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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons-Rockets, Round 2
March 05, 2001 | Women's Basketball
March 5, 2001
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GAME #29 - BGSU VS. TOLEDO
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2001 - GUND ARENA
CLEVELAND, OHIO - 2:00 P.M.
MAC TOURNAMENT QUARTERFINAL
SERIES: BGSU LEADS, 28-22
LAST MEETING: AT BGSU 63, TOLEDO 58 (JAN. 13, 2001)
BGSU PROBABLE STARTERS
F 22 Francine Miller 5-11 Jr. Kalida, Ohio 14.3 ppg 4.5 rpg F 44 Dana Western 5-11 Jr. Whitestown, Ind. 6.9 ppg 4.8 rpg C 34 Pam Brown 6-0 Fr. Warren, Ohio 6.5 ppg 4.6 rpg G 12 Lindsay Austin 5-7 Fr. Cincinnati, Ohio 6.9 ppg 3.6 apg G 24 Angie Farmer 5-9 Sr. Wayland, Mich. 11.1 ppg 2.3 rpg
THE GAME: The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after opening the 2001 Kraft Mid-American Conference Tournament with a road win, now moves on to the tourney's quarterfinal round. The Falcons (11-17 [6-10 MAC]), the tournament's ninth seed, now head to Cleveland, Ohio, to meet the top-seeded University of Toledo (22-5 [15-1 MAC]) in a Tuesday (March 6) contest. Tipoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at Gund Arena (11,000).
The winner of the BGSU-UT game will advance to the semifinal round on Friday (March 9) to face either #4 Northern Illinois University or the 12th-seeded University of Akron. That semifinal game will begin at noon at Gund Arena.
The 2001 Kraft MAC Tournament concludes with championship-game action on Saturday (March 10) at 1:00 p.m. Fox Sports Net will televise both semifinal games as well as the championship.
COACH DEE KNOBLAUCH: Falcon head coach Dee Knoblauch is in her third season at her alma mater, and has a record of 35-48. 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 217-167 (.565). 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.
BGSU'S MAC TOURNAMENT HISTORY: The Falcons are in the MAC Tournament for the 17th time in its 19-year history ... BG has posted a 21-10 record since the MAC Tournament was instituted in 1982 ... BGSU's win total ranks the Falcons second among league teams, and the .677 winning pct. is also the second-best of any school ... the Brown and Orange's total of six tournament titlesties the team with Toledo for the most by any league school ... BGSU is in the tourney for the 15th-straight year, the longest current streak among MAC schools.
ABOUT THE FALCONS: BGSU sports a record of 11-17 on the season, and the Falcons finished MAC play with a league ledger of 6-10. BGSU ended conference play in fourth place in the MAC's East Division, and the Falcons tied Western Michigan for the eighth-best record in the league. WMU, however, won the tiebreaker for tournament seeding by virtue of an 86-70 win in the only head-to-head meeting between the schools during the regular season.
BGSU went to WMU Saturday (March 3), however, and posted a 78-75 victory in the first round of the 2001 Kraft MAC Tournament. That victory broke a three-game overall losing streak and a seven-game slide on the road.
The Falcons went 6-5 at Anderson Arena this year. BGSU is 3-12 on the road and 2-0 in neutral-site contests this season. In MAC play, the Brown and Orange went 5-3 at home and 1-7 on the road.
Individually, junior Francine Miller leads the team in scoring, with 14.3 points per game. Miller, an All-Mid-American Conference First-Team selection last year, earned all-league second-team honors this year, it was announced Monday (March 5). She has hit double digits in scoring in 17 of her 22 games, including in 10 of the last 11. Miller had a team-high 25 points in the win at WMU Saturday.
Senior Angie Farmer is second on the team with 11.1 points per outing. She posted a season-high 22 points in Wednesday's (Feb. 28) regular-season final‚ vs. Miami, hitting six three-pointers.
Senior Afra Smith is third with 7.9 points per game, while sophomore Kim Griech averages 7.4 points. Smith, however, will miss the Toledo game due to an injury suffered late in the WMU contest. Freshman Lindsay Austin is fifth on the squad with 6.9 markers per contest.
Junior Dana Western (6.9 ppg), redshirt freshman Pam Brown (6.5 ppg) and senior Jackie Adlington (5.2 ppg) also are averaging in excess of five points per game.
From long distance, several Falcons have posted impressive shooting percentages. Farmer is shooting .430 from behind the arc, having made 49 of her 114 three-point field-goal attempts. She has a team-high 2.1 treys per game. Western is shooting .403 (29-of-72) from long distance, while Griech is shooting .382 (42-of-110) from beyond the arc. After a 4-of-5 performance at WMU, Miller is now shooting .379 (39-of-103) from long range on the year, and has gone 14-of-20 (.600) over the last five games.
Overall, Miller leads the team with 112 field goals made (5.1 per game), while Smith has 89. Freshman Kelly Kapferer is shooting .459 from the floor on the year, having gone 39-of-85. Brown has a .453 percentage (77-of-170), and Smith is shooting .438 (89-of-203). In limited action, Adlington has shot 30-of-64 from the field (.469).
Western currently leads the team in rebounding (4.8 rpg), followed by Brown (4.6 rpg) and Miller (4.5 rpg). Adlington is averaging 5.9 boards in her 13 games, and has led the team in rebounding eight times.
Austin leads the team with 3.6 assists and has 1.4 steals per game, while Miller has averaged 3.0 assists and has 1.7 steals in her 22 games to date. Western averages 1.2 steals and paces the team with 25 blocked shots on the year (0.9 bpg).
BGSU is shooting .414 from the floor, while the opponents have a field-goal percentage of .436. The Falcons are sinking free throws at a .723 rate, while the opponents are shooting .719 from the stripe. BG is shooting .377 from three-point range and averaging 7.04 triples per game, while the foes have shot .326 from behind the arc.
In MAC games only, Miller led the team with 14.3 points per game, while Farmer had 11.8. Adlington had a team-high 6.5 rebounds per game, followed by Western and Kapferer with 4.1 and 4.0, respectively. As a team, the Falcons shot .724 from the charity stripe and .364 from three-point land, while averaging 7.25 treys per game in league play.
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 2000 MAC Tournament.
SCOUTING TOLEDO: Toledo enters Tuesday's game with an overall record of 22-5, and the Rockets earned the top seed for the MAC tourney by posting a 15-1 league record during the regular season ... UT, after losing to the Falcons on Jan. 13, has not lost since, riding a 13-game win streak into Gund Arena ... the Rockets' most recent win was last Wednesday's (Feb. 28) 70-59 win over visiting Buffalo to close the regular season ... individually, forward Kahli Carter, the team's lone senior, leads the Rockets in both scoring and rebounding, with 17.2 points and 9.0 boards ... junior guard Courtney Risinger averages 12.4 points, while classmate Melantha Herron, a center, has 11.1 points and 6.1 boards ... sophomore guard Tia Davis has 9.7 points and a team-leading 3.7 assists ... the aforementioned four players have each started all 27 games this year ... freshman point guard Mary Blessing (4.6 ppg, 2.4 apg) moved into the starting lineup after the loss at BG, and is 13-0 as a starter ... Mark Ehlen has a record of 137-43 in his sixth year at UT ... he is 259-173 in his 15th season as a collegiate head coach.
THE SERIES: The Falcons lead the all-time series with 11 of the 12 MAC opponents (BG trails Buffalo, 4-2), and the Falcons hold a 28-22 advantage over arch-rival Toledo ... the Falcons broke a four-game series losing streak with a 63-58 home win in the teams' only 2000-01 meeting (Jan. 13, 2001) ... the teams met just once in the regular season last year as well, and the host Rockets pulled away late for an 83-63 win (Jan. 11, 2000).
THE (TOURNAMENT) SERIES: The Falcons have faced Toledo more than any other team in MAC Tournament play ... Tuesday's meeting will be the seventh between the arch-rivals in the league tourney ... BGSU holds a 4-2 lead, but UT has won the last two tourney meetings ... the Falcons posted a convincing 90-51 win at UT's Centennial (now Savage) Hall in the championship game in 1989 ... BG downed UT, 66-55, in semifinal action in Detroit the following year ... BG won another semifinal matchup, 83-55, at Battelle Hall in Columbus in 1993 ... the next year, the Falcons took the title game from the Rockets, 74-63, at Battelle ... UT won semifinal games in back-to-back years at the SeaGate Centre in downtown Toledo, beating the Brown and Orange in both 1997 (69-55) and 1998 (75-56) ... Tuesday's quarterfinal game marks the earliest-ever tourney meeting between the schools.
BGSU VS. MAC TOURNEY FOES: The Falcons have played nine different schools in the MAC Tournament, with Toledo being the most common opponent ... BGSU has met the Rockets six times, having won four games ... the Falcons have played Central Michigan and Kent (State) five times each, while meeting Ball State and Western Michigan four times apiece, Ohio three times, Eastern Michigan twice and Akron and Miami once each ... the Falcons' record against each team in MAC Tournament play follows:
* Akron 0-1 * Ball State 4-0
* Central Michigan 3-2 * Eastern Michigan 2-0
* Kent (State) 3-2 * Miami 1-0
* Ohio 2-1 * Toledo 4-2
* Western Michigan 2-2
LONE LEAGUE DEFEAT FOR UT: When BGSU and Toledo met on Jan. 13, the Falcons posted a narrow home win, 63-58 ... that loss would prove to be the only setback for the Rockets in league play ... Toledo went 22-5 overall and 15-1 in MAC action ... the Rockets have not lost since that game, riding a 13-contest winning streak.
SISTER ACT: Toledo sophomore Teresa Kahle is the younger sister of former BGSU standout Sherry Kahle ... Sherry Kahle earned four letters for the Brown and Orange, completing her eligibility a year ago.
MILLER ON ALL-MAC SECOND TEAM: BGSU junior Francine Miller has been named to the All-MAC Second Team, the league office announced Monday morning (March 5) ... 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 was an all-league first-team pick last year ... the All-MAC First Team consisted 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.
LAST TIME OUT (BGSU 78, WESTERN MICHIGAN 75) ... A NOVEL: The Falcons struggled to win on the road all season, but BGSU certainly picked a good time to end those struggles ... junior Francine Miller scored 25 points as the Brown and Orange posted a 78-75 win at Western Michigan in Saturday's (March 3) first round of the MAC Tournament ... early on, it looked as if WMU might pull away ... the Broncos held leads of 17-10 and 23-13, and the margin was 24-15 with 8:05 left in the first half when the Falcons went on a 16-3 run ... after freshman Pam Brown converted a free throw, Miller's defense on a WMU inbounds pass led to a Bronco turnover ... Miller grabbed the loose ball, headed downcourt and found senior Angie Farmer for a wide-open three-pointer ... then, freshman Emily Pohl converted a layup to bring the Falcons within 24-21 ... BGSU's first eight baskets of the game were scored by eight different players ... WMU's Casey Stevenson split a pair of charity tosses, but Brown hit a layup on a nice feed from junior Dana Western, and another Brown layup tied the score at 25-all ... the Broncos converted on a basket, but three-straight buckets -- from freshman Lindsay Austin, Brown and Farmer -- gave the Brown and Orange the lead for good, 31-27 ... after two more Bronco free throws, the Falcons got back-to-back baskets from Miller, with the second coming from three-point land ... Miller was 4-of-5 from beyond the arc as the Falcons went 7-of-11 (.636) from long range on the night ... Brown hit another basket at the 1:16 mark to cap off some nifty BG passing in transition, and Miller took a Farmer pass and converted a conventional three-point play with 39.7 seconds left, giving the Brown and Orange a 41-29 lead and capping a 26-5 run over a span of nearly eight minutes ... the lead was 12 at the half (42-30), and Brown scored the first two points of the second stanza to give BG a 14-point margin, the largest of the night, just eight seconds in ... Brown had 11 points and a team-high 10 rebounds on the evening ... but, the Broncos came back with the game's next seven points, including five from the charity stripe, to make it a 44-37 game ... the Falcons moved back out to a 14-point lead, 55-41, with 12:27 left on a jumper by senior Afra Smith ... the hosts, however, then scored the next nine points on a trio of three-point shots ... Emily Samuelson made a trey, and WMU's lone senior, Sarah Hurrle, got free for back-to-back triples, bringing the score to 55-50 at the 11:09 mark ... Hurrle was a thorn in the Falcons' collective side all night, making seven three-pointers en route to a game-high 26 points ... the hosts came all the way back to within 57-55 after Hurrle buried another trey with 9:29 left ... but, the Falcons weathered that storm, and built the lead back out to eight points (65-57) with 7:50 left ... a pair of treys from Miller and a Kim Griech layup were answered only by a pair of Deurloo free throws as the Falcons regained that eight-point margin ... once again, though, Hurrle brought the Broncos back, hitting another triple and splitting a pair of free throws to cut the lead to four ... the BG margin stayed between four and seven points for the next six-plus minutes ... BGSU still led by a 75-70 margin after Western split a pair of free throws with 1:09 left ... Samuelson hit a pair of charity tosses with 20.9 seconds left to cut the lead to three, and Hurrle immediately fouled Austin while BG attempted to inbound the ball ... Austin split her free throws, and Hurrle shook free for a three-pointer at the other end with just 13.5 seconds left ... then, Hurrle fouled Miller with just 11.8 ticks remaining, and the BG junior drained both free throws ... Miller made all seven of her tosses on the night ... the Broncos called time with 10.4 seconds left to set up a final play ... BG's defense did not let Hurrle get free, and Samuelson's three-point attempt fell short ... the Falcons' Western grabbed the rebound and BG ran out the final few seconds to preserve the win ... the Falcons had four players in double digits, as Austin and Farmer each had 10 points. Austin had a team-best five assists in the game ... the Broncos had four players hit double figures as well, as Samuelson had 12 points and Deurloo and Lori Crisman scored 11 each ... Deurloo had had 26 points and 15 rebounds in the teams' lone regular-season meeting (an 86-70 WMU win in Kalamazoo on Jan. 31) ... the Falcons made 16-of-31 shots during the first half, for a conversion rate of .516 ... in one of the team's most inspired 20-minute stretches of the season, the Brown and Orange held WMU to an 8-of-27 (.296) performance from the floor ... for the game, BGSU shot .439 while holding the Broncos to a .397 success rate ... WMU went 9-of-21 (.429) from three-point land ... Crisman had a game-high 15 boards as the home team held a 40-36 advantage on the glass.
GOOD TIME TO BREAK THE STREAK: BGSU's win at Western Michigan Saturday (March 3) broke an overall three-game losing streak, and a seven-game road losing slide ... the Falcons went 2-12 on the road during the regular season ... BGSU was 1-7 away from home in MAC play, with the only league road win coming at Ohio on Jan. 6.
MILLER MOVING UP SCORING CHARTS: Junior Francine Miller continues to move up the BGSU career scoring chart ... as part of a prolific scoring effort vs. Marshall (Jan. 17), she reached the 1,000-point plateau for her Falcon career ... Miller hit a three-pointer with 5:31 remaining in the second half, to become just the 16th player in school history to reach the millennial mark ... Miller became just the fifth player in BGSU annals to reach 1,000 career points as a junior ... she moved past Megan McGuire (1,062 points) in the win at WMU, and enters the UT game in 14th place in school history ... Miller now has a total of 1,064 career points in 77 games ... in the win at WMU, Miller also moved up a spot on the scoring average list ... she now ranks third all-time with a points-per-game average of 13.8.
MILLER FOR THREE: Francine Miller was a major reason for the Falcons' success at Western Michigan Saturday (March 3) ... Miller scored a team-high 25 points, and made four of her five shots from three-point range ... after a slow start this year, Miller has heated up from beyond the arc as of late ... she has gone 14-of-20 (.600) from three-point land over the last five games.
DOUBLE-DOUBLES: Redshirt freshman Pam Brown posted her second double-double of the season in the win at Western Michigan, with 11 points and 10 rebounds ... a total of four different Falcons have recorded double-doubles this year ... senior Jackie Adlington totalled 14 points and 11 rebounds in the first Buffalo meeting (Jan. 27) ... the double-double was the first of her BGSU career ... junior Francine Miller had 23 points and 11 rebounds in BG's win over Charleston Southern on Nov. 24 ... the double-double was her first of the season and the 11th of her career ... nine of Miller's double-doubles came last year, including four in MAC play and another in the first round of the conference tournament ... Brown, in just her third game in the Brown and Orange, had the first double-double of her career in that Charleston Southern game, while junior Dana Western had her first-ever double-double vs. Arizona (Dec. 8).
THE FARMER IN THE ZONE: On BGSU's "Senior Night," one senior Falcon put forth a stellar effort ... Angie Farmer, the only player in her fourth year with the team, had a game-high 22 points and added five assists vs. Miami (Feb. 28) ... the point total missed her career best by just two, and the assist total was just one off that career standard ... she hit a BGSU season-high six three-pointers, just one away from her own school record ... through the WMU game, Farmer ranks second in school history in career three-pointers made (160), attempted (377) and three-point percentage (.424).
FARMER ON ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM: Senior Angie Farmer was named to the Verizon Academic All-District IV University Division Team, it was announced Feb. 21 ... Farmer, who maintains a 3.78 cumulative GPA as a secondary education (social studies) major, earned second-team honors for the second consecutive year ... the district team is made up of student-athletes from NCAA Division I schools in Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee ... to be nominated, student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve on the team, and carry a cumulative GPA of 3.20 or higher ... team members are selected by a vote of members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) within the district.
EVERYONE'S A THREAT: Senior Jackie Adlington hit the first three-pointer of her Falcon career in the second Ohio contest (Feb. 7) ... Adlington became the 11th different Falcon to hit a trey this 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 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.
ADLINGTON ADDS A LOT: Over the past few months, senior Jackie Adlington has asserted herself as a force to be reckoned with ... she suited up for the Central Michigan game (Jan. 9), marking her first time in uniform since the season opener ... Adlington had not played since breaking her foot vs. Youngstown State (Nov. 18) ... she played just one minute against Central, but averaged 7.6 points and a team-high 8.3 rebounds in the next eight games ... after totalling four points and nine rebounds in her first nine games as a Falcon, she amassed 61 points and 66 boards in the next eight games ... Adlington set or tied her BGSU high in either scoring or rebounding in four-straight games ... in the first Buffalo meeting (Jan. 27), she set BG bests with 14 points and 11 rebounds, posting the first double-double of her brief Falcon tenure ... Adlington also had 11 boards at Akron (Feb. 10), and led the Falcons in rebounding in eight consecutive games ... she suffered a foot injury after playing just three minutes at Miami (Feb. 12), and missed the next three games ... Wednesday's Miami rematch marked the first time all year that Adlington has played more than six minutes and not led the team in rebounding.
ANDER-RIFFIC! Believe it or not, the Falcons' total of six three-pointers made against Kent State (Feb. 3) is the team's lowest total in a MAC home game in two years ... 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 ... this year, the Falcons totalled 68 treys in eight MAC home games ... adding in the MAC Tournament first-round contest vs. Ohio last February, BGSU is averaging 10.0 treys and shooting .435 (170-of-391) over the last 17 home games vs. MAC teams ... the Falcons have made at least six triples in every one of those games.
FALCONS IN NCAA RANKINGS: The Falcons were listed in two categories when the NCAA released the latest national statistics last Wednesday (Feb. 28) ... as a team, BGSU was 13th in the nation in three-point field goals per game, with an average of 6.96 through games of Feb. 26 ... BGSU, of course, set a national record in that category last year, making 9.25 treys per game ... the Falcons were 28th nationally with a three-point field-goal percentage of .368 ... individually, senior Angie Farmer led the nation in free-throw percentage, with a success rate of .949 ... she has made 56 charity tosses in 59 attempts this season ... after the Miami and WMU games, the Falcons are now averaging 7.04 triples and shooting .377 from behind the arc ... Farmer went 2-for-2 from the free-throw line in the WMU contest, and now has a .951 success rate.
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 ... this year, the Brown and Orange sank a season-high 12 in the first Akron meeting, and added 10 at Ohio, nine vs. three teams and eight on four occasions ... BGSU has made a total of 275 successful triples in the last 32 MAC regular-season contests (8.59 per game).
INJURY REPORT: The Falcons have had their share of injuries, and then some, this season ... senior Afra Smith went down late in the WMU game Saturday ... she suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury and will miss the Toledo game ... Smith had played in all 56 games since arriving on campus ... another senior, Jackie Adlington, returned to active duty against Miami (Feb. 28) after missing three games ... she had suffered a foot injury after just three minutes of the first Miami game (Feb. 12) ... sophomore guard Megan Jerome was diagnosed with a stress fracture in her back on Feb. 2, and will miss the remainder of the season ... Dee Knoblauch's team actually went through the month of January relatively injury-free after playing five December games without three starters - Adlington, fellow senior Angie Farmer and junior Francine Miller ... heading into the Toledo game, the Falcons have missed a total of 39 player-games due to injury or illness this year ... a total of six players (not counting Smith) have been sidelined at one point or another.
WHO'S STARTING NOW? Last year, only seven different players started at least one game ... this season, a total of 11 different players have made at least one start ... no player has started all 28 games, and only freshman Lindsay Austin has started 27 contests ... coach Dee Knoblauch has utilized 11 different starting lineups this season, including one stretch in which she used six different lineups in as many games ... Knoblauch has utilized the same lineup for the last five games, however ... she used only three different combinations during all of last season, and used the same lineup for the last 19 games of 1999-2000.
FINALLY GOT TO THE LINE...: The Falcons were on the short end of the free-throw statistics for much of the MAC season ... in the first Western Michigan game (Jan. 31), BGSU attempted a total of just two free throws to the Broncos' 31 ... in the WMU rematch, the Broncos again got to the line 31 times, but BG got to the line a total of 28 times ... BGSU actually converted more free throws in that game, sinking 21 to WMU's 20.
...AFTER STRUGGLING TO DO SO: As was the case in the regular-season meeting at WMU, the Falcons struggled to get to the free-throw line during many MAC games this year ... at Akron (Feb. 10), BG had seven FT attempts to UA's 38 ... BG had 23 free-throw attempts, the team's most in MAC play this season, at Miami, but the RedHawks had 30 tries ... over the final nine league games, the Falcons averaged 12.4 free-throw attempts to the opponents' 28.3 ... BG averaged 13.8 charity tosses, to the foes' 27.1, in the 16 MAC contests.
FEWER TREYS = A WIN? The Falcons' win at WMU Saturday marked the first time all year that BGSU got a victory despite making fewer three-point field goals than the opponent ... BG sank seven treys to the Broncos' nine ... the Falcons are 1-6 when making fewer triples than the opponent, after going 4-11 in such games last year.
BLOCK PARTY: By the 12th game of the season, the Falcons had surpassed the blocked-shots total for all of last year ... after posting a total of 39 blocks (1.39 per game) last winter, the Falcons now have blocked 81 shots this season ... BG is averaging 2.89 rejections per contest this year ... junior Dana Western entered the season with a career total of eight blocked shots ... this year, she has a total of 25 rejections to her credit ... three other Falcons -- senior Afra Smith, junior Francine Miller and freshman Kelly Kapferer -- each have double-digit blocking totals this season ... all but two players on the 14-woman roster have at least one block this year.
84 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 84 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.
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 stat this year ... this season, she has missed just three free throws in 61 attempts, for a .951 success rate ... Farmer leads the nation, as of the latest NCAA statistics (Feb. 28) ... Farmer made her first 22 free-throw attempts of the MAC campaign, including sinking all 10 charity tosses in the win over Akron ... Farmer led the MAC with a .957 conversion rate (45-of-47) in conference play.
STILL SHOOTING (AND MAKING) THE TREY: 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 28 games this season, the Falcons are averaging 7.04 three-pointers made per contest ... Bowling Green has made at least five treys in all but four games this season.
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-plus years, BGSU's totals are nearly 89 percent of the totals during those first 12 years ... entering the Toledo game, Dee Knoblauch's teams have made 591 treys in 1,629 tries since she became head coach of her alma mater.
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 twice in MAC play ... BG made 11 treys vs. Charleston Southern, 12 against Akron and 10 at Ohio ... the Falcons made at least six three-pointers in 13 of the 16 MAC games this year, and had seven at WMU in the league tourney opener.
