ROCHESTER, Mich. – Oakland University Men's Basketball will host a four-game homestand to finish the regular season starting with the Jaguars of IUPUI on Wednesday, February 15 at 7:00 pm at the Athletics Center O'rena on ESPN+. The "Voice of the Golden Grizzlies" Neal Ruhl will be on the call with Tony Paul on analysis.

The Golden Grizzlies wrapped up their regular season road stint on Saturday in an 80-77 overtime loss to Milwaukee in Wisconsin for a 5-9 away record. Trey Townsend posted 21 points in the defeat while Jalen Moore and Blake Lampman were just behind with 19 and 18, respectively. 

Moore posts 17.8 points per game along with Townsend, Lampman, and Keaton Hervey who all average double-digits with 16.6, 11.4, and 11.0. Townsend is the squad's rebounding leader with 8.0 per game. 

With Moore's scoring average, the senior is fifth in the conference in points per game while Townsend sits fifth in rebounding. 

The Cloverdale, Indiana native is currently in a tie for seventh in the country with 6.0 a game, 13th in total assists with 144. 

Both Moore and Lampman are in the top five in #HLMBB in steals as the former sits second with 2.1 and the latter fifth with 1.9. 

Lampman has dropped to fourth in the conference in three-point field goal percentage at 34.4% (62-180) while averaging 2.7 made triples a game, putting the Haslett native third in the league.

With just four games remaining on the regular season schedule, all at home, Oakland is sixth in the #HLMBB standings with its 9-7 conference mark. 

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 673-522 (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

IUPUI
Since December 20, 2022, the Jaguars have won approximately one contest in the team's 68-53 win over Green Bay at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum while still holding last place in the #HLMBB standings with a 1-15 conference record. 

The two team's previous meeting back on January 19 resulted in a Moore near half-court heave to send the game to overtime where the Golden Grizzlies prevailed in an 83-77 victory. 

Jlynn Counter averages 14.1 points per game to lead the team as Bryce Monroe and Vincent Brady II creep in just behind at 12.0 and 10.7 a contest, respectively. Chris Osten is good for 5.7 boards per game to spearhead the Jags' defensive efforts.

Oakland leads the all-time series 26-18 with the last three meetings going to the Golden Grizzlies.

 

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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.