MAC Fast Break
• Toledo (No. 23) and Bowling Green (No. 24) are both ranked in this week’s College Insider Mid-Major Top 25 Poll.

• Toledo (6-3, 1-0 MAC) will look to extend its season-high three-game win streak when it hosts Northern Illinois (1-5, 0-1 MAC) on Tuesday. Marreon Jackson received MAC Player of the Week on Monday after averaging 20.5 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 6.5 apg and 2.0 spg to help Toledo to wins over Marshall and Valparaiso last week. Jackson has scored in double figures in a career-high 30 straight games.  He has led the Rockets in scoring three times, including each of the last two games.

• Ohio (4-2, 0-0 MAC) will take on Akron (2-1, 0-0 MAC) at 2 pm today in the MAC opener for both squads. The last time these two teams were set to square off was March 12, 2020 in the MAC Quarterfinals in Cleveland. However, both teams were pulled off the court during warm ups as the conference announced that the tournament would be cancelled due to COVID-19.

• The Bobcats have four players averaging double figures in points led by Jason Preston with 19.3 points per game. Preston is shooting 58.8 percent from the floor with a team-high 47 made field goals on 80 attempts.

• Ball State’s K.J. Walton and Ishmael El-Amin form the third-highest scoring duo in the conference with a combined 36.2 points per game. Walton has scored double figures in every game this season and 18+ points four times. El-Amin scored 20 points a week ago vs. Illinois State and had 22 in the overtime win at Northern Illinois. Walton and El-Amin together account for 51.2% of BSU’s scoring.