Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Host Akron Monday To Conclude Three-Game Homestand
January 13, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 13, 2002
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BGSU (4-11, 1-3)
VS.
AKRON (1-13, 0-3)
GAME #16
MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2002
ANDERSON ARENA
BOWLING GREEN, OHIO
7:00 p.m.
RADIO: WBGU-FM (88.1)
SERIES: BGSU LEADS, 29-2
LAST MEETING: AT AKRON 88, BGSU 63 (2/10/01)
THE GAME: The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after posting a Mid-American Conference win Saturday (Jan. 12), has little time to celebrate ... the Falcons of first-year head coach Curt Miller return to action quickly, hosting the University of Akron in a Monday (Jan. 14) matchup ... tipoff for the BGSU-UA contest, the last in a three-game homestand for the Falcons, is set for 7:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (5,000).
Following the UA contest, the Brown and Orange will head to Muncie, Ind., for a Saturday (Jan. 19) game vs. Ball State University ... that game will begin at 1:30 p.m. at BSU's John E. Worthen Arena (11,500) ... please note that the start time has been pushed back one-half hour from the original schedule.
WBGU RADIO: The BGSU-Akron game is scheduled to be broadcast by campus station WBGU-FM (88.1) ... the station's broadcast schedule called for a total of 15 women's basketball games (plus any postseason contests) this year, including all of the Falcons' home games.
ABOUT THE FALCONS: BGSU has an overall record of 4-11 on the season, and the Falcons are 1-3 in MAC play after Saturday's (Jan. 12) 71-69 win over visiting Buffalo ... in that game, sophomore Stefanie Wenzel had a career-high 30 points ... BGSU also has faced Northern Illinois (52-56, Jan. 9), Central Michigan (71-81, Jan. 5) and Kent State (60-74, Jan. 2) in conference action ... prior to the KSU contest, the Brown and Orange split a pair of games in Florida to finish the non-league slate ... the Falcons lost to Yale, 51-47, in the first round of the Gatorade Holiday Classic in Coral Gables, Fla. (Dec. 27) ... BGSU rebounded to win the consolation game of the tourney, hosted by the University of Miami, the next day (Dec. 28) ... the Falcons topped Lehigh by a 63-55 count ... BGSU had a pair of players, junior Kim Griech and sophomore Kelly Kapferer, named to the all-tournament team.
For BGSU, the victory over Lehigh snapped a four-game losing streak ... the Falcons had opened the season with a 71-61 win at Youngstown (Nov. 17), but lost the next four games ... BG had returned to the win column with a 73-57 victory over visiting IPFW (Nov. 29) before dropping the next four contests.
Senior Francine Miller did not play in either of last week's two games, and will miss the remainder of the season ... she is in the process of appealing for a medical hardship ... Miller saw action in each of the first two MAC games ... playing for the first time since Nov. 20, she had a game-high 29 points in just 25 minutes vs. KSU ... Miller had 15 points off the bench at CMU ... she was the team's top scorer in the three full games in which she saw action this year ... Miller had 17.5 points per contest in her four games played ... not counting the Detroit game (in which she played four minutes and attempted just one shot), she averaged 23.3 points per game.
Junior Kim Griech is averaging a team-best 11.1 points per contest, and she leads the Falcons with 25 three-point field goals on the year ... Griech tied her career high with 19 points in the Northern Illinois contest ... sophomore Stefanie Wenzel, after her 30-point performance vs. UB, is averaging 9.9 points per game ... sophomore point guard Lindsay Austin is averaging 8.9 points, and leads the team in both assists (4.9 apg) and steals (2.1 spg) ... she is third on the squad with 4.6 rebounds.
Another sophomore, Kelly Kapferer, has 7.9 points per game, while senior Dana Western-Schuka averages 5.8 points, a team-best 5.7 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game.
Redshirt sophomore Pam Brown has 5.1 points and 5.3 rebounds ... Brown missed seven consecutive contests with a knee (lateral meniscus) injury ... she had successful surgery on Dec. 6, and made her return in the KSU game.
A total of 10 different players have started at least one game this season ... Griech and Western-Schuka each have been in the starting lineup for all 15 games to date, while Austin has made 14 starts ... Kapferer has started the last 12 games, while Wenzel has been in the starting lineup for the last seven contests.
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 returned from that squad.
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, while Poole was at West Virginia last year.
BGSU is shooting .346 from the field, while opponents are shooting .389 through the first 15 games ... the Falcons have made 86 three-point field goals and are shooting .277 from beyond the arc, while the foes have 77 treys and a .297 pct. ... BGSU has a free-throw pct. of .730 to the opponents' .686 ... the Falcons have been outrebounded by a 47.0 to 39.3 margin in the first 15 contests.
BG is 2-5 at home, 1-4 on the road and 1-2 in neutral-site contests in 2001-02 ... the Falcons went 6-5 at Anderson Arena last year ... BGSU was 3-12 on the road and 2-1 in neutral-site affairs ... in MAC play, the Brown and Orange went 5-3 at home and 1-7 on the road last year.
SCOUTING AKRON: Akron will enter Anderson Arena with an overall record of 1-13, and the Zips are 0-3 in MAC play ... Akron, 0-4 on the road this year, will be looking to snap a 10-game losing streak ... UA has dropped conference games to Ohio (75-56, Jan. 2), Buffalo (73-47, Jan. 5) and Miami (103-67, Jan. 9) ... the Zips' lone victory to date came against East Tennessee State, 72-64, in neutral-site action on Nov. 25 ... individually, sophomore guard Dominique Harris leads the team in scoring, with an even 10.0 points per game off the bench ... freshman guard Lindsay Hemmelgarn has 8.8 points and a team-high 2.4 assists per outing, while junior center Cassandra Martin has 7.9 points and a team-high 6.4 rebounds per contest ... Martin also leads the Zips with 20 blocked shots (1.4 bpg) ... senior forward Sierra Cooper and junior guard Raegan Johnson each have 6.9 points per game, with Johnson averaging 5.9 boards ... senior forward Kimberly Larson (4.4 ppg) and freshman guard Jen Arnold (3.3 ppg) join Hemmelgarn, Johnson and Martin in UA's probable starting lineup ... last year, the Zips went 6-23 overall and had a 3-13 MAC mark ... Roxanne Allen has a record of 46-84 in her fifth season with the Zips ... she has an overall record of 161-175 in her 13th season as a collegiate head coach ... Akron's athletic web site is www.GoZips.com.
THE SERIES: The Falcons lead the all-time series with 10 of the 12 MAC opponents (BG and NIU are tied, 9-9, and the Falcons trail Buffalo, 4-3), and BG holds a commanding 29-2 lead vs. Akron ... the Zips won the most recent meeting, though, rallying from a two-point deficit for an 88-63 blowout in the Rubber City last year (Feb. 10, 2001 - boxscore can be found in the .pdf version of the game notes) ... a month before, the Falcons had won the teams' first 2000-01 meeting, 84-65 in the MAC opener at Anderson Arena (Jan. 3, 2001) ... in fact, BGSU has a perfect 15-0 record in home games vs. the Zips ... the Falcons won the first 26 overall matchups, but Akron has captured two of the last five meetings.
LAST TIME OUT: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel scored a career-high 30 points Saturday afternoon (Jan. 12) and, as it turned out, the Falcons needed every one of them ... BGSU posted a 71-69 victory over Buffalo, getting into the win column for the first time in MAC play ... UB took an early 13-5 lead, but the hosts rallied for an eight-point margin at halftime, 39-31 ... the Bulls would fight back in the second half, however, largely behind the play of sophomore Kim Kilpela ... Kilpela, who had five points and two rebounds before the break, had 21 points and 11 boards in the second half alone ... UB erased the Falcon lead in the first 3:17 of the second half, forging a 41-41 tie ... then, after another tie, Wenzel hit a layup at the 14:05 mark to give the hosts a lead they would not relinquish ... sophomore Lindsay Austin followed with back-to-back baskets to move the lead to six points ... Austin had one of her top all-around games of the year, with 15 points, seven rebounds (tying her career high) and seven assists ... BG led, 64-54, with 4:58 left, but, UB scored the next eight points to cut the lead to two ... the visitors were within three points with 39 seconds left, but junior Kim Griech sank two free throws with half a minute remaining ... UB's Allison Bennett scored with 15 seconds remaining, and the Bulls were forced to foul Wenzel ... she made both free throws to give the Falcons a 71-66 edge, and those tosses became more important after Bennett banked in a three-point shot with four seconds on the clock ... BG was able to inbound the ball and run out the clock ... in addition to Wenzel and Austin, Griech also hit double digits in scoring, with 10 points ... for the Bulls, Kilpela had 26 points, a game-high 13 rebounds and five blocked shots ... Jessica Kochendorfer also had a double-double, with 12 points and 11 boards, and blocked three shots ... BGSU shot .435 in the second half and .386 for the game ... the Falcons held UB to a .358 field-goal percentage for the day.
WENZEL HITS FOR 30 POINTS: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel had a career-high 30 points in Saturday's (Jan. 12) win over Buffalo ... Wenzel also set career bests for free throws made (11) and attempted (12), three-pointers made (five) and minutes played (37) vs. the Bulls ... Wenzel now has three games of 20-or-more points this season ... she also joined an exclusive group of Falcons who have scored 30 or more points in a game ... the complete list follows:
BG'S 30-PLUS POINT GAMES
35 FRANCINE MILLER vs. Marshall, 2/17/2001 FRANCINE MILLER at Kent, 1/17/2000 Jacki Raterman vs. Ball State, 2/9/99 Jackie Motycka at Washington St., 12/12/8734 Jacki Raterman at Ball State, 1/6/99 Lori Albers vs. Kent, 3/13/93 Jackie Motycka at Central Michigan, 2/25/89
32 Jacki Raterman vs. Northern Illinois, 1/2/99 Charlotta Jones at Ball State, 2/7/98 Sara Puthoff at Toledo, 2/22/97 Angie Bonner vs. Portland, 12/2/89 Jackie Motycka vs. Western Mich., 2/25/87 Jackie Motycka vs. Ball State, 1/29/86
31 Jacki Raterman at EMU, 1/10/98 Lori Albers vs. Cincinnati, 1/4/93 Talita Scott vs. Marquette, 12/20/92 Lori Albers at Providence, 12/8/91 Angie Bonner at Eastern Michigan, 2/24/90 Jackie Motycka at Loyola (IL), 11/25/88 Stephanie Coe vs. Kent, 3/6/87 Jackie Motycka at Kent, 2/14/87 Dee Knoblauch vs. Northern Illinois, 2/12/83 30 STEFANIE WENZEL vs. Buffalo, 1/12/02 Jacki Raterman vs. Akron, 1/27/99 Charlotta Jones vs. Central Michigan, 1/5/98 Sara Puthoff vs. Ohio, 2/26/97 Michelle Shade vs. Miami, 3/1/95 Michelle Shade at Toledo, 2/18/95 Michelle Shade vs. Eastern Mich., 2/15/95 Michelle Shade vs. Colgate, 12/5/94 Angie Bonner vs. Eastern Michigan, 3/6/90 Joelyn Shoup vs. Ohio, 2/9/85 Linda Hardy vs. Marshall, 1975-76 current team members in CAPS
WENZEL AT HOME IN ANDERSON ARENA: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel is averaging 15.9 points in the seven home games this season, including an 18.2 points-per-game average in the last six games at Anderson Arena ... Wenzel, whose previous career high was seven points, has had games of 30 (vs. UB), 25 (vs. Wright State) and 23 points (vs. IPFW) in Anderson this year.
STEF'S SOPHOMORE SEASON: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel has scored a total of 148 points this season, after scoring 36 points during all of her freshman campaign.
NICE OFFENSIVE EFFORT: The Falcons' total of 71 points was the second-most allowed by Buffalo this season ... in the latest NCAA statistics, UB was ranked ninth in the nation in scoring defense (as of Jan. 7), and the Bulls came to BG allowing just 55.4 points per game after Tuesday's (Jan. 8) 55-45 win over Central Michigan.
MILLER TO MISS REMAINDER OF SEASON: Senior Francine Miller will appeal to the Mid-American Conference office for a medical hardship, and will miss the remainder of the 2001-02 season ... if the appeal is accepted, Miller will be granted an additional year of eligibility, and will return to the Falcon team for the 2002-03 season ... the MAC office will not rule on the appeal before the end of the 2001-02 season ... for Miller to be eligible to receive the hardship waiver, she can not play in any of the Falcons' remaining games ... Miller saw action in four games this season, starting the first two contests of the year.
INJURY REPORT: Once again, the Falcons are without a key contributor, as senior Francine Miller is sidelined ... Miller, who has played in just four games this year, will miss the remainder of the season while appealing for a medical hardship ... Miller was injured early in the season's second game, and missed the next nine contests ... she returned to play in the first two MAC games.
Redshirt sophomore Pam Brown has returned to active duty ... Brown, who missed seven consecutive contests with a lateral meniscus injury, had successful surgery on Dec. 6, and has come off the bench to play in the last four games.
Redshirt junior Rachal Hamilton is sidelined with a recurrence of her plantar fascia injury ... the injury, which she suffered in the summer, forced her to miss the first game of the season ... she missed both games last week, and will be in a cast for the next three weeks.
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.
ANDER-RIFFIC! The Falcons have made at least six three-pointers in every home conference game in the last two-plus years ... the Falcons tied a season high with nine triples in the KSU game (Jan. 2), and BG drained six treys against NIU (Jan. 5) ... the Falcons hit eight shots from beyond the arc - all in the first half - vs. Buffalo Saturday (Jan. 12) ... BGSU made a total of 68 treys in eight home MAC games last year ... in 1999-2000, 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 9.7 treys and shooting .421 (193-of-458) over the last 20 home games vs. MAC teams.
100 GAMES AND COUNTING: The Falcons have made at least one three-point field goal in every game during the past three-plus years ... in fact, BGSU now has drained a triple in each of the last 100 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 year ... this year, that trend is continuing, as 11 different players have hit at least one trey ... junior Karen Stocz hit the first triple of her career vs. UWM (Dec. 8), four days after freshman Tene Lewis made her first collegiate trey at Butler (Dec. 4) ... also at Butler, junior Megan Jerome hit her first two three-pointers of the year ... 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 triple in the same season was seven.
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS: Sophomore point guard Lindsay Austin had one of her top all-around games of the year in the win over Buffalo Saturday (Jan. 12) ... the Cincinnati native had 15 points, just two away from her career high, and tied her career standard with seven rebounds ... Austin also had seven assists, just two shy of that personal career mark, in 39 minutes ... Austin hit a number of key baskets in the game, and also blocked a UB three-point attempt with just over a minute left in the game and the shot clock winding down.
MILLER'S BRIEF RETURN: Senior Francine Miller missed nine-plus games due to her knee injury ... after scoring 26 points in the season-opening game, she played only four minutes vs. Detroit (Nov. 20), then did not see game action for over a month ... upon her return, though, Miller came off the bench to score a game-high 29 markers vs. Kent State (Jan. 2) ... she went 8-of-14 from the floor, and sank half of her six three-point field-goal attempts ... she also was 10-of-11 from the free-throw line ... she added a team-high 15 points at CMU (Jan. 5) ... Miller averaged 17.5 points per game this year ... but, when the Detroit game is factored out (she played just four minutes and attempted only one shot), she averaged 23.3 points per contest this season.
MILLER MOVING UP SCORING CHARTS: Before being sidelined for the remainder of the season, Francine Miller continued her move up the BGSU career scoring chart ... with 1,149 career points, Miller now ranks 13th in school history ... she scored her 1,000th career point in a win over Marshall last Jan. 17 (as part of a school record-tying 35-point game) ... in that game, she became just the fifth player in BGSU annals to reach 1,000 career points as a junior ... Miller is ranked third all-time on the BGSU career scoring average list, with a points-per-game average of 14.01.
A TALE OF TWO HALVES: Through 15 games, the Falcons have held the opponent to a field-goal percentage of .340 (159-of-468) in the first half ... when the Colorado game is taken out, BG has limited the foes to a .318 rate (136-of-428) before the intermission ... in the second half, however, the opponents have made 199-of-460 shots from the floor (.433).
60 ON "D" IS (USUALLY) KEY: The Falcons' loss to Yale (Dec. 27) ended a long, long trend ... BGSU fell to the Bulldogs despite allowing just 51 points ... that loss ended a streak of 93 consecutive wins for the Falcons when holding the opposition under 60 points ... the last BG loss in such a situation had come early in the 1983-84 season, in a 59-47 loss at Indiana.
60 ON "D" IS ... NEVER MIND: The Falcons, after winning those 93 consecutive games when limiting the opponents to fewer than 60 points, now have lost two of the last three such games ... Northern Illinois scored just 56 points Wednesday (Jan. 9), but held BG to 52.
The Falcons held Yale and Lehigh to 51 and 55 points, respectively, on consecutive nights in late December ... the Falcons had not held back-to-back opponents to under 60 points since January of 1997 ... in the decade of the 1990s, the Falcons went a perfect 46-0 when holding foes to 60 points or less ... in the history of the program, the Falcons now have a record of 167-12 when holding the opponent to less than 60 points ... nine of those 12 losses came prior to the 1980-81 season ... BG is 113-3 (.974) in such games over the last 21-plus seasons.
NICE DEFENSE: The Falcons have held the opponent to a field-goal percentage of .303 or lower in a half six times this season ... last year, BG limited the opponent to a FG pct. of .300 or less just five times in 58 halves ... in an entire game, BGSU has held five opponents to .350 shooting or worse this year, after doing so only once during the entire 29-game campaign last winter.
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.
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-and-a-half years, the Falcons have surpassed each of those totals for the first 12 years ... since the beginning of the 1998-99 season, Falcon teams have made 682 treys in 1,958 tries.
STILL SHOOTING (AND MAKING) THE TREY: The three-point shot has been a staple of Falcon teams over the past few years ... two years ago, 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 ... last season, the Falcons averaged 6.97 three-pointers made per contest ... Bowling Green made at least five treys in 25 of the 29 games last year ... this season, BGSU is averaging "only" 5.73 triples per game through the first 15 contests.
TRIPLE YOUR FUN: Several players on the 2001-02 Falcon roster are ranked among the BGSU career three-point leaders ... Francine Miller is second on the all-time school list for career three-point percentage (.425, 128-of-301) ... junior Kim Griech is in ninth place (.3477, 97-of-279), while senior Dana Western-Schuka is 10th (.345, 69-of-200) ... Miller is third all-time in three-pointers made, while Griech is fifth and Western-Schuka ninth ... Miller is third in three-point attempts, with Griech now fourth and Western-Schuka ninth.
