Bowling Green State University Athletics
Francine Miller Earns All-MAC Honors
March 05, 2001 | Women's Basketball
March 5, 2001
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Bowling Green State University women's basketball junior Francine Miller has been named to the All-Mid-American Conference team, the league office announced Monday morning (March 5). Miller was selected to the All-MAC Second Team.
The team was selected by a vote of the MAC's 13 women's basketball head coaches.
Miller, despite missing all of six games and parts of several others due to injuries, is averaging 14.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists and 1.7 steals this year. She has hit double digits in scoring in 17 of her 22 games this year, including 10 of the last 11 contests. Her five games of 20 points or more included a school record-tying 35 points in a Jan. 17 win over Marshall, as well as a 25-point performance in Saturday's (March 3) MAC Tournament victory at Western Michigan.
Miller became the 16th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point plateau for her Falcon career, and just the fifth Falcon to do so as a junior, in that Marshall win. Miller currently ranks 14th in school history with a total of 1,064 career points in 77 games. She now ranks third all-time with a points-per-game average of 13.8.
Miller earns a league award for the third time in as many years. An all-league first-team pick last year, she was a member of the MAC's All-Freshman Team in 1998-99.
The 2000-01 All-MAC First Team consists of Buffalo's Tiffany Bell, Ball State's Tamara Bowie, Toledo's Kahli Carter, Eastern Michigan's Stephanie Smiley and Kent State's Julie Studer. Western Michigan's Karen Deurloo, Michelle Johnson of Northern Illinois, UB's Mari McClure and KSU's Carrie Nance joined Miller on the second squad.
The Falcons (11-17 overall), after Saturday's 78-75 win at WMU, will face arch-rival Toledo in the quarterfinal round of the MAC Tournament Tuesday (March 6). BGSU, seeded ninth, will take on the top-seeded Rockets in a 2:00 p.m. game at Gund Arena in Cleveland. WBGU-FM (88.1) will broadcast the game.
