Women’s Basketball: #10 Baldwin Wallace (15-3 Overall, 12-1 OAC) at Ohio Northern (14-5 Overall, 8-4 OAC)
Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 7 p.m. - ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
Wednesday's Preview: The Polar Bears enter their final four-game stretch of the regular season on Wednesday hosting Ohio Athletic Conference foe Baldwin Wallace at 7 p.m. … Three of Northern's final four games are at home … In the teams' first meeting this season, BWU got a 58-41 home win on Jan. 12 … No Polar Bears scored in double figures in the game, as seniors Alissa Stahler and Jaidyn Hale and junior Brynn Serbin led the way with six points each … Northern is coming off Saturday's 71-46 home win over Capital … Senior Lexi Jacobs (14 points), sophomore Kasey Knippen (11) and Stahler (10) led ONU in scoring, and the Polar Bears made nine 3-pointers in the game … Northern is averaging 62.0 points per game and allowing an OAC-low 48.4 points per contest … The Polar Bears are shooting 38.8% from the field, 29.4% on 3-pointers and 70.2% from the foul line … Stahler (9.3 points per game) leads ONU in scoring followed by Serbin (8.1), Hale (7.8) and sophomore Kristen Luersman (7.6) … Stahler's team-high 5.7 rebounds per game ranks ninth in the OAC, and her 20 total blocks rank fifth in the conference … Serbin leads the OAC in steals (50) and ranks second in assists (64) … Serbin's 124 career steals ties her with Lisa Schommer ('97-'00) for 14th on the program's all-time leaderboard, and her 149 career assists are 24 shy of cracking the top 20 on the program's all-time leaderboard in that category … Knippen leads the OAC in shooting 47.6% (20-of-42) from 3-point range … Following Wednesday's game, ONU travels to face another ranked OAC foe in No. 8 John Carroll on Saturday at 2 p.m. as part of a women's-men's doubleheader … Baldwin Wallace enters Wednesday's game ranked No. 10 nationally in this week's D3hoops.com poll … BWU is riding a five-game win streak coming off Saturday's 68-48 victory at home over Otterbein … The Yellow Jackets were led by Megan Hensel (14 points) and Lilly Edwards (10 points, 13 rebounds) in the win … Hensel and Edwards led the team with 15 points each in BWU's defeat of ONU earlier this season … Baldwin Wallace is averaging 67.9 points per game and ranks second in the OAC in allowing 50.4 points per contest … The Yellow Jackets are shooting 43.1% from the floor, 30.2% on 3-pointers and 68.6% from the foul line … Edwards (16.3 points per game) and Hensel (9.0) lead BWU in scoring … Edwards, the reigning OAC Player of the Week, leads the OAC in scoring average and ranks second in rebounding (8.9 per game) and has a team-high 20 steals … Hensel has made a team-high 30 3-pointers on 42.3% shooting from beyond the arc … Megan Scheibelhut ranks third in the OAC in blocks (29) … Carolyn Wochele leads the team with 34 assists.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Scoring | Rebounding | 3FGs | Assists | Steals | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Stahler | 9.3 | 1. | Stahler | 5.7 | 1. | Knippen | 20 | 1. | Serbin | 64 | 1. | Serbin | 50 | ||||
| 2. | Serbin | 8.1 | 2. | Luersman | 5.1 | 2. | Hale | 16 | 2. | Dickson | 28 | 2. | Hale | 17 | ||||
| 3. | Hale | 7.8 | 3. | Serbin | 4.9 | 3. | Serbin | 14 | 3. | Hale | 27 | 3. | 3 tied | 12 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern trails the all-time series with Baldwin Wallace by a 39-44 margin, including a 24-17 mark at home … The teams last met earlier this season on Jan. 12 when BWU got a 58-41 home win.
Head Coach Mark Huelsman: Huelsman is in his second season at ONU and has an overall record of 21-13, a winning percentage of .618.
