The Basics
No. 5 North Dakota (9-16, 8-8 SL) vs. No. 4 Oral Roberts (13-10, 10-5 SL)
Game One Date/Time: Sunday, March 7, 2021 / 5:45 p.m.
Location: Sanford Pentagon / Sioux Falls, S.D.
Live Video: ESPN+
Live Stats: The Summit League
Radio: ORUSN / 99.9FM ESPN Radio
 
TULSA, Okla. – It's tournament time for the Oral Roberts men's basketball team as it enters The Summit League Championships as the No. 4 seed and faces North Dakota in the quarterfinals Sunday at 5:45 p.m. inside the Sanford Pentagon.

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Opponent Game Notes
Summit League Notes
 
Quick Hits
• The Golden Eagles split the season series with North Dakota each of the last three seasons since the Fighting Hawks joined the league, while Sunday will be the first postseason meeting between the squads.
• ORU earned the No. 4 seed after sweeping Western Illinois at home needing a double-digit rally in the second half winning 85-81 in game one before a 95-59 blowout to close the regular season. Max Abmas was named Summit League Player of the Week scoring 66 points in 65 minutes, while Kevin Obanor posted a double-double in both outings.
• The Golden Eagles are 22-16 all-time at The Summit League/Mid-Continent Conference Championships and enter the tournament as the No. 4 seed for the second-straight year and third time overall. As the fourth seed, ORU holds a 1-2 record after picking up a win over Omaha a season ago in the quarterfinals, its first tournament win since 2015.
• The Golden Eagles landed three on the All-Summit League teams highlighted by Abmas being honored as Player of the Year, the eighth in school history (in any conference) and first since Dominique Morrison in 2011-12. He was joined on the First Team by Kevin Obanor as the pair is the highest scoring duo in the nation combining for 953 points this season. It's the ninth time ORU has had two, First Team selections and first in The Summit League since Robert Jarvis and Marcus Lewis earned the honor in 2008-09, while Damen Bell-Holter and Warren Niles were First Team honorees in 2012-13 as members of the Southland Conference. RJ Glasper picked up a spot on the All-Newcomer Team behind 11.0 points per game and a 93-percent effort at the foul line.
• The Golden Eagles continue to top the 3-point shooting ranks in the NCAA hitting 11.6 per contest, led by Abmas, who ranks third in the country making four per game. ORU jumped up to 15th in the country averaging 82.0 ppg as the top scoring offense in the conference.
• After recording his ninth-straight game with at least 20 points, Abmas closed the weekend as the NCAA's leading scorer averaging 24.7 points per game and needs just nine points to reach 1,000 for his career where he would be the 37th in school history. He also sits fourth in the league averaging 3.3 assists.
• Obanor has grabbed a league-leading 220 rebounds this season to rank 17th in all of college basketball, while his conference-best 12 double-doubles are eighth in the country. He currently ranks 14th in Golden Eagles history with 634 career rebounds.
• ORU remains one of the nation's best free-throw shooting teams sitting in second making 81.3 percent of its attempts with Abmas (89.9) and Obanor (88.3) in the top 30 of the NCAA at 12th and 27th, respectively, in free-throw percentage.
• ORU was picked to finish second in The Summit League Preseason Poll behind only defending regular season co-champion South Dakota State.
• The Golden Eagles have eight new faces for 2020-21 with two grad transfers (RJ Glasper, Justin Lovvorn), two junior college transfers (Sheldon Stevens, Kareem Thompson) and four freshmen (Jonathan Alexandre, Jamie Bergens, Nate Clover III, Ismael Plet).
 
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