Langford nets career high 16 as Men's Basketball builds win streak to seven with 77-67 victory over Baldwin Wallace

ADA — The Ohio Northern men's basketball team conitued its 7-game win streak with a 77-67 Baldwin Wallce 77-67 on Wednesday night.

• Records: Ohio Northern (15-7 Overall, 10-3 OAC), Baldwin Wallace (7-16 Overall, 4-10 OAC).
• Venue: ONU Sports Center — Ada, Ohio.

The Game

• Senior Will Miller (Ottoville) lead the way with 18 points and brought in a team high 5 rebounds.
• Junior Noah Langford (Perrysburg/Toledo Central Catholic) pitched in a career best16 points 
• Sophomore Aiden Harris (Pandora Gilboa) added 13 points and 5 rebounds. 
• Junior Theo Maag (Ottowa/Ottowa-Glandorf) contributed 11 points.
• AJ Pastello led the Yellow Jackets with 22 points.
• ONU went 7-7 from the free throw line in the final minute of play to close the door on the Jackets. 
• Langford netted his 4th 3-pointer of the game to kick off an 8-1 run from 3:42 to 3:15 mark that propelled Ohio Northern to a 66-58 lead.
• ONU led 39-35 at the half.
• Baldwin Wallace used a 9-0 run to grab 48-45 lead with 13:42 left in the game.
• Ohio Northern was 28-of-61 from the floor for 45.9 percent and made 10-of-28 three-pointers for 35.7 percent, while Baldwin Wallace finished 23-of-53 from the field for 43.4 percent and 4-of-17 from three-point range for 23.5 percent. 
• ONU made 9-of-12 free throws for 78.6 percent and BW was 17-of-22 from the foul line for 77.3 percent.
• The Polar Bears outrebounded the Yellow Jackets 40-25.

Notables

• Ohio Northern now trail in the all-time series with Baldwin Wallace 71-49. 
• Miller is now  22rd all-time in Northern with 1223 points in 96 career games. Miller is also ranked 6th in the conference in ppg with 16.1. 
• Miller is now in the 10th in ONU history with 154 steals.
• With the victory, the Polar Bears remain one game out of first place in the OAC with an 10-3 league record, trailing only Mount Union (12-2) and Otterbein (11-2).
• Ohio Northern clinched its third consecutive winning season with its 14-7 record.
• The Polar Bears also clinched a top 3 spot in the 6-team OAC Tournament slated for Feb. 24-28 which gurantees them at least one home game.
• Ohio Northern continues off its 115th season of varsity men's basketball and has a record of 1395-1091, a winning percentage of .561.
• Head coach Jon Tropf is in his first season at Ohio Northern with a 15-7 record.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action when they travel to Muskingum on Saturday at 1 pm.