Women’s Basketball: Ohio Northern (2-0 Overall) at Anderson (Ind.) (1-1 Overall)
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 7 p.m. - O.C. Lewis Gymnasium, Anderson, Ind.
Wednesday's Preview: The Polar Bears travel to Anderson (Ind.) on Wednesday to face the Ravens as they continue non-conference play … Northern has gotten off to a 2-0 start with wins of 62-40 over La Roche (Pa.) and 50-43 over host Washington & Jefferson (Pa.) in the Springhill Suites Tip-Off Tournament on Friday and Saturday … Senior Brynn Serbin was named to the All-Tournament Team as the event's Most Outstanding Player … Serbin tallied nine points, five assists, four rebounds and four steals against La Roche and added 13 points, six rebounds, four steals and two assists against W&J … Sophomore Layla Dials joined Serbin on the All-Tournament Team … Dials had six points and four rebounds against La Roche and added 11 points, nine rebounds and three steals against W&J … Serbin is averaging a team-best 11 points per game and has a team-high seven assists and eight steals … Serbin led the Ohio Athletic Conference with 68 steals and ranked fourth in the conference with 76 assists last season … Serbin ranks seventh all-time at ONU with 150 career steals … Serbin has 168 career assists, which is five shy of 20th all-time at ONU … Sophomore Brooke Allen and Dials rank second and third on the team in scoring at 9.0 and 8.5 points per game, respectively … Junior Kristen Luersman leads the team in rebounding at 10 per game … Anderson (Ind.) is 1-1 on the season, falling 65-56 at Covenant (Ga.) and defeating Brevard (N.C.) 90-82 in the Mountain Top Madness tournament … In Saturday's win over Brevard, graduate student Lexi Dellinger scored 40 points, which is the second-highest total in school history … Dellinger was 14-of-15 from the free-throw line and tallied eight rebounds and four steals … Senior Jade Shipley and freshman Bella Larrison added 13 and 12 points, respectively … Dellinger leads the team in rebounding (5.5 per game) and steals (4.5 per game) … Dellinger averaged 21.9 points per game last season and earned HCAC Player of the Year, D3hoops.com First Team All-Region and CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American honors.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
Scoring | Rebounding | 3FGs | Assists | Steals | ||||||||||||||
1. | Serbin | 11.0 | 1. | Luersman | 10.0 | 1. | Serbin | 3 | 1. | Serbin | 7 | 1. | Serbin | 8 | ||||
2. | Allen | 9.0 | 2. | Dials | 6.5 | Knippen | 3 | 2. | Dean | 2 | 2. | Dials | 4 | |||||
3. | Dials | 8.5 | 3. | Serbin | 5.0 | 3. | Suprano | 1 | Luersman | 2 | 3. | Luersman | 3 |
All-Time Series: Ohio Northern leads the all-time series with Anderson (Ind.) by a 4-0 margin, going 2-0 at home and on the road … ONU has won those four meetings by an average of 19.3 points … The teams met last season in Ada, as ONU came away with a 67-55 victory.
Head Coach Mark Huelsman: Huelsman is in his third season at ONU and has an overall record of 26-16, a winning percentage of .619.