Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Face Miami Tuesday
January 15, 2007 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 15, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) -
#18/18 BGSU at MIAMI
Tue., January 16, 2007 • 7:00 p.m.
Millett Hall (6,400) • Oxford, Ohio
RECORDS: BGSU 14-2 (4-0 MAC) // Miami 9-8 (3-1 MAC)
RADIO: WBGU-FM (88.1)
SERIES: BGSU leads, 34-23 // STREAK: BGSU - 5
LAST MEETING: BGSU 71, at Miami 59 (Feb. 28, 2006)
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THE GAME
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, off to a 4-0 start in Mid-American Conference play, finishes the first foray through the East Division ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller (14-2, 4-0 MAC), riding a seven-game winning streak, will close a two-game road swing with a Tuesday (Jan. 16) contest at Miami University ... tipoff is 7:00 p.m. at Millett Hall (6,400) ... BGSU enters the week currently ranked 18th in the nation, the highest-ever ranking for a MAC program, in both the USA Today ESPN and Associated Press polls ... the Falcons, the defending back-to-back MAC champions, have won 48 of the last 54 overall games and the last 29 contests vs. MAC foes.
SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
The Falcons are the top defensive team in the MAC, in terms of points allowed ... but, on Tuesday, BG will hit the road to face the conference's top offensive team ... Miami is averaging a MAC-high 75.7 points per game this year to date, while the Falcon defense is allowing only 53.8 points per contest ... the RedHawks and Falcons also lead the MAC in those categories in league games only, with MU scoring 77.5 ppg and BGSU surrendering only 45.2 ppg.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
The Falcons posted a 64-55 in at Ohio on Saturday (Jan. 13) ... that game began a stretch in which BGSU plays five of six games on the road ... after Tuesday's game at Miami, the Brown and Orange will host Central Michigan in a Saturday (Jan. 20) afternoon contest ... that game will mark the Falcons' lone action at Anderson Arena in a span of over three weeks.
PLAY THE D
The Falcons, as mentioned, have allowed only 45.2 points per game in the four MAC games, and the BGSU defense has yet to surrender more than 55 points in any of those conference contests ... overall, the Falcons have held the opponent to fewer than 60 points in 13 of 16 games this year ... BG has limited foes to under 50 points on seven occasions, including two games of fewer than 40 points.
BGSU SETS MAC RECORD FOR CONSECUTIVE WINS
The Falcons will put an impressive streak on the line Tuesday ... BGSU's 64-55 win at Ohio on Saturday (Jan. 13) was the Falcons' 29th consecutive victory against MAC opposition, dating to the 2004-05 season ... that total extends the school and conference records ... BG 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 ... the '05-06 edition of the Brown and Orange reeled off 16 consecutive victories in conference play, and captured three more wins vs. league foes in the MAC Tournament ... and, BGSU has opened the 2006-07 conference campaign with four consecutive wins.
JUST OUT OF CURIOUSITY, WHAT WAS THE OLD RECORD?
BGSU, as mentioned, has won 29 consecutive games (regular-season and tournament) against MAC foes ... the Falcons have broken the school and conference records for consecutive victories ... the mark was originally set by Fran Voll's Falcon teams which won 27-straight games vs. league opposition from Feb. 18, 1988 to Jan. 3, 1990 ... of the six such streaks over 20 games in league history, four have been compiled by Bowling Green.
BGSU RANKED 18TH IN NATION
The Falcons are ranked 18th in the latest Associated Press Top-25 poll, released last Monday afternoon (Jan. 8) ... and, BGSU is also 18th in the USA Today/ESPN poll, announced Tuesday (Jan. 9) ... those are the highest rankings in BGSU and MAC history ... BG made the biggest jump in this week's AP poll, moving up six spots from last week's 24th-place ranking ... more information on the polls can be found later in these notes.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
* The Falcons enter the Miami contest with a 14-2 overall record and a 4-0 MAC mark on the season, and BGSU has won the last seven games ... BG is coming off a 64-55 win at Ohio Saturday (Jan. 13) ... the Falcons, who also have wins over Akron, Buffalo and Kent State in conference play, are 7-0 at home, 4-1 in road games and 3-1 in neutral-site contests ... BGSU's only losses have come at Notre Dame in overtime (85-81, Nov. 13) and to fourth-ranked Duke by only nine points (55-46, Dec. 19) in Cancun, Mexico ... the loss to Duke (now ranked third in the nation) snapped a six-game winning streak for head coach Curt Miller's squad ... following that game, BG bounced back with a 59-48 win over Texas-Arlington, before topping Delaware, Robert Morris and the four MAC foes to date.
* Three BG players are averaging double digits in scoring, with two others recording over eight points per game ... senior Ali Mann has 15.6 points to lead the way, while classmates Carin Horne (11.9) and Liz Honegger (10.9) are also in double figures ... senior Amber Flynn (9.4) and junior Kate Achter (8.8) are fourth and fifth, respectively, on the team in scoring ... Honegger paces the Falcons in rebounding, with 5.6 per game, while Horne has 4.9 rebounds and Mann 4.3 per outing ... Achter has a team-high 5.2 assists per contest, and Mann is second with 2.6 apg ... Horne (2.0 spg) leads the team in steals, and the Falcons' team defensive play has led to seven total players averaging at least one steal per game ... Honegger paces BG with 1.0 blocked shots per outing, and also has a team-high 39 three-point field goals made (in 83 attempts) this year.
* Flynn is shooting a team-best 64.2 percent from the field, while Mann is shooting 54.6% ... senior Megan Thorburn has 6.3 ppg, and has a 44.2% three-point field-goal rate ... she ranks third on the team in that category, trailing Mann (51.4%) and Honegger (47.0%).
* In addition to Flynn, sophomore Jasmine McCall has seen action in all 16 games off the bench, while classmate Lindsey Goldsberry has played in 15 ... McCall has 3.3 points and 1.9 assists per outing, and is second on the team with 1.6 steals per game ... Goldsberry has 3.1 ppg on the year ... junior Whitney Taylor played in nine of the season's first 10 games, averaging 3.1 ppg, but is likely out for the season due to injury.
* BGSU is averaging 73.8 points per game, while allowing just 53.8 ... the Falcons are shooting 46.9 percent from the field, and have made 126 three-point field goals - 7.88 per game - in 309 tries (40.6%) ... BG has limited the foes to just a 37.0% field-goal rate and a 29.4% effort from long range (72-for-245 from beyond the arc) ... BGSU has made 54 more triples (126 to 72) and 61 more free throws (235 to 174) than the opponents ... the Falcons have a 69.5% success rate from the free-throw line, while the opposition is shooting 69.0% from the stripe.
* Miller and Company returned all five starters, and nine total letterwinners, from last year's team that finished 28-3 and won the MAC with a perfect 16-0 league ledger ... freshmen Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper round out the active roster ... Clapper has played in 12 contests and Breske and Bugher 11 apiece.
* 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.
HEAD COACH Curt Miller
BGSU head coach Curt Miller has turned the Falcon program around, to say the least, during his time in Northwest Ohio ... 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 107-58, in his sixth year ... over the last three-plus seasons, Miller and the Falcons are 86-23 ... BGSU has gone 44-8 in MAC regular-season play in that time, and 53-9 in all games vs. league foes during that span (9-1 in league tourney play).
THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons have a proud history in the MAC ... BG enters Tuesday's game at Miami with an overall league record of 282-135 (.676), the best of all conference institutions ... additionally, BGSU leads the all-time series with all 11 MAC opponents ... BG, obviously, is the only team in the league with a winning series mark against every other MAC school.
HOME SWEET HOME
BGSU has had a great deal of success at Anderson Arena over the past few seasons ... the Falcons went a perfect 11-0 in home games last season, and - after downing Kent State, 74-52, Wednesday (Jan. 10) - have won 25 consecutive games at "The House That Roars" ... BG's homecourt winning streak is the second longest in the nation, behind only LSU (39).
ROAD SWEET ROAD?
The Falcons have achieved a measure of success away from home as well ... BGSU has won 17 of the last 19 road games, dating to late in the 2004-05 season ... BGSU's only two road losses in that span each came in overtime, at Kentucky (66-62; Jan. 2, 2006) and Notre Dame (85-81; Nov. 13, 2006) ... since the start of the 2003-04 season, the Falcons are 22-4 on the road in league action and 33-12 overall ... that comes on the heels of a four-year span in which BG was 15-39 on the road and 8-24 in MAC road games ... after the win at Ohio, the Falcons have won 11-straight league road contests.
BGSU HAS HIGHEST-EVER RANKING IN BOTH NATIONAL POLLS
The Falcons have reached uncharted waters in terms of national rankings ... BGSU is ranked 18th in the nation in the Associated Press Top-25 poll, as of last Monday afternoon (Jan. 8) ... that is the highest ranking for a MAC team in league history ... and, on Tuesday (Jan 9), BG moved up a spot to 18th in the nation in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll ... the Falcons have been ranked in the USA Today/ESPN poll for seven consecutive weeks, and BGSU has been listed in the AP poll in each of the last four weeks ... a few more facts about BGSU, the MAC and the polls ...
* BGSU's rankings of 18th, as mentioned, are the highest ever by a MAC institution ... the Falcons had/have been ranked 19th once in each poll (in the AP poll on March 16, 1993; in the USA Today ESPN poll last week [Jan. 2]).
* The Falcons' current run of seven consecutive weeks in the USA Today/ESPN poll has broken the school and MAC longevity records ... the old mark of five weeks was set by last year's BGSU club, which was ranked in the USA Today/ESPN poll from Feb. 14 to March 13, 2006.
* The current runs (in each poll) mark only the fourth and fifth times in MAC history that a league school has had a run of three consecutive weeks in the top 25 ... three of those instances have been in the USA Today poll, with the other two in the Associated Press poll, but the Falcons have been that MAC team on all five occasions.
* BGSU was ranked in each of the two polls last year, marking the program's first appearance in a national poll in 12 years, and the first appearance for a MAC program in over four years.
* The Jan. 9 USA Today/ESPN poll marked the 19th week in MAC history that a league institution has been listed in that poll, and BGSU has been that team in 16 of the 19 weeks, including 12 weeks under Curt Miller.
* The Jan. 8 ranking in the Associated Press marked the 16th week that a MAC club has been listed in that poll ... BG has been that team in 12 of those 16 weeks (six during Miller's tenure).
THE FALCONS ARE ...
* 107-58 in the five-plus years since Curt Miller took the helm in May of 2001;
* 55-29 in MAC games in that time;
* 86-23 overall and 44-8 in the MAC over the last three-plus seasons, since the current senior class arrived on campus in the fall of 2003;
* 48-6 in the last 54 overall games since February of 2005 (with the losses coming to Kansas State [2005 NCAA Tournament], Delaware, Kentucky, UCLA [2006 NCAA Tournament], Notre Dame and Duke);
* 6-0 in games after a loss during that time;
* 13-0 in games decided by double digits this season;
* 6-0 in games decided by over 30 points in 2006-07;
* 29-0 in the last 29 games against MAC opponents (setting new school and conference records), since a loss at Eastern Michigan on Feb. 19, 2005;
* 9-1 in the MAC Tournament in the last three seasons;
* 25-0 in the last 25 home games, the second-longest active home winning streak in the nation;
* 12-1 in the last 13 road games (with the overtime loss at Notre Dame snapping a nine-game road winning streak since an OT setback at Kentucky on Jan. 2, 2006);
* 11-0 in the last 11 MAC road games;
* 45-0 when outrebounding the opponent since the start of the 2004-05 season;
* 41-3 when holding the opponent to fewer than 70 points since the start of the 2005-06 season (BGSU has only allowed three teams - UCLA, Notre Dame and Robert Morris - to top the 70-point mark in the last 47 games);
* 3-2 in games played on Jan. 13, including a 2-2 mark on the road; and
* 0-0 in the Curt Miller Era on Jan. 16.
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, and has picked up right where she left off ... 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' 86-23 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 65-13 since the two arrived on campus, and the Falcons are 62-9 when Achter is in the starting lineup ... Taylor has played in nine games this year, but is sidelined due to an injury suffered in practice on Dec. 26.
THE SOPHOMORES
Lindsey Goldsberry and Jasmine McCall have seen their team win over 90 percent of its games (42-5 to date), and the two players have never been a part of a loss to a MAC opponent, as the Falcons are 23-0 against league opposition since the start of last season ... McCall has played in all 47 of BGSU's games in her career to date, while Goldsberry has action in 45 contests, making two starts.
THE FRESHMEN
Tara Breske (Temperance, Mich.), Laura Bugher (Greenwood, Ind.) and Sarah Clapper (Newark, Ohio) are the newest additions to the BG program ... Clapper has played in 12 games, while Breske and Bugher each have seen action in 11 games to date ... the Falcons have yet to lose a game when any of the three frosh see playing time.
SCOUTING MIAMI
Miami will enter Tuesday's action with an overall record of 9-8, and the RedHawks are 3-1 in MAC play to date ... MU began the conference season with three consecutive wins, over Buffalo, Ohio and Akron, before falling by a narrow 83-76 score at Kent State Saturday (Jan. 13) ... Miami has a record of 4-2 at Millett Hall this year to date, including a 2-0 MAC mark at home ... individually, redshirt junior guard Amanda Jackson leads the team in scoring, with 16.1 points per game, while sophomore guard Jenna Schone has 12.3 points and a team-high 4.9 assists per outing ... the RedHawks' balanced attack features a total of seven players who are averaging at least 7.0 ppg this year ... that list includes sophomore forward Eve Pyle (9.9 ppg), sophomore guard Ashley Hawkins (9.4 ppg) and redshirt junior guard Sarah Hull (9.4 ppg), although Hull has yet to play in a MAC game due to injury ... junior G/F Jaclyn Leininger leads the team with 5.4 rebounds per game, while two other players average 5.2 rpg ... in conference play, Jackson, Schone and Hawkins each are scoring over 15 points per game ... Leininger joined Hawkins, Jackson, Pyle and Schone in the starting lineup at KSU for RedHawk head coach Maria Fantanarosa ... Fantanarosa welcomed back eight letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that finished 8-20 overall and 3-13 in MAC action ... those totals do not include Jackson, who started in her first two seasons before missing last year due to injury ... Fantanarosa has a record of 135-112 in her ninth season at her alma mater ... the school's athletics web site is www.MURedHawks.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Miami, 34-23, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won each of the last five meetings ... that streak includes a pair of victories in the 2005-06 season, an 80-58 win at Anderson Arena (Jan. 21, 2006) and a 71-59 triumph at Millett Hall to close the regular season (Feb. 28, 2006) ... in the latter game, the Falcons opened up a 28-point second-half lead before Miami outscored BG by a 24-8 run over the game's final 6:57 ... that win gave the Falcons a 13-12 record in games played at Millett, and snapped a four-game home series win streak for Miami ... prior to the Falcons' five-game winning streak in the overall series, MU had won five consecutive games and six of seven from BG.
FALCONS ON THE SMALL SCREEN
The Falcons will have three televised games in as many weekends ... BGSU's game at Eastern Michigan on Jan. 28 will air on Comcast Local ... the starting time for that game will be 4:30 p.m. ... BG's home game vs. Toledo on Feb. 4 will air as the MAC Game of the Week, and will begin at 4:00 p.m. ... then, on Feb. 10, the Falcons will play in another MAC Game-of-the-Week telecast, at Northern Illinois in a noon ET (11:00 a.m. local) start ... all of BGSU's home games, other than the UT contest, are televised by BCSN in the Toledo area.
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 Miami game, that group has combined to make no fewer than 429 starts in their respective Falcon careers to date ... each of the five has started at least 68 games.
THAT'S A LOT OF STARTS
As mentioned, the five BGSU starters have combined to make a total of 429 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 108 career starts, while Mann has started 107 games ... Honegger is third, while Mann is now fourth on that list ... 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 HAVE A TRIO OF 1,000-POINT SCORERS ...
In the Buffalo game (Jan. 6), senior Ali Mann became just the fourth player in BGSU history to surpass the 1,500-point mark for her career ... Mann had moved up five spots on the Falcons' career scoring list during the team's trip to Cancun last month ... entering the Miami game, Mann now has a total of 1,532 points, trailing only Jackie Motycka, Sara Puthoff and Francine Miller on that list ... senior Liz Honegger is also one of the top scorers in BGSU history ... she now has 1,354 points for her BGSU career to rank 11th ... senior Carin Horne surpassed the 1,000-point plateau for her career in the Oakland game (Nov. 29), becoming just the 21st player to add her name to the 1,000-point list ... entering the Miami game, she ranks 16th in BG history with 1,114 career points.
AND FOUR IN THE ALL-TIME TOP-30
Carin Horne 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 ... in January of 2006, 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 ... three weeks after Mann reached 1,000 points, Liz Honegger became the 20th BG player (seventh prior to her senior year) to do so ... and, don't look now, but junior Kate Achter already has 819 points during her career, giving the 2006-07 Falcons no fewer than four players among the top-30 in career scoring at the University.
HONEGGER, MANN ON REBOUNDING LISTS AS WELL
Seniors Liz Honegger and Ali Mann, each among the top scorers in BGSU history, also are among the leading rebounders in program annals ... Honegger surpassed the 800-rebound plateau in the win at Ohio, and now has a career total of 805 ... she ranks fifth on the BG list ... also in the OU game, Mann moved into seventh place on that list ... she currently has 780 career boards.
SHE CAN DISH IT OUT AND TAKE IT
Junior Kate Achter, as mentioned, has 819 career points, ranking 29th in school history ... the point guard has moved onto the BGSU assists list as well as the scoring chart ... she now has a career total of 357, good for sixth in BG annals ... Achter passed Cathy Koch (347 from 1988-92) in the Buffalo game, and now has her sights on fifth-place Jaymee Wappes (387 from 1996-2000).
FALCONS HANG WITH DUKE
The Falcons faced Duke, then ranked fourth in the country in both polls, in Cancun on Dec. 19 ... the Blue Devils are the highest-ranked opponent in BGSU history (Maryland was also fourth in the nation when BG played them in the 1989 NCAA Tournament ... the Falcons led the Devils in the second half before losing by nine points, 55-46 ... BG held Duke to 27 points fewer than their season average to that date ... as of Jan. 14, Duke had a record of 18-0 after a Saturday (Jan. 13) win over #1 Maryland ... the Terrapins hit a three-pointer in the final seconds to cut the deficit to 19 points, making UM the only team other than BG to stay within 20 points of the Blue Devils.
LEADERS OF THE MAC
The Falcons are at the top of numerous team categories in the latest Mid-American Conference statistics (as of Jan. 15) ... BGSU leads all league schools in no fewer than nine categories - scoring defense (53.8), scoring margin (+20.1), field-goal percentage (46.9), FG pct. defense (37.0), three-point FG pct. (40.8), three-point FG pct. defense (29.4), turnover margin (+6.56), assist/turnover ratio (1.18) and three-pointers made (7.88) ... the Falcons are second in the league in scoring offense (73.8), blocked shots (3.25), assists (16.50) and steals (11.31) ... individually, senior Ali Mann is second in the league in field-goal pct., shooting 54.6% from the floor ... classmate Amber Flynn (64.2%) would be leading the league, but she falls just three field goals shy of the minimum needed to qualify ... senior Liz Honegger is second in the league in both three-point pct. (47.0) and three-pointers made (2.44) and fifth in blocks ... Mann is fifth in scoring (15.6), while junior Kate Achter is fourth in both assists (5.19) and assist/TO ratio (1.66).
HONEGGER IN A CLASS BY HERSELF IN THE MAC ...
Liz Honegger is making her mark as one of the top players in school history, and one of the most versatile ... she has accomplished something that no other BGSU - or 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 ... in fact, she is way beyond those totals, and enters the Miami game with 190 treys and 168 rejections ... only two other players in MAC annals reached as many as 100 in both categories (Stephanie Smiley [EMU, 1998-2002], 174 3's, 103 blocks; Tamara Bowie [BSU, 2000-03], 100 3's, 152 blocks).
... AND IN THE NATION
Here's another note that illustrates why Liz Honegger may be the most versatile center in the country ... Honegger is believed to be the only player in NCAA Division-I history to hold both the three-point field goal and blocked shot career records at her school ... a survey of sports information directors around the nation has turned up no other such players as of Monday, Jan. 15.
MANN EARNS SCHOLAR-ATHLETE HONORS
Senior Ali Mann was named the MAC's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Week, the conference office announced Thursday evening (Jan. 11) ... Mann earned the honor for her performance in the wins over Akron and Buffalo ... she averaged a team-high 17.0 points along with 4.5 rebounds per game, and single-handedly outscored UB in the first half of that game.
FALCONS GET DEFENSIVE
The Falcons have put the clamps on opposing defenses in the four MAC games to date ... BGSU is allowing just 45.2 points per game against conference foes, and the Falcons have let the opposition shoot just 35.6 percent from the field and 26.7% (12-of-45) from three-point range in the four games to date ... BG has forced the last three foes into a total of 91 turnovers, an average of 22.8 per game.
FALCONS GET DEFENSIVE II
In the MAC opener at Akron (Jan. 3), BGSU allowed just 32 points ... that marked the lowest total surrendered by the Brown and Orange in a game in over three decades (since a 77-25 BG victory over Ohio Northern on Feb. 11, 1975) ... the Zips' total was the fifth-lowest in school history, with the only lower totals coming in the first two seasons in program annals.
DEFENSE LEADS TO VICTORIES
A few more defensive notes and nuggets from the last few games ...
* The Falcons forced Ohio into 21 turnovers, and BGSU had a total of 14 steals against the Bobcats ... the Brown and Orange held Ohio's Rachel Frederick, averaging over 15 points per game, scoreless.
* BGSU had a pair of 10-0 runs against Kent State, scoring runs that were more due to BG's stifling defense than the Falcons' offense ... those two runs came in the first half, and helped the Brown and Orange finish that half on a 31-12 run to take a 20-point lead into the lockerroom.
* BGSU allowed UA to make just 12 field goals, while forcing 24 turnovers by the Zips ... BG committed only 10 turnovers themselves, and held a 22-0 advantage in points off turnovers.
* BGSU allowed the Zips to score eight points by the first media timeout, but the Falcons surrendered only 24 points over the game's final 35:50.
* The Zips had three different stretches of over seven minutes without a field goal ... UA went exactly nine minutes without a bucket in the middle of the first half ... then, the Zips went 8:25 without a field goal to span the halftime break (final 4:10 of first half, first 4:15 of second) ... and, BG turned up the defensive heat to hold UA without a basket in the second half.
* BGSU allowed UA and Buffalo to make a total of just 27 field goals, and the Falcons forced those foes into a combined 50 turnovers ... BG's defense held UB to just 15 points in the first half.
* BG has held the last six MAC opponents to 55 points or fewer, dating to the semifinal round of last year's conference tournament ... the Falcons had allowed 46 points or less in each of four-straight games vs. MAC foes before allowing 52 to Kent State Wednesday and 55 to Ohio Saturday ... the Falcons capped their 2006 MAC Tournament run with wins over Toledo (68-46) and KSU (64-39) in the semifinal and championship games, respectively.
MANN A MODEL OF CONSISTENCY
Senior Ali Mann has been a model of consistency for the Falcons, both in 2006-07 and in her career ... she had a double-digit effort vs. Ohio, with 13 points in Saturday's (Jan. 13) win ... Mann, who has played in 109 games as a Falcon, now has scored in double digits no fewer than 86 times ... the lone Falcon to score 10 points or more in all 16 games this season, she has hit double figures in 23-straight games dating to last year.
HONEGGER RULES THE BLOCK
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 BG list ... Honegger now has 168 career blocks, and owns all of the BGSU 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, she is on pace to shatter the BG career mark for blocks per game.
UP NEXT
Following the Miami game, the Falcons will briefly return home, facing Central Michigan in a Saturday afternoon (Jan. 20) contest at Anderson Arena ... then, BG heads right back out on the road, playing three consecutive road games against Western Michigan (Jan. 24), Eastern Michigan (Jan. 28) and Chicago State (Jan. 30) to end the month.
