HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. – The Northern Kentucky men's basketball team wraps up its trip to the Badger State with a Sunday afternoon showdown against Milwaukee. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m. (ET)/1 p.m. (CT) with the TV broadcast on ESPN+ and radio broadcast airing on ESPN1530.
 
Game Information
Northern Kentucky University Norse (15-7 Overall, 7-3 Horizon League)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers (10-12 Overall, 5-5 Horizon League)
Sunday, Feb. 2 – 2:00 p.m. (ET)/1 (CT)
Milwaukee, Wis. | UWM Panther Arena (10,783)
TV: ESPN+ with Scott Warras (PxP)
Radio: ESPN1530 (1530 AM) with Jim Kelch (PxP) and Rick Broering (Color)
Stats: Live Stats
 
Fast Break Points 
• NKU used 15-straight points in the second half en route to a 71-62 win on the road against Green Bay.
• NKU closes its current three-game road trip, which also concludes a stretch of 7-of-9 away from BB&T Arena, with Sunday's matinee at Milwaukee. The Norse are 6-2 so far during the swing and are one of 17 teams nationally with at least seven true road wins.
• NKU has been stingy on the defensive end, holding teams to 65.5 points per game (89th in the country), and only two opponents have scored more than 73 points against the Norse this season.
• NKU makes its hay with the nation's sixth-best 3-point field-goal shooting defense, limiting foes to just 27.9 percent.
• The Norse have ripped off 174 steals so far, a total that ranks 38th in the nation. The team's 7.9 steals per game also rank 56th.
• Offensively, the Norse are letting it rain from long range this year. The team ranks 22nd in the country in 3-point field-goal attempts (590) and 54th in made threes (189).
• NKU is in the first year of the Darrin Horn era, as the Kentucky native is just the sixth head coach in the 49th season of the program. In his 10th year as a head coach, Horn has a career record of 186-118.
• NKU has been the most dominant team in the Horizon League over the last three seasons, amassing a 53-18 mark against league foes while winning four of the combined six league championships (regular season and tournament).
• Since the start of the 2016-17 season, NKU is a combined 87-37 (.702), has won the Horizon League regular season twice (2018, 2019) and league tourney twice (2017, 2019), and has played in both the NCAA Tournament (2017, 2019) or NIT (2018) every year. No other team in DI history has registered this level of accomplishments in its first three-plus years with active status.
• G Bryson Langdon is coming off a career-high 22-point performance at Green Bay and is averaging 9.2 points per game for the Norse.
• Langdon has now reached double figures in five of the last seven games, averaging 13.0 ppg during the stretch.
• G Tyler Sharpe became NKU's 28th member of the 1,000-point club with a career-high-tying 33-point outing versus Youngstown State, his fifth 30-point showing this year. He now ranks 27th all-time at NKU with 1,064 points.
• Sharpe is averaging 16.0 points per game and his 56 made threes rank 63rd in the nation.
• G Trevon Faulkner has reached double figures in 9-of-10 Horizon League games. He is averaging 12.8 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.4 steals per game overall, but 14.0 ppg in league games.
• F Adrian Nelson has hauled in double-figure rebound totals in five of the team's league contests. He's averaging 6.0 ppg and 8.3 rpg in league play.
• After missing 10 games due to injury, G Jalen Tate returned against Green Bay on Dec. 30, and has reached double figures in 7-of-9 games since. He is averaging 10.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game on the season.
• Tate notched his second career double-double with 17 points and a career-high 12 rebounds at Green Bay.
• F Dantez Walton returned following a 10-game absence due to injury with a 15-point, 10-rebound double-double at Green Bay. He's averaging a team-best 18.1 ppg on the strength of 51 percent shooting.
• Walton's and Tate's double-doubles at Green Bay are the first pair registered by a Norse duo since Tate (13 points, 10 rebounds) and Drew McDonald (30 points, 13 rebounds) did so on Jan. 26, 2019 versus Milwaukee.
 
Last Time Out
Fifteen-unanswered points by the Norse just past the midway point of the second half erased a six-point deficit to give NKU a lead it would never relinquish in a 71-62 win. A career-high 22 points from Langdon were paired with double-doubles from both Tate (17 points, 12 rebounds) and Walton (15 points, 10 rebounds), who was playing in his first game after missing the previous 10 due to injury. Faulkner added 10 points to give NKU four players in double figures. Northern Kentucky resumed its defensive ways, limiting Green Bay to just 34 percent (24-of-71) shooting and 23 percent (5-of-22) from three.
 
Scouting Milwaukee
Milwaukee is coming off two-straight losses, but pushed Horizon League-leading Wright State to the brink in a narrow 65-61 defeat Friday night. The Panthers are 10-12 overall and one of five league teams tied at 5-5 in the standings. Three Panthers average double-figures with Darius Roy and Te'Jon Lucas posting 15.2 and 15.1 ppg, respectively. Josh Thomas adds 10.3, while DeAndre Abram adds 9.6 points and a team-high 5.5 rebounds per game. Milwaukee surrenders 72.6 points per game and scores at a 71.9 clip. Milwaukee has a knack for forcing turnovers, causing opponents to commit one on 21.9 percent of their possessions, which ranks 52nd nationally.
 
Series Stuff
The Norse and Panthers began competing in the 2015-16 season when NKU joined the Horizon League. Milwaukee claimed three of the first four meetings, but the Norse have taken the last seven to lead the all-time series 8-3. However, at UWM Panther Arena the series sits at 2-2.
 
In the first meeting this season, NKU never trailed and led for more than 36 minutes, which featured just three ties, en route to a 74-64. Sharpe continued his torrid scoring pace with his third 30-point performance in a row, dropping 31 points on 9-for-17 shooting, which including a sizzling 6-for-10 from long range. Faulkner was hot early for the Norse and tallied 16 points to go with a career-high eight rebounds. Making the first start of his career, Nelson contributed nine points and a then-career-high-tying 12 caroms. The Norse continued their stifling three-point defense, limiting the Panthers to a slim 12 percent (2-for-17) from deep. NKU converted 36 percent (9-of-25) of its 3-point attempts. And, the Norse won the rebound battle, 41-34.