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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Host Ohio Saturday, in MAC TV Game of the Week
February 04, 2005 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 4, 2005
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) -
GAME #20
BGSU
vs.
OHIO
Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005
2:06 p.m.
Anderson Arena (4,700)
Bowling Green, Ohio
RADIO: WBGU-FM (88.1) -- Chris Schieman and Brian Scullin
TV: MAC Game of the Week -- Dave Weekley and Debbie Leonard
Fox Sports Net (Ohio), Comcast Local (Michigan), Comcast SportsNet (Chicago)
SERIES: BGSU leads, 37-18
LAST MEETING: BGSU 76, at Ohio 55 (Feb. 11, 2004)
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after opening the February schedule with a 36-point win, completes a two-game Mid-American Conference homestand ... the Falcons (13-6, 6-2 MAC) of fourth-year head coach Curt Miller host Ohio University Saturday (Feb. 5), with tipoff set for 2:06 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (4,700) ... the game is the MAC TV Game of the Week ... then, the Falcons will begin a two-game road swing with a Tuesday (Feb. 8) trip to Muncie, Ind., to face Ball State University ... BSU enters Saturday action in second place in the MAC's West Division, a half-game behind division-leading BGSU.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, MAC-TION
Every remaining BGSU home regular-season game is scheduled to be televised, including Saturday's Ohio game, which is the MAC Game of the Week ... Dave Weekley (play by play) and Debbie Leonard (color analyst) will call the action, with the game scheduled to be aired by Fox Sports Net Ohio, Comcast Local in Michigan and Comcast SportsNet in the Chicago area.
THE LEADERSHIP YEARS
Several hundred former BGSU athletes will return to campus this weekend ... from 1910 to 1977, hundreds of women competed in a number of sports on the BGSU campus ... these athletes are being recognized Friday and Saturday (Feb. 4-5) ... on Friday, the athletes will be honored at a banquet and awards ceremony ... the BGSU Athletics Department will award varsity letters to these women, whose leadership laid the foundation for today's Falcons ... the group will be recognized at Saturday's game as well.
ORANGE-OUT
In addition to the bright lights of television and the honoring of former BGSU athletes, Saturday's game also will be the team's annual 'Orange-Out' ... fans are encouraged to wear orange to the game.
POINTS OF PRIDE
FALCONS IN THE RPI
Bowling Green is currently ranked from 103rd to 105th in the various Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) related polls ... among MAC schools, only Eastern Michigan is ranked higher.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
The Falcons take an overall record of 13-6 into Saturday's game, and BGSU is 6-2 in MAC play, atop the MAC's West Division ... BG opened February with a 36-point win, 80-44, over visiting Northern Illinois on Wednesday (Feb. 2) ... prior to that, the Falcons saw a three-game win streak come to an end with a nine-point loss at Kent State, 62-53, on Jan. 26 ... the Falcons' win streak had come against Toledo (69-66 in OT; Jan. 15), Miami (68-59; Jan. 19) and Western Michigan (80-58; Jan. 22) ... BG's other MAC loss came against Eastern Michigan, 51-48 on Jan. 12, in a rematch of last year's MAC Tournament championship ... that loss snapped a six-game winning streak which had included pair of double-digit league wins on the road to open league play ... BG began the MAC slate with victories at Buffalo and WMU ... BGSU finished the non-conference portion of the schedule with a 7-4 mark for the third consecutive season.
The Falcons, averaging 70.6 points per game, currently have four players -- three sophomores and a freshman -- with double-digit scoring averages ... soph Liz Honegger paces the Brown and Orange in scoring (14.1 ppg), and also leads the team in rebounding (7.8), steals (2.3) and blocks (2.1) ... classmate Ali Mann has 12.7 points and 7.3 boards per game to rank second on the team in each category, while another soph, Carin Horne, has 11.4 points per outing ... freshman Kate Achter is averaging 10.0 points and a team-high 3.9 assists per game, and is third on the team with 4.5 rebounds ... redshirt junior Casey McDowell has 5.9 points per contest, while sophomore Megan Thorburn averages 5.0 points ... Honegger and Mann are the only players to have started all 19 games this year, while McDowell has made 18 starts and Achter 12 ... Achter, Horne (nine starts) and McDowell have joined Honegger and Mann in the starting lineup for each of the last five games.
BGSU ended the 2003-04 season with a record of 21-10, and the Falcons finished the MAC campaign with an 11-5 slate ... BG tied for second in the West Division, then posted a pair of buzzer-beating wins in the league tourney to advance to the championship game ... head coach Curt Miller welcomed back 11 letterwinners, including three starters, from that team ... the returning starters, all sophomores, are Honegger, Mann and Thorburn ... Miller's team includes three seniors in Kelly Kapferer, Tene Lewis and Sakima Smith ... a pair of juniors, Jill Lause and McDowell, also return ... in addition to the three returning starters, the sophomore class consists of Amber Flynn, Julie Gompers and Horne ... Gompers has yet to see action this season due to injury ... two freshmen, guards Achter and Whitney Taylor, round out the Falcon squad.
SCOUTING OHIO
Ohio will bring an overall record of 9-10 into Anderson Arena, and the Bobcats are in second place in the MAC's East Division with a 5-3 league record ... OU is riding a two-game winning streak which includes a come-from-behind 85-73 win over Western Michigan Wednesday (Feb. 2) ... the 'Cats are second in the league in scoring, averaging 71.1 points per game ... no fewer than eight players are averaging at least 5.7 points per contest in head coach Lynn Bria's balanced rotation ... senior forward Kristian Kirkpatrick led the team with 11.6 points, and also has 4.3 rebounds ... freshman wing Simone Redd has 10.2 points, while classmate Quintana Ward, a point guard, has 8.2 points and a team-high 3.6 assists per outing ... senior forward Erin Isbell has 7.3 points and a team-leading 7.6 rebounds ... a total of 11 different players have started at least three games for the Bobcats this season to date ... sophomore guard Angel Hornsburger (2.4 ppg), junior forward Ciara Iglehart (5.7 ppg) and senior wing Andrea Johnson (5.9 ppg) joined Isbell and Kirkpatrick in the starting five vs. WMU ... a year ago, the Bobcats had an overall record of 13-15, and finished with a 7-9 MAC mark ... Bria has a record of 64-97 in her sixth year in Athens, and an overall head-coaching record of 140-187 in her 12th year ... the school's athletics web site is ohiobobcats.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Ohio, 37-18, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU holds a 22-5 advantage in home games vs. the Bobcats ... in last year's only meeting, visiting BG left Athens with a 76-55 win (Feb. 11, 2004) ... the Falcons have won the last two overall series meetings, and BG captured the last meeting at Anderson, a 73-72 nail-biter on Jan. 8, 2003 ... after facing off a total of three times in Curt Miller's first season of 2001-02, the teams have met only once in each of the last three years ... 13 of the last 16 series meetings have been decided by 10 points or fewer ... the complete list of series meetings and the boxscore from last year's game can be found in the pdf version of these game notes.
SCHOOL TIES
BGSU assistant coach Kevin Eckert is a graduate of Ohio University, holding several degrees from the school ... he earned his bachelor's degree in 1996, and got his master's degree in athletic administration in 1998 ... Eckert spent two seasons as a graduate assistant for Larry Hunter's Bobcat men's team.
THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons lead the all-time series with 11 MAC opponents, and are narrowing the gap with that 12th team ... after Wednesday's (Feb. 2) 80-44 win over Northern Illinois, BGSU trails that series by a slim 12-11 margin.
LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons started slowly, but put together a 19-0 run in each half en route to an 80-44 victory over Northern Illinois Wednesday night (Feb. 2) ... sophomore Carin Horne, who made just one of her first eight shots of the game, made her final five shots on the night -- four from three-point land -- to finish with a game-high 18 points ... Horne was 5-for-8 from long range, including a perfect 4-for-4 performance from beyond the arc in the second half ... BG led by 10 points at the half, then outscored the Huskies by a 50-24 margin in the second half ... the Falcons shot 48.2 percent from the field in the game, including a 16-for-27 effort (59.3%) in the second half, while holding Northern to a 27.8% field-goal rate on the night ... sophomore Liz Honegger had 13 points, including three second-half three-pointers as the Falcons made a season-high 11 treys on the night ... Mary Basic led the Huskies with 11 points.
THE DEFENSE NEVER RESTS
The Falcons held Northern Illinois scoreless for long periods of time in each half Wednesday ... trailing by a 13-6 margin in the first half, BGSU scored the game's next 19 points, holding the Huskies without a point for a total of 8:10 and without a field goal for a 12:27 span ... in the second half, another 19-0 run put the game away ... this time, Northern went 7:45 without a point and 11:08 without a field goal.
THE DEFENSE NEVER RESTS II
During NIU's first-half stretch without a field goal Wednesday night, the Falcons forced the Huskies to miss 10 consecutive shots and commit 12 turnovers ... at one point, NIU turned the ball over on nine consecutive possessions ... in the second half, NIU missed 15-straight shots from the field, turning the ball over seven times in that span.
MORE ON THE FALCON DEFENSE
191 GAMES AND COUNTING
The Falcons have made at least one three-point field goal in every game during the past six-plus years ... in fact, BGSU has drained a triple in each of the last 191 games, a school record by far ... the last time the Falcons were held without a trey was on March 1, 1998 ... the previous school record had been 29-straight games on two occasions -- most recently, in the 1993-94 (last five games) and 1994-95 (first 24 games) seasons.
THREE IS A MAGIC NUMBER
The Falcons made a season-high 11 three-pointers and shot 50.0% from long distance in the win over Northern Illinois ... BGSU went 9-of-14 (64.3%) from beyond the arc in the final 20 minutes, including 5-for-7 during the Falcons' 19-0 run in the second half ... the nine triples in that half matched BGSU's previous 2004-05 best for an entire game.
THAT'S A GOOD SIGN
The Falcons made nine three-point field goals in the second half of Wednesday's game, while holding Northern Illinois to only eight total field goals made during that time.
HORNE HEATS UP
Sophomore Carin Horne has put up some big numbers over the past few games ... Horne made only one of her first eight shots in the NIU game, but drained her final five shots of the night - including four from three-point range - to finish with a game-high 18 points ... she was 5-for-8 from long distance, tying her career best for three-point field goals made, and was a perfect 4-for-4 from three-point land in the second half ... defensively, Horne, who had set a career standard with six steals in the Falcons' previous game (Jan. 26 at Kent State), matched that total with a game-high six thefts vs. the Huskies ... she is averaging 19.0 points in the last two contests, and has a total of 21 steals over the past five games.
FINDING THEIR SHOOTING TOUCH
The Falcons misfired on the first nine field-goal attempts vs. Northern Illinois, and trailed by a 13-6 count ... after going 0-for-9, however, BG went 27-for-47 (57.4%) over the final 33-plus minutes ... BGSU outscored the Huskies by a 74-31 margin after that early seven-point deficit.
DETROIT ROCK CITY
Two of BGSU's seniors, Tene Lewis and Sakima Smith, were high-school teammates at Detroit's Communication & Media Arts ... Lewis and Smith each had nine points in the win over NIU, combining to go 8-for-11 from the field ... Lewis tied for game scoring honors in the first half with seven points on 3-for-3 shooting, and also had five assists at the break ... she finished with six assists, two steals and four rebounds in a career-high 28 minutes ... Smith's nine points more than doubled her previous season best ... she scored all nine points in the second half, going 4-for-5 from the floor ... Smith had two assists and a steal, and hit her first three-pointer of the year.
THANKS FOR COMING
The Northern Illinois game marked the 50th BGSU contest since the current sophomore class arrived on campus ... that class includes Amber Flynn, Julie Gompers, Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann and Megan Thorburn ... after going 21-35 in the two years before their arrival, the Falcons have posted a record of 34-16 since.
LEAD, TRAIL OR GET OUT OF THE WAY
The Falcons have not played many back-and-forth games over the past several weeks ... BGSU led for a total of just 25 seconds in the game at Kent State (Jan. 26) ... that came on the heels of two games - the Miami (Jan. 19) and Western Michigan (Jan. 22) contests - in which the Falcons trailed for a total of just 10 seconds in the 80 minutes ... that, in turn, came after the Brown and Orange led for a total of just 11:42 of the 85 minutes over the previous two games, vs. Eastern Michigan (Jan. 12) and Toledo (Jan. 15) ... BG led for only 59 seconds of the EMU game and 10:43 of the win at UT ... Wednesday vs. NIU, the Falcons led for the final 29:05 after seizing the lead on a Tene Lewis free throw.
BLOCK PARTY: HONEGGER MOVING UP THE LISTS
Liz Honegger, just a sophomore, is rapidly moving up the BGSU lists for blocked shots ... she is currently third on the career chart, with 90, and is threatening to break the single-season record ... Honegger already owns a piece of the latter mark, having tied the BG record with 50 blocks in her first season on campus ... but, she is blocking shots at an even more prolific pace this year ... Honegger had 1.61 blocks per contest last winter, and -- with 40 rejections through 19 games this season -- currently averages 2.11 per game ... Honegger has moved past Joelyn Shoup on the career list, and her next target is second-place Megan McGuire, who had 98 blocks from 1985-89 ... Honegger is on pace to obliterate the BGSU career record for blocks per game.
ANOTHER BLOCK PARTY
As mentioned, Liz Honegger is on a pace to break the BGSU single-season record for blocked shots ... Honegger tied that record, originally set by Angie Bonner, with 50 rejections last year ... this season, Honegger has 40 blocks through 19 games, including 18 blocks through eight MAC games this year ... Honegger owns the seasonal record for blocks in conference games, with 27 a year ago.
IT STANDS TO REASON
Not surprisingly, the Falcons have enjoyed success in games in which they have shot and rebounded well ... BGSU is 13-0 this season, and 45-6 in the Curt Miller Era, when the Falcons have a higher field-goal percentage than the opponent ... BG is 0-6 when the opposition has a higher FG pct. in 2004-05 ... this year, the Falcons have a record of 10-0 when outrebounding the opponent ... BGSU is now 30-7 in such games in Miller's tenure.
80 IS ENOUGH
The Falcons have not scored over 80 points in any of the last nine games ... but, BGSU has had exactly 80 points in four of those nine contests, winning all four.
FALCONS IN THE MAC
A number of Falcons are represented in the latest Mid-American Conference individual statistics, as of Saturday morning (Feb. 5) ...
PAINT BY NUMBERS
For the most part, the Falcons have enjoyed success inside this year ... BGSU has outscored the opponents in the paint in 13 of the first 19 games ... BGSU's three highest point totals in the paint have come in home games, vs. Youngstown State (48), Western Michigan (44) and Bucknell (40) ... the Falcons have outscored the opponents, 203-126, in the paint in the six home games to date.
CROWDED AT THE TOP OF THE REBOUNDING LIST
Over the last few weeks, sophomores Ali Mann and Liz Honegger have traded places at the top of the BGSU active career rebounding list ... currently, the two are tied at the top, as both Mann and Honegger have 383 boards ... senior Kelly Kapferer has 332 rebounds in her career.
