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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Men's Basketball Visits Eastern Michigan
January 13, 2003 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 13, 2003
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Bowling Green (8-4, 4-0) at E. Michigan (6-5, 0-2) 7 p.m., Tuesday, January 14 Convocation Center (8,824) Series Record: BGSU leads 38-33 Last Meeting: at BGSU 82, Eastern Michigan 61 (2/13/02) Radio: WBVI-FM (96.7)/WLQR-AM (1470) Internet: bgsufalcons.com
FALCONS LEAD THE MAC WEST
The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team leads the MAC West Division with a 4-0 record and boasts a six-game winning streak. The Falcons are coming off a 78-74 comeback victory at Kent State. BGSU trailed 57-33 with 19:12 remaining and outscored the Golden Flashes, 45-17, to close out the game. The Falcons lead the series with Eastern Michigan, 38-33, and have won the last four meetings, including two straight in Ypsilanti.
BIG COMEBACKS
Ironically, Saturday's comeback appears to tie for the second largest in BGSU history. The largest was the Falcons' last win at Kent when they came back from a 42-17 halftime deficit (25 points) to win 70-69 on February 12, 1997. That same year, BGSU erased a 24-point deficit (59-35) with 16 minutes to go in a home game where the Falcons edged Miami, 83-80.
This was the biggest halftime deficit overcome by a Dan Dakich-coached Falcon team. BGSU rallied from a 14-point halftime deficit in the 2001 MAC Tournament against Western Michigan.
IT'S BEEN 34 YEARS
The Falcons are 4-0 in MAC play for the first time since Bill Fitch coached the 1967-68 team to a 5-0 start.
DEFENSE FUELS FALCONS
The Falcons are second in the MAC in steals (8.6) and rank third in the conference in scoring defense (65.8), third in field goal percentage defense (42.2), first in three-point field goal percentage defense (28.2), and third in turnover margin (+1.5). Since the 2000-2001 season, BGSU is 16-0 when it holds opponents to 60 points or less and 33-3 over the course of Dakich's six-year tenure.
MAKING A STOP
When BGSU made a defensive stop in the final 12.9 seconds to win the game at Kent State, it marked the eighth time in 10 games over the last two seasons that BGSU has won a game on defense when leading by one or two points in the final 30 seconds of a game.
