Men’s Basketball: Ohio Northern (9-12 Overall, 3-11 OAC) at Heidelberg (16-5 Overall, 11-4 OAC)

Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 7 p.m. - Seiberling Gymnasium, Tiffin, Ohio

Wednesday's Preview: The Polar Bears are playing their penultimate game of the regular season on Wednesday at Ohio Athletic Conference foe Heidelberg at 7 p.m. … In the teams' previous meeting this season, HU won 74-71 in Ada as the No. 21 team in the country … ONU finished with four double-digit scorers in the game with junior C.J. Napier leading the way with a double-double of 18 points and 10 rebounds … Juniors Adam Scott and Landen Long scored 14 points each, and freshman Ethan Bell added 12 points … ONU is coming off Saturday's 74-71 win at John Carroll … JCU led 63-58 with 7:15 left, but ONU responded with a 14-0 run while holding the Blue Streak scoreless for nearly six minutes … JCU eventually got back to within three, 72-69, but a jumper from senior Brandon Waugh with 15 seconds left essentially iced the game in favor of ONU … Waugh, Long and junior Michael Berner led the way with 15 points each, and Napier posted his seventh double-double of the season with 12 points and 10 rebounds … ONU is averaging 69.3 points per game and allowing 75.2 points per contest while shooting 44.2% from the field, 34.7% on 3-pointers and 64.5% from the foul line … Northern currently has three players averaging double figures in scoring with Napier (15.3 points per game), Waugh (12.7) and Scott (10.9) … Napier ranks seventh in the OAC in scoring average and third in the conference in rebounding average (8.3 per game) … Waugh leads the team with 38 made 3-pointers on 40.0% shooting from beyond the arc … Waugh ranks fifth in the OAC in assists (78) and sixth in steals (30) … Waugh ranks 10th on the program's all-time career steals list with 142, and his 265 career assists rank 17th on ONU's all-time leaderboard in that category … Following Wednesday's game, ONU closes out its regular-season schedule hosting OAC foe Muskingum on Saturday at 4 p.m. as part of a women's-men's doubleheader … Heidelberg enters Wednesday's game riding a two-game losing streak after having won four in a row prior to that … HU is coming off Saturday's 88-78 loss at Otterbein … Emmanuel Perdue (18 points), Seth Hohman (17) and Isaiah Young (15) led HU in scoring … Dylan Woods scored a team-high 18 points, leading four double-figure scorers, for Heidelberg in its win at ONU earlier this season … HU is averaging 80.1 points per game while allowing 72.7 points per contest and is shooting 46.0% from the floor, 33.2% on 3-pointers and 72.3% from the foul line … The Student Princes have four players with double-digit scoring averages in Perdue (15.0 points per game), Woods (13.3), Young (10.1) and Zane Leitwein (10.1) … Perdue ranks eighth in the OAC in scoring average … Leitwein has made a team-high 39 3-pointers on 38.6% shooting from beyond the arc and ranks third in the OAC in steals (33) … Eric Panning ranks fourth in the OAC in rebounds per game (8.2) and blocks (31) … Woods ranks eighth in the OAC in assists (73).

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All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Heidelberg by a 107-66 margin, including a 47-31 mark on the road … The teams last met earlier this season on Jan. 19 when HU came away with a 74-71 road win.

Head Coach Rich Bensman: Bensman is in his sixth season at ONU with a 65-72 record, a winning percentage of .474.