Men's Basketball: Ohio Northern (3-6 Overall) at John Carroll (4-3 Overall) - OAC Tournament Quarterfinals
Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 8 p.m. - DeCarlo Varsity Center, University Heights, Ohio
Tuesday's Preview: The Polar Bears are the No. 5 seed in this week's OAC Tournament and will play at No. 4 seed John Carroll in the Quarterfinals on Tuesday at 7 pm at the ONU Sports Center ... No fans will be allowed to attend the games due to the OAC's COVID-19 policy ... The teams will be re-seeded for Thursday's semifinals and the finals will be on Saturday ... ONU has played seven consecutive games against a team that has appeared in the D3hoops.com poll ... Northern fell twice to No. 9-ranked Marietta last weekend, 90-77 in Ada and 105-72 at Marietta ... ONU has also faced Mount Union (as high as No. 2) once and Heidelberg (as high as No. 15) four times this season ... Sophomore C.J. Napier scored 25 points on Friday night and had 19 points in Saturday's game against the Pioneers ... Napier leads the team and is third in the league in scoring at 18.7 ppg and leads the team and is second in the OAC in rebounding at 9.4 rpg ... Junior Brandon Waugh is second on the team in scoring at 13.6 ppg ... He also averaged 5.8 rpg and is sixth in the OAC with 37 assists and second with 19 steals ... Sophomore Landen Long is third on the team at 9.7 ppg ... Sophomore Grant Heileman averages 8.9 ppg and is fifth in the OAC with a .567 field goal shooting percentage ... ONU has made 143 FTs this season, while its opponents have attempted only 128 ... The seeds for the OAC Tournament were determined by a weighted system that factors in a team's winning percentage (2/3) and its opponents' winning percentage (1/3) ... Baldwin Wallace and Capital will not compete in the OAC Tournament due to COVID-19 concerns, so the tournament will be an 8-team affair ... ONU is looking for its sixth OAC Tournament title ... The Polar Bears won the crown in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1995 and 1980 ... John Carroll is riding a 3-game winning streak after sweeping Otterbein 85078 and 81-64 last weekend ... Senior Jackson Sartain leads the team and is second in the OAC in scoring at 20.4 ppg ... Eric Hanna is second in scoring at 12.6 ppg and Mason Trubisky is third at 10.7 ppg ... Emmett Chambers scores at a 7.7 ppg clip and leads the team in rebounding at 6.4 rpg.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Scoring | Rebounding | 3FGs | Assists | Steals | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Napier | 18.7 | 1. | Napier | 9.4 | 1. | Waugh | 15 | 1. | Waugh | 37 | 1. | Waugh | 19 | ||||
| 2. | Waugh | 13.6 | 2. | Waugh | 5.8 | 2. | Long | 12 | 2. | Napier | 18 | 2. | Long | 8 | ||||
| 3. | Long | 9.7 | 3. | Scott | 4.3 | 3. | Unruh | 8 | 3. | Unruh | 15 | 3. | Napier | 5 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series between the two schools by a 37-35 margin ... ONU is 25-10 at home and is 11-25 at University Heights ... The two teams each won at home last year, with ONU winning 73-31 and JCU winning 85-72.
Head Coach Rich Bensman: Bensman is in his fifth season at ONU with a 54-59 record, a winning percentage of .478.