Bowling Green State University Athletics
Women's Basketball Hosts EKU Tuesday
November 27, 2001 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 27, 2001
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GAME #5
BGSU VS. EASTERN KENTUCKY
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2001
ANDERSON ARENA - BOWLING GREEN, OHIO
7:00 P.M.
RADIO: WBGU-FM 88.1
THE GAME: The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, looking to snap a three-game losing streak, returns to BG for the home opener ... the Falcons of first-year head coach Curt Miller host a 20-win team from a year ago, as Eastern Kentucky University comes to town for a Tuesday (Nov. 27) contest ... tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at BGSU's venerable Anderson Arena (5,000).
Following the EKU game, the Brown and Orange will remain home for a Thursday (Nov. 29) game vs. IPFW ... that game, scheduled to tip at 7:00 p.m. at Anderson, is the Falcons' fourth contest in seven days.
RADIO: The BGSU-Eastern Kentucky game is scheduled to be broadcast by campus station WBGU-FM (88.1) ... the station is scheduled to air a total of 15 women's basketball games (plus any postseason contests) this year, including all of the Falcons' home games.
BGSU IN HOME OPENERS: The Falcons will be looking to extend a rather impressive streak Tuesday ... BGSU has captured 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 ... overall, the Falcons have a record of 20-8 (.714) in home openers.
WHAT? NO GAME TOMORROW? As mentioned, the Falcons' two games this week will conclude a stretch in which BGSU plays four times in seven days ... the IPFW game ends a season-opening stretch in which the Brown and Orange plays six contests in a 13-day span.
ABOUT THE FALCONS: BGSU opened the season with a 71-61 win at Youngstown State Saturday (Nov. 17), but have dropped the three games since that time ... BG suffered a five-point loss at Detroit last Tuesday (Nov. 20), 67-62, then lost to host Colorado (96-44, Nov. 23) and Yale (81-69, Nov. 24) at last weekend's Coors Classic ... senior Francine Miller scored 26 points in the win at YSU, but suffered a knee injury early in the UDM game ... she played just four minutes in that game, and missed both contests in Colorado ... she has a knee contusion, and is expected to miss the EKU game ... Miller leads the team with 13.0 points per contest, while sophomore point guard Lindsay Austin is averaging 10.5 markers, 4.5 assists and 2.5 steals ... she leads the team in each of the latter two categories, and is second on the squad with 5.0 rebounds ... junior Kim Griech is averaging 9.3 markers, while sophomore Kelly Kapferer is averaging 7.5 points and has a team-leading field-goal percentage of .500 (11-of-22) ... redshirt sophomore Pam Brown has 7.0 points and a team-best 6.8 rebounds, while senior Dana Western-Schuka has 6.5 points per game ... BGSU suffered an 89-81 loss to the Premier All-Stars in the team's lone exhibition (Nov. 12).
BG finished the 2000-01 season with a record of 11-18, and the Falcons completed Mid-American Conference play with a league ledger of 6-10 ... BGSU ended conference play in fourth place in the MAC's East Division ... the Falcons posted a 78-75 win at Western Michigan in the first round of the 2001 Kraft MAC Tournament, before losing to Toledo in the quarterfinal round ... a total of 11 letterwinners return from that squad.
The returnees include a pair of seniors, Miller and Western-Schuka ... Miller, who earned All-MAC Second-Team honors last year, led the team in scoring (14.3 ppg) ... she was named to the Preseason All-MAC Team by the MAC News Media Association for the second consecutive year ... Western-Schuka averaged 6.8 points and led the Falcons with 4.8 rebounds and 0.9 blocked shots per game a year ago.
Other returnees include Griech, who averaged 7.8 points and made 46 three-point field goals a year ago ... Austin started 28 of BG's 29 games last winter, and averaged 6.8 points and a team-best 3.6 assists per outing ... Brown started 18 games, including the last seven, in her first playing season ... Brown averaged 6.3 points and 4.9 boards.
Juniors Rachal Hamilton, Megan Jerome and Karen Stocz also return, and are joined by sophomores Kapferer, Emily Pohl and Stefanie Wenzel ... BGSU's two freshmen, Tene Lewis and Smith, were teammates at Detroit's Communication & Media Arts H.S. ... another newcomer, Giani Bowles, comes to BG after three years at St. John's University ... Bowles will sit out the 2001-02 season and retain one season of eligibility.
On the sidelines, Curt Miller is joined by first-year assistants Jennifer Roos and Brandi Poole ... Roos spent the last eight years as an assistant at Davidson College, while Poole was at West Virginia University last year ... Afra Smith is a student assistant coach on the 2001-02 staff.
BGSU is shooting .327 from the field, while opponents are shooting .389 through the first two games ... the Falcons have made 19 three-point field goals and are shooting .247 from beyond the arc, while the foes have 21 treys and a .318 pct. ... BGSU has a free-throw pct. of .741 to the foes' .733 ... the Falcons have been outrebounded by a 53.8 to 37.3 margin in the first two contests.
The Falcons went 6-5 at Anderson Arena last year ... BGSU was 3-12 on the road and 2-1 in neutral-site contests ... in MAC play, the Brown and Orange went 5-3 at home and 1-7 on the road.
SCOUTING EASTERN KENTUCKY: Eastern Kentucky returns 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that advanced to the NCAA Tournament ... the Colonels are 1-1 this season, having lost the season opener at #3 Vanderbilt, 91-62, in the first round of the preseason WNIT (Nov. 9) ... EKU rebounded to defeat Lipscomb in the team's home opener, 77-68 ... senior guard Mikki Bond leads a balanced scoring attack, averaging 12.5 points in the two games ... junior forward Teresa McNair has 11.5 points and a team-high 4.5 steals, while senior guard Zoey Artist and senior forward Charlotte Sizemore each have 9.5 points per game ... Sizemore averages a team-leading 8.0 rebounds and 2.5 blocked shots ... sophomore center Lindsay McClellan (3.5 ppg) joins the aforementioned four players in the probable starting lineup ... McNair has made 11 of her 18 shots from the floor (.611) through the first two contests ... Bond is 8-of-17 (.471) from the field, but 7-of-11 (.636) from three-point land ... a year ago, the Colonels posted a 22-6 overall record and went 14-2 in Ohio Valley Conference play ... EKU finished second in the league, and last year's squad led the nation in scoring with 88.4 points per game ... head coach Larry Joe Inman, the OVC's Coach of the Year last season, has a 208-151 record in his 14th year in Richmond ... he is 369-224 in his 22nd season as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletic web site is www. ekusports.com.
THE SERIES: The Falcons trail Eastern Kentucky, 3-1, in the all-time series between the teams ... the squads have split a pair of games at Anderson Arena, but have not faced off in BG since the 1988-89 season ... last year, host EKU posted an 89-61 victory, as Synisha Smith went 7-of-7 from the field en route to a game-high 18 points off the bench (Nov. 21, 2000).
AUSTIN NAMED TO ALL-TOURNEY TEAM: Sophomore point guard Lindsay Austin was named to the Coors Classic All-Tournament Team for her efforts in last weekend's two games ... Austin averaged 15.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 4.0 steals in the two games ... she tied for the team lead in rebounding, and led the Falcons in each of the other three categories ... Austin had a career-high 16 points in the Falcons' Friday (Nov. 23) loss to Colorado, and added 14 points, seven boards and seven assists vs. Yale the next night ... the rebounding total vs. the Bulldogs tied her career standard.
INJURY REPORT: Senior Francine Miller (knee) left the Detroit game after just four minutes, and did not see action the remainder of the night ... she missed both games in Colorado with a contusion, and is expected to be sidelined for the EKU contest as well ... last year, the Falcons missed a total of 41 player-games due to injury or illness ... a total of seven players, including four who were or would have been starters, were sidelined at one point or another ... all three of last year's seniors - Jackie Adlington, Angie Farmer and Afra Smith - missed at least one game ... Miller missed all of six games and part of several others ... she had a meniscus injury that bothered her for much of the year ... Megan Jerome was diagnosed with a stress fracture in her back last Feb. 2, and missed the remainder of the season.
MILLER NAMED MAC P-O-W: Last Tuesday (Nov. 20), senior Francine Miller was named the MAC's East Division Player of the Week ... Miller earned the honor after pumping in a game-high 26 points in the Falcons' win at Youngstown State (Nov. 17) ... Miller's 9-of-20 shooting effort in that contest included a 5-of-9 performance from three-point range ... she had six rebounds and a pair of steals in the win.
KAPFERER KAN DO: Sophomore Kelly Kapferer had the best game of her young Falcon career in the Detroit contest last Tuesday (Nov. 20) ... Kapferer came off the bench to post her first career double-double, with 15 points and 10 rebounds against the Titans ... she also set a career best in minutes played, with 28, and tied her career marks in field goals made (five) and attempted (eight), free throws made (five) and assists (two).
A LONG-RANGE THREAT, TOO: Sophomore Kelly Kapferer hit the first three-point field goal of her career in Friday's (Nov. 23) game vs. Colorado ... before the game was over, she had hit a second trey ... Kapferer went 2-of-3 from behind the arc in the game.
SEE YOU AGAIN SOON: The Falcons' meeting with Yale Saturday (Nov. 24) was the first of two contests - both at neutral sites - between BGSU and the Bulldogs in the 2001-02 season ... the Falcons will meet Yale on Dec. 27, in the first round of the Gatorade Holiday Classic in Coral Gables, Fla.
SMITH STEPS UP: Freshman Sakima Smith, a native of Detroit, came off the bench to post a solid game in her hometown ... in just her second collegiate outing, Smith scored 13 points and added eight rebounds, including a game-high five at the offensive end of the court ... Smith also had a blocked shot in her 26 minutes of work.
LEWIS MAKES DEBUT: The Falcons' other freshman, Tene Lewis, saw the first playing time of her BG career at UDM ... Lewis, a high-school teammate of Sakima Smith at Detroit CMA, did not play in either the exhibition game or the YSU contest ... she provided a spark off the bench Tuesday, and had two points and a steal in eight minutes ... Lewis had five points vs. Colorado, and made her first collegiate start in the Yale game.
GRIECH'S THIEVERY: Junior Kim Griech hit double digits in scoring for the second consecutive game, with 13 points at Detroit, but she really showed her prowess at the defensive end of the floor ... Griech had six steals, setting a career high, in the contest ... that total is the most by a BGSU player in nearly two years, since Jaymee Wappes had six thefts vs. St. Bonaventure (Nov. 22, 1999).
EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS: No, Bowling Green is not eligible for the Horizon League championship ... but, the Falcons compete against five of the nine Horizon League (formerly the Midwestern Collegiate Conference) institutions this season ... BGSU played its second opponent from the league in as many games, having opened the season with games at Youngstown State and Detroit ... the Falcons also will face Butler, UW-Milwaukee and Wright State this year.
GO WEST: The 2001-02 season marks the final campaign for the Falcons as a member of the MAC's East Division ... in October, the MAC welcomed the University of Central Florida as a member for the sport of football only, beginning in 2002 ... the league placed UCF in the East Division ... BGSU is being moved to the West Division for all sports, beginning in the 2002-03 academic year.
TRIPLE YOUR FUN: Several 2001-02 Falcon team members are ranked among the BGSU career three-point leaders ... senior Francine Miller is third on the all-time school list for career three-point percentage (.421, 122-of-290) ... senior Dana Western-Schuka is seventh on that list (.371, 59-of-159), while junior Kim Griech is in eighth place (.364, 75-of-206) ... Miller is third all-time in three-pointers made, while Griech is seventh and Western-Schuka ninth on that list ... Miller is third in three-point attempts, with Griech eighth and Western-Schuka ninth ... the complete lists can be found elsewhere in these notes.
89 GAMES AND COUNTING: The Falcons have made at least one three-point field goal in every game during the past three years ... in fact, BGSU has drained a triple in each of the last 89 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: A total of 11 different Falcons made at least one three-point field goal last season ... 10 of those players had drained a "three" by the fifth game of the season ... a total of 10 different players hit a trey in 1999-2000, as well as in 1998-99 ... prior to that time, the most players to hit a trey in the same season was seven ... a total of seven different players have hit at least one three-point field goal through four games this season.
ANDER-RIFFIC! The Falcons have made at least six three-pointers in every home conference game in the last two years ... BGSU made a total of 68 treys in eight home games last year ... the previous season, the Falcons made an average of 11.75 three-point field goals per contest ... adding in the 2000 MAC Tournament first-round contest vs. Ohio, BGSU is averaging 10.0 treys and shooting .435 (170-of-391) over the last 17 home games vs. MAC teams.
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 three years (plus two games), BGSU's totals were over 92 percent of the totals during those first 12 years ... during that time, Falcon teams have made 615 treys in 1,724 tries.
