the momentum back to ONU and they would control the game from there. 
• ONU led 47-38 at the half.
• Ohio Northern was 31-of-51 from the floor for 60.8 percent and made 15-of-27 three-pointers for 55.6 percent, while Marietta finished 26-of-58 from the field for 44.8 percent and 10-of-25 from three-point range for 40.0 percent.
• ONU made 8-of-13 free throws for 61.5 percent and MC was 12-of-17 from the foul line for 70.6 percent.
• The Polar Bears out-rebounded the Pioneers 32-28.

Notables

• Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 61-48 margin.
• Miller is ranked 17th in ONU history with 123 steals.
• Miller is also ranked 3rd in the OAC in 3-point field goal percentage with a 40.5 percent. 
• Cunningham Jr. leads the OAC in steals with 50 and  is 2nd in assists with 122. 
• Cunningham Jr. is ranked 20th in ONU's history with 254 assists
• Ohio Northern entered the contest ranked 1st in the conference in assists per game (16.5) turnovers forced (15.0 tpg), and points per game allowed (68.1 ppg).
• Theo Maag (Ottawa/Ottawa-Glandorf) is ranked 3rd in the OAC in field goal percentage, at 60.3 percent.
• Ohio Northern continues its 114th season of varsity men's basketball and has a record of 1383-1086, a winning percentage of .560.
• Head coach Neal Young is in his third season at Ohio Northern with a 35-38 record.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action on Wednesday evening to travel to face off against Otterbein at 7 pm.