ROCHESTER, Mich. – Oakland University Men's Basketball will be back in #HLMBB action on Sunday, January 28 at 1:00 pm in the UPMC Events Center against Robert Morris on ESPN+. The "Voice of the Golden Grizzlies" Neal Ruhl will have the call on the Audacy App.

Oakland suffered a 77-73 loss to Youngstown State on Friday night in front of a soldout Beeghley Center and an ESPN2 national audience. Jalen Moore tabbed 27 points in the loss as Keaton Hervey added 12. Trey Townsend ended the night as the team's leading rebounder with nine. The Golden Grizzlies shot a season-best 50% (12-24) from range.

Moore has now taken over as the team's leading scorer ahead of Townsend with 16.8 to 16.2, respectively, as the fifth and seventh-best scorers in the Horizon League to date.  Townsend and Hervey do have an average of 7.4 and 7.0 rebounds per contest as well. 

Blake Lampman has the fourth-best three-point shooting percentage in #HLMBB at 34.8% (46-132) while the Golden Grizzlies have made the fifth-most threes in the league with an average of 8.0.

Oakland is the third-best free throw shooting team in the conference with a percentage of 74.9% (286-382). 

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 671-516 (56.8%) career record.

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.

Former Oakland University Men's Basketball student-athlete Kendrick Nunn has been acquired by the Washington Wizards from the Los Angeles Lakers.

SCOUTING REPORT

ROBERT MORRIS
The Colonials advanced to 5-6 in #HLMBB play following the team's 85-77 win over Detroit Mercy on Friday night in Moon Township. Two student-athletes of the blue and red, Kahliel Spear and Josh Corbin, registered 20-plus points with 25 and 20, respectively. Enoch Cheeks posted eight assists in the win as well.

The win over the Titans puts RMU eighth at 5-6 in the conference, tied with Wright State. The Colonials have the seventh-best scoring margin in the league at 2.5. Cheeks is the team's leading scorer with 16.7 points per game while Spear and Corbin are just behind at 15.4 and 11.6, respectively.

Spear is good for 7.7 boards per game with Stephaun Walker sitting at 5.3.

In the two team's last meeting on January 12, Oakland survived a 69-65 match that saw Townsend post 30 points and Lampman 18.

Oakland leads the all-time series with RMU 8-1. 

 

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NO MERCY
Oakland has now won eight-straight in Calihan Hall, the best record of any of the Titans' opponents in history. Marquette held the previous record of 7-0 until January 23 when Oakland won the 12th of the last 13 games in the Metro Series 76-67.

1,000 POINT CLUB
Townsend became the 37th Golden Grizzly to reach 1,000 career points in the team's overtime win against IUPUI off a free throw. Townsend then followed it up with his 500th rebound in the win versus Detroit Mercy.

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 671 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.