Women’s Basketball: #11 Ohio Northern (20-3 Overall, 14-2 OAC) at Heidelberg (2-21 Overall, 0-16 OAC)

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 7 p.m. - Seiberling Gymnasium, Tiffin, Ohio

Wednesday's Preview: The Polar Bears open the final week of their regular season with a road game at Ohio Athletic Conference foe Heidelberg on Wednesday … ONU will play its final regular-season game on Saturday at Muskingum … The Polar Bears have secured the 11th 20-win season in program history … Northern leads the OAC standings by one game over Baldwin Wallace and can clinch a share of the OAC regular-season title and the top seed in the OAC Tournament with a victory in either of its final two games … The regular-season title would be Northern's first since the 2017-18 season and eighth overall … This marks the 28th straight season that ONU has played in the OAC Tournament, which is scheduled for Feb. 21-25 … In the teams' first meeting this season, on Jan. 18, ONU got a 67-31 win over Heidelberg in Ada … Senior Brynn Serbin led ONU with 14 points, and junior Kristen Luersman and sophomore Layla Dials added 12 points each in the game … Northern is ranked No. 11 in the D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll and No. 13 in the WBCA Top 25 Poll this week … ONU is coming off Saturday's 68-58 win at home over John Carroll after outscoring the Blue Streaks 33-15 in the fourth quarter … Senior Kasey Knippen led ONU with a career-high 19 points, and Luersman added a double-double with 12 points and 13 rebounds … Dials finished with 10 points, and Serbin tallied six points and 13 rebounds … Through 23 games, Serbin (13.9 points per game), sophomore Brooke Allen (11.1) and Luersman (11.0) lead ONU in scoring … Serbin ranks second in the OAC in scoring average, Allen is ninth, and Luersman is 10th … Luersman ranks second in the OAC in rebounding average with 8.2 per game and is tied for ninth in the conference with 16 blocks … Serbin has an OAC-high 106 assists and 63 steals … Serbin's 106 assists rank second-best all-time at ONU for a single season … Serbin has made a team-best 41 3-pointers, which ranks third in the OAC, and is shooting 34.7% from beyond the arc, which is tied for seventh in the OAC … Serbin ranks second all-time at ONU with 205 career steals and is four shy of tying the program record set by Katie Mengos ('10-'13) … Serbin has 267 career assists, which ranks third all-time at ONU … Serbin ranks sixth all-time at ONU in 3-pointers made (114) … Northern leads the OAC in points per game (65.3), field goal percentage (42.1%) and field goal percentage defense (33%) and is second in points per game allowed (53.2) … Heidelberg remains winless in the OAC coming off Monday's 55-50 loss at John Carroll … Senior Alyssa Martin led HU with 13 points in the game, and sophomore Hallie Rogers and freshman Sequoia Bradley added 11 points each … In HU's loss to ONU earlier this season, Rogers led the way with 12 points … Through 23 games, Rogers leads the Student Princes in scoring with 10.8 points per game, followed by sophomore Elisha Carter (8.0) and graduate student Bailey Walter (6.9) … Walter ranks sixth in the OAC with 6.6 rebounds per game … Carter has a team-high 29 assists … Rogers has a team-best 36 steals, which is tied for seventh in the OAC, and has made a team-high 26 3-pointers on 21% shooting from beyond the arc … Martin ranks sixth in the OAC with 21 blocks.

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Heidelberg by a 59-26 margin, including a 26-15 mark in Tiffin … ONU has won nine straight meetings and 27 of the past 28 … HU's only win in that stretch was an 82-77 home victory in December 2018 … In the teams' meeting earlier this season, ONU came away with a 67-31 win in Ada on Jan. 18.

Head Coach Mark Huelsman: Huelsman is in his third season at ONU and has an overall record of 44-19, a winning percentage of .698.