Men's Basketball flexes its defensive muscles in 64-50 over No. 4 Mount Union

• Records: Ohio Northern (11-7 Overall, 6-3 OAC), Mount Union (16-2 Overall, 7-2 OAC).
• Venue: ONU Sports Center — Ada, Ohio.

The Game

• Sophomore Aiden Harris (Pandora) led the team with 18 points and also grabbed a team high 8 boards.
• Senior Will Miller (Ottoville) pitched in 16 points. 
• Sophomore Conye Gaston (Toledo/Christian) added 10 off the bench marking his third straight game in double figures. 
• Elijah Farrington led the Purple Raiders with 18 points.
• Ohio Northern led in the contest for 36:52, and trailed for less than a minute. 
• The Polar Bears came out the gates firing in the 2nd half for a third straight game,riding a 7-0 run to go up 33-19 just 2:02 into the second half.
• The Purple Raiders hung around but could only manage to bring the game to 42-53 with 13:28 left in the game. Ohio Northern never let it get any closer. 
• Ohio Northern extinguished the comeback with an 8-0 run, extending the lead to 49-34 at the 10:01 mark in the second half.
• ONU led 26-19 at the half. 
• Ohio Northern was 21-of-56 from the floor for 37.5 percent and made 5-of-16 three-pointers for 31.3 percent, while Mount Union finished 17-of-65 from the field for 26.2 percent and 2-of-21 from three-point range for 9.5 percent. 
• ONU made 14-of-23 free throws for 60.9 percent and MU was 17-of-19 from the foul line for 89.5 percent.
• The Polar Bears out rebounded the Purple Raiders 49-38.

Notables

• Ohio Northern now leads the all-time series with Mount Union 63-51. 
• Miller now ranks 28th all-time in Northern with 1152 points in 92 career games. Miller is also ranked 6th in the conference in ppg with 16.7. 
• Miller is now 11th in ONU history with 150 steals and only needs 1 more to crack the top 10.
• The Polar Bears finished the first half of the OAC's double-round robin schedule with a 5-3 record, good enough for third place in the 9-team league.
• Ohio Northern continues off its 115th season of varsity men's basketball and has a record of 1391-1091, a winning percentage of .560.
• Head coach Jon Tropf is in his first season at Ohio Northern with a 11-7 record.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action when they travel to face Heidelberg on Wednesday at 7 P.M.