Carter Reese leads hot-shooting Men's Basketball to 81-67 victory over Otterbein

ADA — The Ohio Northern men's basketball team got a game-high 23 points from freshman Carter Reese (Westerville/North) and 18 points from freshman Cayden Jacoby (Pettisville) and posted an 81-67 Ohio Athletic Conference victory over Otterbein on Wednesday night at the ONU Sports Center.

The Basics

• Records: Ohio Northern (6-6 overall, 1-4 OAC), Otterbein (8-4 overall, 2-3 OAC)
• Venue: ONU Sports Center - Ada, Ohio

The Game

• Sophomore Mason Studer (Galion/Colonel Crawford) chipped in 12 points and six assists off the bench.
• Junior Blake Michael (Fremont/St. Joseph Central Catholic) added nine points and freshman Jadi Cunningham Jr. (Columbus/Westerville South) stuffed the stat sheet with seven points, nine assists and a career-best six steals.
• Jack Clement led Otterbein with 19 points.
• Ohio Northern did not trail in the game, scoring the first six points and led 9-2 just 2:27 into the contest.
• A 3-pointer by Reese gave ONU a 33-17 advantage with 3:26 left in the half.
• The Polar Bear advantage was 40-28 at intermission.
• A 9-0 run expanded the Northern lead to 59-37 with 11:31 to play.
• back-to-back 3-pointers by Studer gave Ohio Northern its largest lead of the night at 67-41 with 8:47 remaining.
• Ohio Northern made 33-of-61 field goal attempts for 54.1%, including a hot 10-of-22 mark from 3-point range for 45.5%.
• Otterbein was 26-of-54 shooting for 48.1% and was just 2-of-16 on 3-pointers for 12.5%.
• ONU was 5-of-10 from the foul line for 50.0%, and OU was 13-of-16 for 81.3%.
• Otterbein out-rebounded Ohio Northern by a 37-25 margin.
• ONU scored 20 points off of 18 Otterbein turnovers.

Notables

• The Polar Bears notched their first OAC victory of the season and are riding a 3-game winning streak.
• This marked the fifth time in the last seven games that Reese has scored more than 20 points.
• Studer's six assists tied his career high.
• The Polar Bears wrap up their non-conference schedule with a 5-2 record.
• Ohio Northern now leads the all-time series with Otterbein by a 76-60 margin.
• Ohio Northern is playing its 113th season of varsity men's basketball and has a record of 1364-1071, a winning percentage of .560.
• Head coach Neal Young is in his second season at Ohio Northern with a 16-21 record.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears return to action on Saturday for an OAC game at Muskingum at 2 p.m.