Women’s Basketball: Capital (4-15 Overall, 1-10 OAC) at Ohio Northern (13-5 Overall, 7-4 OAC)

Saturday, February 5, 2022, 2 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio

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Saturday's Preview: The Polar Bears open their final five-game stretch of the regular season on Saturday hosting Ohio Athletic Conference foe Capital at 2 p.m. as part of a women's-men's doubleheader … In the teams' first meeting this season, ONU got a 66-37 win at Capital on Dec. 18 with senior Alissa Stahler scoring a career-high 20 points to go with 10 from junior Brynn Serbin … Northern is coming off Wednesday's 65-60 loss at Otterbein that ended a four-game win streak … OU led 57-48 with 2:23 remaining before ONU made a late charge to shrink the deficit … Senior Jaidyn Hale was 8-of-11 from the field, including 3-for-3 from 3-point range, and finished with a career-high 22 points … Northern is averaging 61.5 points per game and allowing an OAC-low 48.6 points per contest … The Polar Bears are shooting 38.6% from the field, 29.1% on 3-pointers and 69.7% from the foul line … Stahler (9.3 points per game) leads ONU in scoring followed by Serbin (8.5), Hale (7.9) and sophomore Kristen Luersman (7.7) … Stahler's team-high 5.9 rebounds per game ranks eighth in the OAC, and her 19 total blocks rank fifth in the conference … Serbin leads the OAC in steals (46) and ranks third in assists (58) … Serbin's 120 career steals ranks 16th on the program's all-time leaderboard, and her 143 career assists are 30 shy of cracking the top 20 on the program's all-time leaderboard in that category … Sophomore Kasey Knippen leads the OAC in shooting 48.6% (17-of-35) from 3-point range … Following Saturday's game, ONU will host another OAC foe in No. 12 Baldwin Wallace on Wednesday at 7 p.m. … Capital enters Saturday's game coming off its first conference win of the season, a 51-47 victory at Wilmington on Tuesday … Laney Murphy and Brooke Ommert led CU with 13 and 12 points, respectively … Murphy scored a team-high 14 points in CU's loss to ONU earlier this season … Capital is averaging 54.7 points per game and allowing 66.3 points per contest … The Comets are shooting 38.8% from the floor, 32.5% on 3-pointers and an OAC-low 63.0% from the foul line … Murphy (12.5 points per game) and Ommert (8.2) lead the team in scoring … Murphy ranks sixth in the OAC in scoring average and has made a league-high 51 3-pointers on 37.2% shooting from beyond the arc … Ommert leads the team in rebounding (5.1 per game) and steals (29), with the latter number ranking eighth in the OAC … Demi Brewer ranks ninth in the OAC in assists (45) … Maddi Weiland and Maddie Dougoud are tied for sixth in the OAC in blocks (17).

ONU Statistical Leaders:

All-Time Series: Ohio Northern trails the all-time series with Capital by a 37-58 margin, including a 24-19 mark at home … The teams last met earlier this season on Dec. 18 when ONU got a 66-37 road win.

Head Coach Mark Huelsman: Huelsman is in his second season at ONU and has an overall record of 20-13, a winning percentage of .606.