Men's Basketball: Muskingum (3-7 Overall, 0-4 OAC) at Ohio Northern (4-5 Overall, 1-3 OAC)
Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015 - 3 pm, ONU Sports Center, Ada, Ohio
| Game Day Program |
Saturday's Preview: Ohio Northern enters this afternoons contest 4-5 overall, 1-3 Ohio Athletic Conference after dropping a contest to Capital 78-66 ... Northern was led in the contest by junior Aron Thress who recorded his first double double of the season ... Thress scored a team-high 15 points and pulled down 11 rebounds in the contest ... Freshman Ryan Bruns added 11 points for Northern, while junior Devon Allen added 10 points ... Through nine games this season the Polar Bears have four players averaging double figures ... Allen leads the team with 14.2 ppg, while Thress is second with 13.8 ppg and junior Konnor Baker is third with 10.9 ppg ... Bruns is averaging 10.3 ppg and is leading the team with 2.2 bpg ... Bruns also leads the Ohio Athletic Conference with 20 blocks on the year ... Junior Joey Hurless leads the nation in assists, averaging 9.4 apg, and ranks first in the conference with 85 assists ... Hurless is 17th all-time in ONU history with 247 career assists ... He needs six more assists to pass former Polar Bear Kurtis Brown ... The Polar Bears return to action Wednesday, December 30 when they travel to Denison, tip off scheduled for 7 pm ... Muskingum enters the contest 3-7 overall, 0-4 Ohio Athletic Conference after dropping a double overtime contest to Otterbein 93-89 Wednesday evening ... The Fighting Muskies were led in the contest by junior Joshua Glass who posted a double double ... Glass scored a team-high 25 points and pulled down 10 rebounds ... Muskingum is led this season by freshman Jarrell Marsh averaging 12.7 ppg ... Freshman Jalen Paige is second averaging 12.2 ppg and Glass is third averaging 11.8 ppg ... Junior Joshua Keyes leads the teams in rebounds averaging 7.5 rpg.
Ohio Northern Probable Starters (2015-16 stats):
G - #12 Devon Allen, Jr. (14.2 ppg, 30 3FG)
G - #1 Joey Hurless, Jr. (7.7 ppg, 9.4 apg)
F - #14 Konnor Baker, Jr. (10.9 ppg, 5.9 rpg)
C - #40 Aron Thress, Jr. (13.8 ppg, 5.8 rpg)
F - #33 Travis Feitshans, Jr. (9.7 ppg, 5.4 rpg)
ONU Statistical Leaders
| Scoring |
Rebounding |
3FGs |
Assists | Steals | ||||||||||||||
| 1. | Allen |
14.2 |
1. | Baker |
5.9 | 1. | Allen | 29 |
1. | Hurless |
85 | 1. |
Hurless |
16 |
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| 2. | Thress | 13.8 | 2. |
Thress | 5.8 |
2. |
Baker | 9 | 2. | Feitshans | 16 | 2. |
Allen |
12 |
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| 3. |
Baker | 10.9 |
3. |
Feitshans | 5.4 | 3. |
Hurless |
8 | 3. | Allen |
15 |
3. |
Baker |
9 |
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| 4. | Bruns | 10.3 | 4. | Bruns | 4.8 | |||||||||||||
| 5. | Feitshans | 9.7 |
All-Time Series: ONU leads the all-time series by a 62-47 margin ... The two teams split last season as Muskingum one the first match up 77-65 and ONU won the second 80-69.
ONU head coach Kevin Byrne: Byrne in his fourth season at ONU and with a 45-43 record, a winning percentage of .511.