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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons To Spend Valentine's Day At Rose Arena
February 13, 2004 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 13, 2004
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BGSU (14-7, 7-3)
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CENTRAL MICHIGAN (4-17, 0-10)
Game #22Sat., Feb. 14, 2004
2:00 p.m.
Rose Arena (5,200)
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
Radio: WBGU-FM (88.1)
Series: BGSU leads, 34-12
Last Meeting: at BGSU 68, CMU 60 (Jan. 17, 2004)
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after a win on the road to begin the week, unpacks and repacks the suitcases for another Mid-American Conference road tilt ... the Falcons of third-year head coach Curt Miller head to Mt. Pleasant, Mich., to face Central Michigan University in Saturday (Feb. 14) action ... the Valentine's Day game, scheduled to start at 2:00 p.m. at Rose Arena (5,200), will be broadcast on student station WBGU-FM (88.1).
Following the CMU game, the Falcons will return home for a pair of games, beginning with a Wednesday (Feb. 18) contest vs. Northern Illinois University ... that game startes at 7:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (4,700).
BIGGEST MAC ROAD WIN SINCE...
The Falcons' 76-55 win at Ohio Wednesday (Feb. 11) was the team's biggest MAC road victory in over seven years ... the 21-point margin was the largest on the road vs. a league opponent since a 68-44 triumph at Western Michigan on Feb. 1, 1997.
ANOTHER ACCOLADE FOR AUSTIN
Senior Lindsay Austin has earned a pair of honors from the conference office this week ... on Monday (Feb. 9), she was named the MAC Player of the Week ... two days later (Feb. 11), Austin was chosen the MAC's Scholar-Athlete of the Week ... Austin earned the honors after her exploits in last week's two games vs. the MAC's divisional leaders ... she had a school-record 10 steals along with 13 points at Miami (Feb. 3) ... then, Austin hit a jumper in the lane as time expired, giving BGSU a 69-67 win over Western Michigan Saturday (Feb. 7) ... Austin earns the P-O-W honor for the first time this season and the second time in her Falcon career ... she picked up the S-A award for the first time in her BG tenure ... in the two games, Austin averaged 10.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 6.0 steals ... Austin, a visual communication technology major, maintains a 3.62 cumulative grade point average.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
BGSU enters Saturday's game at Central Michigan with a record of 14-7, and the Falcons are 7-3 in MAC play ... the Falcons already have surpassed last year's win totals by two games ... BGSU, after beginning the month of February with a two-game stretch against the league's divisional leaders, is in the midst of a two-game road swing ... after a 92-81 loss at Miami (Feb. 3), the Falcons rebounded for a 69-67 win over visiting Western Michigan last Saturday (Feb. 7) ... then, on Wednesday (Feb. 11), the Brown and Orange picked up a 76-55 win at Ohio ... BG has won 10 of the last 13 games, and the Falcons have won seven of the last nine games, all in MAC play ... those seven league wins include a trio of road victories, at Northern Illinois (66-58; Jan. 10), Toledo (57-54; Jan. 21) and OU.
Senior Stefanie Wenzel leads the Falcons with 15.1 points per game, and is averaging 4.9 rebounds per contest ... four freshmen are ranked among the top-six in the Falcons' balanced scoring attack ... one of those freshmen, Ali Mann, has 11.8 points and 7.5 rebounds, ranking second in scoring and tying for the team lead in rebounding ... Mann has five double-doubles on the year ... another frosh, Liz Honegger, has 11.1 points and is tied with Mann for the BG lead with 7.5 boards per game ... Honegger leads the Falcons with 1.6 blocked shots per outing.
Senior Lindsay Austin has 10.0 points, 5.1 rebounds and team-leading totals of 5.5 assists and 2.7 steals ... Austin, who had a school-record 10 steals at Miami, has five double-doubles this year (three points-rebounds, one pts.-assists and one pts.-steals) to tie Mann for the team lead ... freshman Megan Thorburn has 7.2 points and 3.4 caroms on the year, while classmate Carin Horne is averaging 6.5 points ... junior Kelly Kapferer and sophomore Casey McDowell average 4.2 and 3.0 points, respectively, off the bench.
BGSU ended the 2002-03 season with a record of 12-16, and the Falcons finished the MAC campaign with a 5-11 league record ... the Falcons tied for sixth in the MAC's West Division last year ... in 2003-04, head coach Curt Miller's Falcons returned six letterwinners from that team, including a pair of senior co-captains in starters Austin and Wenzel ... in addition, the Falcons also welcomed back two juniors, Tene Lewis and Sakima Smith, along with a pair of sophomores in Jill Lause and Marisa Smith.
Austin and Wenzel each have started all 21 games, while frosh Honegger and Mann have started 20 and Thorburn 17 ... Horne has started the last four contests, while Kapferer has made a pair of starts this winter.
The Falcons are shooting .411 from the field this season, including a .341 rate from three-point land, and .752 from the free-throw line ... the opponents have shot .395 from the floor, .326 from the arc and .686 from the line to date.
BGSU is 7-2 at home, 5-5 in road games and 2-0 in neutral-site contests this year ... in league play, the Falcons are 4-1 at Anderson Arena and 3-2 away from home ... last season, BG went 6-6 at home, 5-9 on the road and 1-1 on neutral courts ... in MAC contests, the Falcons finished 4-4 at home and 1-7 away from Anderson in 2002-03.
SCOUTING CENTRAL MICHIGAN
Central Michigan welcomes BGSU to town after a week off from competition ... the Chippewas enter Saturday's game with an overall record of 4-17 and a MAC mark of 0-10 ... the last time out, CMU dropped a 65-45 decision on the road vs. Kent State (Feb. 7) ... Central is 2-7 at Rose Arena this season to date ... individually, sophomore guard Casey Manning leads the way, with team-high averages of 10.2 points and 6.3 rebounds per game ... sophomore forward Lindsay Mecoli has 9.5 points, including a CMU-leading 31 three-point field goals, while junior guard Lindy Hatfield has 7.0 points on the season ... sophomore guard Erin Kuhl averages 6.8 points and has a team-high 3.0 assists per game in Central's balanced attack ... senior center Amanda Elwer has 6.4 points and 4.5 caroms per contest ... the aforementioned five players comprise the probable starting five for head coach Eileen Kleinfelter ... Kleinfelter welcomed back eight letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that went 11-17 overall and 5-11 in MAC action ... Kleinfelter has a record of 25-52 in her third season in Mt. Pleasant ... she is 247-133 in her 13th season as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletics web site is www.cmuchippewas.com.
THE BGSU-CMU SERIES
The Falcons lead Central Michigan, 34-12, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU is 14-6 in road games vs. the Chippewas ... the teams have split the last four meetings, however, after BG had taken the previous five games ... the Falcons won this season's initial clash, 68-60 at Anderson Arena (Jan. 17, 2004) ... last year, the teams split their two games, with the Falcons capturing a 63-45 decision at Anderson (Jan. 18, 2003), but the Chippewas holding BG to a school record-low scoring total in a 42-30 CMU triumph in Mt. Pleasant (Feb. 5, 2003) ... prior to last month's meeting, none of the previous five games, and only one of the prior 12 meetings, had been decided by fewer than nine points.
MAC SERIES INFORMATION
The Falcons lead the all-time series with 10 of the 12 MAC opponents, and are tied with one other foe ... BGSU's win over Buffalo (Jan. 31) evened that series at 5-5 ... the Falcons trail only one MAC school, by the slimmest of margins ... Northern Illinois holds an 11-10 series advantage over BGSU, after the Falcons' road win on Jan. 10.
HOUSE OF HORRORS (also titled: A 'ROSE' ON VALENTINE'S DAY)
Falcon fans with weak stomachs may want to skip to the next paragraph ... OK, we warned you ... on Valentine's Day, BGSU hopes for a rosier result than the outcome of the last trip to Rose Arena ... in last year's meeting in Mt. Pleasant (Feb. 5, 2003), the host Chippewas shot just .260 from the field, making only 13 shots, and scored a total of just 42 points ... but, Central still won by double digits, in a 42-30 verdict ... the Falcons' point total was a school record-low ... BGSU made only 11 baskets and shot just .234 from the floor ... each team went 5-of-25 in the second half ... neither team had a double-digit scorer in the game ... on no fewer than four occasions, the Falcons held Central scoreless for five minutes or longer ... CMU went without a point for stretches of 5:07, 6:09, 6:42 and 5:14 ... the middle two droughts came back to back, as a layup late in the first half marked the only points for the Chippewas in a span of 12:51 ... but, BGSU went 12:14 without a field goal in the second half, and also had a 5:49 scoreless slump spanning the end of the first half and the start of the second ... let us never speak of that day again.
LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons led from start to finish Wednesday night (Feb. 11), picking up a 76-55 win at Ohio ... senior Stefanie Wenzel and freshman Carin Horne each scored 19 points to tie for game honors, while freshman Liz Honegger had a double-double, with 16 points and 14 rebounds ... click here for more information on the win at OU.
A FEW MORE NOTES FROM THE OHIO GAME
BGSU TOPS LAST YEAR'S WIN TOTALS
The Falcons have surpassed the team's victory totals for all of last season ... BGSU enters the CMU game at 14-7 overall and 7-3 in MAC play ... the 2002-03 version of the Brown and Orange finished with an overall record of 12-16 and a MAC mark of 5-11 ... last year, the Falcons tied for sixth in the West Division ... BGSU has not had a winning record since the WNIT team of 1997-98 (21-8 overall), and the Falcons have not finished MAC play on the positive side of .500 since 1998-99 (9-7).
AUSTIN'S BUZZER BEATER BESTS BRONCOS
Senior Lindsay Austin hit a jumper in the lane as time expired, giving the Falcons a 69-67 win over MAC-leading Western Michigan last Saturday (Feb. 7) ... with the game tied and the clock winding down, Austin got the ball at the top of the three-point arc ... she drove to her left, got herself into the lane and took a jumper from approximately 10 feet away ... the ball hit the rim, glanced off the backboard, hit the rim again as the buzzer sounded, and dropped through, sparking a wild celebration among the BGSU players and Falcon faithful ... Austin's late heroics came on the heels of her school-record 10 steals against the leaders of the MAC's other division, Miami ... for her efforts, Austin was named both the MAC Player of the Week and the MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week.
HOME COOKIN': BGSU HOLDING SERVE AT HOME ...
The Falcons have a record of 7-2 at home, including a MAC mark of 4-1 at Anderson Arena this year ... BGSU's home win total is the highest since the 1998-99 season, when the Falcons went 8-4 ... the Falcons are looking for the first winning MAC home record in three years.
...AND LOOKING TO STEAL SOME ON THE ROAD
After just two games, the Falcons had surpassed last season's total of MAC road victories ... BGSU is currently 3-2 in conference road games this season ... last winter, the Brown and Orange went 1-7 in MAC games away from home, with only a three-point win at Akron (65-62) going in the plus column for the Falcons ... overall, the Falcons are 5-5 in road games this year, and BG is 7-5 in all games played away from home.
FALCONS' GAME VS. KENT STATE TO START AT 1:00 P.M.
The starting time for the Falcons' game vs. Kent State has been set ... BGSU will face the Golden Flashes on Sat., Feb. 21, in a 1:00 p.m. tipoff at Anderson Arena ... the game will be part of a doubleheader at Anderson -- the fifth DH this season -- with the Falcon men taking on Youngstown State at 3:30 p.m. ... the latter game is a part of ESPN Bracket Buster Saturday.
GOOD START
The Falcons enter the CMU game with an overall record of 14-7 and a MAC mark of 7-3 ... how long, you ask, has it been since a BG team had such a solid start to the season?
START ME UP (THE CAREER STARTS LIST)
Senior Lindsay Austin's starting assignment at Ohio was the 100th of her career, ranking her fifth on that Falcon career list ... with at least seven games remaining (six regular-season games plus the MAC Tournament's first round), Austin has a chance to move into second place on the all-time list, currently held by Susie Cassell (106 games) ... Jackie Motycka holds the BGSU record with 115 games started.
AUSTIN COULD ENTER UNCHARTED WATERS
Senior Lindsay Austin is on a number of other BGSU career lists, and has a chance to go where no Falcon has gone before ... she enters the CMU game with career totals of 899 points, 453 assists and 214 steals ... Austin became just the fourth player in school history to reach the 400 career assists barrier, and -- after her school-record total of 10 steals in the Miami game (Feb. 3) -- now ranks third in career steals at BG ... Austin is just four steals behind second-place Dee Knoblauch (218 from 1979-83), and is 27 away from school record-holder Lori Albers (241 from 1989-94) ... Austin also has an outside chance to crack the 1,000-point barrier ... no Falcon ever has totalled 1,000 points and 400 assists in a career, much less 200 steals as well ... only one BGSU player, Judit Lendvay (1989-93), had 1,000 points (1,078) and as many as 300 assists (304) ... Austin is one of only two players (joining Susie Cassell) to be ranked among the top-five on the career games started, assists and steals charts at BG.
WENZEL APPROACHING 1,000 POINTS
Falcon senior Stefanie Wenzel has a chance to reach the 1,000-point plateau for her career ... Wenzel enters the CMU game with a career total of 960 points, ranking her 18th on the BGSU career scoring list ... 924 of those points have come since her freshman year, an average of 12.0 points per game over the last two-plus seasons ... the lone returnee to have averaged double digits in scoring in each of the last two years, Wenzel had 15 games of 10 or more points last year, the most among returning Falcons ... already, she has topped that total this season, with double-digit efforts in a team-high 18 of BGSU's 21 games ... her 23-point effort vs. Western Michigan upped her career scoring average into double figures, and she now averages 10.3 ppg through 93 career games.
DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE...
Freshman Liz Honegger had 16 points and 14 rebounds in the win at Ohio (Feb. 11), for her third double-double of the season ... a total of five different BGSU players have had at least one double-double this year to date ... freshman Ali Mann and senior Lindsay Austin are tied for the team lead with five apiece, while freshman Megan Thorburn (one) and senior Stefanie Wenzel (one) also have turned the trick at least once in 2003-04.
...DOUBLE YOUR FUN
As mentioned, Lindsay Austin and Ali Mann each have five double-doubles on the year to date ... that total is the highest for a BGSU player in a season in four years, since Francine Miller had nine in 1999-2000 ... as a team, the Falcons have 15 double-doubles, after totalling four during all of last season ... the team total is BGSU's highest since the 1997-98 season.
BGSU'S BOARDWORK PAYING OFF
Last year, the Falcons held a rebounding advantage just four times in 28 games ... in 2003-04, BG has BEEN outrebounded only six times in 20 contests ... the Falcons have outboarded the opponent 13 times, battling to a draw in two other games ... BG has a +2.8 rebounding margin this season to date (+2.6 in MAC games).
BOARDWORK PAYING OFF, PART II
BGSU, as mentioned, has had more rebounds than the opposition 13 times in 21 games in 2003-04, and the Falcons are 10-3 in such contests ... the Brown and Orange had held the rebounding advantage only nine times (in 56 games) over the previous two years, going 7-2 in such games (4-0 in 2002-03, 3-2 in 2001-02).
