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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Women's Basketball At Ohio Saturday
January 05, 2001 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 5, 2001
GAME #13 - BGSU AT OHIO
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 2001 - "THE CONVO"
ATHENS, OHIO - 3:00 P.M.
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BGSU PROBABLE STARTERS
F 31 Afra Smith 5-9 Sr. Madison, Wis. 8.6 ppg 3.1 rpg F 44 Dana Western 5-11 Jr. Whitestown, Ind. 8.6 ppg 5.8 rpg C 34 Pam Brown 6-0 Fr. Warren, Ohio 7.2 ppg 5.7 rpg G 12 Lindsay Austin 5-7 Fr. Cincinnati, Ohio 7.3 ppg 3.8 apg G 22 Francine Miller 5-11 Jr. Kalida, Ohio 12.0 ppg 5.0 rpg
THE GAME: The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after beginning Mid-American Conference play with a victory, hits the road for the first time in league action. The Brown and Orange (5-7 overall, 1-0 MAC) will face Ohio University (3-9, 0-1) in Saturday (Jan. 6) action. Tipoff is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. at "The Convo" (13,168).
Following the Ohio game, the Falcons will return home for two games, starting with a Tuesday (Jan. 9) contest vs. Central Michigan University. That game is scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (5,000).
COACH DEE KNOBLAUCH: Falcon head coach Dee Knoblauch is in her third season at her alma mater, and has a record of 29-38. She has a record of 18-15 in MAC play. Knoblauch (pronounced: kuh-NOB-low), a 1983 graduate of the University, assumed the reins of the Falcon program on August 21, 1998.
Knoblauch, in her 14th season as a head coach, has an overall record of 211-157 (.573). 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.
ABOUT THE FALCONS: BGSU sports a 5-7 record on the season after opening the MAC campaign with Wednesday's (Jan. 3) 84-65 win over visiting Akron. Sophomore Kim Griech had a career-high 18 points in that game.
The Falcons are slowly but surely returning to full strength after playing five consecutive December contests without three starters. Two of those starters have returned to active duty.
Junior Francine Miller leads the team in scoring, with 12.0 points per game. Miller, an All-Mid-American Conference First-Team selection last year, was one of those injured starters. She made her return at UW-Milwaukee, scoring a team-high 11 points off the bench, and added nine points vs. Akron.
Senior Angie Farmer is second on the team with 10.4 points per outing. Farmer, like Miller, also missed five-straight games due to injury. She played just four minutes at Milwaukee, but scored six points on 2-of-3 shooting from three-point land. Then, she had 16 points in just 14 minutes against UA.
Griech has moved into third place on the team with 9.2 points per game after her career-high 18-point performance Wednesday. Junior Dana Western and senior Afra Smith are tied for fourth in scoring, with 8.6 points per contest each.
Freshman Lindsay Austin and redshirt frosh Pam Brown are averaging 7.3 and 7.2 points, respectively.
The Falcons are 2-2 at Anderson Arena, 1-5 on the road and 2-0 in neutral-site contests this year.
From long distance, several Falcons have posted impressive shooting percentages. Farmer is shooting .500 from behind the arc, having gone 14-of-28 from long range. Western is shooting .436 (17-of-39) from behind the arc, while Griech has a .426 percentage (23-of-54) and a team-high 2.1 treys per game. Additionally, sophomore Megan Jerome has made seven of 13 long-range shots (.538) this year.
Overall, Farmer is shooting .452 from the field, having made 19 of her 42 shots in seven games. Austin is shooting .449, while Brown and Smith are shooting .443 and .441, respectively, on the year.
Western currently leads the team in rebounding (5.8 rpg), followed by Brown (5.7 rpg) and Miller (5.0 rpg). Austin leads the team with 3.8 assists and has 1.6 steals per game, while Miller has averaged 2.4 assists and 1.7 thefts in her seven games to date. Western averages 1.4 steals and paces the team with 14 blocks on the year (1.2 bpg).
BGSU is shooting .404 from the floor, while the opponents have a field-goal percentage of .420. The Falcons are sinking free throws at a .727 rate, while the opponents are shooting .737 from the stripe. BG is shooting .387 from three-point range and averaging 7.2 triples per game, while the foes have shot .317 from behind the arc.
BGSU finished the 1999-2000 season with an 11-17 overall record, and the Falcons ended 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 a loss to Western Michigan in the quarterfinal round of the MAC Tournament.
SCOUTING OHIO: Ohio enters Saturday action with a 3-9 overall record ... the Bobcats, looking to snap a four-game losing streak, opened MAC play with Wednesday's (Jan. 3) 98-77 loss to visiting Kent State ... Ohio is 2-4 at home this season beating Wright State and Long Beach State ... the 'Cats' other win came at Elon ... individually, junior forward Lori Moorman leads the team with 15.4 points and 5.5 rebounds per game ... Moorman had career highs of 37 points and 15 boards in a Dec. 29 loss to Tennessee State ... junior guard Jacquie Negrelli averaged 13.6 points over the first seven games, but has since left the team ... senior guard Heather Laughlin is scoring 10.1 points, while guards Ronita Whitfield, a senior, and Cathy Szall, a junior, average 9.7 and 9.6 points, respectively ... sophomore forward Beckie Fischer (7.7 ppg) and freshman guard Andrea Gay (5.1 ppg, 2.3 apg) join Moorman, Laughlin and Szall in the probable starting five ... head coach Lynn Bria welcomed back seven letterwinners, including all five starters, from last year's 11-17 team that went 6-10 in the MAC ... Bria has a 14-26 mark in her second year in Athens ... overall, she is 90-116 in her eighth year.
THE SERIES: The Falcons lead the all-time series with 11 of the 12 MAC opponents (BG and Buffalo are tied, 2-2), and BGSU holds a 32-16 advantage over Ohio ... the Bobcats, however, have an 11-10 advantage in games played in Athens ... BGSU has won the last four matchups, including three last year ... after capturing a pair of five-point decisions during the regular season, the Falcons downed the Bobcats, 84-70, in the first round of the MAC Tournament at Anderson (Feb. 28, 2000).
LAST TIME OUT: Sophomore Kim Griech scored a career-high 18 points to pace the Falcons to an 84-65 win over Akron Wednesday (Jan. 3) ... BGSU made just one of the first 16 shots of the night, for a percentage of .063 ... at that point, the Falcons trailed by only five points, at 8-3 ... BG had more success the rest of the way, going 9-of-17 for the remainder of the first half (.529) and 17-of-37 (.459) in the second half ... the hosts took the lead for good with 6:38 left before the intermission ... the Falcons hit six three-point shots in each half en route to a season-high total ... Griech's 18 points came on 7-of-13 shooting, including a 4-of-8 performance from behind the arc ... the Falcons, despite the slow start, shot .386 from the field to UA's .355 ... BG actually shot better from three-point land (.400) than from inside the arc (15-of-40, .375) ... UA went 4-of-18 from long range (.222) ... Griech also had six assists, three rebounds and three steals in 20 minutes ... senior Angie Farmer, still getting back into playing shape after missing five games due to injury, had 16 points in just 14 minutes of action ... Farmer made all 10 of her charity tosses, and added a pair of treys ... the Falcons had more rebounds (43 to 42) and fewer turnovers (17 to 22) than the Zips ... for the visitors, Jamie Scott had 13 points and a game-best 10 rebounds, while Julie McDivitt added 12.
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 ... the Brown and Orange sank a season-high 12 against Akron Wednesday, giving the team a total of 171 successful triples in the last 17 MAC regular-season contests (10.1 per game).
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 ... the Falcons made 12 treys in Wednesday's (Jan. 3) Akron contest ... adding in the MAC Tournament first-round game vs. Ohio last February, BGSU is averaging 11.4 treys and shooting .451 (114-of-253) over the last 10 home games vs. MAC teams ... the Falcons have made at least eight triples in every one of those games.
FARMER, GRIECH HEAT UP: Senior Angie Farmer and sophomore Kim Griech scored a lot of points in very little time in the Akron game ... the two combined for 34 points in 34 minutes ... Griech came off the bench for a career-high 18 points in 20 minutes ... she also had six assists and three steals ... Farmer had 16 points in 14 minutes ... Griech did most of her damage from three-point land, going 4-for-8 ... Farmer also hit some treys (2-of-3), but showed a knack for getting to the free-throw line ... she was 10-of-10 from the stripe, representing a career high in each category.
INJURY REPORT: Junior Francine Miller and senior Angie Farmer have returned to action after missing five games apiece, while senior center Jackie Adlington remains sidelined ... Miller suffered an injury to her right meniscus early in the first half of the Detroit game (Dec. 2) ... she returned in the UWM game, and led BG with 11 points off the bench ... Farmer, the team's second-leading scorer (behind Miller), was hobbled with a stress fracture in her foot ... she also missed five contests, but saw action at Milwaukee ... Adlington went down in the first half of the season-opening win over Youngstown State, breaking her foot ... she could begin playing again in the near future.
BLOCK PARTY: The Falcons, after just 12 games, have surpassed last year's blocked-shots total for all of last season ... after blocking a total of 39 shots (1.39 per game) last winter, the Falcons already have blocked 40 shots this year ... BGSU is averaging 3.33 blocks per game.
BLOCK PARTY II: Junior Dana Western entered the season with a career total of eight blocked shots ... through 12 games this year, she already has a total of 14 rejections to her credit.
WHAT'S A TWO-POINTER? The Falcons went nearly 11 minutes in the Akron game (Jan. 3) without making a two-point basket ... BG trailed only 19-16, however, when Pam Brown hit a short jumper with 9:09 left in the first half ... during that 10:51 span, the Brown and Orange hit four three-pointers and made a pair of free throws ... in fact, the Falcons were 4-of-9 from behind the arc and 0-of-10 from inside it until Brown's shot.
DEFENSE! The Falcons held Wright State to just 52 points (Dec. 16) ... the point total represented the second lowest allowed by the Falcons in the Dee Knoblauch Era (50 vs. Northern Illinois on Feb. 7, 2000) ... BGSU had not held an opponent under 73 points this year prior to the WSU contest, but now has allowed 68 points or fewer in each of the last three games ... the Falcons have allowed an average of just 61.6 points over those three games, after surrendering 88.3 per game in the first nine.
MORE DEFENSE: BGSU also held Wright State to just a .303 field-goal percentage ... that marked BG's best defensive effort since Akron hit just .300 on Feb. 26, 1999, and was the second-lowest output for a Falcon foe in Dee Knoblauch's tenure.
60 ON "D" IS KEY: Not surprisingly, BGSU has been quite successful when limiting the opposition to 60 points or less over the years ... the Falcons held Wright State to just 52 points (Dec. 16), the first time BG had kept the opponent under 60 markers this season ... the Falcons have won 20 consecutive games when holding the opposition under 60 points ... since 1991-92, the Brown and Orange is 44-3 when holding foes to 60 points or less.
LUCKY 700: The Wright State game marked the 700th varsity contest in the history of the Falcon women's basketball program ... after the Akron contest, BGSU currently has an all-time record of 428-274, good for a winning percentage of .610.
AULT LEAVES TEAM: Freshman Andrea Ault has left the team for personal reasons ... Ault had not seen any game action for the Falcons, either during exhibition play or in the regular season, prior to leaving.
WHO'S STARTING NOW? Last year, only seven different players started at least one game ... this year, a total of nine different players have made at least one start ... only two players, freshman Lindsay Austin and senior Afra Smith, have started all 12 games this year.
68 GAMES AND COUNTING: The Falcons have made at least one three-point field goal in every game during the Dee Knoblauch Era ... in fact, BGSU has drained a triple in each of the last 68 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.
EVERYONE'S A THREAT: Redshirt freshman Pam Brown hit a three-pointer in the Detroit contest, the first of her career ... Brown became the 10th different Falcon to hit a trey this year, after just five games ... 10 different players hit a "three" last year, as well as in 1998-99 ... prior to the Dee Knoblauch Era, the most players to hit a trey in the same season was seven.
STILL SHOOTING (AND MAKING) THE "THREE": The three-point shot is a staple of a Dee Knoblauch-coached team ... 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 ... through 12 games this season, the Falcons are averaging 7.17 three-pointers made per contest ... Bowling Green has made at least five treys in every game but one this season.
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 ... this season, the Falcons are sinking charity tosses at a .727 clip (168-of-231) ... BGSU shot .769 or better from the free-throw line in each of the first five games this year, shooting .803 (106-of-132) during that time ... then, with two of the team's top shooters injured (Angie Farmer and Francine Miller), the Brown and Orange shot just .571 (44-of-77) from the stripe over the next six contests ... bolstered by a 10-for-10 effort from Farmer, the Falcons shot .818 (18-of-22) against Akron.
DOUBLE DIGITS: A total of 10 different players have hit double figures in scoring on at least one occasion this year ... eight different players hit double digits in that category during all of last year.
THE TREYS KEEP COMING: The Falcons, despite playing without two players (Angie Farmer and Francine Miller) ranked second and third, respectively, in career three-point field-goal percentage, still were deadly from behind the arc in the first week of the two players' absence ... BGSU averaged 7.33 treys per game that week and shot .449 (22-of-49) from long range ... the main perpetrators were junior Dana Western (.591, 8-of-14) and sophomore Kim Griech (.500, 9-of-18) ... with their success from long range this season, both Western and Griech are also among the BGSU career top-10 in three-point accuracy ... in all, the Falcons were 29 of 70 (.414) in the five games without Farmer and Miller, averaging 5.80 treys per game during that time.
DOUBLE TROUBLE: Junior Francine Miller had 23 points and 11 rebounds in BGSU's win over Charleston Southern (Nov. 24) ... the double-double was her first of the season and the 11th of 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 ... redshirt freshman Pam Brown, in just her third game in the Brown and Orange, had the first double-double of her career vs. Charleston Southern ... junior Dana Western had her first-ever double-double vs. Arizona.
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 1,890 attempts ... over the last two years, BGSU's totals are nearly 60 percent of the totals during those first 12 years ... Knoblauch's teams made 394 treys in 1,110 tries over the first two years.
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) ... the Falcons have hit double digits twice in 2000-01, making 11 treys in the win over Charleston Southern and 12 against UA.
YOUNG AT THE POINT: It is safe to say that the Falcons will start a freshman at the point-guard spot whenever the team takes the floor ... both of the team's point guards are frosh ... Lindsay Austin has started each of the first 12 games ... Emily Pohl, the other freshman point guard, has seen her share of action, though ... Austin is averaging 28.2 minutes per game, with Pohl averaging 14.0.
BGSU WINS HOME OPENER, AGAIN: The Falcons kept a rather impressive streak going in the Youngstown State game ... BGSU has now captured 12 of the last 13 home openers ... the only loss among the last 13 home-opening contests came to nationally-ranked Notre Dame, an eventual national semifinalist, in 1996.
1999-2000 FALCONS ENJOY LATE-SEASON SUCCESS: BGSU is looking 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.
TRIPLE YOUR FUN: Several current Falcons are ranked among the BGSU career three-point leaders ... senior Angie Farmer is ranked second on the all-time BGSU list for career three-point percentage (.430, 125-of-291), while junior Francine Miller is third (.404, 84-of-208) ... sophomore Kim Griech is now fourth on that list (.392, 49-of-125), while junior Dana Western is in ninth place (.363, 41-of-113) ... Farmer is second all-time with 125 three-pointers made, while Miller is fourth with 84 ... Griech has broken into that list, and currently ranks ninth, while Western is just three treys shy of 10th place ... Farmer is second with 291 career three-point attempts, while Miller and Griech are seventh (208) and ninth (125), respectively.
CAPTAIN'S LOG: BGSU seniors Angie Farmer and Afra Smith have been chosen as team captains for the 2000-2001 season.
