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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Men's Basketball Travels To Northern Illinois
February 16, 2004 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 16, 2004
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Bowling Green (10-13, 6-7) at N. Illinois (7-16, 2-11) 8:05 p.m. (Eastern), Wednesday, February 18 Convocation Center (9,100) Series Record: NIU leads 22-21. Last Meeting: at BGSU 71, NIU 64 (1/10/04) Local Radio: WPFX-FM 107.7, WCWA-AM 1230
FALCONS END LONG STRETCH OF ROAD GAMES
The Falcons are ending a stretch which will have seen them play four road games in the last 14 days. Beginning with the 2004 Bracket Buster game with Youngstown State on Saturday, 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 would be in a four-way tie for the sixth seed.
THE SERIES WITH THE HUSKIES
NIU holds a 22-21 lead in the series which began in the 1964-65 season. The Falcons have won seven of the last eight meetings, including three in a row in DeKalb. Last year, a layup by Cory Eyink with 6.5 seconds left in the game gave BGSU a 64-63 victory in the first meeting between the two teams in the recently constructed Convocation Center.
DON'T OVERLOOK Ron Lewis FOR ALL-MAC HONORS
Sophomore Ron Lewis has established himself as the premier sophomore scorer in the MAC averaging 18.2 points per game, a 4.4-point differential over any other second-year player in the league. In the last five games, he is averaging 21.8 points and is shooting 50.0% from three-point range. Lewis is fourth in the MAC in scoring, third in free throw shooting (81.7) and has made more free throws than any player in the league (147). His 769 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.
EYINK AND WRIGHT EMERGED LAST WEEK
Junior Cory Eyink was inserted into the starting lineup last week and averaged 15.5 points and 5.5 rebounds. He scored a career-high 20 points at Kent State and also made a career-best four three-pointers. Wright averaged 14 points, 4.5 rebounds and shot 61.5 percent from the field last week.
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 1,026 points. He is averaging 15.4 points in his last 12 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 1,120 points in two-plus seasons, including 718 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.
