Men's Basketball picks up win 64-59 over Ohio Wesleyan in home opener

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (2-1 Overall), Ohio Wesleyan (2-3 Overall).
• Venue: ONU Sports Center - Ada, Ohio.

The Game

• Junior Theo Maag (Ottawa/Ottawa-Glandorf) led the team in scoring with 16 points and also brought in 6 boards.
• Senior Will Miller (Ottoville) pitched in 13 points and grabbed 6 boards of his own.  
• Senior Bryce Stuart (Lucasville/Valley) added 12 points, including an alley-oop dunk. 
• Peyton Frey led the Battling Bishops with 23 points and 10 rebounds.
• Ohio Northern made four straight free throws in crunch time to ice the game away. 
• Junior Noah Langford (Perrysburg/Toledo Central Catholic) hit a clutch three to push the Northern lead to 60-54 with 0:42 left to go. 
• A 6-0 run from the Polar Bears retook and built a 57-52 lead with 1:22 remaining in the contest. 
• The Battling Bishops stole the lead at the 11:06 mark to take their first lead of the game at 44-43.
• ONU led 32-22 at the half
• Northern used an 7-0 early to go up 14-5 with 14:05 to go in the half.
• Northern went on a 16-2 run to take its largest lead at 22-7 thanks to free throws by junior Adisa Molton (South Euclid/Gilmour). 
• Stuart capped off the half for the Polar Bears with an alley-oop slam and a defensive stop on the next possession.
• Ohio Northern was 22-of-50 from the floor for 44.0 percent and made 6-of-22 three-pointers for 27.3 percent, while Ohio Wesleyan finished 23-of-51 from the field for 45.1 percent and 3-of-15 from three-point range for 20.0 percent.
• ONU made 14-of-16 free throws for 87.5 percent and OWU was 10-of-20 from the foul line for 50.0 percent.
• The Polar Bears out rebounded the Battling Bishops 32-31.

Notables

• Northern now leads the all-time series with Ohio Wesleyan 20-19.
• Miller is now tied for 14th in ONU history with 133 steals.
• Miller is also 77 points away from joining the 1,000-Point Club at Northern.
• Ohio Northern continues off its 115th season of varsity men's basketball and has a record of 1383-1085, a winning percentage of .560.
• Head coach John Tropf is in his first season at Ohio Northern with a 2-1 record.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action when they travel to face off at Manchester (Ind.) on Saturday at 1 pm.