Bowling Green State University Athletics
Women's Basketball Finishes Season At 11-17
March 07, 2000 | Women's Basketball
March 7, 2000
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -
UP NEXT: The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team has completed the 1999-2000 season. The Falcons, who saw a season-best five-game winning streak come to an end in the Mid-American Conference Tournament, end the campaign with an overall record of 11-17. In MAC play, the Falcons were 8-8 overall, good for a fifth-place tie.
Bowling Green, the seventh seed for the MAC Tournament, won a first-round game last Monday (Feb. 28), beating 10th-seeded Ohio by an 84-70 final at venerable Anderson Arena. The Falcons lost in Thursday's (March 2) quarterfinal round, falling to second-seeded Western Michigan, 87-63, at Cleveland's Public Hall.
BGSU is now 20-10 all-time in MAC Tournament play. The Falcons are 8-0 in home games, 1-3 in road contests and 11-7 in neutral-site games in the league tourney.
DEE KNOBLAUCH: Falcon head coach Dee Knoblauch has completed her second 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.
FALCONS SET NCAA RECORD: The 1999-2000 edition of the BGSU women's basketball team set a new NCAA Division I record for three-point field goals made per game ... the Falcons made 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).
NCAA SEASON RECORDS
Three-Point Field Goals Per Game
Team (year)_______________G__3FG___Avg.
BGSU ('99-2000)__________28__259___9.25
South Carolina ('93-94)__27__248___9.19
Cleveland St. ('95-96)___27__229___8.48
Kent ('93-94)____________28__234___8.36
Alabama ('91-92)_________30__248___8.27
MILLER AN ALL-MAC PICK: BGSU sophomore Francine Miller was named to the All-MAC First Team, it was announced Wednesday (March 1) ... Miller becomes just the second sophomore in BGSU women's basketball history to earn first-team all-league honors ... the legendary Jackie Motycka (1986-89), who was named to the All-MAC First Team all four years, is the only other player in school annals to be so honored ... Miller led the Falcons in scoring, along with field-goal percentage, three-point field goal pct. and free-throw pct. ... she ranked second on the team in rebounding, assists and steals ... she tied the school single-game record by scoring 35 points in a game at Kent.
ABOUT THE FALCONS: BG finishes the season with an 11-17 overall record, and the Falcons finished MAC play with an 8-8 record after winning the last four games. The Brown and Orange saw a five-game winning streak come to an end with the loss to Western Michigan in the MAC Tournament's quarterfinal round.
BGSU had earned the quarterfinal berth after a first-round win over Ohio, 84-70. In that game, sophomore Francine Miller had a double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds. The Falcons shot .525 from the field and led from start to finish.
The Falcons were 6-5 at home, 4-8 on the road and 1-4 in neutral-site contests.
Miller, a sophomore forward, led the Falcons in scoring, with 17.1 points per game. She shot .468 from the field, a school-record .453 from three-point range and .856 from the free-throw line to lead the team in all three categories. Miller was second on the Falcons in rebounding (7.0), assists (2.4) and steals (1.6).
Junior guard Angie Farmer was second on the team with 12.2 points per game. Farmer started 20 games, including the last 19, and she led the Falcons in three-pointers made, with a school-record 78. Farmer shot .419 from long range and .848 from the free-throw line to place second on the team in each category.
Senior forward Sherry Kahle was third on the team in scoring (9.8) and led the Brown and Orange in rebounding (7.1).
Junior forward Afra Smith and senior point guard Jaymee Wappes round out the team's top-five in scoring with 8.8 and 7.7 points, respectively. Smith shot .441 from the field to rank second on the team, while Wappes led BG in assists (5.9) and steals (1.9).
Sophomore center Dana Western was BG's top scorer off the bench, averaging 6.9 points, while freshman guard Kim Griech had 4.8 points per game.
Kahle, Miller, Smith and Wappes started all 28 games this year.
BGSU shot .415 from the field this year, while the opponents are shooting .420. The Falcons averaged 73.0 points per contest, but allowed 78.2. BGSU averaged 36.4 boards per game to the opponents' 42.1. The Falcons shot .365 from three-point land, making a school-record 259 treys in a school-record 710 attempts. BGSU averaged 9.25 treys per game, a figure which breaks the NCAA Division I single-season record.
THE FALCONS AND THE THREE-POINTER: Here are the NCAA Division I single-season records in several three-point categories, with BGSU's final 1999-2000 total/average:
* Three-pointers made, season - 289, Colorado State, 1998-99 (259) * Three-pointers per game, season - 9.19, South Carolina, 1993-94 (9.25) * Three-point attempts, season - 793, Colorado State, 1998-99 (710) * Three-point att. per game, season - 27.7, Cleveland State, 1995-96 (25.36)
ANOTHER THREE-POINT RECORD: The Falcons sank nine three-point field goals in the regular-season final‚ at Buffalo (Feb. 25), in the process setting a new MAC seasonal record ... after hitting 10 triples vs. WMU Thursday, BGSU finishes the season with a total of 259 treys ... that breaks the old league 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.
LAST WEEK: The Falcons led from start to finish en route to an 84-70 victory over Ohio in Monday's (Feb. 28) MAC Tournament first-round game ... the win was the Falcons' third over the Bobcats this season ... BG opened the game on an 11-1 run over the first five minutes ... Dana Western scored five points in that span, closing the run with a three-point field goal ... OU's first basket came at the 14:33 mark ... an Angie Farmer trey, followed by a Western layup, gave BG a 16-4 lead before the Bobcats got hot ... in a 2:27 span, OU hit four triples, three by Cathy Szall ... that run cut the lead to 10 points ... after the Falcons went up by 16, at 34-18, the 'Cats went on a 13-2 run to cut the lead to five ... but, a 10-0 Falcon run helped build the lead to 13 points at the half ... as at the game's outset, the Falcons started quickly in the second stanza ... BGSU scored the first nine points of the half to take a 22-point lead, the biggest of the game ... the Bobcats, who made 11 three-pointers in the game, made several runs, but could not get any closer than eight points ... Francine Miller, who scored 18 of her game-high 23 points after halftime, hit back-to-back layups in a 19-second span with under five minutes left ... both layups came off long outlet passes from Afra Smith ... after a pair of OU free throws, Miller hit another layup at the 3:59 mark ... Miller added four free throws to account for 10 consecutive BG points ... Farmer joined Miller in double digits, with 17 points, while Western and Jaymee Wappes had 11 apiece ... the Falcons outrebounded the Bobcats, 36-28 ... Wappes had a game-high eight assists ... Szall led the visitors with 20 points, while Jacquie Negrelli had 19 ... the Falcons lived by the three-point shot for much of the season, but died by the long-range shot Thursday (March 2) ... second-seeded Western Michigan made a MAC-record 17 treys en route to an 87-63 win in the tournament's quarterfinal round at Public Hall in Cleveland ... the Broncos got five treys from both Shelsea Erving and Dionne Lassila ... Erving had 19 points and a career-high 16 rebounds ... Sherry Kahle had team-high totals of 16 points and eight rebounds in her final game in the Brown and Orange, while Smith added 14 points ... Kahle hit four three-pointers as the Falcons made 10 as a team ... the Falcons held the Broncos scoreless for the first 3:35 of the game, but could score just two points themselves, on a Smith bucket ... that left the door open for the MAC West Division champions, and WMU surged to a 17-6 lead over the next four-plus minutes ... WMU led by 15 points at halftime, and built the lead in the second stanza, hitting three-pointers on three of four possessions at one stretch ... the Broncos led, 78-47, with 7:05 left, and the Falcons could not get any closer than 22 points ... in addition to Kahle, Wappes played her last game as a Falcon, and scored five points while tying for game honors with seven assists ... Western scored nine points off the bench, while Miller was held to eight ... Miller suffered a back injury late in the first half and was limited to just 24 minutes of action on the night.
NATIONAL LEADERS: The NCAA released the latest women's basketball statistics last Tuesday (Feb. 29), and the Falcons were listed in several categories ... as a team, the Falcons continued to lead the nation in three-pointers made per game, with 9.22, and BG was third in free-throw pct. (.774) ... individually, junior Angie Farmer was tied for 11th in the nation in three-point field-goals per game, with a 2.8 average ... sophomore Francine Miller's three-point pct. of .462 was 13th in the country, and she was 20th in free-throw pct. (.856) ... Farmer finished the season with an average of 2.79 treys per game, while Miller shot .453 from three-point land and .856 from the stripe ... BGSU averaged 9.25 triples per game and shot .773 from the charity stripe.
YOU MAY FIRE WHEN READY, MA'AM: The 1999-2000 edition of the Falcons attempted and converted three-pointers like no previous team in school history ... the Falcons shattered the school seasonal records for three-point shots attempted and made ... the "old" records, set just last year, were 135 treys made in 400 attempts ... prior to the Dee Knoblauch Era, the BG school records were 97 triples made and 296 attempted, set by the 1994-95 squad ... this year BGSU attempted 710 treys, making 259 ... that is an average of 9.25 three-pointers made (an NCAA record) and 25.4 attempted per game ... BG fell 30 treys shy of the NCAA record for three-pointers in a season ... that record, 289, was set by Colorado State (in 36 games) last year ... in MAC games this year, the Falcons made nearly 10 treys per contest (9.94), with 159 in 16 outings.
THEY'RE FIRING AWAY, TOO: Believe it or not, opponents hoisted a total of 704 shots from behind the arc, an average of 25.1 per game ... BG foes made 254 treys this year ... the opponents took at least 15 three-point shots in all but three games, and shot 20 or more treys 17 times ... the foes took 41 three-point attempts three times this year, and 39 on two occasions.
GO AHEAD, MAKE SOME ... THEY'RE FREE: The Falcons have set a new school single-season record for free-throw percentage ... BGSU converted free throws at a .773 rate in 1999-2000 ... that breaks the school record of .760, set by the 1997-98 team ... the MAC record is .790, set by Toledo in the 1996-97 season ... BGSU ranked third in the nation in free-throw pct. as of last Wednesday (March 1).
WEARY WAPPES: Senior point guard Jaymee Wappes led the Falcons with an average of 36.2 minutes played per game ... over the last 21 contests, Wappes played 802 of the 840 minutes, an average of 38.2 per game ... Wappes played 40 minutes nine times during that stretch, including in four-straight games prior to the WMU contest ... during that time, she dished out 132 assists (6.3 apg) while committing 76 turnovers ... she also has had 188 points, an average of 9.0 per game ... in the 100th game of her Falcon tenure, Wappes had a career-high 16 points vs. Northern Illinois (Feb. 7) ... she topped that with 17 points, including five three-pointers, vs. Miami (Feb. 19).
WAPPES DISHES 'EM OUT: Senior point guard Jaymee Wappes finishes her BGSU career near the top of the school's assists list ... she had 387 helpers to end her career in fourth place ... her total of 164 this year is 53 more than her 1998-99 season total ... Paulette Backstrom is in third place with 559 career assists ... Dee Knoblauch holds the school record, with 673.
ANDER-RIFFIC!: In eight home conference games this 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 of those games, and made 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 season without ever winning back-to-back games, but changed that in a big way ... BGSU was riding a five-game winning streak, prior to the season-ending loss to WMU ... that streak was the longest since the 1997-98 team won eight consecutive games in January and February.
MILLER TIME: Sophomore Francine Miller had a successful freshman campaign last winter, and blossomed into an All-MAC First-Team selection as a sophomore ... she averaged 17.1 points per contest, and 17.8 in league play ... she tied the school record with 35 points in the second Kent meeting ... over the last 17 games, Miller averaged 18.3 points per contest ... that average includes efforts of 29 points vs. Akron (first meeting) and 28 at Central Michigan ... she scored 22 points at Buffalo (Feb. 25), including 16 in the second half ... in that game, she hit the tying and winning free throws with just 4.9 seconds left ... against Ohio last Monday (Feb. 28), Miller had 18 points after the intermission, en route to a game-high 23 markers ... the school record of 35 points was originally set by Jackie Motycka (Dec. 12, 1987, vs. Washington State) ... that mark was tied by Jacki Raterman (Feb. 9, 1999, vs. Ball State) last year.
DOUBLE TROUBLE: Sophomore Francine Miller had a double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds vs. Ohio last Monday ... she had nine double-doubles this year ... Sherry Kahle had a pair of double-doubles this year ... both Miller and Kahle had one double-double last season.
FARMER EARNS ACADEMIC HONOR: Junior Angie Farmer was named to the GTE Academic All-District IV University Division Team, it was announced on Feb. 24 ... the team is made up of student-athletes from NCAA Division I schools in the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee ... Farmer has a 3.87 cumulative grade point average as an education (social studies) major ... she ranks second on the Falcons in scoring, and has set the school's seasonal records for three-point field goals made and attempted.
TRIPLE YOUR FUN: A number of current Falcons are ranked among the BGSU career three-point leaders ... sophomore Francine Miller is ranked first on the all-time BGSU list for career three-point percentage, while junior Angie Farmer is third ... freshman Kim Griech now has enough attempts to qualify, and is seventh, while senior Jaymee Wappes finishes her career in eighth on that list ... Farmer has moved into second place all-time with 111 three-pointers made, while Wappes is fourth with 79 ... Sherry Kahle and Miller are close behind with 78 and 77, respectively ... Kahle is third all-time with 267 three-point attempts, while Farmer is fourth ... on the single-season lists, Farmer owns the school records with 78 treys made and 186 attempted this season ... Miller made 43 treys, good for fifth-most all-time, and set a new school record by shooting .453 from long range this year ... the complete lists are on this page.
BGSU THREE-POINT LISTS (through end of 1999-2000 season)
CAREER
3-PT. FG ATTEMPTS_____________Att. 1-Sara Puthoff (1994-98)_______453 2-Susie Cassell (1990-94)______274 3-SHERRY KAHLE (1996-2000)_____267 4-ANGIE FARMER (1997- )________263 5-Jenny Kulics (1992-95)_______228 6-JAYMEE WAPPES (1996-2000)____217 7-FRANCINE MILLER (1998- )_____174 8-Wanda Lyle (1988-91)_________138 9-Bridget Andrews (1994-98)____124 10-Cathy Koch (1988-92)________1153-PT. FG MADE__________________3's 1-Sara Puthoff (1994-98)_______173 2-ANGIE FARMER (1997- )________111 3-Susie Cassell (1990-94)______107 4-JAYMEE WAPPES (1996-2000)_____79 5-SHERRY KAHLE (1996-2000)______78 6-FRANCINE MILLER (1998- )______77 7-Jenny Kulics (1992-95)________73 8-Cathy Koch (1988-92)__________50
3-PT. FG PCT.*_______________Pct. (3's-Att.) 1-FRANCINE MILLER (1998- )___.443 (77-174) 2-Cathy Koch (1988-92)_______.435 (50-115) 3-ANGIE FARMER (1997- )______.422 (111-263) 4-Susie Cassell (1990-94)____.391 (107-274) 5-Megan McGuire (1986-89)____.387 (24-62) 6-Sara Puthoff (1994-98)_____.382 (173-453) 7-KIM GRIECH (1999- )________.366 (26-71) 8-JAYMEE WAPPES (1996-2000)__.364 (79-217) 9-Chrissy Billiter (1995-97)_.350 (36-103) * minimum 60 career attempts
SINGLE-SEASON
3-PT. FG ATTEMPTS_____________Att. 1-ANGIE FARMER (1999-2000)_____186 2-SHERRY KAHLE (1999-2000)_____152 3-Sara Puthoff (1995-96)_______137 4-Sara Puthoff (1994-95)_______124 5-Sara Puthoff (1997-98)_______113 6-Susie Cassell (1993-94)______111 7-Jenny Kulics (1994-95)_______105 8-JAYMEE WAPPES (1999-2000)____102 9-FRANCINE MILLER (1999-2000)___953-PT. FG MADE__________________3's 1-ANGIE FARMER (1999-2000)______78 2-Sara Puthoff (1994-95)________53 3-Sara Puthoff (1995-96)________51 4-Sara Puthoff (1997-98)________45 5-FRANCINE MILLER (1999-2000)___43 6-SHERRY KAHLE (1999-2000)______42 7-Susie Cassell (1993-94)_______40 8-JAYMEE WAPPES (1999-2000)_____39 9-Susie Cassell (1991-92)_______34 Francine Miller (1998-99)_____34
3-PT. FG PCT.%__________________Pct. (3's-Att.) 1-F. MILLER (1999-2000)_________.453 (43-95) 2-Angie Farmer (1998-99)________.439 (29-66) 3-Susie Cassell (1991-92)_______.436 (34-78) 4-Francine Miller (1998-99)_____.430 (34-79) 5-Sara Puthoff (1994-95)________.427 (53-124) 6-ANGIE FARMER (1999-2000)______.419 (78-186) 7-Susie Cassell (1992-93)_______.405 (32-79) 8-Chrissy Billiter (1995-96)____.391 (25-64) 9-JAYMEE WAPPES (1999-2000)_____.382 (39-102) 10-Sara Puthoff (1995-96)_______.372 (51-137) % minimum 1.0 made per game
THE MICROWAVE: BGSU junior Angie Farmer certainly seems to enjoy playing against Ohio ... last year, in the teams' lone meeting, she set a career high with 21 points, including a school-record seven three-pointers ... on Jan. 15, Farmer broke that career standard, with 24 points in a win in Athens ... in that game, she exploded for 21 second-half points ... Farmer scored 11 points in a 1:20 span, including three triples in 50 seconds ... in the rematch (Feb. 15), Farmer scored the first 11 points of the game, and had BG's first 14 markers en route to a 23-point night ... she made six treys for the second-straight game against OU ... in Monday's tournament game (Feb. 28), Farmer had "only" 17 points, but made her first five shots of the night ... in her last four games against the Bobcats, Farmer is averaging 22.2 points and 5.8 three-pointers per game ... she went 30-of-50 (.600) from the field in those games, and 23-of-37 (.622) from three-point land.
ANOTHER GAME, ANOTHER RECORD: In the first Akron meeting (Jan. 26), BGSU set school single-game records for three-pointers made (16) and attempted (38) ... setting records is nothing new for this year's edition of the Brown and Orange ... in fact, BG's totals broke records that had been set just nine days earlier ... entering the season, the school record for three-point shots made in a game was 12 ... BG hit double digits in that area 12 times this year ... BG's single-game record for three-pointers attempted was 29 heading into the 1999-2000 campaign ... the Falcons met or surpassed that total nine times.
FALCON NOTES: The Falcons have made at least one three-point field goal in each of the last 56 games, a school record ... the last time BGSU was held without a triple was on March 1, 1998, vs. Toledo ... 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 ... three weeks ago, the Falcons were 4-8 in MAC play, and tied for the 11th seed overall ... BG wound up in a deadlock for fifth place at the conclusion of the regular season ... before winning at Akron (Feb. 23) and Buffalo (Feb. 25), BGSU had not captured back-to-back road games since a four-game streak two years ago ... senior Sherry Kahle played in all 112 games since her arrival on the BGSU campus in the fall of 1996 ... she started 84 contests in her career, including the last 55 games ... Kahle ends her career with 886 points ... senior co-captain Jaymee Wappes played in 107 games in her BGSU career, and made 69 starts ... junior Angie Farmer had hit at least one three-pointer in 19-straight games before going 0-for-2 from long range at Buffalo ... she made a triple in 25 of this year's 28 contests ... Farmer tied her own school record with seven treys against Ole Miss, and had six on four other occasions ... Francine Miller hit at least one triple in 21 games this year, and in 14 of the last 17 games ... she had double-digit scoring efforts 23 times, including 21 of the last 25 contests ... opposing teams had outrebounded the Falcons in 22 of the first 24 games, but the Brown and Orange won the rebounding war in two of the next three games ... BGSU averaged 5.7 more rebounds than the opponent in those three games.
FALCON QUICK FACTS
THIS WEEK Season completeLAST WEEK at BGSU 84, Ohio 70 Mon., Feb. 28 * Anderson Arena MAC Tournament First Round
Western Michigan 87, BGSU 63 Thu., March 2 * Cleveland, Ohio MAC Tournament Quarterfinal
1999-2000 BGSU RECORDS Overall: 11-17 Mid-American Conference: 8-8
HEAD COACH - Dee Knoblauch (BGSU, 1983) at BGSU: 24-31 (second season) Career: 206-150 (13th season)
BOWLING GREEN RECORDS All-Time: 423-267 (.613) (1973-present / 27 seasons) MAC: 221-96 (.697) (1981-present / 19 seasons)
MAC STANDINGS through MAC Tournament East Division Team (Overall)___________MAC Kent (25-5)_____________15-1 Miami (16-12)____________9-7 Bowling Green (11-17)____8-8 Buffalo (18-11)__________7-9 Akron (11-17)____________7-9 Ohio (11-17)____________6-10 Marshall (8-20)_________2-14
West Division Western Mich. (18-11)___14-2 Toledo (14-15)___________9-7 Eastern Mich. (16-14)____8-8 Ball State (16-13)_______8-8 Central Mich. (9-19)____6-10 Northern Ill. (6-22)____5-11
