Titans Get Back in Win Column; Borchert Joins 1,000-Point Club
DE PERE, Wis.- The No. 19 nationally ranked UW-Oshkosh men's basketball team got back in the win column on Tuesday night with a 68-50 win over the St. Norbert College (Wis.) Green Knights. Senior forward Levi Borchert scored 16 points in the win to join the 1,000-point club. It was the teams' 90th meeting, first facing off in the 1917-18 season. With the win, the Titans increase their all-time lead to 56-34.
First Half Summary
Hunter Plamann quickly scored the first basket of the game to give the Titans the only lead they needed all night and was followed by Borchert, kicking off the career milestone game. It wasn't until after Oshkosh scored nine points that the Green Knights connected on their first basket of the night. A ten-point run by Oshkosh increased the lead from three points to their first double digit lead of the night and separated the Titans from the Green Knights.
First Half Leaders
Oshkosh shot 52.0 percent from the field, 50.0 percent from three and 100.0 percent from the line for their highest overall shooting percentage in a half this season (67.3 percent). Plamann led the Titans with 11 points, going four-of-six from the field and three-of-four from three. He recorded four assists, leading all players. Borchert paced the Titans in shooting percentage, shooting a perfect four-of-four from the field and two-of-two from the line for 10 points in the half. He also recorded a team-high eight rebounds (four offensive) in the half.
St. Norbert went 35.7 percent from the field and 41.7 percent from three, shooting no free throws in the half. Carter Gebler led the Green Knights with eight points, going three-of-five from the field and two-of-three from three. Three Green Knights recorded two rebounds. Michael Payant had two assists and Connor Beauchamp had two steals.
Second Half Summary
The second half was a half of runs, but the lone six-point run by the Green Knights starting at 14:02 remaining was not enough to overcome the seven-point and game-ending 10-point runs the Titans made to put the game out of reach once and for all.
Full Game Leaders
The Titans finished the game shooting 52.1 percent from the field, 47.6 percent from three and 72.7 percent from the line. They out-rebounded St. Norbert 39 to 20. Plamann finished the game with 19 points, making seven-of-11 from the field, and a career-high five-of-seven from three, also leading with six assists. Borchert recorded his 30th career double-double (16 points and 11 rebounds). He played 33 minutes before missing his first shot, a free throw. Jonah Rindfleisch recorded nine points and ten rebounds (two offensive), just missing out on his first career double-double, but set a new career-high in rebounds.
The Green Knights shot 35.2 percent from the field, 40.9 percent from three and 100 percent from the line in 40 minutes of play. Payant was their top scorer, recording 12 points on four-of-12 from the field, two-of-seven from three and two-of-two from the line. Two Green Knights recorded three rebounds. Carter Gebler, the only other Green Knight with double digit points (11) led the team with four assists.
New 1,000 Career Point Member
Borchert joined the 1,000-point club on Tuesday night with 16 on the night, shooting five-of-six from the field and six-of-seven from the line. He became the 37th player in program history to reach the milestone, and the first since Adam Fravert when he joined in 2020. It took Borchert 74 games to reach the milestone. That is a number of games that had the 2020 season not been shortened, he would have likely reached the milestone in the 2021-22 season.