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Bowling Green State University Athletics
2005-06 BGSU Women's Hoops Season Wrapup
August 30, 2006 | Women's Basketball
Summer, 2006
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after making an appearance on the national stage for the second-straight year, saw the 2005-06 season come to an end in West Lafayette, Ind. ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller finished the campaign with an overall record of 28-3 and a Mid-American Conference mark of 16-0 ... BGSU won both the MAC's regular-season and tournament titles for the second consecutive year, and advanced to the NCAA Championships for the second time in as many years ... the Falcons won 19 consecutive games before losing to UCLA in the first round of the NCAAs ... BGSU was the #12 seed in the Cleveland Regional, and dropped a 74-61 decision to the fifth-seeded Bruins at Mackey Arena (March 19).
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MOST. WINS. EVER.
The Falcons' 64-39 victory over Kent State in the Kraft MAC Tournament championship gave BGSU a total of 28 wins on the season ... the Falcons set a new school -- and Mid-American Conference -- single-season record for victories ... a total of four teams had 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.
FALCONS PERFECT IN THE MAC
The 2005-06 Falcons became 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 was 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 '05-06, the most recent league team to do so was the 18-0 Kent State squad in 1997-98.
BACK TO THE BIG DANCE
In 2005-06, BGSU qualified for the NCAA Championships for the second consecutive season and the eighth time in school history ... BG's 2004-05 appearance in the national tourney was the Falcons' first since 1994 ... last year, 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. ... this year, BGSU was a #12 seed, and fell to fifth-seeded UCLA in a matchup of nationally-ranked teams at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind.
MILLER AGREES TO CONTRACT EXTENSION
BGSU agreed in principle with women's basketball coach Curt Miller on a two-year contract extension, it was announced in early May ... the contract will run through June 30, 2011 ... Miller has an overall mark of 93-56 through five seasons at BGSU, along with a Mid-American Conference ledger of 51-29 ... over the last three seasons, Miller and the Falcons are 72-21 overall and 40-8 in MAC regular-season play.
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 years, 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.
BACK TO BACK IN THE MAC
As mentioned earlier (and we'll probably mention it again), BGSU has won both the Mid-American Conference regular-season and tournament titles for the second consecutive year ... this marks only the fourth time that such an event has occurred, and the first time in over a decade ... Bowling Green teams have pulled off the feat on three of those four occasions.
BACK TO BACK IN THE MAC TOURNAMENT
BGSU's back-to-back Kraft MAC Tournament titles mark the sixth time in league history that the same school has put together a tourney title streak ... the Falcons' 2005 and 2006 crowns make BG the first team since Toledo in the mid-1990s to win the league tournament in consecutive years ... the Fran Voll-coached BGSU teams from 1987-90 hold the record with four-straight conference tourney titles.
DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS
With four starters averaging in double digits in scoring, the Falcons enjoyed great balance offensively en route to a 28-3 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.
MANN NAMED BGSU PLAYER OF YEAR
Junior Ali Mann was named the BGSU Player of the Year for the 2005-06 season ... the announcement was made at the team's annual banquet on April 22 ... Mann, who was a co-POY honoree in 2004-05, earned the '05-06 award in a vote of team members ... junior Liz Honegger was named the team's Power Player of the Year, while classmate Carin Horne was honored as the Impact Player of the Year ... both players earned those respective awards for the second consecutive season ... junior Amber Flynn picked up the team's Most Improved Player award, while Horne and sophomore Kate Achter were co-recipients of the Playmaker-of-the-Year award ... senior Jill Lause garnered the team's Falcon Award, while soph Whitney Taylor was named BG's Student-Athlete of the Year and senior Casey McDowell received the Fran & Marty Voll Award.
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 concluded his fifth season at BGSU with an overall head-coaching record of 93-56 ... Miller and the Falcons are 72-21 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 for 2005-06, the WBCA announced on March 14 ... as such, Miller was one of eight finalists for the WBCA's national-coach-of-the-year award ... he was 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).
FALCONS AMONG NATION'S ELITE
BGSU finished the season ranked third in the nation in winning percentage ... the Falcons' pct. of .903 trailed only North Carolina (33-2, .943) and Ohio State (29-3, .906) ... BG's total of three losses on the season tied for the second-fewest in the country, tied with OSU behind only UNC ... the Falcons also ranked in the top-10 in the nation in fewest turnovers per game (13.2, eighth).
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 became 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 tied 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.
(Much, much more information can be found in the 36-page PDF at the top of this page)
