Men's Basketball: Ohio Northern (8-12 Overall, 2-11 OAC) at John Carroll (7-12 Overall, 2-10 OAC)
Saturday, February 12, 2022, 4 p.m. - DeCarlo Varsity Center, University Heights, Ohio
Saturday's Preview: The Polar Bears are in the second game of a three-game road trip on Saturday at John Carroll … The first matchup between the schools on Jan. 8 was canceled due to COVID-19 protocols at JCU ... ONU is coming off a 91-85 double overtime loss at Baldwin Wallace on Wednesday night … Senior Brandon Waugh just missed the second triple-double in ONU history by scoring 25 points, grabbing 11 rebounds and dishing out eight assists ... Junior C.J. Napier also had a double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds, while junior Adam Scott added 20 points for Ohio Northern … Northern currently has three players averaging double figures in scoring with Napier (15.4 points per game), Waugh (12.6) and Scott (11.2) … Napier ranks seventh in the OAC in scoring average, and his team-high 8.2 rebounds per game ranks second in the conference … Waugh leads the team with 35 made 3-pointers on 38.5% shooting from beyond the arc … Waugh leads ONU with 75 assists, which ranks fifth in the OAC, and his 29 steals are fifth in the conference … Waugh ranks 10th on the program's all-time career steals list with 141, and his 262 career assists rank 17th on ONU's all-time leaderboard in that category … John Carroll is coming off a 79-73 home loss to Otterbein on Wednesday ... Senior Jackson Sartain and junior Mason Trubisky topped the team with 15 points each, and senior Hugh Brown added a solid 13 points ... Sartain leads the team and is third in the OAC in scoring at 18.3 ppg ... He also leads the team in rebounding at 5.8 rpg and in steals with 19 ... Junior Eric Hanna is second in scoring at 11.9 ppg and freshman David Gentry is third at 11.3 ppg.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Scoring | Rebounding | 3FGs | Assists | Steals | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Napier | 15.4 | 1. | Napier | 8.2 | 1. | Waugh | 35 | 1. | Waugh | 75 | 1. | Waugh | 29 | ||||
| 2. | Waugh | 12.6 | 2. | Waugh | 5.4 | 2. | Long | 24 | 2. | Bell | 46 | 2. | Napier | 22 | ||||
| 3. | Scott | 11.2 | 3. | Scott | 4.6 | 3. | Bell | 17 | 3. | Long | 37 | 3. | Bell | 14 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with John Carroll by a 38-35 margin ... JCU is 25-12 in games in University Heights ... ONU has won the last two meetings, 80-79 at JCU in the 2021 OAC Tournament and 73-71 at ONU in 2020.
Head Coach Rich Bensman: Bensman is in his sixth season at ONU with a 64-72 record, a winning percentage of .471.