Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Face Flyers
December 29, 2008 | Women's Basketball
Dec. 29, 2008
DAYTON, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) -
BGSU at DAYTON
Monday, December 29, 2008 • 7:00 p.m.UD Arena (13,266) • Dayton, Ohio
RECORDS: BGSU 9-2 // Dayton 10-4
RADIO: WBGU-FM 88.1 - Mike Castellano and Alex Mikos
SERIES: BGSU leads, 9-8 // STREAK: BGSU - 5
LAST MEETING: at BGSU 64, Dayton 52 (March 20, 2008)
A few BGSU notes in PDF Format
THE GAME
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, riding a nine-game winning streak, has advanced to the championship game of the Dayton Flyer Classic ... to win the tournament, however, the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will have to get by the host school, the University of Dayton ... the Falcons and Flyers will meet on Monday night (Dec. 29), with tipoff scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at UD Arena (13,266) ... Gardner-Webb will face Lipscomb in the consolation game, beginning at 5:00 p.m. ... the BGSU-UD game is a rematch of last year's WNIT first-round contest at Anderson Arena, won by the Brown and Orange (64-52; March 20, 2008) ... Monday's game concludes a December schedule in which the Falcons did not play a game outside the state of Ohio.
DAYTON FLYER CLASSIC
(all games at UD Arena; Dayton, Ohio)
Sunday, December 28
Bowling Green 79, Gardner-Webb 56
at Dayton 76, Lipscomb 36
Monday, December 29
Consolation - Gardner-Webb vs. Lipscomb, 5:00 p.m.
Championship - Bowling Green at Dayton, 7:00 p.m.
AGELESS WONDER
No one knows exactly how old assistant coach Kevin Eckert might be ... but, what is known is that that mystery number is increased by one every December 29 ... the Falcons head into the Dayton game with a 4-0 record on Eckert's birthday since he joined the BGSU program ... three of those wins have been at holiday tournaments, including one road victory (over Eastern Kentucky in 2003) ... the Dayton game marks the fourth consecutive year that the Falcons have played on December 29.
DECEMBER 29 GAMES IN THE MILLER (AND ECKERT) ERA
• 2003 -- at Eastern Kentucky W 70-57 • 2005 -- vs. Iona % W 62-45 • 2006 -- DELAWARE W 70-59 • 2007 -- vs. Hampton ^ W 79-70 % Hawk Classic; Philadelphia, Pa. ^ Cyclone Shootout; Ames, Iowa
BGSU-DAYTON STORYLINES
In addition to the mystery surrounding assistant coach Kevin Eckert's age, there are a number of other storylines heading into Monday night's game ...
• Lindsey Goldsberry, the Falcons' lone senior and a team co-captain, has returned to her hometown ... Goldsberry, a Dayton native, graduated from Chaminade-Julienne H.S. ... she had her best game of the season in Sunday's (Dec. 28) win over Gardner-Webb, scoring a game-high 18 points ... Goldsberry was a perfect 6-for-6 from the field, draining four shots from three-point land, and displayed a solid all-around game.
• Goldsberry's father, Frank, is the director of operations for the Dayton women's basketball team ... Frank coached Lindsey during part of her stellar high-school career.
• BGSU's senior manager, Randall Clark, is also a Dayton native and C-J grad.
• Monday night's game, as mentioned earlier, is a rematch of a first-round contest in last year's WNIT ... the Falcons and Flyers met for the first time in a decade and a half, with BGSU pulling out a 64-52 victory at venerable Anderson Arena (March 20, 2008) ... Goldsberry had a game-high 16 points in that game, while one of the Falcons' 2007-08 seniors, Kate Achter, had 15 points and 10 assists.
• Dayton freshman Justine Raterman's sister, Jacki, was one of the top players in BGSU women's basketball history ... Jacki Raterman finished her Falcon career with 1,213 points, a total that still ranks 16th on the BG career list ... as a senior in the 1998-99 season, Jacki Raterman averaged 20.8 points per game, a school single-season record ... additionally, she was named an Academic All-American in her senior year.
TREY BIEN!
Senior Lindsey Goldsberry's prolific performance in Sunday's win over Gardner-Webb included a 4-for-4 effort from three-point land ... with those four triples, Goldsberry became just the 11th player in Falcon history to make more than 100 three-point field goals in her career ... Goldsberry enters the Dayton game with a total of 102 triples made, and is the Falcons' active career leader by a single trey ... sophomore Lauren Prochaska has made 101 three-point field goals entering Monday night's game.
TREY BIEN! PART DEUX
Sophomore Lauren Prochaska's final three-point field goal in the win over St. Bonaventure was the 100th of her Falcon career ... she became only the 10th player in school history to reach the century mark in that category (and was joined by Lindsey Goldsberry in Sunday's Gardner-Webb game) ... Prochaska has amassed 101 treys in a total of just 45 games, an average of 2.24 per game ... to put Prochaska's prolific totals in perspective, let the record show that Liz Honegger, the school record-holder with 216 three-pointers, averaged 1.69 triples per game ... in fact, quick research shows that Angie Farmer (1.78) currently holds the school record for made three-pointers per game (minimum 50 3-pt. FG made).
MANY WAYS TO FOLLOW THE FALCONS
Even if you can't make it to the game, there are still a number of ways to follow the women's basketball Falcons ...
• All BGSU women's basketball games are aired on student station WBGU-FM 88.1, the flagship station for Falcon hockey and women's hoops ... Mike Castellano and Alex Mikos will have the call for Monday's game vs. Dayton.
• In addition to being aired on the FM dial, the games are also available free of charge on the web at BGSUFalcons.com ... to access the broadcasts online, simply click on the 'Stretch Internet' button on the BGSUFalcons.com main page and choose that day's game.
• Additionally, all home games are televised in the Toledo area by BCSN ... Todd Hostetler and Mark Ehlen are scheduled to call the Falcons' 2008-09 home games ... Ehlen, the former Toledo coach, earned his master's degree from BGSU.
• Live stats for all home games (and selected road games) are available through the magic of Gametracker ... to access the GT feature, simply log on to BGSUFalcons.com, click on the women's basketball schedule and choose that day's game.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 159-70 in the seven years (plus 11 games) since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 79-33 in MAC games in that time:
• 150-51 in the six-plus years since Miller's assistant coaches have all been in place (associate head coach Jennifer Roos and assistant coach Brandi Poole have been on Miller's staff since his first year; assistant Kevin Eckert joined the staff one year later);
• 138-35 over the last five-plus years, with at least 20 wins in five-straight seasons;
• a staggering 117-25 in the past four-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in each year and a MAC regular-season title in every season;
• 94-17 overall and 44-4 in the MAC in the last three-plus years, since senior Lindsey Goldsberry ventured to Northwest Ohio;
• 65-14 in the last two-plus years, including a 28-4 conference ledger;
• 13-2 in the MAC Tournament over the last four years, with three titles (2005, '06 and '07) and a trip to the semifinals in 2008;
• 22-2 in non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 18-1 against non-league opposition at Anderson Arena since November of 2004;
• 5-4 in games played on December 29 in program history, with five wins in the last six such games;
• 4-0 in Dec. 29 games in the Curt Miller Era, including wins in each of the last three seasons; and
• 1-2 in true road games on that date, with a win at Eastern Kentucky (70-57; 2003) in the last Dec. 29 road contest.
100 (PLUS THREE) OVER .500
Curt Miller took over the Falcon program prior to the 2001-02 season ... Miller and his staff (which consisted of Jennifer Roos and Brandi Poole at the time) immediately got to work on improving all aspects of the BGSU program, including recruiting ... the new coaching staff hit the ground running, but Miller felt that he took over too late to make an impact with his first recruiting class ... the staff targeted the Class of 2003 as the group that would make a difference ... the first results of the Falcons' true recruiting prowess came when the staff (which now included Kevin Eckert) brought in a class of seven recruits in the fall of '03 ... that group included Amber Flynn, Julie Gompers, Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann and Megan Thorburn ... since that class arrived on campus, the Falcons have won at least 20 games every year ... with the win over Gardner-Webb, BGSU is now 138-35 - 103 games over the .500 mark - since that group made its collective debut ... overall, the Falcons are 159-70 in the Miller Era.
