ROCHESTER, Mich. – Oakland University Men's Basketball hits the road for a four-game stretch starting with IUPUI on Thursday, January 19 at 7:00 pm at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum on ESPN+. The "Voice of the Golden Grizzlies" Neal Ruhl will be on the call through the Audacy App.

Youngstown State snapped Oakland's five-game winning streak via an 85-69 score at the Athletics Center O'rena last Saturday. Jalen Moore dropped 20 points and a team-leading seven assists while Rocket Watts blasted off to 13 and four rebounds. Trey Townsend added ten points to the scoring column and a team-high eight rebounds.

Townsend still leads the squad in points per game with 16.6 while Moore is vaulting up that category with 14.6. Moore has put up three 20-point games in the last five contests including a 25-point performance against Green Bay.

Among the Horizon League, Townsend is still fourth in field goal percentage at .516 (130-252) to lead Oakland among the top 12 ranked. Blake Lampman currently sits fifth in the three-point field goal percentage at .350 (43-123) with an average of 2.7 per game, third in #HLMBB. 

Moore is not only first in the conference in assists per game with 5.8, the Cloverdale, Indiana native sits 17th among active NCAA Division I players, tied for 29th in total assists on the year with 93. 

Oakland and Youngstown State's January 27 contest in Ohio has been picked up by ESPN2, the second national-televised ESPN game for the Golden Grizzlies this season. Tipoff is slated for 9:00 pm ET. 

Townsend was named to the Lou Henson Award Watchlist on November 22 as one of four #HLMBB student-athletes listed.

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 669-518 (56.8%) career record.

Michigan State was recently ranked No. 12 in the latest AP Top 25 poll as the only ranked non-conference opponent the Golden Grizzlies will potentially see. Toledo came close with a receiving vote ranking ahead of the two team's matchup on November 16.

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

IUPUI
The Jaguars are currently last in the #HLMBB standings with a record of 0-8 in league play, 3-16 overall with the team's only wins coming against two NCAA Division III opponents (Franklin and Spalding) and a transitional NCAA Division I squad (Texas A&M-Commerce). 

Coming off an 89-54 defeat at Cleveland State, Jlynn Counter leads the Jags in scoring with 12.6 points per contest with Bryce Monroe trailing by only 0.6 at 12.0. Chris Osten is good for 6.3 boards per game as well just ahead of Counter at 3.9.

The Jags have not won a game since December 20, going 0-6 in that stretch to Northern Kentucky, Wright State, Youngstown State, Robert Morris, Purdue Fort Wayne, and the aforementioned Cleveland State. 

Dating back to 1975, Oakland holds a 30-20 edge over the Jaguars with the Golden Grizzlies' winning streak going to two games. 

The last time these two met, Oakland bested a depleted IUPUI roster with five active players in the first round of the 2022 Keeps #HLMBB Tournament on March 1. 

 

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100 #HLMBB VICTORIES
Coach Kampe and the program registered its 100th #HLMBB win against Wright State on January 8. Kampe is the fourth coach in the conference to reach this feat.

FIRST POTW IN THE NEW YEAR
Moore garnered the team's first Nike #HLMBB Player of the Week Award on Monday, January 2 with an average of 21 points and 6.5 assists in the team's wins over Milwaukee and Green Bay in Rochester.

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 669 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.