Miller pours in career-high 34 points as Men's Basketball defeats Marietta 85-75 in overtime

ADA — Sophomore Will Miller (Ottoville) scored career-high 34 points to lead the Ohio Northern men's basketball team to an 85-75 overtime win over Marietta on Saturday afternoon.

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (11-10 overall, 6-8 OAC), Marietta (14-7 overall, 8-6 OAC)
• Venue: ONU Sports Center - Ada, Ohio

The Game

• Miller was a career-best 7-10 at the three-point line on the day.
• Freshman Jadi Cunningham Jr. (Columbus/ Westerville South) had a double double of 17 points and 12 assists. 
• He nearly missed recording the second triple double in school history, finishing with eight rebounds.
• Freshmen Carter Reese chipped in with 12 points and eight assists, and sophomore Mason Studer (Galion/Colonel Crawford) helped with nine points.
• Jac Alexander led the Pioneers with 15 points.
• Northern opened the game on a 13-5 run in the first 4:17.
• At the half the Polar Bears led 34-30.
• Trailing 65-63, Miller hit a runner with 0.4 seconds left to send the game into overtime.
• The Polar Bears opened overtime with a 8-0 run in the first 1:36 to grab a 73-65 lead.
• Marietta pulled to within 78-73 with 1:02 left, but the Polar Bears would out-score MC 7-2 in the final minute to put the game away.
• Ohio Northern was 31-of-71 from the floor for 43.7 percent and made 12-of-32 three-pointer for 37.5 percent, while Marietta finished 27-of-67 from the field for 40.3 percent and 7-of-22 from three-point range for 31.8 percent.
• ONU made 11-of-15 free throws for 73.3 percent and MC was 14-of-22 from the foul line for 63.6 percent.
• The Pioneers out-rebounded the Polar Bears 44-43.

Notables

• Miller scored a career-high of 34 points making this game his 15th game scoring in double digits and 4th game of over 20 points this season.
• Cunningham Jr. broke the ONU freshman single-season record for steals with 53 steals this season. He had three steals in the game today. he broke the previous record of 51 set by Tony Meyer in 2009-10.
• Ohio Northern is now 60-46 all-time against Marietta, including a 33-18 mark in Ada.
• Ohio Northern is playing its 113th season of varsity men's basketball and has a record of 1369-1075, a winning percentage of .560.
• Cunningham has already set the ONU freshman single-season record with 100 assists, breaking the former record of 79 set by All-American Jim Conrad in 2000-01. Cunningham had 12 assists against MU.
• Head coach Neal Young is in his second season at Ohio Northern with a 21-25 record.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears return to action on Wednesday when they travel to Baldwin Wallace for a 7 pm contest.