The Wilmington College men's basketball team will be faced with an undersized, pressure-based basketball team when they take the court 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Fred Raizk Arena at Hermann Court.

"Heidelberg is a very athletic, deep basketball team that is very guard oriented," said Wilmington head coach K.C. Hunt. "They are similar to us in a lot of ways from the standpoint they are not a post-oriented, big team. But they have athletes everywhere, they press and they use them. It's definitely a new-look basketball team that has had some early season success.  It's going to be a tough challenge for us."

They have four new starters with junior Jackson Blue as the lone returning starter. The Student Princes won't start a single player over 6-foot-4. In fact, they have just one player taller than 6-foot-4 – senior forward Doug Waldmannstetter.

Heidelberg's press forces 13.3 steals per game and helps it tally more than 80 points per contest. The 80.7 points scored is third in the Ohio Athletic Conference.

"We have to number one: understand press offense responsibilities; number two: be strong and tough with the ball; number three: make easy plays," said Hunt. "I think that's the biggest things against pressure teams is to make easy plays. Don't make the game hard which we tend to do sometimes. If we can stay out of our way, I think we are going to have a lot of good things come out of that press."

Junior Marcquise Taylor, who missed all but two games last season with an injury, leads the team in scoring 14.8 points per game and 4.2 rebounds. Two other scorers – freshman Kiere Bennie and junior Ben Jones – are also tallying more than 10 points with 13.0 and 11.3 points, respectively.

Part of Heidelberg's difficulties this season lay on the glass as the Student Princes are being  beat on the glass by more than seven boards per contest. Wilmington can also expect HC to jack up plenty of three pointers as 42.5 percent of their shots are from beyond the arc. They make 36.7 percent (62-of-169) of their long-range shots.