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MEN'S PREVIEW: Baldwin Wallace

MEN'S PREVIEW: Baldwin Wallace

If the Wilmington basketball team wants a home game in the Ohio Athletic Conference tournament, they must start by beating Baldwin Wallace Saturday.

"If we want to stay in this thing and compete for the four seed, we have to win Saturday," said Wilmington head coach K.C. Hunt.

The Yellow Jackets have a two-game lead with three games remaining, and holds the advantage via the 95-61 victory in December.

"Our minds went on Christmas break and our bodies stayed here," Hunt said of the first meeting. "We weren't mentally into it, weren't physically into it, and just weren't ready to play. When you give a team as good as they are that opportunity, they will take advantage of it. Hopefully for us, this is a game we can have a chip on our shoulder, and come out play with a lot of intensity and prove we are not the team that showed up in the first game."

Matt Dennis and Justin Roth scored 23 and 21 points, respectively, in leading the Yellow Jackets to the win. Baldwin Wallace shots 55.6 percent (35-of-63) from the field and held WC to just 32.1 percent (18-of-56). Cameron Kuhn added 14 points for the BW as the starters combined for 69 points.

Roth leads the team with 18.5 points per game, and is shooting 42.4 percent (73-of-173) from three-point range. Kuhn is second on the team with 14.0 points, followed by Dennis, who is averaging 10.3 points and a team-high 6.3 rebounds.

However, Jaron Crowe is the catalyst for the offense, averaging 4.8 assists to go along with 9.5 points.

 "They are a very talented basketball team, very physical," said Hunt. "We have to contain and control Jaron Crowe as much as we can. He is as good a point guard in the league as far as managing the game and finding people."