Friday, February 5, 2021, 7 p.m. - Sieberling Gymnasium, Tiffin, Ohio
Saturday, February 6, 2021, 6 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
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This Weekend's Preview: The Polar Bears will continue their abbreviated 2021 season with a home-and-home series with Heidelberg this weekend ... The teams will play on Friday night at 7 pm at Heidelberg and will wrap up the series with a 6 pm contest at Ohio Northern on Saturday ... No fans will be allowed to attend the games due to the OAC's COVID-19 policy ... ONU fell 94-72 at Mount Union last Saturday ... The Polar Bears were supposed to play a home-and-home with Otterbein, but the Cardinals canceled the games due to COVID-19 protocol issues in their team ... Junior Brandon Waugh and sophomore C.J. Napier each had double-doubles to lead Ohio Northernagainst MtU ... Waugh had his first career double-double with 16 points and a career-high 11 rebounds and Napier had his third career double-double with 19 points and 10 boards ... Sophomore Michael Berner added 12 points and sophomore Adam Scott scored 11 points. ... Napier leads the team and is fourth in the league in scoring at 19.7 ppg and leads the team and is second in the OAC in rebounding at 9.3 rpg ... Waugh is third in the OAC with a team-best 14 assists ... As a team, Ohio Northern leads the league with an average of 24.7 free throws per game and by committing only and average of 6.3 turnovers per game ... ONU has made more free throws this season (49) than its opponents have attempted (39) ... The Polar Bears will return to action next weekend with a home-and-home against John Carroll ... The Student Princes are undefeated on the season and are coming off a 83-56 and 65-60 sweep of Capital last weekend ... HU started the year with a 69-53 win at John Carroll on Jan. 22 before the Jan. 23 game was cancelled due to COVID protocol issues at JCU ... Junior Emmanuel Purdue led HU with 20 points in Saturday's win ovver Capital ... Senior Alex Arellano leads HU in scoring (15.3 ppg) and rebounding (5.3 rpg) ... Senior Dylan Woods is second in scoring (14.3 ppg) and Perdue is third (12.3 ppg)
ONU Statistical Leaders:
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Rebounding |
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Napier |
19.7 |
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Napier |
9.3 |
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Waugh |
6 |
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Waugh |
14 |
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Waugh |
5 |
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Waugh |
17.0 |
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Waugh |
8.0 |
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Long |
4 |
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Napier |
6 |
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Scott |
3 |
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Berner |
12.7 |
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Scott |
5.7 |
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Scott |
2 |
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Scott |
3 |
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Long |
2 |
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Long |
11.5 |
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Berner |
3 |
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Berner |
2 |
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Long |
3 |
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All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 106-62 margin ... ONU is 43-23 at home, is 30-14 at the ONU Sports Center and is 47-29 in Tiffin ... The teams have split the last six meetings.
Head Coach Rich Bensman: Bensman is in his fifth season at ONU with a 53-54 record, a winning percentage of .497.
