Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Off To Marshall For Saturday Contest
February 15, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 15, 2002
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BGSU (7-17, 4-9)
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MARSHALL (7-16, 3-9)
GAME #25
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2002
HENDERSON CENTER
HUNTINGTON, W.VA.
6:30 p.m.
SERIES: BGSU LEADS, 8-1
LAST MEETING: AT BGSU 76, MARSHALL 52 (JAN. 26, 2002)
THE GAME: The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, looking to snap a three-game losing streak, hits the road for the next two Mid-American Conference matchups, beginning Saturday (Feb. 16) ... the Falcons of first-year head coach Curt Miller will take on Marshall University, with the contest scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at MU's Henderson Center (9,043) ... that game is the second half of a doubleheader which also sees Marshall's men's team take on Ohio at 4:00 p.m.
Following the MU game, the Brown and Orange will remain on the road for a Tuesday (Feb. 19) game at Ohio University ... tipoff for that contest is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at "The Convo" (13,000) ... that game concludes a seven-game stretch that sees the Falcons play away from home five times ... then, BGSU closes the regular season with a Feb. 23 game vs. Eastern Michigan University ... that contest begins at 1:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (5,000).
ABOUT THE FALCONS: BGSU has an overall record of 7-17 on the season, and the Falcons are 4-9 in MAC play after Thursday's (Feb. 14) 67-58 loss to visiting Western Michigan ... that marked the third-straight setback for the Falcons, who had previously lost to Miami (Feb. 9) and Ohio (Feb. 5) ... BGSU is now tied for fourth place in the East Division and ninth place overall ... the top-three seeds at the end of the regular season will earn first-round byes for the MAC Tournament, with seeds four through eight hosting a first-round tourney contest on March 2.
Prior to the loss to Ohio, the Falcons posted a come-from-behind, 69-65 win at Buffalo (Feb. 2), the team's largest comeback in four years ... BGSU ended the month of January with the team's most decisive victory of the season for the Brown and Orange -- a 76-52 home win over Marshall (Jan. 26) -- followed by the largest loss of the MAC slate, an 82-51 setback at Toledo (Jan. 30).
The Falcons opened the season with a 71-61 win at Youngstown State (Nov. 17), but lost the next four games ... BG returned to the win column with a 73-57 victory over 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 hosted by Miami (Fla.).
BG began conference play with an 0-3 mark, but rallied to beat UB and Akron, before suffering road losses to Ball State and Kent State.
Senior Francine Miller has not played since Jan. 5, 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 (Jan. 2) ... Miller had 15 points off the bench at CMU (Jan. 5) ... 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.
Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel has assumed the team scoring lead, and is averaging 11.7 points per contest ... Wenzel, who had her sixth 20-point game of the season vs. Ohio, also averages 4.1 rebounds per outing ... junior Kim Griech is averaging 10.7 points per contest, and leads the Falcons with 39 three-point field goals on the year.
Sophomore point guard Lindsay Austin averages 8.8 points ... Austin leads the team in assists (5.0 apg), steals (2.0 spg) and minutes per game (33.5) ... she is tied for third with 4.5 rebounds per game.
Redshirt sophomore Pam Brown has 7.7 points, and has a team-best 6.3 rebounds ... Brown, who missed seven consecutive contests in Nov.-Dec. with a knee (lateral meniscus) injury, has had 14 rebounds in each of the Falcons' last two home games ... she had successful surgery on Dec. 6, and made her return in the MAC opener on Jan. 2 ... soph Kelly Kapferer has 7.2 points and 4.5 rebounds per game, and leads the Falcons in field-goal percentage (.426) ... senior Dana Western-Schuka averages 6.3 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game, ranking second on the team in the latter two categories.
A total of 10 different players have started at least one game this season ... the lineup has remained the same for four consecutive contests ... Griech and Western-Schuka each have been in the starting five for all 24 games to date, while Austin has made 23 starts ... Kapferer has started 17 games, while Wenzel has been in the starting lineup for the last 16 contests ... Brown has started eight games this year, including the last four ... the lineup had consisted of Austin, Griech, Kapferer, Wenzel and Western-Schuka for 12-straight games, before Brown replaced Kapferer for the game at Buffalo (Feb. 2).
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 action 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 .359 from the field, while opponents are shooting .401 through the first 24 games ... the Falcons have made 143 three-point field goals and are shooting .291 from beyond the arc, while the foes have 136 treys and a .337 pct. ... BGSU has a free-throw pct. of .704 to the opponents' identical .704 mark ... the Falcons have been outrebounded by a 45.0 to 38.6 margin in the first 24 contests.
BGSU is shooting .373 from the field in MAC games, and the Falcons have made 87 three-pointers (6.69 per game) and are shooting .333 from behind the arc and .698 from the free-throw line in league contests.
BGSU is 4-7 at home, 2-8 on the road and 1-2 in neutral-site contests in 2001-02 ... BG is 3-4 at home and 1-5 on the road in MAC games ... last year, the Falcons went 6-5 at Anderson Arena, 3-12 on the road and 2-1 in neutral-site affairs ... in league play, the Brown and Orange went 5-3 at home and 1-7 on the road last season.
SCOUTING MARSHALL: Marshall will enter Saturday's game with an overall record of 7-16 ... the Thundering Herd will bring a 3-9 MAC mark into the contest ... all three of MU's league wins have come on the road, including an impressive 55-35 win at Buffalo Wednesday (Feb. 13) ... the Herd held the Bulls to the lowest point total allowed by a MAC team this year, and allowed UB to make just three field goals in the first half ... MU is 2-7 at home this season, and 0-6 in home conference games ... individually, junior guard Ida Dotson leads the team in scoring, with 13.5 points per game ... she also paces the Herd with 2.1 steals per contest ... sophomore guard Andrea Fitzgerald has 10.0 points per game, while senior forward Au'Yana Ferguson has 8.7 points and a team-high 7.6 rebounds per game ... junior center Amy Reed matches Ferguson's 8.7 ppg average, and has 5.4 rebounds per outing ... senior guard Melissa Arnold (4.4 ppg, 3.4 apg) and sophomore forward Latae Cooley (2.6 ppg) joined Dotson, Ferguson and Fitzgerald in the starting lineup at UB ... last year, the Thundering Herd went 10-18 overall and 4-12 in MAC action ... Royce Chadwick, in his first year with MU, has a record of 407-149 in his 18th year as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletic web site is www.HerdZone.com.
THE SERIES: The Falcons are the lone MAC team that does not have a losing record in an all-time series with a single conference opponent ... BG leads the all-time series with 10 of the 12 MAC foes (BGSU is tied with both Buffalo [4-4] and NIU [9-9]), and the Falcons hold an 8-1 advantage over Marshall ... BGSU is 2-1 all-time in road games vs. the Thundering Herd ... MU, however, won the last meeting at the Henderson Center, a 69-59 decision two years ago (Feb. 2, 2000) ... the Falcons have captured the last two overall meetings - both at Anderson Arena - including a 76-52 victory last month (Jan. 26, 2002) ... BG is 5-1 vs. Marshall since the Herd rejoined the MAC for the 1997-98 season ... after three consecutive series games were decided by five points or less, each of the last five meetings have been 10-point margins or greater.
LAST TIME OUT: Western Michigan ended the game on a 32-7 run to post a 67-58 victory over the Falcons Thursday night (Feb. 14) ... redshirt sophomore Pam Brown led all players with 18 points and 14 rebounds, while sophomore Kelly Kapferer was the other BGSU double-digit scorer, with 12 points off the bench ... Karen Deurloo had 16 points to lead three Broncos in double figures ... the Falcons, despite having several players in early foul trouble, played a solid first half ... BG trailed just once in the opening 20 minutes, at 5-4, but a layup by sophomore Lindsay Austin on the break erased that deficit ... Austin, however, picked up her second foul of the game with just 3:54 gone, point guard Emily Pohl came off the bench and played her most productive half of the season. Pohl had eight points in the game, all in the opening half, and added four assists, just one off her career high ... the Falcons led by a 20-18 count at the 7:39 mark after a hoop by WMU's Kristin Koetsier, but Brown split a pair of free throws and Pohl grabbed a rebound and sank a shot to give BG a five-point lead ... Deurloo hit two charity tosses at the 3:50 juncture, but the Falcons scored the next seven points ... freshman Sakima Smith shook free for a layup off Pohl's inbounds pass, and sophomore Stefanie Wenzel hit two free throws ... then, Pohl hit a three-pointer to give the Falcons a double-digit lead, 30-20, with 2:12 left in the half ... BGSU still led by 10, at 34-24, at the intermission ... BG built that lead despite seeing Austin play just four minutes, and despite the team's second-leading scorer, junior Kim Griech, going scoreless (and not even attempting a shot) in the first half ... the Falcons came out quickly in the second half, as Brown hit a layup just 10 seconds in, and Griech sank her first shot of the game at the 18:39 mark ... WMU coach Ron Stewart called a timeout, then burnt another one just 25 seconds later after another Brown layup ... when Brown scored yet again, at the 16:56 mark, the Falcons had their biggest lead of the game at 42-24 ... the visitors got the next five points, as a Koetsier layup was followed by a Casey Rost three-pointer ... Koetsier had 12 points and 10 rebounds in the game, while Rost - scoreless at the half - finished with 15 points and 11 boards ... the Broncos slowly chipped away at the lead, and cut the margin to 10 points (51-41) with 11:46 remaining ... moments later, Rost hit a triple to cut the lead to seven, then drained another long-range shot just 32 seconds later, cutting the lead to 53-49 ... Deurloo made a layup to cut that BG lead in half ... a Brown layup at the 7:32 mark moved the BGSU lead back to four points, at 55-51 ... the Falcons, however, would score just one more basket and three more points in the entire contest ... WMU tied the game at 56-56 on a pair of Deurloo free throws with 6:02 left ... WMU was 23-of-28 from the charity stripe to the Falcons' 7-of-11 ... moments later, Brown scored the Falcons' final points of the game, hitting a layup to give the hosts a 58-57 lead with 3:39 left ... but, Koetsier gave WMU the lead for good, hitting a pair of free throws with 3:21 left ... WMU did not hit a basket in the game's final 7:10, but went 13-of-16 from the line in that time, including 8-of-10 in the final 1:37 ... the Falcons held a 45-43 edge on the boards, led by Brown's 14 ... Kapferer, in addition to her 12 points, had seven boards off the bench ... Brown also led the Falcons with three steals, as BG forced 19 WMU turnovers ... the Falcons committed 16 turnovers in the game ... the Broncos held a narrow edge in the field-goal percentage department, .345 to .343 ... BGSU limited the visitors to a 7-of-33 effort (.212) in the first half, but WMU shot .545 (12-of-22) after the intermission ... in the contest, BGSU was whistled for 25 fouls to the Broncos' 12 ... BG held a 28-16 advantage in points in the paint and a 14-0 margin in second-chance points.
BUSY STRETCH FOR THE FALCONS: The WMU game was the first of three in a six-day span for the Brown and Orange ... BGSU was scheduled for a Friday departure for Huntington, W.Va. ... then, after the Saturday (Feb. 16) game at Marshall, BGSU will return home in the wee hours of Sunday morning, only to leave Monday for a Tuesday (Feb. 19) contest at Ohio.
BGSU BENCH PLAYS A ROLE: In each of the last two games, the Falcons have received some solid efforts off the bench ... against Western Michigan Thursday (Feb. 14), BGSU's bench outscored the Bronco reserves, 22-11 ... sophomore Kelly Kapferer had 12 points and seven rebounds off the bench, while classmate Emily Pohl had season-high totals of eight points, five boards and four assists ... three Falcons -- Kapferer, Pohl and junior Megan Jerome -- all played double-digit minutes in the first half of the game.
At Miami Saturday (Feb. 9), the Falcon reserves kept BG in the game in the second half ... coach Curt Miller used all 12 players who suited up for the contest, and had at least four reserves on the floor for several minutes early in the second stanza ... the backups played the RedHawks to a draw, enabling the BGSU starters to rest up for the comeback bid ... the performances by the Falcon bench players included a season-high four steals in 19 minutes of action from freshman Tene Lewis ... Jerome had four points and ran the Falcon offense for the early second-half stretch, playing point guard for the first time in her collegiate career ... another junior, Rachel Hamilton, saw her first action in MAC play this season, and had a rebound in five minutes.
LEARNING HOW TO WIN: The Falcons struggled in the years before Curt Miller arrived on campus ... in the last three seasons, BGSU posted an overall record of 35-49 ... this season, despite losing the team's top scorer (senior Francine Miller) to injury, coach Miller's teams have put together some solid efforts, particularly at home ... but, the Falcons are still learning how to sustain that effort over the entire 40 minutes.
In the seven MAC games at Anderson Arena, the Falcons have never trailed at the half ... but, BGSU has outscored the opponent in the second half just once (Marshall, Jan. 26) in those six contests, resulting in a 3-4 record in home conference games.
FIELD-GOAL PCT. DEFENSE IMPROVING: Under first-year coach Curt Miller, the Falcons have greatly improved in the area of field-goal percentage defense ... BGSU has a field-goal pct. defense of .401 this season ... that percentage, if the Falcons could maintain it, would be the fourth-best in school history, and the best since 1992-93 ... that '92-93 team limited opponents to a .399 FG pct. ... the school record is .348, set by the 1976-77 squad ... BGSU's current mark would be the second-lowest in the last 24 years.
FREE THROWS MAKE A DIFFERENCE: Free throws have made a difference in each of the last two games at Anderson Arena ... in the Ohio game (Feb. 5), each team shot .351 from the floor and had 47 rebounds ... the visiting Bobcats, however, went 30-of-38 (.816) from the free-throw line, while the Falcons went 12-of-20 (.600) from the stripe ... Ohio held a 27-to-9 advantage in FTM in the game's first 40 minutes, and the Bobcats' last toss of regulation, with 14.5 seconds left, forced the overtime ... on Thursday (Feb. 14), the Falcons went to the line 11 times, making seven (.636), while Western Michigan was 23-of-28 (.821) from the stripe ... WMU made 8-of-10 tosses in the last 1:37 of the game to extend a one-point lead into a nine-point win.
PAM BROWN: RHYMES (SORTA) WITH REBOUND: Redshirt sophomore Pam Brown has had 28 rebounds in the last two home games ... Brown had a career-high 14 rebounds vs. Ohio (Feb. 5) ... that total also represented a BGSU season high, and the most by a Falcon in over two years (since Sherry Kahle also had 14 vs. Central Michigan on Jan. 6, 2000) ... then, she matched that total in the WMU game (Feb. 14) ... Brown now has seven double-digit rebounding games in her career.
POHL POSITION: Sophomore point guard Emily Pohl played a career-high 27 minutes off the bench in the WMU game (Feb. 14), and made the most of her time ... Pohl set season bests with eight points, four assists and five rebounds, with the latter total representing a career standard ... she also set a career high with three field goals made, and her total of 13 FG attempted more than doubled her previous career best of six.
BIG COMEBACK: The Falcons rallied from a 39-21 deficit late in the first half for the win at Buffalo (Feb. 2) ... the comeback, from 18 points down, is the largest for the Falcons in nearly four years ... BG overcame a 19-point deficit at Akron in an overtime win on Feb. 11, 1998 ... that comeback ranks as BG's biggest since at least the 1988-89 season ... the Falcons also erased an 18-point deficit in a Feb. 12, 1997, game against Kent State ... BG has twice come back from 17-point deficits to win during the last decade, turning the trick against the Flashes (Feb. 13, 1993) and vs. Ohio (Jan. 21, 1998) ... in that KSU game of 1992-93, BG trailed by a 75-58 score with 8:19 left ... the hosts scored the next 10 points, and 18 of the next 19, to tie the contest at 76 with 1:41 left en route to an 81-78 win.
TAKING CARE OF THE BALL SURE HELPS: The Falcons committed just 10 turnovers at Buffalo (Feb. 2), tying a season low ... BG also turned the ball over just 10 times in the season opener, at Youngstown State (Nov. 17) ... perhaps not coincidentally, that YSU game marks the Falcons' only other road win of the year to date.
WENZEL DOES WELL VS. UB: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel had 21 points in the Falcons' win at Buffalo ... Wenzel tied her career high by making five three-point field goals, and set a new personal best with eight total FG made ... her previous records were amassed in the Falcons' first win over UB this year (71-69 at Anderson Arena, Jan. 12) ... Wenzel, who had a career-high 30 points in that first UB contest, averaged 25.5 points vs. the Bulls this year.
A CHANGE IN THE LINEUP: At Buffalo (Feb. 2), head coach Curt Miller altered his starting lineup for the first time since mid-December ... redshirt sophomore Pam Brown drew the start, and responded with nine points and six rebounds ... sophomore Kelly Kapferer, who had started the previous 16 contests, came off the bench to total six points, five rebounds (including three at the offensive end), an assist and a blocked shot in 14 minutes ... Brown remained in the lineup for the Ohio and Miami games ... vs. Ohio, she had six points and a BGSU season-best 14 boards ... Kapferer had four points vs. the Bobcats, going 2-of-2 from the floor ... vs. WMU, the two combined for 30 points and 21 rebounds, as Brown had a double-double (18 points, 14 boards), while Kapferer had 12 points and seven rebounds off the bench.
ANOTHER DAZZLING DEFENSIVE DISPLAY: The Falcons held Miami without a basket for a span of 10:36 in the second half of Saturday's game (Feb. 9), helping the team reduce a 22-point deficit to five points ... that effort was the latest in a number of solid defensive stretches for the 2001-02 Falcons ... one week prior (Feb. 2), at Buffalo, BG held the Bulls without a point for exactly six minutes in one stretch ... UB sank only two baskets in the game's final 11:57 -- at the 5:27 and 4:05 marks.
DEFENSIVE DISPLAY AT UB: The Falcons allowed Buffalo to make just six second-half baskets, tying a season low ... the Falcons also held IPFW (Nov. 29) to only six baskets in the first half of that game ... prior to the IPFW contest, BG had not limited an opponent to so few baskets in a half since Jan. 26, 1994, when the Falcons limited Central Michigan to five first-half hoops in a 63-48 road win.
BG SCORES VS. UB DEFENSE: Buffalo has been ranked among the national leaders in scoring defense for much of the year, but BG enjoyed success against the Bulls in each meeting ... the first time the teams met (Jan. 12), UB was ranked ninth in the nation in that category, and the Bulls came to BG allowing just 55.4 points per game ... the Falcons put 71 points on the board in a two-point win ... UB entered last Saturday's (Feb. 2) game allowing 57.0 points per game, and had entered the week ranked a season-best seventh in the country in the NCAA rankings ... in Saturday's game, the Falcons scored 69 points, 12 above UB's defensive average ... BG has had two of the five highest point totals against UB this year.
MJ FOR THREE: Junior Megan Jerome drained her only field-goal attempt, a three-pointer, at Buffalo ... after going 4-of-26 from three-point range on the season prior to the Toledo game (Jan. 30), Jerome was 3-of-3 from long distance in the next two games ... she missed her first long-range attempt vs. Ohio, but converted her other try ... Jerome missed her only try at Miami, and has now made four of her last six attempts from three-point land.
DOUBLE TROUBLE: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel recorded the first double-double of her career in BG's win over Marshall (Jan. 26) ... Wenzel led the Falcons in scoring, with 19 points, and had a career-high 11 rebounds in the win ... redshirt sophomore Pam Brown had her first double-double of the year, and the third of her career, with 18 points and 14 boards vs. WMU (Feb. 14) ... the double-double was just the fourth of the year by a Falcon player ... sophomore Kelly Kapferer had the first two, with a 15-point, 10-rebound effort against Detroit (Nov. 20) and a 12-point, 10-board game vs. Yale (Dec. 27).
WENZEL AT HOME IN ANDERSON ARENA: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel is averaging a team-best 16.2 points in the Falcons' 10 home games this year, and has a 17.6 average in the last nine games at Anderson Arena ... Wenzel has five 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 two games of 20 points (vs. UA and OU) in Anderson this year ... in BGSU's seven MAC home games, Wenzel is averaging 16.1 points and 6.7 rebounds.
STEF'S SOPHOMORE SEASON: Sophomore Stefanie Wenzel has scored a total of 281 points this season, after scoring 36 points during all of her freshman campaign.
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 ... in addition to Wenzel, two other BGSU starters have a GPA in excess of 3.50, as both sophomore Lindsay Austin and junior Kim Griech maintain a 3.58 cumulative GPA ... in all, 10 of the 14 student-athletes on the current roster have a cumulative GPA of 2.75 or better.
109 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 109 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.
ANDER-RIFFIC! The Western Michigan game (Feb. 14) ended a long streak for the Falcons ... BGSU went 3-of-17 from three-point land vs. the Broncos, ending a string of 26 consecutive home games vs. MAC foes in which the Falcons had made at least five triples ... BG has hit 47 treys in this year's seven conference games at Anderson ... the Falcons made a total of 68 three-pointers 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 still averaging 9.0 treys and shooting .403 (215-of-534) over the last 24 games vs. MAC teams.
INJURY REPORT: The Falcons currently have one player sidelined, senior Preseason All-MAC pick 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.
Last year, the Falcons missed a total of 41 however, and went to the bench for the remainder of the half ... sophomore 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 FROM LONG RANGE: A total of 11 different Falcons have made at least one three-point field goal this season ... 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 ... last year, 11 different Falcons made at least one long-range shot, and 10 of those players had drained a "three" by the fifth game 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.
