Maag scores a career-high 18, but Men's Basketball falls at Heidelberg 75-67 in the Quarterfinals of the OAC Tournament

TIFFIN — Sophomore Theo Maag (Ottawa/Ottawa-Glandorf) had a career-high 18 points to lead the Ohio Northern men's basketball team in a 75-67 loss at Heidelberg in the quarterfinals of the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament on Tuesday night.

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The Basics:

• Records: Ohio Northern (14-12 Overall), Heidelberg (17-9 Overall).
• Venue: Sieberling Gymnasium— Tiffin, Ohio.

The Game

• Maag scored 18 points and tied his career high with nine rebounds to lead four Polar Bears in double figures in scoring.
• Sophomore Carter Reese (Westerville/North) scored the first eight of his 12 points of the contest on a pair of 4-point plays after getting fouled while making a 3-pointer.
• Junior Will Miller (Ottoville) added 11 points.
• Sophomore Jadi Cunningham Jr. (Columbus/Westerville South) had 10 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals. 
• The Student Princes were led by Manny Hill with 19 points.
• ONU used a 8-0 run to take its first lead of the night at 55-54 with 9:04 left in the game.
• Maag scored to tie the game at 61-all with 4:29 left.
• HU answered with a 6-0 run to lead 67-61 with 2:46 to go.
• Miller hit a three and Maag scored inside off a feed from Cunningham, Jr., to get ONU within 67-66 with 1:41 remaining.
• But Heidelberg would make a three-pointer at the 1:15 mark and would make 5-of-6 free throws down the stretch to put the game away.
• Ohio Northern was 27-of-64 from the field for 42.2 percent and made 8-of-31 three-pointers for 25.8 percent, while Heidelberg finished 24-of-51 from the floor for 47.1 percent and 4-of-9 from three-point range for 44.4 percent.
• ONU made 5-of-10 free throws for 50.0 percent and HU was 23-of-27 from the foul line for 85.2 percent.
• The Student Princes out-rebounded the Polar Bears 35-33.

Notables

• Ohio Northern was the No. 6 seed and Heidelberg was the No. 3 seed in the 6-team OAC Tournament.
• Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 109-72 margin. ONU is 48-34 in games played in Tiffin and is 7-7 against HU in the OAC Tournament.
• Heidelberg won both regular season games this year, 79-65 in Ada on 2/12 and 77-69 in Tiffin on 1/22.
• Miller is ranked 16th in ONU history with 126 steals and has 875 points in 76 career games.
• Miller also came into the game ranked 4th in the OAC in 3-point field goal percentage at 40.3 percent. 
• Cunningham Jr. leads OAC in steals with 56 and is 2nd in assists with 140. 
• Cunningham Jr. is now ranked 15th in ONU's history with 272 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).
• Maag entered the game ranked 3rd in the OAC in field goal percentage, at 59.2 percent.
• Ohio Northern wrapped up its 114th season of varsity men's basketball and has a record of 1385-1087, a winning percentage of .560.
• Head coach Neal Young is in his third season at Ohio Northern with a 37-39 record.

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