Bowling Green State University Athletics
Women's Basketball To Host Youngstown State Saturday
November 16, 2000 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 16, 2000
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GAME #1 * BGSU vs. YOUNGSTOWN STATE * Sat., Nov. 18, 2000
Anderson Arena * Bowling Green, Ohio * 1:00 pm
BGSU PROBABLE STARTERS
F 22 Francine Miller 5-11 Jr. Kalida, Ohio 17.1 ppg 7.0 rpg F 31 Afra Smith 5-9 Sr. Madison, Wis. 8.8 ppg 3.5 rpg C 14 Jackie Adlington 6-1 Sr. Toledo, Ohio 0.6 ppg 1.0 rpg G 12 Lindsay Austin 5-7 Fr. Cincinnati, Ohio - - G 24 Angie Farmer 5-9 Sr. Wayland, Mich. 12.2 ppg 3.2 rpg * statistics listed are from 1999-2000 season
THE GAME The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team begins the 2000-2001 regular season Saturday (Nov. 18), as the Falcons host Youngstown State University. Tipoff for the game is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at BGSU's venerable Anderson Arena (5,000).
Following the YSU game, the Falcons will open the road portion of the schedule, heading to Richmond, Ky., for a Tuesday (Nov. 21) game at Eastern Kentucky University. Start time for that contest is 7:30 p.m. at McBrayer Arena (6,500).
COACH DEE KNOBLAUCH Falcon head coach Dee Knoblauch begins her third season at her alma mater, and has a record of 24-31. Knoblauch (pronounced: kuh-NOB-low), a 1983 graduate of the University, assumed the reins of the Falcon program on August 21, 1998.
Knoblauch, in 13 seasons as a head coach, has an overall record of 206-150 (.579). She came to BGSU after 11 seasons at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. Over her final five years there, she led the Purple Raiders to a 116-32 mark (.784), including three NCAA Tournament appearances and two NCAA Division III "Final Four" berths.
As a player, Knoblauch was a two-time All-MAC Second-Team selection, and she was named to the Academic All-MAC First Team as a senior. She led the league in assists in each of her last two seasons, and still holds all of the school records in that category.
1999-2000 FALCONS ENJOY LATE-SEASON SUCCESS BGSU will look to build upon the success enjoyed late last season ... after going nearly all year without winning back-to-back games, the Falcons had a 6-16 overall record (and a 4-8 MAC mark, tied for the 11th seed) on Valentine's Day ... the Brown and Orange rallied to win five consecutive games, including road wins against Akron and Buffalo to close the regular season, winding up in a deadlock for fifth place overall ... BG capped off the win streak with a victory over Ohio in the MAC Tournament First Round, before seeing the season come to an end with a quarterfinal loss to Western Michigan ... the Falcons ended the year with an overall record of 11-17, and BGSU went 8-8 in MAC regular-season play.
SUCCESS IN HOME OPENERS The Falcons will look to keep a rather impressive streak going in the Youngstown State game ... BGSU has captured 11 of the last 12 home openers, including last year's 88-69 come-from-behind win over St. Bonaventure at Anderson (Nov. 22) ... the only loss among the last 12 home openers came to nationally-ranked Notre Dame, an eventual national semifinalist, in 1996.
MILLER ON PRESEASON ALL-MAC TEAM Junior Francine Miller was named to the preseason All-MAC Team in October ... voting for the five-player team was conducted by members of the MAC News Media Association.
HONORS ARE NOTHING NEW FOR MILLER, THOUGH Junior Francine Miller heads a cast of eight returning letterwinners for the Brown and Orange in 2000-2001 ... last year, Miller became just the second sophomore in school history to earn all-league first-team laurels, joining Jackie Motycka in that exclusive club ... Miller led the 1999-2000 Falcons in scoring (17.1 ppg), field-goal percentage (.468), and free-throw accuracy (.856), and ranked second on the club in rebounding (7.0 rpg), assists (2.4 apg) and steals (1.6 spg).
SCOUTING YSU Youngstown State welcomes back eight letterwinners, including two starters, from last year's team ... that squad went 22-9 overall and finished second in the Mid-Continent Conference with a 12-4 mark ... the Penguins went to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in five years ... one of those two returning starters, senior Brianne Kenneally, has been the Mid-Con Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons ... not surprisingly, she was tabbed as the league's 2000-2001 Preseason P-O-Y ... she averaged 18.7 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game last winter ... senior guard Jen Lyden and junior forward Allison Metro started 13 and 12 games, respectively, last year ... Lyden averaged 6.3 points and 2.3 assists, while Metro scored 2.5 points per game last year ... the Penguins played just one exhibition contest this year, downing Shelen, a Russian select team, by a 75-72 score (Nov. 8) ... Kenneally led the way with 19 points, adding seven rebounds ... freshman Heather Harris had 14 points and seven rebounds off the bench, while junior Nikki Pope had 11 points and a team-high eight boards ... Lyden had five points and a team-best seven assists ... senior Alyson Vogrin, sophomore Christie Zetts and Pope joined Kenneally and Lyden in the starting lineup for that game ... head coach Ed DiGregorio enters his 18th year at YSU with a career record of 291-185.
THE SERIES The Falcons and Youngstown State are tied, 8-8, in the all-time series between the schools. YSU won last year's meeting, 83-68, in the season opener in Youngstown (Nov. 20, 1999). That contest broke a seven-game BGSU win streak in the series. The teams have played in each of the last seven seasons. The Falcons are 5-4 at home vs. the Penguins, and BG won the last meeting in Anderson, 83-79, two years ago (Nov. 18, 1998).
BG & YSU - GAME-BY-GAME:
1977-78 Youngstown State 66, at BGSU 58 3/3/78 Youngstown State 67, BGSU 64 + 1/19/79 at Youngstown State 73, BGSU 44 1/26/80 Youngstown State 69, at BGSU 60 1/17/81 at Youngstown State 76, BGSU 58 2/24/82 at BGSU 77, Youngstown State 72 2/18/90 Youngstown State 79, at BGSU 76 (OT) 1/14/91 at Youngstown State 76, BGSU 55 11/26/91 at BGSU 99, Youngstown State 79 1/3/94 BGSU 79, at Youngstown State 66 12/1/94 at BGSU 76, Youngstown State 38 12/12/95 BGSU 87, at Youngstown State 85 12/30/96 at BGSU 78, Youngstown State 63 11/14/97 BGSU 81, at Youngstown State 72 11/18/98 at BGSU 83, Youngstown State 79 11/20/99 at Youngstown State 83, BGSU 68 + OAISW State Tournament
LAST TIME OUT The Falcons split a pair of exhibition games at Anderson Arena ... BGSU opened with an 87-77 win over the Premier All-Stars on Nov. 1 ... BGSU used a game-ending 15-3 run to pull away ... junior Francine Miller led all scorers with 20 points, while classmate Dana Western added 18 off the bench ... senior Angie Farmer, held scoreless for the game's first 36 minutes, had 11 points, including three three-pointers, in the final 3:33 ... BG lost the second exhibition game a week later (Nov. 8), falling to WBC Ilirija, a team from Slovenia, by a 74-60 score ... Ilirija's Sasa Stubler hit 10 of her first 11 shots en route to a game-high 28 points ... Miller led three double-digit Falcon scorers with 14 points, while Farmer and senior Afra Smith added 13 and 12, respectively ... freshman Kelly Kapferer had eight points and a team-high seven rebounds off the bench.
A LOOK AHEAD AT EKU BGSU will play at Eastern Kentucky on Nov. 21 ... the Colonels return three starters and 10 total letterwinners from last year's 13-15 squad ... that team went 10-8 in Ohio Valley Conference play ... in addition to the three starters, head coach Larry Joe Inman welcomes back junior Charlotte Sizemore, who averaged 17.0 points in five games last year before suffering a knee injury ... senior center Candice Finley averaged 12.7 points and 5.6 rebounds a year ago ... EKU played just one exhibition, blowing out the Sports Reach Crusaders by a 98-48 count Friday (Nov. 10) ... Sizemore had a game-high 17 points off the bench, while sophomore guard Teresa McNair had 13 points and a game-high 13 rebounds ... the Colonels will play in the Morehead State Tip-Off Classic (Nov. 18-19) before hosting the Falcons ... EKU will meet Texas A&M and Glenville State in that tourney ... Inman enters his 13th year at the school with a record of 185-144 ... he is 346-217 heading into his 21st season as a collegiate head coach.
YOUNG AT THE POINT It is safe to say that the Falcons will start a freshman at the point-guard spot when the team takes the court Saturday vs. YSU ... both of the team's point guards are frosh ... Lindsay Austin started both of BG's exhibition games, averaging 19.5 minutes and 5.0 points ... although Austin started, Emily Pohl saw nearly identical time at the point ... Pohl averaged 20.5 minutes and 3.5 points per game.
FIRST FROSH TO START OPENER SINCE... As mentioned, it is highly likely that Lindsay Austin or Emily Pohl will be the first freshman to start the opening game of the season since Sherry Kahle got the call in her first-ever game, the 1996-97 lidlifter against Notre Dame (Nov. 23, 1996).
TREY BIEN! FALCONS SET NCAA RECORD FOR THREE-POINTERS MADE It is safe to say that the 2000-2001 edition of the Falcons will probably attempt a great many shots from behind the three-point arc ... the three-point shot is a staple of a Dee Knoblauch-coached team ... in fact, last winter, the Brown and Orange set a new NCAA Division I record for three-point field goals made per game ... BGSU sank 259 treys in 28 contests, for an average of 9.25 per game ... the only previous team to average more than nine triples per game was the 1993-94 South Carolina team (9.19) ... (Iowa State also cracked that barrier last year, averaging 9.09 treys per outing.) ... BGSU's total of 259 treys made smashed the MAC record of 234, held by the 1993-94 Kent (28 games) and Toledo (32 games) squads ... the Falcons broke the league record in the season's 26th game.
FREE-THROW SUCCESS, TOO Nearly lost in all the three-point hoopla last season was the fact that the 1999-2000 Falcons also led the nation in free-throw percentage ... BGSU converted charity tosses at a school-record .773 rate, making 340 free throws in 440 attempts ... the old school record of .760 was set by the 1997-98 team.
THREE BALL, CORNER POCKET In Mid-American Conference play last season, the Falcons averaged almost 10 three-point field goals made per game, with 159 successful triples in 16 games ... in the eight conference games played at venerable Anderson Arena, the Falcons made an average of 11.75 three-pointers per game, shooting an eye-popping .461 from behind the arc in those eight games ... BGSU made at least eight treys in each MAC home game.
IS THAT A NEW RECORD? Before Knoblauch returned to campus, the school records for three-point field goals made and attempted in a season were 97 and 296, respectively ... Knoblauch's first team made 135 treys in an even 400 attempts, and last year's squad shattered the records yet again, making a MAC-record 259 triples in 710 attempts.
FARMER FIRES FOR THREE Angie Farmer returns for her senior year after shattering the BGSU seasonal records for three-pointers made and attempted. Farmer sank 78 treys in 186 attempts last winter, and her .419 success rate ranked sixth on that BGSU single-season list ... four players - Farmer, Francine Miller (43, fifth), Sherry Kahle (42, sixth) and Jaymee Wappes (39, eighth) - cracked the BG season list for three-pointers made.
MILLER MAKES 'EM, TOO While Farmer was setting the single-season school record for three-pointers made, Francine Miller was setting the three-point percentage mark ... Miller's .453 success rate from behind the arc (43-of-95) broke the previous record of .439, set by Farmer in the 1998-99 campaign ... Miller enters her junior season as the career leader in that category, with a .443 rate (77-of-174).
MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME In the first 12 seasons after the three-point shot was adopted (1986-87 to 1997-98), Bowling Green teams made a total of 666 three-pointers in 1890 attempts ... over the last two years, BGSU's totals are nearly 60 percent of the totals during those first 12 years ... Knoblauch's teams have made 394 treys in 1,110 tries (see graphic).
JUST A TYPICAL NIGHT The Falcons' game vs. Mississippi last Nov. 26 set the tone for the entire season ... in the third game of the year, BGSU and Ole Miss combined to make 31 three-pointers in 75 attempts, in the process setting NCAA single-game records for two teams ... at the time, BG's 14 successful three-pointers set a school record, but as the year went on, the effort would prove to be just a typical output for the Brown and Orange (see next note).
WRITE THOSE RECORDS IN PENCIL Entering last season, the school record for three-pointers made in a game was 12 ... BGSU hit double digits in that category no fewer than 12 times last year, including a 16-for-38 performance - both school records - in a win over Akron (Jan. 26).
56 GAMES AND COUNTING The Falcons have made at least one three-point field goal in every game during the Dee Knoblauch Era ... BGSU has drained a triple in each of the last 56 games, a school record ... the last time the Falcons were held without a trey was on March 1, 1998 ... the previous school record was 29-straight games on two occasions - most recently, in the 1993-94 (last five games) and 1994-95 (first 24 games) seasons.
ANDER-RIFFIC! In eight home conference games last season, the Falcons made an average of 11.75 three-point field goals per contest ... BGSU shot an eye-popping .461 from three-point range in those games, having made 94 treys in 204 attempts ... the Falcons made at least eight triples in each game, and drained 67 in the last five home contests combined ... adding in the MAC Tournament first-round game against Ohio, the Falcons were 102-of-223 (.457) from long range against league foes at Anderson.
THE STREAK The Falcons went most of the 1999-2000 season without ever winning back-to-back games, but changed that in a big way ... BGSU won five consecutive games prior to the season-ending loss to WMU ... that streak was the longest since the 1997-98 team won eight games in a row in January and February.
DOUBLE TROUBLE Francine Miller enters her junior season with a total of 10 double-doubles in her career ... nine of those double-doubles came last year, including four in MAC play and another in the first round of the conference tournament.
FARMER EARNS ACADEMIC HONOR Angie Farmer was named to the 1999-2000 GTE Academic All-District IV University Division Team late last February ... the team is made up of student-athletes from NCAA Division I schools in the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee ... Farmer entered her senior year with a 3.85 cumulative GPA as a secondary education (social studies) major ... she ranked second on the Falcons in scoring last winter, and set the school's seasonal records for three-point field goals made and attempted.
TRIPLE YOUR FUN Several current Falcons are ranked among the BGSU career three-point leaders ... junior Francine Miller is ranked first on the all-time BGSU list for career three-point percentage (.443, 77-of-174), while senior Angie Farmer is third (.422, 111-of-263) ... sophomore Kim Griech is seventh on that list (.366, 26-of-71) ... Farmer is in second place all-time with 111 three-pointers made, while Miller is sixth with 77 ... Farmer is fourth with 263 career three-point attempts, while Miller is seventh with 174 triple tries ... on the single-season lists, Farmer owns the school records with 78 treys made and 186 attempted last season ... Miller made 43 treys last year, good for fifth-most all-time, and set a new school record by shooting .453 from long range this year.
CAPTAIN'S LOG BGSU seniors Angie Farmer and Afra Smith have been chosen as team captains for the 2000-2001 season.
