ROCHESTER, Mich. – Oakland University Men's Basketball will finish its final regular season road game on Saturday, February 11 at 7:00 pm ET with Milwaukee at UWM Panther Arena on ESPN+. The "Voice of the Golden Grizzlies" Neal Ruhl will be on the call with TheBet 1270AM (WXYT-AM) and on the Audacy App.

A scoring stall of 11 and a half minutes by Green Bay aided Oakland's low-scoring 59-47 win against Green Bay on Thursday night with Trey Townsend registering his third-straight double-double, seventh overall this season, with team-highs in points (23) and rebounds (12).

Jalen Moore leads the squad with 17.7 points per game with Townsend not far behind at 16.4. The duo of Keaton Hervey and Blake Lampman post 11.6 and 10.8, respectively. Moore's average puts the senior fourth in the conference in scoring. 

Townsend and Hervey average 8.2 and 6.5 boards a contest putting the defensive duo fourth and eighth in the league with those marks. 

Moore is still 13th in assists per game at 5.9 as calculated by the NCAA through games on February 8, first in the conference, with a total assist ranking of 22nd with his 129. 

Lampman is third in three-point shooting in the league in both the field goal percentage (33.3%) and triples per game (2.5). 

With five games left in the regular season, the Golden Grizzlies sit fifth in the conference standings with its opponents at an average of 6.2 in the #HLMBB standings. Only two opponents, Milwaukee and Northern Kentucky, are ahead of Oakland.

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 673-521 (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.

The Washington Wizards have acquired former Oakland University Men's Basketball student-athlete Kendrick Nunn from the Los Angeles Lakers.

SCOUTING REPORT

MILWAUKEE
The Panthers saw a 19-point lead vanish against Detroit Mercy Thursday night in a #HLMBB match that came down to the wire at the UWM Panther Arena. Five Milwaukee players saw double-digit scoring numbers in the high-scoring 94-89 game as BJ Freeman posted 26 with a team-high 10 assists.

Freeman leads the Panthers with 16.9 points per game as Kentrell Pullian and Markeith Browning II follow just behind with 10.8 and 10.3, respectively. Freeman is sixth in the conference in scoring while the squad as a whole sits third in points per game at 78.6 and a margin of 7.0 which is also third.

The Golden Grizzlies previously defeated Milwaukee at the Athletics Center O'rena back on December 29 83-61. 

Oakland leads the all-time series 12-9 since 2005. 

 

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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 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 673 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.