Women’s Basketball: Ohio Wesleyan (2-3 Overall) at Ohio Northern (3-0 Overall)

Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 2 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Tuesday's Preview: The Polar Bears will play their 2022-23 home opener on Tuesday afternoon against Ohio Wesleyan … Northern is off to a 3-0 start and is looking to match its 4-0 start from last season that was capped by a 67-51 win at OWU … The Polar Bears are coming off last Wednesday's 84-67 win at Anderson (Ind.) … Northern opened that game on a 20-0 run led by 12 points from junior Kristen Luersman … Luersman finished with a career-high 22 points as part of a double-double with 10 rebounds and was named Ohio Athletic Conference Player of the Week … Sophomore Brooke Allen also notched a career-high point total with 14 … Senior Brynn Serbin added 11 points, seven rebounds, six assists, and two steals … Through three games, Luersman (12.0 points per game), Serbin (11.0) and Allen (10.7) are averaging double figures in scoring … Luersman ranks second in the OAC in rebounding average with 10.0 per game … Serbin is tied for third in the OAC with 10 steals and ranks fifth in the conference with 13 assists on the season … Serbin ranks seventh all-time at ONU with 152 career steals … Serbin has 174 career assists, which is tied for 19th all-time at ONU … The Polar Bears are holding opponents to 50 points per game on 27.8% shooting, including 23.9% from beyond the arc … Ohio Wesleyan is coming off a pair of losses in the McWilliams Classic in St. Louis, Mo., falling 80-57 to Washington (Mo.) and 48-47 to Coe (Iowa) on Friday and Saturday, respectively … Juniors Elizabeth Homan (13 points, 6 rebounds) and Kasey Schipfer (11 points, 10 rebounds) led the Battling Bishops in the loss to Coe … Through five games, Schipfer leads OWU in scoring at 15.6 points per game followed by junior Lauren Denison at 11.4 points per game … Schipfer is also the team's leading rebounder at 8.2 per game … Homan has a team-high 26 assists, and Denison leads the team with 12 steals … Denison has made a team-high nine 3-pointers on the season, shooting 37.5% from beyond the arc.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Ohio Wesleyan by a 20-9 margin, including an 8-6 mark in Ada … ONU has won six straight meetings and nine of the past 10 … In the teams' last meeting, during the 2021-22 season, the Polar Bears came away with a 67-51 road win.

Head Coach Mark Huelsman: Huelsman is in his third season at ONU and has an overall record of 27-16, a winning percentage of .628.