Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Host Indiana Wednesday
December 05, 2006 | Women's Basketball
Dec. 5, 2006
#24 BGSU vs. INDIANA
Wed., December 6, 2006 • 7:00 p.m.
Anderson Arena (4,700) • Bowling Green, Ohio
RECORDS: BGSU 5-1 (28-3 in 2005-06) // Indiana 7-1 (19-14 in '05-06)
RADIO: WBGU-FM (88.1) - Brian Scullin and Paul Braverman
TV: BCSN - Dave Horger and Fran Voll
SERIES: Indiana leads, 2-1
LAST MEETING: BGSU 68, at Indiana 50 (Nov. 26, 2005)
THE GAME
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, now owning the second-longest home winning streak in the nation, faces yet another tough test at venerable Anderson Arena (4,700) ... the Falcons of Curt Miller, for the third time in as many games, host a team that advanced to national postseason play last year ... BGSU, the two-time defending Mid-American Conference regular-season and tournament champions, concludes a three-game homestand with a Wednesday (Dec. 6) game vs. Indiana University ... tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at Anderson ... BGSU has won 20-straight home games and 39 of the last 44 overall contests.
CENTURY MARK FOR FALCON SENIORS
Wednesday marks the 100th game since the Falcons' current senior class arrived on campus ... through three years plus six games, that group - tri-captains Amber Flynn, Liz Honegger and Ali Mann along with Julie Gompers, Carin Horne and Megan Thorburn - has helped the Brown and Orange to a record of 77-22 ... BGSU also has won a pair of MAC regular-season titles and made three-straight appearances in the MAC Tournament's championship game, winning the last two.
WAY BACK WEDNESDAY / WHITE-OUT
Wednesday's game is 'Way Back Wednesday,' with the first 500 fans through the gate receiving Falcon Spirit Beads, redeemable at Qdoba Mexican Grill for a special offer ... it is also a BGSU Student Section 'White-Out,' and all fans are encouraged to wear white to the game.
FRIENDLY FOES
Falcon head coach Curt Miller and his Indiana counterpart, Felisha Legette-Jack, likely know just a little bit about the coaching styles and tendencies of the other ... Miller and Legette-Jack spent four seasons together on the coaching staff at Syracuse ... Legette-Jack, currently in her first year at IU, was with the Orange for seven years, from 1993-00 ... Miller was on the staff for four of those years, from 1994-95 through 1997-98.
SISTER ACT
Falcon senior Liz Honegger is a native of Lafayette, Ind. ... Honegger's older sister, Rachael, played basketball at IU, earning four letters from 1997-2001 ... Rachael Honegger scored a total of 667 points, and also had 413 rebounds, 237 assists and 179 steals in her career ... she started 71 career games for the Hoosiers.
TOUGH CROWD
The Falcons' non-conference schedule is one of the toughest in school history ... the Temple game began a stretch in which seven of eight games are against teams that won 20 games last year and/or advanced to national postseason play ... that includes all five of BGSU's home non-league games ... of the three opponents on the current homestand, Temple is the defending Atlantic 10 champion, while Oakland advanced to the NCAA Tournament last year and Indiana made it to the quarterfinal round of the WNIT.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Temple game with a 5-1 record on the young season ... four of BGSU's wins have come by over 30 points, with three of those victories by identical 31-point margins ... after posting a 68-37 win at Detroit (Nov. 10) to open the season, head coach Curt Miller's squad suffered a narrow overtime loss at Notre Dame (85-81, Nov. 13) in a matchup of two NCAA Tournament teams from a year ago ... then, however, BGSU picked up wins over Albany (76-40) and Fairleigh Dickinson (87-56) in the UCF Tournament, before opening the home slate with an 86-67 win over Temple (Nov. 24) ... most recently, the Brown and Orange topped Oakland, 89-58, last Wednesday (Nov. 29).
• Through six games, no fewer than six BG players are averaging over eight points per game, with four scoring in double digits ... senior Ali Mann has 15.3 points to lead the way, while seniors Carin Horne (13.3) and Liz Honegger (11.5) and junior Kate Achter (11.3) all are averaging between 11.3 and 13.3 ppg to date ... Horne paces the Falcons in rebounding, with 6.0 per game, while Achter has team-high averages of 5.7 assists and 1.8 steals per contest ... Honegger leads BG with 1.5 blocked shots per outing, and also has a team-high 16 three-point field goals made this year.
• Senior Amber Flynn is averaging 9.2 points per game off the bench, and is second in rebounding with 5.5 rpg ... senior Megan Thorburn has 8.2 ppg, and has made 12 three-pointers to tie Horne for second on the team.
• In addition to Flynn, junior Whitney Taylor and sophomore Jasmine McCall each have seen action in all six games off the bench ... Taylor has 4.0 ppg, while McCall is second on the Falcons in assists (2.5 apg) and is one of four Falcons tied for second in steals (1.5 spg).
• Through six games, BGSU is averaging a whopping 81.2 points per game, while allowing just 57.2 ... the Falcons are shooting 51.2 percent from the field, and have made 52 three-point field goals - 8.67 per game - in 117 tries (44.4%) ... BG has limited the foes to just a 36.2% field-goal rate and a 27.1% effort from long range (26-for-96 from beyond the arc) ... BGSU has made nearly as many free throws (93) as the opponents have attempted (104) ... the Falcons have hit 69.2% of their charity tosses to date, while the opposition has shot 72.1% from the stripe.
• Miller and Company returned all five starters, and nine total letterwinners, from last year's team that finished 28-3 overall and won the MAC with a perfect 16-0 league ledger ... sophomore Lindsey Goldsberry and freshmen Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper round out the active roster ... Goldsberry has played in five games, while the three frosh each have seen action in four.
• Last year's 28-win total set school and conference records for victories in a season ... BGSU, after winning the league's regular-season title for the second year in a row, went on to win the Kraft MAC Tournament for the second-straight March ... the returning players combined for 92.9 percent of the team's scoring and 90.7% of the Falcons' rebounding total.
HORNE REACHES 1,000-POINT MARK ...
Senior Carin Horne surpassed the 1,000-point plateau for her career in the Oakland game (Nov. 29) ... Horne, needing 21 points to reach the millennium mark entering the game, had a game-high 25 ... she scored 19 in the first half, and hit a three-pointer with 16:28 left in the second half to reach the milestone ... Horne became just the 21st player to add her name to the 1,000-point list ... she now ranks 20th in school history with 1,004 career points.
... JOINING MANN AND HONEGGER ON THAT LIST
Carin Horne has joined an exclusive group that currently includes only 21 players in the history of Falcon women's basketball ... that group - the list of 1,000-point scorers - includes three members of the current team ... last Jan. 7, Ali Mann became just the 19th player in school history to reach the millennium mark for her career, and only the sixth to do so prior to her senior year ... Mann currently has a career total of 1,374 points, placing her ninth on the school list ... last Jan. 28, Liz Honegger became the 20th BGSU player (seventh prior to her senior year) to reach 1,000 points ... Honegger passed Michelle Shade in the Oakland to move into 11th place, and now has 1,248 points ... and, don't look now, but Kate Achter - after just over two seasons - already has 747 points during her BGSU career to rank 33rd.
LAST TIME OUT
Senior Carin Horne surpassed a career milestone, and helped her BGSU teammates roll up 52 first-half points en route to an 89-58 win over Oakland Wednesday (Nov. 29) ... Horne scored a game-high 25 points, eclipsing the 1,000-point milestone for her career in the process ... she became the 21st player in school history - and the third on the current roster - to reach the millennium mark ... seniors Liz Honegger and Ali Mann, BGSU's two other 1,000-point scorers, joined Horne in double digits vs. OU ... Honegger's 16-point night included a 4-for-5 effort from three-point range, while Mann had 11 points for her sixth twin-figure effort in as many games this season ... Horne, by the way, was 5-for-8 from three-point land as the Falcons were 12-for-27 from beyond the arc ... Charlese Greer led OU with 16 points off the bench, while Nicole Piggott had 10 points for the visitors ... Honegger got the Falcon offense started, scoring the game's first seven points ... BGSU built a 17-2 lead before the Golden Grizzlies finally made a field goal, after going 0-for-10 from the floor over the first seven-plus minutes ... Horne had a hand in the Falcons' final nine points of the first half, with three baskets and an assist, as the Brown and Orange took a 52-20 halftime lead ... the Falcons shot over 60 percent in that first half, with Horne scoring 19 points ... with 16:28 left in the game, the senior took a pass from junior Kate Achter and buried a three-pointer from the left corner to surpass the 1,000-point mark ... Horne, in addition to her 25 points, led the Falcons in rebounds (7) and steals (3), and tied her career high with four assists ... her five successful triples also tied a career mark ... Achter had nine points, a game-best eight assists and six rebounds in 25 minutes of action, while senior Amber Flynn had eight points and three blocked shots in only 17 minutes ... the Falcons shot 51.6% from the field for the game.
ACHTER NAMED MAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Junior Kate Achter was named a MAC Player of the Week for her performance in the Temple game of Nov. 24 ... Achter scored 23 points to tie for team honors vs. the Owls in the Falcons' lone game of the week ... she was a perfect 8-for-8 from the field in the win ... Achter also had four assists vs. Temple, tying for team honors in that category ... the league P-O-W honor was the Falcons' second in as many weeks, and was the second of Achter's career ... senior Ali Mann earned the league weekly honor on Nov. 22.
HOMECOURT ADVANTAGE
BGSU went a perfect 11-0 in home games last season ... after downing Oakland last Wednesday (Nov. 29), the Falcons have won 20 consecutive games at Anderson Arena ... with Hartford's loss to Seton Hall on the same night as the BGSU-Oakland game, the Falcons' homecourt winning streak is now the second longest in the nation.
SCOUTING INDIANA
Indiana enters the BGSU game with a 7-1 record on the season ... the Hoosiers began the year with a 5-0 mark, a streak which included wins over Wake Forest and Kentucky ... IU's lone loss of the year came on the road against Miami (Fla.), but the team has bounced back with victories over Evansville and, most recently, Notre Dame ... the UND game was a 54-51 win on Sunday (Nov. 3) ... individually, junior guard Nikki Smith, a Sylvania native (Northview H.S.), leads the team in scoring, with 14.0 points per game ... freshman Jamie Braun has 11.0 points and 5.3 rebounds per contest off the bench, while senior guard Leah Enterline has 10.8 ppg ... four other Hoosiers are scoring between 7.8 and 8.6 points per game ... Enterline, Smith and sophomore forwards Kim Roberson (8.6 ppg, 4.5 rpg) and Whitney Thomas (7.8 ppg and a team-high 7.6 rpg) each have started all eight games this season to date ... senior forward Carrie Smith (7.9 ppg) joins those four in the probable starting lineup for head coach Felisha Legette-Jack ... Legette-Jack, in her first year in Bloomington, has a record of 61-64 in her sixth season as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletics web site is www.IUHoosiers.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons trail Indiana, 2-1, in the all-time series between the teams, but BGSU won the most recent meeting ... all three prior games have come in early-season tournament action in Bloomington ... last year, in the teams' lone meeting in the last 23 years, the Falcons posted a 68-50 win in the championship contest of the Hampton Inn Classic.
BGSU BACK IN THE RANKINGS
The Falcons were ranked 24th in the nation according to last week's (Tuesday, Nov. 28) USA Today/ESPN Division I Women's Basketball Coaches poll ... that marks the Falcons' first national poll appearance of the season ... BGSU has received votes in each USA Today/ESPN and Associated Press poll this season ... the Falcons spent five consecutive weeks in the USA Today poll late last season, the longest-ever run by a league institution ... last March, BGSU cracked the AP poll as well ... a few more facts about BGSU and the polls ...
• The Nov. 28 USA Today/ESPN poll marked only the 13th week in MAC history that a league institution has been listed in the USA Today poll, and BGSU has been that team in 10 of the 13 weeks.
• Similarly, a MAC school has been ranked in the Associated Press poll in a total of 12 weeks, and BGSU has been the team in eight of those 12 weeks.
• BGSU's '05-06 run in the USA Today/ESPN poll marked the first time in MAC history that a team has spent five consecutive weeks in the rankings.
• The Falcons' highest-ever ranking was 19th, in the final Associated Press poll of the 1992-93 season (March 16, 1993) ... that capped a run of four-straight weeks in that poll, the longest previous such run.
LEADERS OF THE MAC
The Falcons are at the top of numerous team categories in the latest Mid-American Conference statistics (as of Monday afternoon, Dec. 4) ... BGSU leads all league schools in scoring offense (81.2 ppg), scoring margin (+24.0), field-goal percentage (51.2), three-point field goals per game (8.67), three-point FG pct. (44.4), blocked shots (4.33 bpg), assists (17.67) and assist/turnover ratio (1.19).
HEAD COACH Curt Miller
BGSU head coach Curt Miller has been named the MAC Coach of the Year in each of the last two seasons, and was the 2006 Russell Athletic/WBCA Region Four Coach of the Year as well ... his career record currently stands at 98-57, in his sixth year ... over the last three-plus seasons, Miller and the Falcons are 77-22 ... BGSU has gone 40-8 in MAC regular-season play in that time, and 49-9 in all games vs. league foes during that span (9-1 in league tourney play).
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 98-57 in the five years (plus six games) since Curt Miller took the BG helm in May of 2001;
• 51-29 in MAC games in that time;
• 77-22 overall and 40-8 in the MAC over the last three-plus seasons, since the current senior class arrived on campus in the fall of 2003;
• 39-5 in the last 44 overall games since February of 2005 (with the losses coming to Kansas State [2005 NCAA Tournament], Delaware, Kentucky, UCLA [2006 NCAA Tournament] and Notre Dame);
• 5-0 in games after a loss during that time;
• 9-1 in the MAC Tournament in the last three seasons;
• 25-0 in the last 25 games against MAC opponents, since a loss at Eastern Michigan on Feb. 19, 2005 (the Falcons won the final three regular-season games of 2004-05, then won three-straight games in the MAC Tournament, before going 16-0 in league regular-season play and winning three more conference tourney contests in '05-06);
• 9-1 in the last 10 road games (with the overtime loss at Notre Dame snapping a nine-game road winning streak since an OT setback at Kentucky last Jan. 2);
• 40-0 when outrebounding the opponent since the start of the 2004-05 season;
• 33-2 when allowing the opponent to score fewer than 70 points since the start of the 2005-06 season (BGSU has only allowed two teams - UCLA and Notre Dame - to top the 70-point mark in the last 37 games);
• 4-4 in games played on Dec. 6 (including double-digit wins in each of the last four games on that date);
• 3-0 in games played on Dec. 6 during the Curt Miller Era (a road win over Florida Atlantic in 2002, and home victories against IPFW in 2003 and Duquesne last season); and
• 1-0 in home games against Big Ten Conference opposition on Dec. 6 (a 91-73 win over Michigan State in 1997).
A VETERAN STARTING LINEUP
BGSU's starting lineup features four seniors - Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann and Megan Thorburn - as well as a junior, Kate Achter ... entering the Indiana game, that group has combined to make no fewer than 379 starts in their respective Falcon careers to date.
MORE ON THE START CHART
As mentioned, the five BGSU starters have combined to make a total of 379 starts in the Brown and Orange ... two members of that group, seniors Liz Honegger and Ali Mann, have moved onto the individual career list for games started ... Honegger has made 98 career starts, while Mann has started 97 games ... Honegger has moved past Angie Bonner (1987-90) into sixth place on that list, while Mann is tied with Bonner in the seventh spot ... Jackie Motycka (1985-89) holds the school record with 115 starts, a record that both Honegger and Mann have a chance to break before the year is out.
FALCONS BY CLASS
THE SENIORS
BGSU's senior class is one of the finest in school history ... that group includes four returning starters in Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann and Megan Thorburn ... additionally, Amber Flynn was one of the most improved players in the MAC last season ... a sixth senior, Julie Gompers, missed each of the last two seasons due to injury and will again be sidelined in 2006-07 ... the class has been an integral part of the Falcons' 77-22 overall mark in the last three-plus years, and BG has advanced to the championship game of the MAC Tournament every year since they arrived.
THE JUNIORS
The Falcons' two juniors, Kate Achter and Whitney Taylor, have helped BGSU win MAC regular-season and tournament titles in each of their first two seasons ... BG has an overall record of 56-12 since the two arrived on campus, and the Falcons are 53-8 when Achter is in the starting lineup.
THE SOPHOMORES
Lindsey Goldsberry and Jasmine McCall have seen their team win nearly 90 percent of its games (33-4 to date), and the two players have never been a part of a loss to a MAC opponent ... McCall has played in all 37 of BGSU's games in her career to date, while Goldsberry has action in 35 contests, making two starts.
THE FRESHMEN
Tara Breske (Temperance, Mich.), Laura Bugher (Greenwood, Ind.) and Sarah Clapper (Newark, Ohio) join the Falcons for the 2006-07 season ... each player has seen action in four of BGSU's six games to date.
A MODEL OF CONSISTENCY
Senior Ali Mann scored 23 points in the Temple game, tying for team honors, and had 11 points in the Oakland contest ... Mann, who has played in 99 games as a Falcon, now has scored in double digits 76 times ... Mann, the lone Falcon to score 10 points or more in all six games this season, has hit double figures in 13-straight games dating to last year.
SHOOTING THE LIGHTS OUT
BGSU has shot over 50 percent from the field in each of the last three games, including a 51.6% rate vs. Oakland ... the Falcons shot 61.2% against Temple after a 62.3% success rate in the Fairleigh Dickinson game ... BG has shot over 50 percent three times this year (the last three games) after doing so in four games during all of last season ... vs. FDU, BG made 11 of the team's first 12 shots from the field, scoring 30 points in the game's first 7:05 ... BGSU shot 75.0 percent from the field in the opening 20 minutes vs. the Knights, a school record for field-goal percentage in a half ... in fact, the Falcons have shot a combined 66.3% (59-for-89) before halftime in the last three contests.
FLYNN-TASTIC
Senior Amber Flynn has become a force off the bench for the Falcons ... Flynn scored 12 points off the bench in each of three-straight games ... Flynn entered that three-game stretch with a career total of five double-digit scoring games ... she scored eight points on 4-of-5 shooting vs. Oakland, and added a career-high three blocked shots ... Flynn had entered the Temple game with a total of one three-point field goal made, but hit a pair of triples in the first half vs. the Owls ... her lone prior three-ball came in last year's win over Eastern Michigan (Feb. 1, 2006) ... on the year, Flynn is averaging 9.2 points and 5.5 rebounds per game ... she has 11.0 ppg over the last four contests.
GOOD AS GOLDS
Sophomore Lindsey Goldsberry tied her career high in no fewer than five categories vs. Temple, with two field goals made, three assists, three steals, four rebounds and 29 minutes played ... Goldsberry then had five points and posted career-high totals of five rebounds and four assists vs. Oakland.
RUNNING WITH THE FALCONS
The Falcons had a 10-0 first-half run, an 11-0 run spanning the end of the opening half and the start of the second, and a 13-0 run midway through the second stanza vs. Oakland ... BGSU has had at least one run of 10 points or more during each of the season's first six games ... BGSU reeled off 16-straight points at Detroit, a run that was larger than any the Falcons had during all of the 2005-06 season ... and, BG had first-half runs of 10-0 and 11-0 at Notre Dame, along with 10-0 first-half streaks vs. both Albany and FDU and an 11-0 run against Temple ... the Falcons have had 10 double-digit scoring runs in those six contests, after having a total of 15 during all of last season.
TREY BIEN!
The Falcons have shot the ball well from behind the three-point line this season to date, to say the least ... through six games, BGSU has made 8.67 treys per game and shot 44.4 percent (52-of-117) from long range ... in the last three contests, BG is 30-for-60 (50.0%) from beyond the arc.
THOR, GODDESS OF THREE-POINTERS
Twice in the span of less than a week, senior Megan Thorburn had an uber-successful night from beyond the three-point line ... at Notre Dame (Nov. 13), 'Thor' made her first three long-range attempts en route to a career night beyond the arc ... she was 5-of-6 from three-point land, scoring a total of 17 points vs. the Irish ... just five days later, Thorburn went 5-for-7 from long distance vs. FDU, tying her newly-set career best for successful treys ... Thorburn has made 12 triples through just six games this season, tying her for second on the team ... she is 12-for-24 from long range, for a 50.0% rate.
HONEGGER HITS FROM LONG RANGE AS WELL
There is only one person on the team with a better three-point field-goal percentage than Megan Thorburn ... that would be senior Liz Honegger ... Honegger, one of the Falcons' career leaders in three-pointers made, has made 61.5% of her attempts this season to date, having gone 16-for-26 from beyond the arc ... Honegger has made 167 treys in her career, just six shy of the school record.
MORE POSSIBLE MILESTONES FOR LIZ ...
Senior Liz Honegger likely will leave BGSU as the school's all-time leader in both blocked shots and three-point field goals made ... Honegger already has broken the career blocks record ... and, she is just six triples shy of tying Sara Puthoff (1994-98) for that BGSU mark ... Honegger currently ranks fourth with 167 successful 3-balls, and is second on the list of 3-point field goals attempted.
... AND ALI
Senior Ali Mann has moved into third place on the BGSU career list for free throws made ... entering the Indiana game, Mann has made 377 career charity tosses, 53 shy of Jackie Motycka's (1985-89) school record ... Mann ranks fourth on the BGSU list for career FTs attempted.
HONEGGER SETS A(NOTHER) RECORD
It was only a matter of time before senior Liz Honegger became the Falcons' all-time record-holder in blocked shots .... and, for the Lafayette, Ind., native, the record came in her home state ... Honegger blocked four Notre Dame shot attempts (Nov. 13), moving her past Angie Bonner (155) into first place on the all-time list ... Honegger now has 161 career blocks, and owns all of the BGSU blocking records ... she set the single-game record as a freshman, and has tied or broken the school season marks - both overall and in MAC games - in each of her first three seasons ... not surprisingly, Honegger is on pace to obliterate the school career mark for blocks per game.
MORE ON THE OAKLAND GAME
Senior Liz Honegger scored a season-high 16 points in just 15 minutes in the win over Oakland ... Honegger was 4-for-5 from the field, all from behind the arc • in addition to her 25-point night, senior Carin Horne had four assists, tying her career high in that department ... she also tied her career best in three-point field goals made, with five • the Falcons were playing as a nationally-ranked team for the first time this season, having been ranked #24 in the USA Today ESPN Coaches poll the day before (Nov. 28) • the win moved BGSU to 2-0 in home games this season ... all five of the Falcons' non-conference games are against teams that advanced to national postseason play and/or won 20 games last season • all 12 active Falcons played at least eight minutes in the OU game, with 10 finding the scoresheet • BGSU had a 21-0 advantage in points off turnovers in the first half, and the Falcons also had whopping first-half margins in fast-break points (21-2) and points in the paint (24-8).
FALCONS SIGN EIGHT
BGSU coach Curt Miller announced the signing of eight student-athletes to National Letters of Intent during the early signing period ... Chelsea Albert (Brighton, Mich./Brighton), Bianca Hooten (North Canton, Ohio/Canton McKinley), Liana (Lee) Jennings (Stow, Ohio/Stow), Crystal Murdaugh (Dublin, Ohio/Dublin Scioto), Tracy Pontius (Morton, Ill./Morton), Lauren Prochaska (Plain City, Ohio/Jonathan Alder), Jen Uhl (Wadsworth, Ohio/Wadsworth) and Kelly Zuercher (Orrville, Ohio/Apple Creek Waynedale) will join the Falcon program for the 2007-08 academic year.
MORE ON THE TEMPLE GAME
The Falcons' total of 86 points was the most allowed by a Temple team in nearly four years, since the Owls fell, 89-80 in overtime, to Massachusetts on Jan. 16, 2003 ... TU had not allowed as many points in a regulation game since the year before, an 88-83 loss to Dayton (coached at the time by former BGSU coach Jaci Clark) on Feb. 8, 2002 • sophomore Jasmine McCall had four assists in just 10 minutes of action vs. the Owls • prior to the game, the Falcons took part in a ring ceremony and banner unveiling, with last year's seniors, Jill Lause and Casey McDowell, on hand • the game was the first women's basketball contest under a scheduling partnership between the MAC and Temple ... in May of 2005, the MAC added the Owls as a football-only member (effective in the fall of 2007), with a play that includes a men's and women's basketball scheduling agreement.
STRONG SHOOTING
The top-six Falcons (by minutes played) all are shooting at least 46.0 percent from the field this season, with five hitting at least 50.0% of their shots ... three Falcons - Ali Mann (a MAC-best 63.3%), Kate Achter (62.9%) and Amber Flynn (60.0%) - have made at least 60 percent of their field-goal tries this year ... the four players that have taken more than 10 three-point field goals this year - Liz Honegger (61.5%), Megan Thorburn (50.0%), Mann (45.5%) and Carin Horne (44.4%) - each have made over 40 percent of those triple tries.
KEEPING IT CLOSE
The Falcons have lost only five times over the last 44 games ... just two of those setbacks have come by more than four points ... BG lost a 10-point decision to Kansas State in the 2005 NCAA Tournament, then fell to UCLA by 13 in the '06 national tourney ... BGSU has not lost a regular-season game by double digits since Dec. 10, 2004, a 73-43 loss at New Mexico ... on a somewhat-related note, the Falcons have not dropped back-to-back games in a season since late in the 2003-04 campaign (February setbacks to Northern Illinois and Kent State) ... BG did lose the last game of the '03-04 season (MAC Tournament championship to Eastern Michigan) and the first game of '04-05 (the Preseason WNIT contest at Ohio State).
UP NEXT
The Falcons head to St. Bonaventure for a Saturday (Dec. 9) game, before taking a break for exams ... then, BGSU will meet defending national runner-up Duke (Dec. 19) along with Texas-Arlington (Dec. 20) in Cancun, Mexico.
