Bowling Green State University Athletics
Men's Basketball Goes To Kent State
February 12, 2004 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 12, 2004
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Bowling Green (10-12, 6-6) at Kent State (17-3, 11-1) 4 p.m., Saturday, February 14, MAC Center (6,327) Series Record: BGSU leads 75-56. Last Meeting: KSU 71, at BGSU 64 (1/28/04) Local Radio: WPFX-FM 107.7, WCWA-AM 1230 Television: ESPN 2 (Dave Revsine and Doug Gottlieb)
FALCONS MAKE THIRD NATIONAL TV APPEARANCE IN THREE YEARS
The Falcons will be making their third national television appearance in three years when they travel to Kent State. The game will be shown on ESPN2. BGSU played KSU in the 2002 MAC Championship (ESPN) and played at Illinois-Chicago (ESPN2) in the 2003 ESPN Bracket Buster. The Falcons begin the second half of a stretch which sees them play four of five games on the road. Following the Kent State game, BGSU will play at Northern Illinois on January 18. Beginning with the 2004 Bracket Buster on February 21, the Falcons will play four straight games at home before concluding the MAC regular season at Eastern Michigan, March 6. If the MAC Tournament were to begin today, BGSU and Ball State would be tied for the fifth seed.
THE SERIES WITH THE GOLDEN FLASHES
The Falcons hold a 75-56 in the series. Kent State defeated BGSU, 71-64 (boxscore on Page 20), on January 28 in Bowling Green. In that game, BGSU shot a school-record 34 three-point field goal attempts and made just eight of those opportunities. Two of the largest comeback wins in BGSU history have taken place at Kent State. Last year, the Falcons erased a 24 point deficit (57-33) with 19:12 left in the game. BGSU also came back from a 42-17 halftime deficit (25 points) to win 70-69 on February 12, 1997.
DON'T OVERLOOK Ron Lewis FOR ALL-MAC HONORS
Sophomore Ron Lewis has established himself as the premier sophomore scorer in the MAC averaging 18.6 points per game, a five-point differential over any other second-year player in the league. In the last four games, he is averaging 25 points and is shooting 51.8% from three-point range. Lewis is third in the MAC in scoring, second in free throw shooting (82.0) and has made more free throws than any player in the league (146). His 760 career points scored is the second-highest total for a BGSU sophomore in school-history trailing only Falcon career leader Anthony Stacey who scored 890 points in his first two seasons. Lewis is the seventh leading scorer in the nation for a sophomore. Lewis also is averaging 20.6 points in 12 games away from Anderson Arena.
NETTER AND REIMOLD ARE 1,000-POINT SCORERS
Senior Kevin Netter became the 33rd player to score 1,000 points or more in a career at BGSU and now has scored 1,015 points. He is averaging 17.6 points in his last 10 games. Netter became the second current Falcon to score 1,000 points during his college basketball career. Junior John Reimold, who played his freshman year at Loyola (Md.), has scored 1,107 points in two-plus seasons, including 705 with the Falcons the last two years. He scored 402 points as a freshman at Loyola and has averaged 15.2 points as a collegiate player.
