{"id":204958,"date":"2026-03-05T03:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204958\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:38:08","slug":"northern-kentucky-85-84-oakland-mar-4-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204958\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Kentucky 85-84 Oakland (Mar 4, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUBURN HILLS, Mich. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5107298\/donovan-oday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Oday<\/a> had 19 points in Northern Kentucky&#8217;s 85-84 victory over Oakland on Wednesday in the first round of the Horizon League Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>              Oday shot 7 of 11 from the field, including 2 for 4 from 3-point range, and went 3 for 4 from the line for the Norse (19-13). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5106776\/lj-wells\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LJ Wells<\/a> scored 18 points and added 11 rebounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5241674\/dan-gherezgher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Gherezgher<\/a> shot 5 for 11 (3 for 8 from 3-point range) and 4 of 5 from the free-throw line to finish with 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5107377\/brody-robinson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brody Robinson<\/a> led the way for the Golden Grizzlies (16-16) with 36 points, seven rebounds and two steals. Oakland also got 14 points and six rebounds from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5313714\/isaac-garrett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Garrett<\/a>. Tuburu Niavalurua also had 12 points, eight rebounds, four assists and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>              Northern Kentucky went into the half leading Oakland 37-31. Oday scored 11 points in the half. Northern Kentucky turned a six-point second-half lead into a 13-point advantage with a 7-0 run to make it a 68-55 lead with 4:25 left in the half. Gherezgher scored 12 second-half points in the win.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUBURN HILLS, Mich. &#8212; \u2014 Donovan Oday had 19 points in Northern Kentucky&#8217;s 85-84 victory over Oakland on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-204958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}