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THE BASICS
Score: Ohio 65, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 58
Location: Convocation Center - Athens, Ohio
The Short Story: Junior forward Antonio Campbell (Cincinnati, Ohio) piled up a career-high 26 points to lead all scorers and hauled in a game-high 12 rebounds to tally his fourth-straight double-double as the Ohio men's basketball team (8-3) knocked off Arkansas-Pine Bluff (2-11), 65-58, on Monday (Dec. 21) at the Convocation Center. The Bobcats posted their fourth-straight win.

OHIO STARTERS: #0 Treg Setty, #2 Jaaron Simmons, #13 Kenny Kaminski, #33 Antonio Campbell, #35 Jordan Dartis

ARKANSASâ€"PINE BLUFF STARTERS: #1 Charles Jackson, #3 Thaddeus Handley, JR., #22 Jovaughn Love, #23 Ghiavonni Robinson, # 25 Chauncy Parker

HOW IT HAPPENED
• The Bobcats shot 47.6 percent (20-of-42) from the field -- including 57.1 percent (12-of-21) in the second half. The Green & White took advantage of their opportunities from the free throw line, converting 23-of-26 (88.5 percent) attempts. The Bobcats outscored Arkansas-Pine Bluff in the paint, 34-10. Ohio held the Golden Lions to 37.3 percent (19-of-51) shooting -- including 22.6 percent (7-of-31) in the first half. Arkansas-Pine Bluff kept the contest close, though, with a 60.0 percent (12-of-20) effort in the second half -- including 85.7 percent (6-of-7) from three-point land.
• Campbell shot 9-of-14 from the field and a season-best 8-of-10 from the free throw line. He tallied three blocks and a steal in 33 minutes of work.
• Redshirt senior forward Treg Setty (Maysville, Ky.) went 7-of-7 from the charity stripe en route to scoring 13 points for the second game in a row. He also logged seven rebounds and two assists in 33 minutes.
• Redshirt junior forward Kenny Kaminski (Medina, Ohio) and freshman guard Jordan Dartis (Newark, Ohio) each totaled eight points. Kaminski also grabbed seven rebounds, handed out three assists and blocked a shot in 34 minutes while Dartis hauled in two rebounds and tallied an assist and a steal 35 minutes.
• Redshirt sophomore guard Jaaron Simmons (Dayton, Ohio) handed out a game-high six assists in addition to recording six points, three rebounds and a steal over 35 minutes.
• Junior guard Ghiavonni Robinson scored 21 points off of a 6-of-13 shooting effort -- including 4-of-8 from three-point range -- to lead Arkansas-Pine Bluff. He also totaled three rebounds, an assist and a steal in 39 minutes.
• Senior guard/forward Trent Whiting came off the bench to score eight points and hand out a team-high four assists in addition to posting two rebounds, two steals and a block in 27 minutes.
• The Bobcats built up a nine-point lead out of the gate, using eight points by Campbell -- including two dunks -- to go along with a trey by Dartis to go up 11-2 with just over 14 minutes left in the first half.
• Back-to-back threes by Robinson made it a three-point game with just under 13 minutes remaining in the half.
• Ohio outscored Arkansas-Pine Bluff by a 12-5 count over the ensuing eight minutes, using five points by Kaminski and two apiece by Setty, Dartis, Campbell and sophomore guard Mike Laster (Detroit, Mich.) build the Bobcats' advantage up to 10 at 23-13 with 4:42 left to play in the first half.
• Neither team managed to score for nearly three minutes until Campbell knocked down the second of two free throw attempts with 1:37 to go.
• Arkansas-Pine Bluff cut Ohio's lead back down to five going into halftime after junior guard Jaquan Lynch sank a three with just over a minute left in the first half.
• The Bobcats built a game-high 11-point lead at 45-34 with just under 10 minutes to play in regulation as Campbell continued to dominate, scoring 11 of his 15 second-half points over the first 10-plus minutes. Setty also chipped in five points during the stretch. He tallied 11-second half points.
• The Golden Lions countered with five points from Robinson over the next two minutes, then trimmed Ohio's lead back down to five again with just over six minutes to go on a layup by junor forward Devin Berry.
• That's as close as the Bobcats let Arkansas-Pine Bluff get, though, going back up by 11 two more times -- including at 64-53 on a conventional three-point play by Kaminski with just under a minute remaining.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• The Bobcats posted their fourth-straight victory after notching a 76-67 win at Cleveland State on Dec. 12 at Quicken Loans Arena and following it up with a 93-69 triumph over Ohio Dominican last Tuesday (Dec. 15) and a 72-67 win over Jackson State two days later. Ohio has won four in a row for the first time since the 2013-14 campaign.
• The Bobcats start a season with six home victories in six tries for the fourth time in the last five seasons.
• Ohio is now 2-0 (1.000) all-time against Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
• Ohio has posted eight non-conference triumphs in 11 games in 2015-16. The Bobcats won five non-conference games in 11 tries last season. Ohio's 8-3 start to the 2015-16 campaign is the program's best through 11 games since going 10-1 to begin the 2011-12 season.
• Campbell recorded his sixth double-double of the season and 15th of his career. He finished with double-digit points for a team-high ninth time this season and 30th time in his career and tallied double-digit boards for the seventh time this year and 18th time in his career. Campbell led the Bobcats in scoring for the third time this year and in rebounding for a team-high ninth time this season.
• Setty reached double figures in scoring for the fifth time this year and eighth time in his career.
• Simmons led the Bobcats in assists for a team-high 11th time. He's posted at least five assists in every game this year.

QUOTABLE
Second-year head coach Saul Phillips on the win
"I really tried after the game to leave them (the team) with some perspective about how far this program's come since last season and how happy I am to be around them every day and appreciate the work they put in. It was a really rough offseason for our family. And, every time I walk in the gym, for them to be so eager, so upbeat, so ready to go and ready to respond the way they have…I just appreciate this group. They're fun."

Junior forward Antonio Campbell on scoring a career-high 26 points
"People know what I can do. I can score on the block and can stretch it out to three."

Redshirt senior forward Treg Setty on junior forward Antonio Campbell
"It's our meter. He makes us tick. He's a much more efficient player than anybody else, not only on our team but in the conference as well. Whenever we can get him going, anything else is just icing on the cake. He's our gauge. We gauge off him. If Tone's hot, we're hot. If Tone's cold, we're cold. He's our meter and our motor, too. He's our meter-motor."

UP NEXT
The Bobcats close non-conference play and their current four-game homestand next Wednesday (Dec. 30) at the Convocation Center, hosting UC Riverside in a 7 p.m. ET contest.

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