The Basics
The Mavericks play their home finale on Thursday when they host Oral Roberts in a 7 p.m. meeting on Senior Night. Nick Davis is the one and only senior being honored before the game.

Gary Sharp will have the call on 1290 KOIL and links to live stats, audio, and video can be found at OMavs.com.

Quick Hits

• With only three games left in the regular season, the Mavericks are right in the mix for the No. 2 seed in the conference at only two games back with a 13-15 record and 6-7 conference mark.
• Omaha is coming off a 1-1 week at home which started with a 91-84 win over South Dakota to give them their first season sweep over the Coyotes since 2018-19. The week ended with an 85-77 overtime loss to South Dakota State in which they led by six points with less than a minute left in regulation, but ultimately succumbed to a late Jackrabbits rally.
• Frankie Fidler had another phenomenal week, scoring 49 points and pulling down 17 rebounds. He recorded his third double-double of the season vs. SDSU with 26 points and 11 boards, as well as climbing to 8th on the all-time program scoring list with 1391 points and breaking 500 points on the season for the first time in his career. At 548 points on the season, Fidler is just 30 away from tying the program's all-time single-season Division I record set by Zach Jackson in 2018-19.
• JJ White also had a productive week, scoring 18 points vs. USD and 14 vs. SDSU, as well as picking up six total assists. 
• Nick Davis added two more blocks last week to bring his season total to 34, giving him the fourth most by a Maverick in a single season in the Division I era. He is two blocks away from reaching third place.
• Jaeden Marshall had his best week yet this year, first having his eighth double-digit scoring game of the season followed by his first career 20-point game against SDSU thanks to a career-high five 3-PT FGs.
• Grant Stubblefield, Marcel Bryant, Nick Davis, and Biko Johnson are Omaha's top newcomers coming into this season. 
• Stubblefield was named 6A Player of the Year and First Team All-State while at Blue Valley Northwest and Bryant was named the Austin Area Player of the Year at Cedar Ridge. Johnson is coming off his second season at Western Nebraska CC where he was named All-Conference and All-Nebraska, while Davis is fresh off winning GAC Defensive Player of the Year and a trip to the Sweet 16 of the Division II NCAA Tournament with Southern Nazarene. 
• Fidler was Omaha's lone All-Summit honoree last season, earning an Honorable Mention. He led Omaha in scoring (14.7 ppg), rebounding (5.8 rpg), steals (1.2 spg), and free throw percentage (.887), with his FT% in particular ranking in the NCAA's top-25 for most of the season.
• Head Coach Chris Crutchfield has a 32-47 career record. It marks his third season as a head coach and second with the Mavericks.

Scouting the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles
ORU continues to be a very streaky team, following up their three-game winning streak that began against Omaha in January with four straight losses, bringing the Golden Eagles to 11-15 overall and 5-8 in the Summit League.

Senior guard Issac McBride became the third player in the conference this year to top 500 points last week after scoring 37 against NDSU and UND. Currently, he is second in the league in ppg with 20.4 and third in points with 530. A key factor in his offensive production is his league-leading .883 FT% and the ninth-best FG% at .443. 

Graduate student guard Kareem Thompson is fifth in the league in rebounding at 6.7 rpg, just 0.1 behind fellow guard Jailen Bedford. Thompson also ranks third in steals with 41 and fourth in assists with 92, while his 12.9 ppg place him at 15th.

First-time Head Coach Russell Springmann has been with ORU since the 2018-19 season as an assistant and helped the Golden Eagles reach the Sweet 16 back in the 2020-21 season. Prior to ORU, Springmann spent a season with the Oklahoma City Thunder and 14 with Texas, where he helped lead the Longhorns to 13 NCAA Tournament appearances. 

All-Time Against Oral Roberts
Omaha fell to 4-18 against ORU all-time, with their last victory coming on January 4, 2020 when they won 74-67 at home. Back in January, the Mavericks made it close and nearly pulled off a late comeback in a 74-67 loss. Four Mavericks scored in double figures, led by Fidler with 19, while Sutton paced the team with eight boards. For the Golden Eagles, Issac McBride led the way with 22 points.