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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Host Marshall At Three O'Clock High
January 25, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 25, 2002
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BGSU (5-13, 2-5)
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MARSHALL (5-12, 1-5)
GAME #19
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2002
ANDERSON ARENA
BOWLING GREEN, OHIO
3:00 p.m.
RADIO: WBGU-FM 88.1
SERIES: BGSU LEADS, 7-1
LAST MEETING: AT BGSU 90, MARSHALL 73 (FEB. 17, 2001)
THE GAME: The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team returns home for a Mid-American Conference contest Saturday afternoon (Jan. 26) ... the Falcons of first-year head coach Curt Miller host Marshall University ... tipoff for the contest, the second half of a basketball doubleheader, is set for approximately 3:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (5,000) ... please note that the start time has been changed from the original schedule ... the first game of the twinbill will pit the Falcon men against Kent State University, beginning at noon.
Following the MU game, the Brown and Orange will make the short trip north for a Wednesday (Jan. 30) game vs. the arch-rival University of Toledo ... start time is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at John F. Savage Hall (9,000).
ABOUT THE FALCONS: BGSU has an overall record of 5-13 on the season, and the Falcons are 2-5 in MAC play and looking to snap a two-game losing streak ... BG suffered an 82-62 loss at Kent State Wednesday (Jan. 23) after losing at Ball State, 89-60, four days earlier ... prior to the BSU game, BGSU had posted two consecutive home wins ... the Brown and Orange defeated Akron by an 85-73 count (Jan. 14) ... that win came on the heels of a 71-69 victory over visiting Buffalo two days prior (Jan. 12) ... the Falcons also have faced Northern Illinois (52-56, Jan. 9), Central Michigan (71-81, Jan. 5) and KSU (60-74, Jan. 2) in conference action.
The Falcons opened the season with a 71-61 win at Youngstown (Nov. 17), but lost the next four games ... BG returned to the win column with a 73-57 victory over visiting IPFW (Nov. 29) before dropping the next four contests ... the Falcons ended the non-conference portion of the schedule with a victory over Lehigh in a tournament in Coral Gables, Fla.
Senior Francine Miller has not played in the last five 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 contests ... 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 10.9 points per contest, and she leads the Falcons with 32 three-point field goals on the year ... sophomore Stefanie Wenzel is averaging 10.2 points per contest ... another sophomore, point guard Lindsay Austin, is averaging 8.7 points, and leads the team in both assists (5.1 apg) and steals (2.1 spg) ... she is third on the squad with 4.6 rebounds ... a third sophomore, Kelly Kapferer, has 7.8 points and 4.8 boards per game.
Redshirt sophomore Pam Brown has 7.3 points and 5.4 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 MAC opener vs. KSU ... senior Dana Western-Schuka averages 6.4 points, a team-best 5.3 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game.
A total of 10 different players have started at least one game this season, but the lineup has remained the same for the last 10 contests ... Griech and Western-Schuka each have been in the starting lineup for all 18 games to date, while Austin has made 17 starts ... Kapferer has started the last 15 games, while Wenzel has been in the starting lineup for the last 10 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 .350 from the field, while opponents are shooting .399 through the first 18 games ... the Falcons have made 106 three-point field goals and are shooting .284 from beyond the arc, while the foes have 101 treys and a .315 pct. ... BGSU has a free-throw pct. of .714 to the opponents' .692 ... the Falcons have been outrebounded by a 46.9 to 39.2 margin in the first 18 contests.
BGSU is shooting .360 from the field in MAC games, and the Falcons have made 50 three-pointers (7.14 per game) and are shooting .350 from behind the arc and .717 from the free-throw line in league contests.
BG is 3-5 at home, 1-6 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 MARSHALL: Marshall will enter Saturday's game with an overall record of 5-12, and the Thundering Herd checks in with a record of 1-5 in MAC play ... MU, 1-4 on the road this year, looks to snap a two-game losing streak ... the Herd lost a neutral-site game to West Virginia, 65-37, Wednesday (Jan. 23), four days after suffering a 59-39 home loss to Kent State ... MU's lone conference win to date came on the road against Central Michigan ... individually, junior guard Ida Dotson leads the team in scoring, with 13.0 points per game, while sophomore guard Andrea Fitzgerald has 9.6 points per outing ... junior center Amy Reed also has 9.6 points along with 5.8 rebounds, while senior Au'Yana Ferguson has 9.0 points and a team-best 7.8 boards per contest ... senior guard Melissa Arnold, who averages 4.1 points and a team-high 3.0 assists, joins the aforementioned players in the starting lineup ... last year, the Herd went 10-18 overall and 4-12 in the MAC ... Royce Chadwick, in his first season in Huntington, has an overall record of 405-144 in his 18th season as a collegiate head coach ... Marshall's athletic web site is www.HerdZone.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 7-1 lead over Marshall ... BGSU is 4-0 against the Thundering Herd in home games, including a 90-73 win in last season's lone meeting (Feb. 17, 2001) ... MU's lone series win came in the previous meeting, a 69-59 verdict in Huntington two years ago (Feb. 2, 2000) ... BGSU is 4-1 against MU, and 3-0 in home games, since the Herd rejoined the MAC for the 1997-98 season.
LAST TIME OUT: Host Kent State opened the game on a 27-6 run, and the Falcons never recovered in an 82-62 KSU win Wednesday (Jan. 23) ... BGSU threatened to narrow the gap late in the first half ... trailing by a 30-9 count, the Falcons went on an 8-0 run, as layups by sophomores Lindsay Austin and Stefanie Wenzel were followed by a Kim Griech three-pointer ... with the score still 30-17, the Falcons had a possession in which they got off a pair of three-point attempts, neither of which would fall ... KSU rebounded the second shot, the Falcons were called for a foul, and the Flashes began a 12-0 run of their own which all but sealed the deal ... BGSU would get no closer than 16 points in the remainder of the game ... Wenzel led four Falcon double-digit scorers with 13 points, while sophomore Pam Brown had 12 points off the bench ... Griech added 11 points and a team-high five assists, while senior Dana Western-Schuka had 10 points and led BG with three blocked shots and three steals ... sophomore Kelly Kapferer had a team-best nine rebounds ... the Golden Flashes had five players in double digits in scoring, including two with double-doubles ... Katalin Kollat had a game-high 18 points and 10 rebounds, while Valerie Zona had 17 and Kate Miller 16 ... Ashley Clark had 14 points and a game-best 16 rebounds, while Jamie Rubis came off the bench to score 13 points.
WENZEL AT HOME IN ANDERSON ARENA: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel is averaging 16.4 points in the Falcons' eight home games this year, and has an 18.4 average in the last seven games at Anderson Arena ... she has scored 50 points in the last two games, both wins, and has four 20-point games at home this season ... Wenzel, who entered the year with a single-game best of seven points, has had games of 30 (vs. UB), 25 (vs. Wright State), 23 (vs. IPFW) and 20 points (vs. UA) in Anderson this year.
STEF'S SOPHOMORE SEASON: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel had a career-high 30 points in the 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 ... she added a team-best 20 points in the Akron game (Jan. 14), matching her 11-of-12 FT performance of two days prior ... Wenzel now has four games of 20-or-more points this season ... through Wednesday's (Jan. 23) game at KSU, she has scored a total of 183 points this season, after scoring 36 points during all of her freshman campaign.
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 hit eight shots from beyond the arc - all in the first half - vs. Buffalo (Jan. 12) ... BG drained six treys against both NIU (Jan. 5) and Akron (Jan. 14) ... 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 9.5 treys and shooting .420 (199-of-474) over the last 21 home games vs. MAC teams ... the game-by-game breakdown during that time:
Date Opponent 3FG-A 1/2/00 Kent State 10-22 1/8/00 Buffalo 9-14 1/20/00 Western Mich. 8-18 1/26/00 Akron 16-38 2/7/00 Northern Illinois 15-27 2/12/00 Eastern Mich. 10-25 2/15/00 Ohio 12-26 2/19/00 Miami 14-34 2/28/00 Ohio * 8-19 1/3/01 Akron 12-30 1/9/01 Central Mich. 9-23 1/13/01 Toledo 8-18 1/27/01 Buffalo 7-20 2/3/01 Kent State 6-24 2/7/01 Ohio 8-14 2/17/01 Marshall 9-20 2/28/01 Miami 9-19 1/2/02 Kent State 9-30 1/9/02 Northern Illinois 6-13 1/12/02 Buffalo 8-24 1/14/02 Akron 6-16 * MAC Tournament
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Sophomore point guard Lindsay Austin has had some of her top all-around games of the year in the last few weeks ... she was held to four points and two assists at Kent State Wednesday (Jan. 23), but still ranks among the MAC leaders in the latter category ... Austin is third in the league with 5.11 assists per game ... in conference games only, she is tied for first, with 6.14 apg ... Austin had nine points, nine assists and seven rebounds at Ball State (Jan. 19), tying her career standards in each of the latter two categories ... in the win over Buffalo (Jan. 12), the Cincinnati native had 15 points, just two away from her career high, seven rebounds and seven assists ... 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 ... she had 10 points, seven assists and five steals, tying her career best in the latter category, vs. Akron ... Austin averaged 11.3 points, 7.7 assists and 5.3 rebounds in the three-game span (UB, UA and BSU).
NICE OFFENSIVE EFFORTS: BGSU scored a season-high 85 points in the win over Akron (Jan. 14), after scoring 71 vs. Buffalo two days earlier ... the Falcons' point total marked the second-most allowed by Buffalo this season ... in the most recent NCAA statistics prior to the game, UB was ranked ninth in the nation in scoring defense (as of Jan. 7), and the Bulls had come to BG allowing just 55.4 points per game.
103 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 103 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.
SUCCESS IN THE CLASSROOM: Falcon women's basketball student-athletes traditionally are strong in the classroom, and the past semester was no exception ... BGSU posted a 3.22 GPA for the fall 2001 semester, and the team's cumulative GPA currently stands at 3.11 ... a total of eight student-athletes had a GPA of over 3.40 in the fall ... six Falcons have a cumulative GPA of 3.31 or higher, led by junior Megan Jerome's perfect 4.00 GPA ... Stefanie Wenzel has a 3.93 GPA through the fall, while Emily Pohl has a 3.88 GPA ... 10 of the 14 student-athletes on the current roster have a cumulative GPA of 2.75 or better.
MILLER TO MISS REMAINDER OF SEASON: Senior Francine Miller is in the process of appealing 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: The Falcons currently have two players sidelined, including senior Francine Miller ... Miller, who played in just four games this year, will miss the remainder of the season while appealing for a medical hardship ... she 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 junior Rachal Hamilton is sidelined with a recurrence of her plantar fascia injury ... the injury, suffered in the summer, forced her to miss the first game of the season ... she has missed the last five games, and will be in a cast for the next several weeks.
Redshirt soph Pam Brown missed seven-straight games with a lateral meniscus injury, but had successful surgery on Dec. 6, and has come off the bench to play in the last six games.
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.
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.
BGSU BENCH PROVIDES A LIFT: The Falcon bench proved to be a contributing factor in the victory over Akron ... redshirt sophomore Pam Brown scored a season-high 17 points off the bench, and the Brown and Orange got eight points and a team-high eight rebounds from freshman Sakima Smith ... junior Megan Jerome (two points, five rebounds, two assists and two steals in 12 minutes) and freshman Tene Lewis (two points and three boards in nine minutes) also provided a spark for the hosts.
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.
FRANCINE THE SCORING MACHINE: MILLER ON BGSU CAREER 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 18 games, the Falcons have held the opponent to a field-goal percentage of .346 (196-of-566) in the first half ... when the Colorado game is taken out, BG has limited the foes to a .329 rate (173-of-526) before the intermission ... in the second half, however, the opponents have made 249-of-555 shots from the floor (.449).
DOUBLE DIGITS: Freshman Tene Lewis and junior Megan Jerome each had 10 points in the game at Butler (Dec. 4) ... Lewis and Jerome became the ninth and 10th different Falcon players to hit double figures in scoring on at least one occasion this year ... a total of 12 different players hit double digits in that category during all of last season, after eight players did so in 1999-2000.
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 702 treys in 2,020 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' 5.89 triples per game through the first 18 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) ‚ senior Dana Western-Schuka is in eighth place (.3505, 75-of-214), while junior Kim Griech is right behind (.3502, 104-of-297) ... Miller is third all-time in three-pointers made, while Griech is fifth and Western-Schuka eighth ... Miller is third in three-point attempts, with Griech now fourth and Western-Schuka ninth.
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.
