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Falcons to Meet UCLA in NCAA Championships First Round Sunday
March 15, 2006 | Women's Basketball
March 15, 2006
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -
GAME #31
#21/23 BGSU vs. #23/21 UCLA
Sun., March 19, 2006
2:30 p.m. EST (approx.)
Mackey Arena (14,123)
West Lafayette, Ind.
RECORDS: BGSU 28-2, 16-0 MAC // UCLA 20-10, 12-6 Pac-10
RADIO: WBGU-FM (88.1) - Rob Trautman and Chris Schieman
TV: ESPN, ESPNU - Dave Barnett, Brenda VanLengen and Wendi Nix
SERIES: First Meeting
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after winning the Mid-American Conference regular-season and tournament titles for the second consecutive year, now advances to the NCAA Championships ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller have been named a #12 seed in the Cleveland regional, and will face #5 seed UCLA in West Lafayette, Ind., on Sunday (March 19) ... the Falcons and Bruins will meet at Mackey Arena (14,123), with tipoff at approximately 2:30 p.m. EST and television coverage on ESPN and ESPNU ... the BGSU-UCLA game is the second of the day at Mackey Arena, as host Purdue, seeded #4 in the Cleveland Regional, will take on #13 seed Missouri State in the day's first game, beginning at noon EST ... BGSU and UCLA will begin their game 30 minutes after the first game ends.
FALCONS IN THE NCAA
BGSU has qualified for the NCAA Championships for the eighth time in school history ... the Falcons are 1-7 in tourney appearances, with a 1-2 mark at home and a record of 0-4 on the road ... last year's Kansas State game marked the first NCAA neutral-site game in school history ...
Year (BGSU's seed) Opponent Score
1987 (#9 Mideast) at #8 Illinois L, 64-80
1988 (#10 Mideast) at #7 St. Joseph's L, 66-68
1989 (#9 West) #8 CINCINNATI W, 69-59
at #1 Maryland L, 65-78
1990 (#12 West) at #5 S. Carolina L, 50-93
1993 (#10 East) #7 FLORIDA L, 67-69
1994 (#7 Midwest) #10 CREIGHTON L, 73-84
2005 (#13 Kansas City) #4 Kansas State L, 60-70
THE MAC IN THE NCAA
Entering the 2006 NCAA Championships, Mid-American Conference schools have posted a combined record of 5-26 in NCAA tourney play ... no MAC school has won an NCAA tournament game since 1996, when both Kent State and Toledo picked up first-round wins.
BACK TO THE BIG DANCE
BGSU qualifies for the NCAA Championships for the second consecutive season and the eighth time in school history ... last season's appearance in the national tourney was the Falcons' first since 1994 ... BGSU was the #13 seed in the Kansas City Regional, and dropped a 70-60 decision to fourth-seeded and nationally-ranked Kansas State in the first round (March 19, 2005), at Bank of America Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Wash.
HONEGGER HEADS HOME
The Falcons' trip to the NCAA Championships is a trip home for BGSU junior Liz Honegger ... Honegger is a native of Lafayette, Ind., and enjoyed a standout career at Jefferson High School.
BACK HOME AGAIN IN INDIANA
Junior Liz Honegger has experienced a great deal of success in the Falcons' last four trips to her home state ... Honegger, as mentioned a native of Lafayette, Ind., has posted the three highest-scoring totals of her career in BG visits to the state of Indiana ... last season, she scored a career-high 27 points at IPFW (Nov. 19, 2004), then matched that total in a win at Ball State (Feb. 8, 2005) ... her 25-point game vs. IUPUI this year (Nov. 25 - part of IU's Hampton Inn Classic) marked the third time in her career - all in Indiana - that she had scored at least 25 points in a game ... in BG's last trip to the state, the Feb. 11 win at BSU, Honegger had 'only' 14 points, but also had five blocks, four steals and was 3-for-3 from three-point land (game-by-game info in the pdf version).
GOOD AS GOLDS
While Liz Honegger's family and friends are likely to be converging on Mackey Arena Sunday, travel plans are a little more hectic in the Goldsberry household ... freshman Lindsey Goldsberry has played in 29 of the Falcons' 30 games this season, helping BGSU to the NCAA Championships ... Lindsey's brother, John, has started every game for the 25-7 UNC Wilmington men's basketball team, averaging 11.2 points and a team-high 5.1 assists ... John, a senior, and the Seahawks have qualified for the NCAA Championships, opening with a Thursday (March 16) game vs. George Washington in Greensboro, N.C. ... meanwhile, Lindsay's younger brother, Robert, is a junior at Tippecanoe High School in Tipp City, Ohio ... THS also plays Thursday night, putting an unbeaten 24-0 record on the line vs. New Albany in the round of 16 in the Ohio Division II tournament ... the three Goldsberrys have a combined record of 77-9 in 2005-06 to date ... their father, Frank, is the Director of Women's Basketball Operations at the University of Dayton.
CHAMPIONS AGAIN
For the second consecutive year, Bowling Green captured the Mid-American Conference's regular-season and tournament championships ... this year, the Falcons won the East Division and posted the league's best overall regular-season mark, with a perfect 16-0 record against conference competition, before picking up three more wins in the league tourney ... BGSU won league regular-season titles in three consecutive seasons from 1986-87 to 1988-89, and captured back-to-back crowns in the 1992-93 and '93-94 campaigns ... the Falcons won the league tournament in each of those seasons, as well as in the 1989-90 season ... last year, the Falcons won the West Division with the MAC's best overall record (13-3), and continued on to win the Kraft MAC Tournament title.
FALCONS JOIN EXCLUSIVE CLUB
The 2005-06 Falcons are just the fifth team in MAC history, and the first in eight years, to complete the league regular-season schedule without a loss ... Curt Miller's club became the third BGSU team to go 16-0 in league play ... the two prior BG teams to turn the trick were coached by Fran Voll, as his 1986-87 and 1988-89 clubs each went 16-0 in league regular-season action ... Central Michigan was the first-ever MAC team to go undefeated in conference action, with a mark of 18-0 in 1983-84 ... prior to this season, the most recent league team to do so was the 18-0 Kent State squad in 1997-98 ... the list of the MAC's best regular-season records can be found in the pdf version o' these notes.
DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS
With four starters averaging in double digits in scoring, the Falcons have enjoyed great balance offensively en route to a 28-2 record this year ... but, a storyline just as important has been BGSU's defense, with the Kraft MAC Tournament providing the latest example ... in the three games in the tournament, the Brown and Orange allowed an average of just 48.7 points per game ... BGSU surrendered just 42.5 ppg in the final two games, wins over Toledo (68-46) and Kent State (64-39) ... those two teams shot a combined 29.8 percent, going 34-for-114 from the field against the BGSU defense.
IT'S AN EAST-WEST THING
The Falcons have accomplished a rare double, one so rare that it has never happened in the history of MAC women's basketball, and likely will never happen again ... BG won the East Division title this season, after winning last year's West Division crown ... BGSU was moved from the West to the East prior to the 2005-06 campaign, after Marshall's departure from the conference.
SCHOOL, AND MAC, RECORD WIN TOTAL
The Falcons' 64-39 victory over Kent State in the Kraft MAC Tournament championship gives BGSU a total of 28 wins this season to date ... BG has set a new school - and Mid-American Conference - single-season record for victories ... a total of four teams posted 27 wins in conference annals ... that group included the 1986-87 and 1988-89 Falcon teams, as well as the 1983-84 Central Michigan squad and the 1996-97 Toledo club.
MILLER REPEATS AS MAC COACH OF THE YEAR
BGSU coach Curt Miller was named the MAC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season ... the announcement was made at the Kraft MAC Tournament banquet in Cleveland ... Miller, who also captured the 2005 Coach-of-the-Year award, becomes the fourth coach in league history to win the league honor in back-to-back seasons ... he guided the Falcons to just the fifth undefeated record in MAC history, and enters the NCAA Tournament with an overall head-coaching record of 93-55 in his fifth season ... Miller and the Falcons are 72-20 overall and 40-8 in conference play over the last three seasons.
MILLER NAMED REGION COACH OF THE YEAR
BGSU coach Curt Miller was named the Region 4 Coach of the Year, the WBCA announced on Tuesday (March 14) ... Miller is now a finalist for the WBCA's national-coach-of-the-year award ... he will be joined on the national C-O-Y ballot by C. Vivian Stringer (Rutgers), Sylvia Hatchell (North Carolina), Pat Summitt (Tennessee), Sherri Coale (Oklahoma), Jim Wiedie (Indiana State), Don Flanagan (New Mexico) and Charli Thorne (Arizona State).
FOUR FALCONS EARN ALL-MAC HONORS
For the first time in 12 years, the Falcons had four players named to the All-MAC Team ... the team is the result of voting by the league's 12 head coaches ... junior Ali Mann is the school's first All-MAC First-Team honoree in six years, while classmate Liz Honegger and sophomore Kate Achter each were named to the second team ... junior Carin Horne picked up third-team accolades ... BGSU's total of four all-league honorees ties for the most in school history.
MANN NAMED TOURNAMENT MVP
Junior Ali Mann was named the Kraft MAC Tournament's Most Valuable Player, while classmate Liz Honegger and sophomore Kate Achter joined her on the all-tournament team ... Mann averaged a double-double, with 13.3 points and 10.3 rebounds per game in the three tourney contests ... Mann also had 3.3 assists per game and shot 55.6 percent from the field ... Achter had 10.0 points, 5.3 boards and 6.0 assists in the three games, while Honegger had a team-high 16.0 points per game, along with 5.0 boards per contest ... Honegger shot 60.0% in the league tourney.
STREAKS ON THE LINE
Over the past 14 months or so, BGSU has compiled several lengthy streaks ... BG has won 19 consecutive games overall, and 25 games in a row (regular-season and tournament) vs. MAC opponents ... additionally, the Falcons finished the season with a perfect 11-0 home record, and have won 18-straight games at Anderson Arena, one of the longest homecourt streaks in the nation ... and, the Falcons closed the regular-season schedule with wins in eight consecutive road games.
DOUBLE-DIGIT WINNING STREAK
The Falcons' 19-game winning streak is the team's longest in nearly 12 years, since a 20-game streak in the 1993-94 season ... the current run by the 2005-06 team is the fifth double-digit winning streak in school history ... this current streak - as was the case in each of the previous four double-figure streaks in BG annals - has taken the Falcons all the way to the NCAA Tournament.
HOT STREAK
Dating to last season, the Falcons have won 25 consecutive games against MAC opposition ... BGSU suffered a loss at Eastern Michigan on Feb. 19, 2005, then won three consecutive games to close the regular season ... the Falcons went 3-0 in the 2005 Kraft MAC Tournament to win the tourney title and advance to the NCAA Championships ... this year, the Brown and Orange reeled off 16 consecutive victories in conference play, and captured three more wins vs. league foes in the MAC Tournament.
HOT STREAK II (AND III)
The Falcons have increased several other streaks over the last few weeks ... entering the NCAA Tournament, BGSU has now won 19-straight games overall ... the Feb. 22 win over Kent State means the Falcons have won 18 consecutive games at Anderson Arena, heading into 2006-07 ... according to the latest NCAA statistics, BG's homecourt winning streak is the third longest in the nation, while the overall win streak is tied for third in the country ... the lists are -- you guessed it -- in the pdf.
MORE STREAKS
The Falcons have now had two winning streaks of at least eight games this year ... BG opened the year with a school-record 8-0 start, before dropping two-of-three games in a six-day span (Dec. 28-Jan. 2) ... but, the Falcons have won 19 consecutive contests since that time.
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 is the 2006 Russell Athletic/WBCA Region Four Coach of the Year ... his career record currently stands at 93-55, in his fifth year ... over the last two-plus seasons, Miller and the Falcons are 72-20 ... 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).
MILLER LIKES THE BIG DANCE
Even before the Falcons' trip to the NCAA Championships last year, BGSU head coach Curt Miller was no stranger to the 'Big Dance' ... when BG faced Kansas State in the 2005 NCAA Championships first round, Miller was the lone member of the Falcon roster (players or coaches) that had previous NCAA Tournament experience ... he spent three years as associate head coach under Tom Collen (a BGSU alum) at Colorado State, and the team went 3-2 in the NCAAs during that time ... in 1998-99, the Rams went 33-3 and advanced to the 'Sweet 16,' facing two of the teams that are in West Lafayette this weekend ... that '98-99 Rams squad posted wins over Cal State Northridge and then-Southwest Missouri State, before losing to UCLA ... the following year, CSU advanced to the semifinals of the WNIT ... in 2000-01, the Rams were back in the NCAAs, beating Maryland before losing to Connecticut.
BGSU BREAKS INTO NATIONAL RANKINGS ...
It isn't every day that a MAC school breaks into the top-25 of the national polls ... on Feb. 14, the Falcons were ranked 25th in the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Coaches Poll, marking BG's first time in a national poll in 12 years, and the first for a MAC team in over four years ... BGSU has been ranked in the USA Today/ESPN poll in each of the last five weeks, the longest-ever run by a league institution ... the Falcons again had a ranking of 25th on Feb. 21, before moving up a spot to #24 the next week (Feb. 28) and two more notches to 22nd in last week's poll (March 7) ... this week (as of Monday, March 13), BGSU is 21st in the country in the USA Today/ESPN poll.
... IN BOTH POLLS
The Falcons, as mentioned, broke into the national polls for the first time in 12 years, earning a top-25 ranking in each of the last five USA Today/ESPN Top 25 Coaches polls ... last week (March 6), the Falcons cracked the Associated Press poll as well ... BGSU picked up a ranking of 24th in that poll, and BGSU is up to 23rd this week (March 13) ... the Falcons got votes in each of the first seven AP polls of the 2005-06 season, and made a return in the Jan. 23 poll, receiving votes in the next six weeks before breaking into the top 25.
BGSU AND THE POLLS: A COMPLETE HISTORY
NOT BAD, NOT BAD AT ALL
Despite this year's losses to Delaware (by four points) and Kentucky (in overtime), the Falcons have won 34 of the last 37 games, dating to Feb. 19, 2005 ... the Falcons' only other loss in that time was to Kansas State in the first round of last year's NCAA Championships.
HERE'S YOUR SIGN
Earning a national ranking is one sign that a team is having a successful season to date ... here's another ... this season, through 30 games, the Falcons have not allowed a single opponent to score 70 points ... meanwhile, BGSU is averaging nearly 70 points per game (69.4 ppg).
ABOUT THE FALCONS
FALCONS BY CLASS
THE SENIORS
Bowling Green's turnaround began with the team's two seniors, Jill Lause and Casey McDowell ... Lause was the first student-athlete to commit to the BGSU women's basketball program after Curt Miller became head coach ... in Lause's freshman season of 2002-03, Casey McDowell was part of the program, but sat out the year after transferring from Indiana State ... the Falcons posted a 9-19 record in the year before Lause and McDowell arrived, but BGSU has averaged 21.0 wins per year since ... starting with the 2003-04 season - the first year McDowell suited up for the Brown and Orange - BG has posted a record of 72-20, including a mark of 49-9 against MAC opponents.
THE JUNIORS
BGSU's junior class is one of the finest classes in school history ... that group includes four starters in Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann and Megan Thorburn ... additionally, Amber Flynn has been perhaps the team's most improved player this season ... the team's sixth member of that class, Julie Gompers, missed both last season and this season due to injury ... the junior class has been a big part of the 72-20 overall record in the last three years, and BG has advanced to the Kraft MAC Tournament's championship game every year since they arrived.
THE SOPHOMORES
The Falcons' two sophomores, Kate Achter and Whitney Taylor, have helped BGSU win MAC regular-season and tournament titles in each of their two seasons ... BG has an overall record of 51-10 since the two arrived on campus ... the Falcons are 48-6 when Achter is in the starting lineup.
THE FRESHMEN
First-year Falcons Lindsey Goldsberry, Jasmine McCall and Jessica McKenzie have seen their team win over 93 percent of its games this winter, and the three players have never been a part of a loss to a MAC opponent ... McCall has played in every game this season, while Goldsberry has seen action in 29 of the 30 games, making two starts ... after missing nearly two months due to injury, McKenzie has played in 20 contests off the bench, including each of the 19 wins vs. MAC foes ... BG is 20-0 in games in which McKenzie has seen court time.
SCOUTING UCLA
UCLA enters the BGSU game with an overall record of 20-10 on the season, and the Bruins finished in third place in the Pacific-10 Conference's regular season race with a 12-6 league mark, then won three games in as many days to win the Pac-10 Tournament title for the first time in school history ... UCLA capped the tourney run with an overtime win over #11 Stanford ... a trio of Kodak/WBCA All-America Team finalists head the starting lineup for coach Kathy Olivier ... senior guards Nikki Blue and Lisa Willis and junior guard Noelle Quinn comprise half of the six All-America finalists in Region 8 ... Quinn leads the team in scoring and rebounding, with 18.3 points and 8.2 boards per game ... Willis has 17.7 ppg and 5.6 rpg, and leads the Bruins with 3.7 steals per contest ... Blue has 12.5 points, 4.7 boards and a team-high 5.9 assists per outing ... she is making nearly 45 percent of her three-point field-goal attempts on the season ... sophomore forward Lindsey Pluimer is the team's fourth double-figure scorer, with 10.8 ppg, and she is averaging 5.3 rebounds per outing as well ... junior forward Amanda Livingston (6.0 ppg) rounds out the UCLA probable starting five ... a total of 12 letterwinners, including all five starters, returned from last year's team that went 16-12 overall and 10-8 in the Pac-10 ... Olivier has a record of 201-174 in her 13th season as a collegiate head coach, all at UCLA ... the school's athletics web site is UCLABruins.com.
THE SERIES
Bowling Green and UCLA have never met in women's basketball.
LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons led from wire to wire, rolling past Kent State University by a 64-39 final Saturday (March 11), and winning the Kraft MAC Tournament title for the second consecutive year ... BG's win also was the 28th of the year, setting a new school - and MAC - record for wins in a season ... BG's MAC Tournament title is the eighth in school history, the most of any league team ... Carin Horne paced the Falcons with 16 points and nine rebounds, while Liz Honegger and Ali Mann scored 14 points apiece ... Kate Achter had nine points, seven rebounds and a game-high six assists, while Mann matched Achter's total of seven rebounds ... Honegger had three assists, a game-high three steals and a blocked shot ... Lindsay Shearer, the MAC Player of the Year, was the lone KSU player in double digits, with 18 points ... she made seven of the Flashes' 16 field goals ... BG scored eight consecutive points to take a 13-4 lead, and the Falcons led by a 26-13 score at halftime, holding KSU scoreless for the final 6:29 ... a 7-0 run early in the second half made the lead 35-15, before the Flashes used a 12-0 run of their own to cut the BG advantage to single digits, at 38-29 ... but, a Falcon 19-4 run pushed the lead to 57-22 with 4:18 left.
HONEGGER IN A CLASS BY HERSELF
Liz Honegger is making her mark as one of the top players in school history, and as one of the most versatile players in the history of the MAC ... less than three years into her career, Honegger has accomplished something that no other MAC player has ever done ... Honegger is the only player in MAC history to block at least 125 shots and make at least 125 three-point field goals in her career ... she enters the NCAA Championships with totals of 149 treys and 151 rejections ... only two other players in MAC annals reached 100 in both categories (Stephanie Smiley [Eastern Michigan, 1998-2002], 174 three-pointers, 103 blocks; Tamara Bowie [Ball State, 2000-03], 100 three-pointers, 152 blocks).
SHE'S THE ONLY MEMBER OF THIS CLASS, TOO
Liz Honegger is the only player in BGSU history to make more than 40 three-point field goals and block 40 shots in the same season ... and, the junior has joined that 40-40 club for the second-straight year ... Honegger made 59 triples and blocked 50 shots last year, and has 55 treys and a school-record 51 blocks this winter to date ... her 2005-06 totals make her the first member of the 50-50 club as well.
TWENTY AGAIN
The Falcons' win at Ball State (Feb. 11) enabled BGSU to reach 20 victories for the third consecutive season ... BGSU has now posted a total of 11 seasons of at least 20 wins, the second-highest total in MAC annals ... Toledo has had 12 20-win seasons ... additionally, BGSU has posted three consecutive 20-win seasons for the first time since Jaci Clark's first three teams, the 1991-92 through 1993-94 squads, turned the trick.
IN LIKE FLYNN
Junior Amber Flynn has stepped up her production off the bench over the last several weeks ... the Cincinnati native is averaging 5.2 points per game off the bench this season, and had 5.4 ppg in MAC games ... in the last 10 contests, Flynn has averaged 8.1 points per game and shot a team-best 54.1 percent (33-of-61) from the field ... that 10-game span includes the win at Akron (Feb. 15), in which she was a perfect 5-for-5 from the floor en route to a career-high 14 points ... Flynn made five of her seven shot attempts at Miami, and went 5-for-9 with 13 points in the MAC Tournament semifinal win over Toledo.
STELLAR SECOND-HALF SHOOTING
The Falcons shot 56.0 percent from the field in the first half of the win over Toledo ... that was by far the best first-half field-goal percentage for the team over the last 11 games ... during that stretch, BGSU has shot just 35.5% (116-for-327) before halftime ... the second half, however, has been a different story ... over those 11 games, BG has shot 52.9% in the second half, making 154-of-291 shots in that span.
'HOUSE THAT ROARS' INDEED: BG ELEVEN-AND-OH AT ANDERSON
BGSU's win over Kent State (Feb. 22) moved the Falcons to 11-0 in home games this season, and the Falcons have won 18 consecutive games at Anderson Arena, the third-longest current homecourt winning streak in the nation ... the 2005-06 team is just the third in school history to finish with an unbeaten home record, and this year's club is the fifth in BG annals to go unbeaten at Anderson through regular-season play ... the 1974-75 (7-0) and 1975-76 (6-0) teams completed their seasons with an unblemished home record ... both the '92-93 (13-1) and '93-94 (12-1) squads were undefeated through the regular season at Anderson, before losing an NCAA Tournament game at home ... the '93-94 team started the year 12-0 at home, but fell to Creighton in the national tourney ... BGSU's best-ever home start was in 1992-93, a 13-0 start at 'The House That Roars,' before an NCAA loss to Florida.
MILLENNIUM FALCONS: MANN IS ONE ...
On Jan. 7, junior Ali Mann added another accomplishment to her already-impressive list ... in the MAC opener vs. Akron, Mann became just the 19th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point mark for her career ... the Chelsea, Mich., native became only the sixth BGSU player to reach the millennium mark in her junior season ... heading into the UCLA game, Mann has a career total of 1,267 points, ranking 10th on the school list ... she moved into the BGSU career top-10 in scoring in the Northern Illinois game (March 8).
... AND SO IS HONEGGER
On Jan. 28, junior Liz Honegger became only the 20th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point mark for her career ... Honegger now has 1,164 points to tie for 14th on the BG list ... her classmate, Ali Mann, is now 10th on the career list ... only seven players (Mann, Honegger, Jackie Motycka, Sara Puthoff, Francine Miller, Lori Albers and Chris Tuttle) have reached the 1,000-point plateau prior to their senior seasons ... both Mann (fourth) and Honegger (ninth) rank among BGSU's top 10 in career points per game ... and, junior Carin Horne is rapidly moving up the list as well ... Horne currently has 917 points, good for a 23rd-place standing on the BGSU career scoring list ... don't look now, but Kate Achter - just a sophomore - has 668 points during her BGSU career.
THEY'RE FAST, TOO
Junior Ali Mann reached the 1,000-point plateau on Jan. 7, and classmate Liz Honegger joined her three weeks later ... Mann was the fourth-fastest Falcon to amass 1,000 points, and Honegger tied for sixth on that list.
NOTES AND NUMBERS
A few random statistics as the Falcons prepare for the UCLA game ...
MANN, HONEGGER HAVE DOUBLE VISION
Juniors Ali Mann and Liz Honegger have been in double digits in the scoring column much more often than not over their careers ... this season, Mann has scored at least 10 points in 26 of the 30 games ... she had 24 double-figure games last year, and has 69 in her 92 career games ... Honegger has 21 double-digit games this winter to date, after 25 such games last season ... she has hit twin figures in 60 of her 92 career contests ... junior Carin Horne now has 44 career double-digit games, while sophomore Kate Achter has hit double digits in 35 of her 59 games as a Falcon.
HONEGGER, MANN HAVE DOUBLE-DOUBLE VISION
Juniors Liz Honegger and Ali Mann each recorded a double-double in the MAC Tournament ... Mann had 12 points and 15 rebounds in the win over Northern Illinois, while Honegger had 17 points and grabbed 10 boards vs. Toledo two days later ... Honegger has seven double-doubles this season and 19 in her BGSU career ... Mann has four double-doubles on the year and 16 as a Falcon ... Mann has been a single rebound shy of a double-double in seven additional games this year ... with 11 points and 11 rebounds, soph Kate Achter had her first-ever double-double in the Buffalo game on Feb. 18.
FALCON 500 (PLUS 25): BG IS THE MAC'S WINNINGEST PROGRAM
BGSU's' win over IPFW in the season opener (Nov. 18) was the 500th victory in the history of the program ... the Falcons enter the NCAA Tournament with an all-time record of 527-340 (.608) ... among current league schools, BG became just the second to reach the 500-victory plateau ... Northern Illinois picked up win number 508 on the same night BG got victory number 500, while Toledo earned the 500th win in that program's history two days after BG ... the Falcons have since passed Northern to assume first place on the all-time victories list ... NIU ended the season with 519 wins, while Kent State has 511 and UT 510 ... the 2005-06 season marks the Falcons' 33rd as a varsity program.
SHE BLOCKS SHOTS
With arms long enough to change the radio station from the second row of a van without leaning forward, it is no surprise that Liz Honegger, in less than three seasons, has placed her name all over the BGSU lists for blocked shots ... this season, Honegger has 51 blocks - breaking the school record that she already shared - through 30 games ... she tied two of her own single-season marks in 2004-05, and is rapidly moving up the career list ... Honegger, who matched the BG record with 50 blocks as a freshman, had 50 more rejections last season ... she set a school mark with 27 blocks in MAC games as a frosh, and matched that record in league games last winter ... Honegger broke that mark this year, with 28 blocks in MAC games ... overall, she is in second place on the career list, and is on pace to obliterate the BGSU career record for blocks per game.
LAUSE, MANN, McDOWELL NAMED CAPTAINS
Seniors Jill Lause and Casey McDowell and junior Ali Mann are the tri-captains of the 2005-06 Falcons ... the three were selected in a vote of team members as well as coaching staff ... in the last three-plus seasons, since Lause began her collegiate career and McDowell transferred from Indiana State, the Falcons have averaged 21 wins per year ... over the last two-plus seasons, since the start of Mann's freshman year, BG has gone 72-20 and thrice advanced to the MAC Tournament's championship game.
