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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Francine Miller Earns All-MAC Honor
March 10, 2003 | Women's Basketball
March 10, 2003
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Mid-American Conference has announced the all-league women's basketball team, and Bowling Green State University's Francine Miller was among the players honored. Miller was an honorable-mention selection to the team.
The All-MAC Team is the result of voting by the league's 13 head coaches.
Miller, the lone Falcon to start all 28 games in 2002-03, finished the season with a team-best 425 points. She also led the Brown and Orange in scoring, with 15.2 points per game, rebounding (6.3 rpg), blocked shots (0.68 bpg) and minutes played (29.9 mpg), and was second in steals (2.0 spg) and three-point field goals made (43). She led the Falcons in scoring in 16 games this season, including in 10 of the last 11 contests. She had over 20 points in seven of those final 11 games.
Miller currently ranks sixth in the MAC in scoring and 15th in rebounding, while also placing among the conference leaders in free-throw pct. (fifth, .852), steals (T-ninth), blocks (T-10th) and three-pointers made (T-13th).
In conference games only, Miller finished fifth in the league in scoring and 12th in rebounding, with 15.9 points and 6.7 boards per game. Miller was one of just three players to finish in the top-12 in the league in both categories (Ball State's Tamara Bowie and Eastern Michigan's Ryan Coleman were the other two). In MAC-only statistics, Miller also was among the leaders in FT pct. (eighth), blocks (T-ninth), three-pointers made (T-11th), and steals (15th).
Miller ended her career ranked third in school history in scoring, with a total of 1,574 points in the Brown and Orange. She also ranks third on the BGSU list for career scoring average, with 14.31 points per game in her 110 contests.
Miller stepped up her game yet another notch in the late going, averaging 19.6 points over the last nine games of the season. Miller had 10 or more points in 22 of the season's 28 games, including 11 games of 20 points or more. For her Falcon career, she hit double digits in 79 of 110 games, and had 29 outings of 20-plus points. Miller started 101 career games as a Falcon.
In BGSU's 12 games at Anderson Arena this season, Miller averaged 18.8 points to lead the Falcons. She also led the team in rebounding (6.7 rpg), steals (2.3 spg) and blocked shots (0.8 bpg) at home this season. In the Falcons' eight home MAC games, Miller averaged 20.3 points and 6.6 boards.
In addition to scoring nearly 1,600 career points, Miller ends her Falcon career with 624 rebounds (5.7 rpg), 235 assists, 182 steals and 50 blocked shots. She made 171 career three-pointers, just two shy of the school record.
Miller has earned some sort of conference honor during each of her five years at BGSU. She was named to the MAC's All-Freshman Team during her initial season of 1998-99. The next year, she became just the second sophomore in school history to be named to the All-MAC First Team. Miller was named to the all-conference second team as a junior in 2000-01, then played in only four games due to injury a season ago. She was a Preseason All-MAC Team selection by the MAC News Media Association in each of the past three years.
The 2003 All-MAC First Team consists of Bowie, Miami's Heather Cusick, Toledo's Tia Davis and Western Michigan's Kristin Koetsier and Casey Rost. Coleman was named to the second team, as was BSU's Johna Goff, Buffalo's Kate McMeeken-Ruscoe, Kent State's Jamie Rubis and Jennifer Youngblood of Northern Illinois.
Joining Miller with honorable-mention status are Ohio's Latreece Bagley, Marshall's Catie Knable, KSU's Katalin Kollat and Valerie Zona, Akron's Cassandra Martin and EMU's Abby Wiseman.
The Falcons finished the 2002-03 season with an overall record of 12-16 and a MAC mark of 5-11. BGSU's overall win total was the team's highest in four years.
