Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcon Women's Basketball Notes
December 07, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Dec. 7, 2002
BOCA RATON, Fla. - The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team will face the University of North Carolina at Wilmington on Saturday night (Dec. 7) in the championship game of the Radisson Suites Roundball Classic. Tipoff between the Falcons (2-2 overall) and Seahawks (4-0) will meet in a 7:00 p.m. contest at the FAU Gymnasium in Boca Raton, Fla. Host Florida Atlantic University will face the University of Pittsburgh in the consolation game at 5:00 p.m.
FIRST TITLE GAME SINCE...
The Falcons advanced to the championship game of the Radisson Suites Roundball Classic with Friday night's 77-62 victory over host Florida Atlantic . . . for BGSU, the title-game appearance is the first in two years . . . the Falcons' last championship-game action came at the Kroger Classic in Auburn, Ala. (Nov. 24-25, 2000) . . . in that tournament, BGSU downed Charleston Southern, 80-76 before losing to host Auburn, 94-61 . . . prior to the Auburn tourney, the Falcons had advanced to the championship contest of an in-season tournament since 1992-93 ... that year, the Falcons beat Marquette, but lost to host Purdue in the Boilermaker Classic (Dec. 20-21, 1992) . . . BGSU has not won an in-season tourney since capturing the Illini Classic during the 1988-89 campaign . . . it should be noted, however, that the Falcons have won the Mid-American Conference Tournament four times during that stretch.
FALCONS IN FLORIDA
BGSU now has an all-time record of 4-2 in games played in the state of Florida . . . the Falcons went 2-1 at the UCF Turkey Shootout in Orlando (Nov. 28-30, 1997) . . . in that eight-team tourney, the Brown and Orange beat Butler before losing to Syracuse in the semifinal round . . . that Syracuse squad featured an assistant coach named Curt Miller . . . BG captured third place with a win over Buffalo . . . then, last season, the Falcons split a pair of games in Miami's Gatorade Holiday Classic (Dec. 27-28, 2001) . . . BG lost to Yale and defeated Lehigh at that tourney.
FRANCINE THE SCORING MACHINE
BGSU senior Francine Miller continued her climb up the Falcon career scoring chart last night . . . with a team-high 11 points vs. FAU, Miller increased her career total to 1,214 points . . . in the process, she passed Jacki Raterman (1,213 pts.; 1995-99) to move into 11th place on the BGSU list . . . Miller needs just 20 points to move up two more spots on the list . . . she has Melissa Chase (1,223 pts.; 1979-83) and Michelle Shade (1,233 pts.; 1991-95) in her sights.
ROAD WIN
The Falcons' 15-point margin of victory in last night's FAU game was the team's biggest road win in nearly six years . . . the last time BGSU posted a win of 15 points or greater on an opponent's home court was Feb. 1, 1997, when the Brown and Orange won at Western Michigan, 68-44.
UNDEFEATED ECKERT
First-year Falcon assistant coach Kevin Eckert's teams are now a perfect 3-0 in Florida Atlantic's tourney . . . Eckert, who spent four years on the staff at Buffalo prior to coming to BG, was with the Bulls when the team won the 1999 tournament (Dec. 28-29, 1999) . . . UB defeated Northeastern, 59-52, in the first round of that tourney, before posting a win over the host Lady Owls, 81-53, in the championship game.
