ROCHESTER, Mich. – Eastern Michigan will take to The Blacktop inside the Athletics Center O'rena at 3:00 pm against Oakland University Men's Basketball on Saturday, November 19 with the "Voice of the Golden Grizzlies" Neal Ruhl on the call with Tony Paul on analysis on TV20 and ESPN+ along with the Audacy App.

Trey Townsend became the first Golden Grizzly since Jamal Cain against Alabama on November of 2021 to score 30-plus points in a game as the Oxford native scored a career-high 30 points in Oakland's 112-90 loss to Toledo on Wednesday. This has now inflated Townsend's consecutive double-digit scoring games to four on the year. Townsend is also third in the #HLMBB statistical category of field goal percentage at 65.3% (32-49).

Keaton Hervey sits just behind Townsend in points per game with 19.3 and 13.8 ppg between the two while Jalen Moore posted a season-high 19 points in the loss to the Rockets on Wednesday for an average of 13.3 through his three games played. 

Moore is tied for 24th in NCAA Division I in assists per game at 6.3, the second-best in the Horizon League, while Townsend's field goal percentage puts him in sixth through games played on November 16. The Golden Grizzlies are 50th in the country as a team in free throw percentage at 75.95% (60-79). 

Moore was the lone Golden Grizzly named to the Preseason #HLMBB All-League Team honor with OU predicted fourth with two first-place votes in the preseason poll as Purdue Fort Wayne and Northern Kentucky tied for the top honor. The Horizon League and ESPN released the annual wildcard selections for national telecasts with Oakland on four of the five potential selected dates, denoted on the team's schedule page and the game notes. 

Head Coach Greg Kampe enters his 39th season at the helm for Oakland University as the second-longest tenured coach in NCAA Division I basketball behind Jim Boeheim from Syracuse, who is in his 42nd season. Kampe has posted a 664-506 (56.8%) career record.

With the release of the Preseason AP Top 25 Poll, Oakland will not play a ranked opponent in non-conference play but will do battle with the No. 31 (Michigan State), No. 54 (Syracuse), No. 86 (Toledo), and No. 87 (Boise State) teams in the preseason KenPom rankings, respectively. 

The early signing period has come for OU as Aundre Polk will join the team on The Blacktop in the fall of 2023. Polk is a former MAC All-Freshman Team member at Central Michigan.

SCOUTING REPORT

EASTERN MICHIGAN
Emoni Bates leads the Eagles in points per game at 25.0 as the Memphis transfer posted 20 in the team's 89-61 loss to Bradley in Peoria, Illinois on November 15. The Ypsi native also leads EMU in rebounds at 5.5 per game while Legend Geeter sits just behind at 5.0. Far back in the scoring margins are Noah Farrakhan and Colin Golson Jr., respectively, at 12.3 and 10.3 points per game.

EMU has the tenth-best scoring offense in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) at 73.0 points per contest with the 1-2 mark in the early season. The team also puts up the tenth-best scoring defense in the 12-member conference, allowing approximately 81.0 points per game, making both of these marks the 11th-best scoring margin. 

As a team, the green and white post a field goal percentage of 43.4% (84-149) with a 32.7% (16-49) three-point shooting percentage while also coughing up 12 turnovers a game. 

In College Insider's Mid Major Top 25 Poll on November 14, EMU can be found in the receiving votes section while the team is the top receiving votes squad on Mid Major Madness' "The Other Top 25". 

 

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DA-DA-DA  DA-DA-DA
Moore and Hervey connected from a steal for the off-the-glass slam by the grad transfer from Missouri State for the team's first #SCTop10 of the 2022-23 season, coming in at No. 10 in the daily ESPN show on October 20.

NEW FACES
The Golden Grizzlies welcome in four transfers, two from the power five-level, Rocket Watts (Mississippi State), Lorne Bowman (Wisconsin), Keaton Hervey (Missouri State), and Chuol Deng (Hill College). Three freshmen join the new class Cooper Craggs, Dominic Capriotti, and Evan Solomon.

NEW HEAT IN MIAMI
Oakland's own Jamal Cain has earned a contract with the Miami Heat for the upcoming season wearing No. 8. Cain is just the latest active Golden Grizzly in the NBA with Kendrick Nunn, a regular part of the Los Angeles Lakers rotation.

GET YOUR TICKETS
Season tickets can be purchased through the Athletics Ticket Office by calling (248) 370-4000 or emailing outickets@oakland.edu. Single-game tickets and mini-plans are also available for the 2022-23 basketball season. 

NEW HOME FOR OAKLAND BASKETBALL
Oakland recently announced a partnership with Audacy that made 97.1 The Ticket HD3 and The Bet 1270AM (WXYT-AM) the official radio providers for the department. With this new partnership, 97.1 The Ticket HD3 and The Bet 1270AM (WXTY-AM) will provide coverage for all Oakland men's basketball games and the Greg Kampe Radio Show.

BACK FOR ANOTHER RUN
Kampe enters his 39th season at the helm of the Oakland men's basketball program. He is the second-longest tenured active coach in Division I, only behind Jim Boeheim (Syracuse, 45 seasons). Kampe's 664 career wins rank 12th among active Division I coaches.

PUTTING OAKLAND ON THE MAP
Kampe joined Oakland in 1984 after six seasons as an assistant coach at Toledo (1978-1984). Formerly known as the Pioneers, OU had only six winning seasons in 16 years of competition before his arrival.