The Malone University men's basketball team plays a pair of Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) frontrunners this weekend in Cedarville University and Walsh University. The Pioneers travel to Cedarville on Thursday, February 13 to play the Yellow Jackets on their home floor. Following that on Monday, February 17, Malone hosts crosstown rival Walsh at Osborne Hall.
 
Tip-off for Thursday's game will be at 7:45 pm, then back to the typical 8 pm time slot for the home matchup versus Walsh.
 
Follow Along:
Malone @ Cedarville
Thursday, February 13 at 7:45 pm
Live Video: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/cedarville/
Live Stats: https://yellowjackets.cedarville.edu/sidearmstats/mbball/summary
 
Malone vs Walsh
Monday, February 17 at 8 pm
Live Video/Stats: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/malone/
 
Previous Matchups:
In Malone's first conference game of the year, Cedarville defeated the Pioneers in Canton by a score of 80-66. Off the bench, Bo Myers scored his career-best 24 points in the game.
 
Malone and Walsh will square off for the first time in the 2019-20 season on Monday. The pair will meet again, this time in North Canton just nine days after the initial contest.
 
Malone Team Notes: Schedule | Roster | Statistics
Record: 13-10 (7-6 G-MAC)
 
Malone is coming off a 2-0 weekend with lopsided victories over Ohio Valley and Alderson Broaddus. The average margin of victory in the last three wins for the Pioneers has been by over 32 points per game.
 
The Pioneers buried 14 three's in their most recent game against Alderson Broaddus, the second-most shots from behind the arc that Malone has made in a single game this season. The squad also tied a season high with 48 total rebounds in the game. It was the second consecutive game that the Pioneers shot over 50% from the field, a feat that had not yet been accomplished this season. Malone secured a season high in steals versus Ohio Valley with 13 in the game.
 
Jaret Majestic and his counterpart Bo Myers scored identical points in each of the last two games (23 points vs Ohio Valley and 21 points vs Alderson Broaddus). Majestic has nailed five three's in four of the last five games and has upped his scoring average by over three points since the start of 2020. Myers has scored 20+ points in back-to-back games for the first time in his Pioneer career.
 
Over his last six games, Daylan Haynie has recorded four or more assists, including a game at Findlay with a season-high nine. Haynie is fourth in the conference with 102 assists on the season. Haynie ranks second in the G-MAC in total court time with 774 minutes played.
 
Sehill Mouliom has been very efficient in his time on the floor in recent weeks. Mouliom has scored in double figures in six of his last seven games and shot above 50% in their three most recent games. Against Alderson Broaddus, Mouliom finished 8-for-8 from the field, a career-high in field goals taken without a miss.
 
Marcus Ernst reached double-digit scoring for the fourth consecutive game on Saturday. Ernst averages 14.5 points and 9.0 rebounds per game. Ernst leads the team in shooting percentage (52.0%).
 
Cedarville Team Notes: Schedule | Roster | Statistics
Record: 14-8 (9-3 G-MAC)
 
Cedarville enters Thursday's game against the Pioneers on a red hot six game winning streak. Five of the six games over that span were at home. Cedarville holds a 7-3 record at the Callan Athletic Center on the season.
 
The Yellow Jackets hold the second-highest scoring offense in the G-MAC at 82.4 points per game. Cedarville makes the most of their opportunities at the free throw line, shooting a league-high 80.6% as a team. Rebounding the basketball, the Yellow Jackets collect a conference best 39.5 boards per contest.
 
Kollin Van Horn did the most damage for Cedarville in the first matchup with the Pioneers, scoring 21 points. Van Horn shoots 57.0% from the field on the season (second-highest FG % in the G-MAC) and was 9-of-11 in the previous game versus Malone.
 
The Yellow Jackets have five double-digit scorers on their team, led by Branden Maughmer at 14.5 points per game. Maughmer is also fourth in the conference in assists, averaging 4.8 per contest.
 
Along with Van Horn (11.5), Quinton Green (14.3), Connor TenHove (12.5) and Isaiah Speelman (11.0) make up the other three double figure scorers for Cedarville. Green trails only Jaret Majestic in free throw percentage in the conference at 90.0%. TenHove is third in the league in rebounding, grabbing 8.0 boards per game. Speelman has scored 20 points in two of the last three games.
 
Walsh Team Notes: Schedule | Roster | Statistics
Record: 20-3 (11-2 G-MAC)
 
The Walsh University Cavaliers will travel to Hillsdale College to face the Chargers on Thursday before doing battle with the Pioneers on Monday night. At home, the Cavaliers hold a 13-1 record, but in true road games are only 5-2.
 
Walsh has the highest scoring offense (86.4) and second-lowest scoring defense (66.3) in the G-MAC as a team. The Cavaliers shoot 43% from beyond the arc, making an average of 12.4 three's per game. Walsh's shooting percentage is second in all of NCAA Division II.
 
Darryl Straughter and Mark Mokros are 1-2 in the conference in three-point percentage. Straughter sinks shots from long range at a 48.5% and Mokros at 46.7%. Straughter also scores a team-high 17.2 points per game.
 
Sophomore forward JT Shumate scores 15.5 points per game and is efficient in shot selection, shooting 53.3% from the field. Shumate is third in the conference in field goal percentage and collects a team best 7.5 rebounds per game.
 
Caleb Canter and Christian Montague round out the rest of the Cavaliers' starting five. Canter has been a rebounding machine of late, bringing down over nine rebounds per game over his last four. Montague has scored over 15 points in seven of his last eight games.