GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Oakland vs. UIC | Thursday, Feb. 28 -- 7 p.m. | The Blacktop at the O'rena
COVERAGE
BROADCAST: ESPN+ | TALENT:
Neal Ruhl (pxp) and Dan Waterstradt (analyst) | RADIO: WDFN-AM (1130), iHeart Radio app | TALENT:
Neal Ruhl (pxp) and Dan Waterstradt (analyst)
ROCHESTER, Mich. -- The Oakland men's basketball team begins its final week of the regular season with an important Thursday night matchup with UIC at 7 p.m. inside the O'rena. The game will be streamed on ESPN+ and fans can also listen on WDFN-AM (1130) or with the iHeart Radio app. The Golden Grizzlies and Flames are two teams that are in a three-way tie for third place in the league standings. For Thursday's tiebreaker scenarios,
click here.
Thursday is Childhood Cancer Awareness Day sponsored by Northwestern Mutual and fans are encouraged to wear gold in support of the cause. Northwestern Mutual will be handing out Gold rally towels and will staff a lemonade stand on the concourse as part of the evening's promotion.
Last time out,
Braden Norris recorded his second career double-double by scoring a career high 23 points on 7 of 10 shooting from three-point range plus had 10 assists as Oakland cruised to a 95-75 win over Detroit Mercy on Feb. 23 in front of an O'rena record crowd.
INSIDE THE SERIES
- Oakland leads the all-time series 14-2.
- Oakland has won six of the last seven meetings.
- Oakland is 4-1 all-time in the O'rena against UIC, and has just one regular season loss to the Flames in 16 meetings.
NOTES
- Norris and Xavier Hill-Mais swept the Horizon League's weekly honors on Feb. 25, as they were named Horizon League Freshman and Player of the Week respectively.
- Norris was also named College Sports Madness Horizon League Player of the Week.
- Hill-Mais was named player of the week by the conference after scoring a game high 29 points, 22 of which came in the second half against the Titans. He shot 13 of 17 from the floor while registering seven rebounds and three blocks.
- Since 2009, Oakland has boasted a February record of 62-20 (.756).
- For the first time in Greg Kampe's 35 years as Oakland's head coach, four different Golden Grizzlies have scored 30 points or more in a game this season (Hill-Mais, Jaevin Cumberland, Karmari Newman and Brad Brechting).
- Cumberland leads the Horizon League and ranks fifth in the NCAA in total minutes (1,072).
- Cumberland has made a three-pointer in every game this season.
- Brechting is averaging 18 points and 10 rebounds per game in his last seven games.
- The Golden Grizzlies lead the Horizon League in four categories: assists per game (17.0; 14th in NCAA), free throw percentage (75 percent), three-point field goal percentage (38 percent; 19th in NCAA) and total assists (494; seventh nationally).
- Oakland also ranks 19th nationally in three-pointers made (295).
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