Bowling Green State University Athletics
Women's Basketball Hosts Central Michigan
January 08, 2001 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 8, 2001
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GAME #14 - BGSU VS. CENTRAL MICHIGAN
TUE., JANUARY 9, 2001 - ANDERSON ARENA
BOWLING GREEN, OHIO - 7:00 P.M.
BGSU PROBABLE STARTERS
F 31 Afra Smith 5-9 Sr. Madison, Wis. 8.8 ppg 3.0 rpg F 44 Dana Western 5-11 Jr. Whitestown, Ind. 8.9 ppg 5.8 rpg C 34 Pam Brown 6-0 Fr. Warren, Ohio 6.8 ppg 5.2 rpg G 12 Lindsay Austin 5-7 Fr. Cincinnati, Ohio 7.5 ppg 3.7 apg G 20 Kim Griech 5-7 So. Tallmadge, Ohio 8.8 ppg 2.3 apg
THE GAME: The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after opening Mid-American Conference play with a pair of wins, will look to continue that success in two home games this week. The Brown and Orange (6-7 overall, 2-0 MAC) will face Central Michigan University (3-10, 0-2) in Tuesday (Jan. 9) action. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (5,000).
Following the CMU game, the Falcons will prepare for a battle with the arch-rival University of Toledo Saturday (Jan. 13). That game is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. at Anderson.
COACH DEE KNOBLAUCH: Falcon head coach Dee Knoblauch is in her third season at her alma mater, and has a record of 30-38. She has a record of 19-15 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 212-157 (.575). 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 6-7 record on the season after opening the MAC campaign with a pair of wins last week. The Falcons beat visiting Akron, 84-65, Wednesday (Jan. 3), as sophomore Kim Griech had a career-high 18 points in that game. Then, the Brown and Orange had five players score in double digits in a 82-72 win at Ohio Saturday (Jan. 6). Junior Francine Miller led the way with 19 points.
BGSU has won the last six MAC regular-season games, dating to last February.
The Falcons are returning to full strength after playing five consecutive December contests without three starters. Two of those starters have returned to active duty, having played in each of the last three games.
Miller leads the team in scoring, with 12.9 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 before the 19-point effort at Ohio.
Senior Angie Farmer is second on the team with 10.3 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, and added nine points at OU.
Junior Dana Western has moved into third place on the team, with 8.9 points per game. Griech and senior Afra Smith are fourth and fifth in scoring, respectively, with 8.8 points per contest each.
Freshman Lindsay Austin is averaging 7.5 points, while redshirt frosh Pam Brown averages 6.8 markers.
The Falcons are 2-2 at Anderson Arena, 2-5 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 .517 from behind the arc, having gone 15-of-29 from long range. Western is shooting .476 (20-of-42) from behind the arc, while Griech has a .414 percentage (24-of-58) and a team-high 2.0 treys per game. Additionally, sophomore Megan Jerome has made eight of 15 long-range shots (.533) this year.
Overall, Smith is shooting .464 from the field (45-of-97) after a 4-for-4 performance at Ohio. Brown and Western are shooting .450 and .438, respectively, on the year.
Western currently leads the team in rebounding (5.8 rpg), followed by Brown (5.2 rpg) and Miller (5.0 rpg). Austin leads the team with 3.7 assists and has 1.5 steals per game, while Miller has averaged 2.9 assists and 1.6 thefts in her eight games to date. Western averages 1.4 steals and paces the team with 15 blocks on the year (1.2 bpg).
BGSU is shooting .414 from the floor, while the opponents have a field-goal percentage of .419. The Falcons are sinking free throws at a .740 rate, while the opponents are shooting .731 from the stripe. BG is shooting .403 from three-point range and averaging 7.38 triples per game, while the foes have shot .314 from behind the arc.
In MAC games only, the Falcons are shooting .478 from three-point land, averaging 11.0 treys per game, and .865 from the charity stripe. BG leads the MAC in all three categories.
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 CENTRAL MICHIGAN: Central Michigan enters Tuesday action with a 3-10 overall record ... the Chippewas are 0-2 in MAC play after Saturday's 87-62 loss to visiting Ball State ... the team's other league setback came to Eastern Michigan, 78-59 (Jan. 3) ... individually, junior guard Alicia Rozak leads the team with 11.6 points per game, while freshman forward Beth Kindel averages 10.6 points and a team-high 7.7 rebounds ... juniors Molli Munz and Vershaun Jones each are averaging 8.9 points, while sophomore Desiree Eidson has 7.3 points per game ... CMU is 0-5 on the road this season, with the BGSU contest marking the team's first league road game this year ... the Chippewas welcomed back six letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's 9-19 club that went 6-10 in MAC action ... head coach Fran Voll resigned on Dec. 18 ... Voll, a former BGSU head coach, was in his fifth year with CMU, with a record of 43-74 ... assistant coach Ina Nicosia was named the interim head coach for the remainder of the 2000-01 season ... the Chippewas are 1-4 since Nicosia assumed the helm.
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 31-10 advantage over Central Michigan ... the Falcons are 15-4 all-time in home games vs. CMU, and have won the last four games at Anderson Arena over the Chippewas ... in last year's only meeting, the visiting Brown and Orange prevailed by an 80-69 count (Jan. 6, 2000) ... BG won a 76-65 verdict in the 1998 MAC Tournament's first round in the last meeting at Anderson (Feb. 27, 1998) ... overall, the Falcons have won the last four games and seven of the last nine matchups.
LAST TIME OUT: Five Falcons scored in double digits as BGSU posted an 82-72 win at Ohio Saturday (Jan. 6) ... the Falcons improved to 2-0 in the MAC with the victory ... BGSU shot .643 (12-of-19) from the field in the first half en route to .547 for the game, holding the hosts to a .400 success rate ... junior Francine Miller scored 19 points, while classmate Dana Western added 13 ... senior Afra Smith scored 11 points, while freshmen Lindsay Austin and Kelly Kapferer had 10 apiece ... BG never trailed after Western hit a shot to give the Falcons a 44-43 lead with 17:05 remaining, but the visitors could not put Ohio away until the final moments ... the Falcons held a 35-28 margin in the rebounding department ... after turning the ball over 18 times in the first half, the Falcons had just six turnovers in the second 20 minutes ... Cathy Szall paced the Bobcats with 25 points, while Lori Moorman had 18.
2-0 IN THE MAC: The Falcons are 2-0 in MAC play for the first time in three years ... the last team to win the first two conference games was the 1997-98 squad ... that team burst out to a 5-0 league start en route to a final MAC mark of 15-3 ... this year's team is averaging 11.0 three-point field goals and shooting .478 (22-of-46) from long range and .865 (32-of-37) from the free-throw line over the first two MAC contests.
DOUBLE DIGITS: Freshman Kelly Kapferer scored a season-high 10 points in the win at Ohio Saturday (Jan. 6) ... Kapferer becomes the 11th different Falcon player to 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.
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 and added 10 at Ohio three days later, giving the team a total of 181 successful triples in the last 18 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.
SMART, VERY SMART: The grades have been announced for the fall, 2000, semester, and the BGSU women's basketball team has had a great deal of success in the classroom ... as a team, the Falcons have a grade-point average of 3.13 through the fall semester ... eight of the team's 14 players have a cumulative GPA of 3.28 or better, led by sophomore Megan Jerome at a perfect 4.00 through her first three semesters ... senior Angie Farmer has a 3.78 GPA.
SMART, VERY SMART II (OR, "FOUR-POINT GUARDS"): The Falcons' four true freshmen seem to have successfully made the transition to college life ... in addition to receiving regular playing time on the court, all four had a GPA of 3.45 or better during their first semester on campus ... point guards Lindsay Austin and Emily Pohl each had a perfect 4.00 GPA in the fall, while Stefanie Wenzel had a GPA of 3.76 ... Kelly Kapferer had a 3.45 GPA in the fall ... on the hardwood, Austin, Kapferer and Pohl all have played in every game this year, while Wenzel has seen action in 11 of the 13 contests.
FARMER'S FREE THROWS: Senior Angie Farmer entered the season with a career free-throw percentage of .813, and has done nothing to hurt that percentage ... this year, she has missed just one free throw in 28 attempts, for a .964 success rate ... she went a perfect 16-of-16 in last week's two games, including sinking all 10 charity tosses in the win over Akron ... Farmer enters the CMU game having made her last 16 free throws.
BENCH PROVIDES A LIFT: Not surprisingly, BGSU's injury woes in December seem to be translating into greater experience and depth in January ... the Falcons got tremendous production from the bench players in the win at Ohio Saturday (Jan. 6) ... the BG bench outscored the Bobcats by a 41-14 margin ... over the last two games, the Falcons have gotten 87 points from the bench players to the opponents' 49.
MORE ON THE OHIO GAME: The Falcons shot over .500 from the field in the win at Ohio ... that marked the fourth time this season that BG has made at least half of the team's shots from the floor ... the Falcons shot .500 or better only three times last year ... BG held a 35-28 rebounding margin at Ohio, outboarding the foe for the fourth time this winter ... the Brown and Orange held a rebounding edge on just four occasions last year.
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: The Falcons' injury list is growing shorter ... junior Francine Miller and senior Angie Farmer have returned to action after missing five games apiece, while senior center Jackie Adlington is practicing again with the team ... 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 ... for the first time since that game, she will be in uniform when the team takes the floor for the CMU contest.
BLOCK PARTY: The Falcons, in the 12th game of the year, 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 now have blocked 42 shots this year ... BGSU is averaging 3.23 blocks per game this season.
BLOCK PARTY II: Junior Dana Western entered the season with a career total of eight blocked shots ... through 13 games this year, she already has a total of 15 rejections to her credit.
69 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 69 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.
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 kept the opponents under that total in each of the last four games ... the Falcons have allowed an average of just 64.2 points over those four 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 ... BG has held the opponents to a .400 conversion rate or less on five occasions this year, including in three of the last four games ... over that four-game span, the opponents are shooting just .370 (90-for-243).
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 13 games this year.
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 13 games this season, the Falcons are averaging 7.38 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 .740 clip (182-of-246) ... 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 ... BG did even better at Ohio, going 14-of-15 (.933).
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 three times in 2000-01, including in each of last week's two games ... BG made 11 treys in the win over Charleston Southern, 12 against Akron and 10 against Ohio.
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 13 games ... Emily Pohl, the other freshman point guard, has seen her share of action, though ... Austin is averaging 28.7 minutes per game, with Pohl averaging 13.3.
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.
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 (.432, 126-of-292), while junior Francine Miller is third (.408, 86-of-211) ... sophomore Kim Griech is now fifth on that list (.388, 50-of-129), while junior Dana Western is in eighth place (.379, 44-of-116) ... Farmer is second all-time with 126 three-pointers made, while Miller is fourth with 86 ... Griech has broken into that list, and currently is tied for ninth, while Western is now deadlocked for 10th place ... Farmer is second with 292 career three-point attempts, while Miller and Griech are seventh (211) and ninth (129), respectively ... Western is now 11th on that list.
