Bowling Green State University Athletics
Tuesday, November 24
Rochester, MI
6:30 PM
Bowling Green State University
at
Oakland
Tamika Nurse, Jen Uhl and the Falcons will face Oakland Tuesday night in Rochester, Mich.
Falcons Head to Oakland for Tuesday Night Tilt
November 23, 2009 | Women's Basketball
BGSU plays third consecutive 2009 national postseason participant
THE OPENING TIP
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, for the third consecutive game, will hit the road to face a team that advanced to national postseason play a year ago ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will travel to Rochester, Mich., for a Tuesday (Nov. 24) matchup with Oakland University ... tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m. at the Athletics Center O'Rena (3,000) ... Miller and his staff return 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's club that won the Mid-American Conference's regular-season title for a fifth-straight season ... BGSU ended the 2008-09 campaign with an overall record of 29-5 (15-1 MAC) and advanced to the third round of the Postseason WNIT.
LINKS
BGSU Notes & Stats - PDF | BGSU Cumulative Stats only - PDF
BGSU Cumulative Stats - HTML | Oakland's Cumulative Stats - PDF
Oakland women's basketball home page - HTML
Final Preseason WNIT Championship Bracket - PDF
Final Preseason WNIT Consolation Bracket - PDF
Live Stats for Tuesday night's game
THAT'S A RARITY
• Rarely do the Falcons lose a game when making more three-point field goals than the opponent ... it's also pretty rare that BGSU loses when hitting more free throws than the other team ... and, it's not very often that the Brown and Orange will lose a game when outrebounding the opposition.
• It's VERY rare that the Falcons do all three things, but STILL lose the game ... however, BGSU fell at Marist despite making more three-point field goals, hitting more free throws and pulling down more rebounds than the Red Foxes.
• Such a phenomenon had not taken place in the Curt Miller Era ... in fact, the last such occurrence was over a decade ago, when Dee Knoblauch's Falcons lost at Northern Illinois on Feb. 23, 1999 ... the Falcons had three three-pointers to NIU's two, had a 12-6 advantage in free throws made and a 30-28 edge on the boards, but lost on a shot at the buzzer in the final game of the regular season.
• Last season at Miami, BG had more three-pointers and more rebounds, but the same number of free throws made in a loss to the RedHawks (March 4, 2009).
TOUGH CROWD
The Falcons' early-season schedule is difficult, to say the least ... BGSU is coming off of road games vs. third-ranked Ohio State and Marist ... the Falcons, Buckeyes and Red Foxes all recorded a total of 29 wins a year ago ... BG's first four opponents of the season – Chicago State, OSU, Marist and Oakland – averaged 25.0 wins a year ago ... the last three of those foes averaged 28.0 victories last season, and BGSU faces all three of those teams on the road.
FALCONS' FIVE-YEAR FLIGHT PATTERN
BGSU is near the top of the NCAA's list of winningest Division-I teams over the past five years ... the Falcons are 10th on both lists – wins and winning pct. ... the lists can be found in the PDF version of these notes
FALCONS PICKED TO WIN MAC TITLES IN 2009-10
The BGSU women's basketball team has been picked to win both the MAC's East Division and the conference tournament in 2010, according to the league's preseason poll ... the poll was released Oct. 28 by the MAC office ... Additionally, juniors Lauren Prochaska and Tracy Pontius were selected to the Preseason All-MAC Team ... the Falcons received 22 of the 36 votes to win the East Division ... BG was picked ahead of – in order – Kent State, Miami, Akron, Ohio and Buffalo ... BGSU has won five consecutive MAC regular-season titles ... Toledo was picked to win the West Division, followed by Ball State, Northern Illinois, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 1-2 on the young season, having played three games in the Preseason WNIT ... BGSU opened the 2009-10 campaign with a 76-41 win over Chicago State at venerable Anderson Arena (Nov. 13) ... that victory gave the Falcons a quarterfinal matchup with Ohio State (Nov. 15), and the third-ranked Buckeyes posted a 91-72 win in Columbus ... then, the Brown and Orange headed to Marist and suffered a 70-65 setback Saturday (Nov. 21).
• BGSU returns 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team that posted the second-highest win total in school and MAC history ... the Falcons went 29-5 overall, including a 15-1 MAC record, in 2008-09 ... the Brown and Orange won a fifth consecutive conference regular-season title and advanced to the third round of the Postseason WNIT.
• The Falcons had just one senior on the roster a year ago, and Lindsey Goldsberry ended her career as the winningest basketball player – man or woman – in MAC history ... BG had a record of 114-20 in her four years, an average of 28.5 wins per season.
• Through three games, junior Tracy Pontius leads the Falcons in scoring, with 13.7 points per game ... she also has 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per contest, and has made a team-leading eight three-point field goals ... senior Tamika Nurse has 12.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg and has hit seven three-pointers to date.
• Junior Jen Uhl has scored 11.0 points per game off the bench, and is shooting a team-best 63.2 percent from the field ... Uhl has gone 6-of-10 from long range to date ... junior Lauren Prochaska has 10.3 ppg, and leads the Falcons in both rebounds (7.0 rpg) and assists (3.7 apg).
• Senior Tara Breske and sophomore Jessica Slagle have 8.0 and 5.0 ppg, respectively ... Breske has 4.3 rebounds and a team-high 1.3 blocked shots per game ... Slagle has 2.0 assists per outing to date.
• The list of returnees in 2009-10 includes three seniors – Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper – along with five juniors ... Breske started all 34 games in the post last season.
• The returnees in the junior class include a pair of highly-decorated players in Prochaska and Pontius ... Prochaska, a wing, was the 2009 MAC Player of the Year, while Pontius, a point guard, was an honorable-mention selection to the Associated Press All-America Team ... both Pontius and Prochaska earned All-MAC First-Team honors in 2008-09.
• Juniors Uhl, Chelsea Albert and Kelly Zuercher also return ... Uhl started the final 13 games of the year at a forward spot ... sophomores Slagle and Maribeth Giese round out the returning letterwinners.
• Two other players get to suit up in a BG uniform for the first time ... Nurse, a fifth-year senior (Univ. of Oregon), and redshirt junior Maggie Hennegan (Saint Louis Univ.) participated in practices at BGSU last season, but sat out the year after transferring from other NCAA Division-I schools.
• Five newcomers also join the program in 2009-10 ... that list includes a quartet of freshmen in Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss, Chrissy Steffen and Jessie Tamerlano ... Danielle Havel also joins the program, but will sit out this season after transferring from DePaul University ... she will retain three seasons of eligibility.
• Nurse and Hennegan have joined Breske, Pontius and Prochaska in the starting lineup for each of the three games to date.
• Through those three games, the Falcons are shooting .390 from the field, .402 from three-point land and .809 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .424 overall, .333 from long range and .760 from the stripe.
THEY'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
The Falcons haven't started the season with a 1-2 record since ... well, since last year ... in fact, BG began 2008-09 with an 0-2 mark, suffering double-digit losses at Temple and Valparaiso ... then, the Brown and Orange proceeded to reel off a school-record 25 consecutive wins, en route to a 29-5 overall mark.
HIT THE BOARDS
The Falcons have a record of 103-11 when outrebounding opponents during the Curt Miller Era ... over the last five-plus seasons, BGSU has gone 83-4 in such games ... but, one of those losses was the Marist game on Saturday.
"T.B." STANDS FOR "THREE BALL"
Senior post player Tara Breske has hit the occasional three-point shot during her career, but stepped up her long-range production on Saturday at Marist ... Breske was a perfect 3-for-3 from three-point land vs. the Red Foxes, setting a new career high ... in her career, she is now 11-of-26 from long distance.
UHL BE KNOWN AS "THE MICROWAVE"
Junior Jen Uhl also displayed her proclivity from beyond the arc on Saturday at Marist ... she hit a career-high three three-point field goals, with all three coming within a 67-second span late in the opening half ... Uhl has made six three-pointers in 10 attempts this year to date.
LAST TIME OUT
Host Marist rallied from a double-digit deficit to post a 70-65 win over the Falcons Saturday afternoon (Nov. 21) at the McCann Center, in a Consolation Round 3 contest in the Preseason WNIT ... senior Tara Breske had 16 points to lead a balanced BG scoring attack ... juniors Tracy Pontius and Jen Uhl had 13 points apiece on the afternoon ... Marist All-American Rachele Fitz led all players with 28 points and eight rebounds, going 10-of-14 from the field and 8-for-9 from the free-throw line ... the Falcons built a 16-point lead late in the opening period ... but, the home team scored the last six points of the half, then went on a 16-4 run to take a two-point lead, 52-50, midway through the second half ... Breske hit one of her career-high three three-pointers at the 2:49 mark, and Pontius knocked down a pair of free throws to tie the game with 2:15 on the clock ... Lynzee Johnson's layup gave Marist a two-point lead, but junior Lauren Prochaska made a pair of free throws with exactly one minute left, tying the score at 65-65 ... on the ensuing possession, the Falcons forced a missed shot by Allanspach, but the Marist junior grabbed the rebound and hit an 'and-one' layup with 42 seconds remaining ... she missed the free throw, however, and Uhl grabbed the rebound ... BG missed a three-point try, and Fitz corralled the rebound and was fouled with 16.5 seconds left ... she hit both free throws, and the hosts salted away the win ... the Falcons hit a total of 12 triples on the afternoon, with Breske, Pontius and Uhl all making three ... Marist shot 50.0 percent from the field for the game, including a 53.6% rate in the second half.
SCOUTING OAKLAND
Oakland will enter Tuesday's game with an overall record of 1-3 ... the Golden Grizzlies posted a road win over Columbia in overtime (61-58; Nov. 15), but have suffered losses to Detroit and Toledo at home ... the team's most recent game was a 79-62 loss to Marquette on Saturday (Nov. 21) in Milwaukee ... Oakland will be BG's third consecutive opponent that won at least 25 games and made a national postseason appearance a year ago ... freshman F/C Bethany Watterworth paces the team in scoring, with 15.0 points per game, and is second in rebounding with 6.8 per contest ... senior guard Melissa Jeltema has 12.3 ppg and a team-leading 8.0 rpg ... Jeltema also leads the Grizzlies in blocked shots (1.0 bpg) and steals (1.8 spg) ... senior forward Hanna Reising and sophomore guard Sharise Calhoun has 10.8 and 9.3 ppg, respectively ... Calhoun is a Toledo native (Central Catholic H.S.) ... freshman guard Karli Harris (2.3 ppg) joined Calhoun, Jeltema, Reising and Watterworth in the starting lineup at Marquette ... the Golden Grizzlies returned eight letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team that finished 26-7 overall and 16-2 in Summit League play ... OU, like BGSU, advanced to the Postseason WNIT in March ... head coach Beckie Francis is 171-102 in her 10th season at Oakland ... she has an overall record of 201-150 in her 13th season as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletics web site is ougrizzlies.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons and Oakland are tied, 3-3, in the all-time series between the teams ... BGSU has won the last two meetings with the Golden Grizzlies ... the Falcons downed OU by an 89-58 outcome the last time the teams met, three years ago (Nov. 29, 2006) at Anderson Arena ... in the last meeting in Rochester, BGSU posted a 72-59 win just before Christmas four seasons ago (Dec. 22, 2005) ... BGSU is 2-1 in road games vs. the Grizzlies ... Curt Miller has a record of 3-1 vs. the Golden Grizzlies in his Falcon head-coaching tenure ... the complete list of game-by-game series results can be found in the PDF version o' these notes.
PROCHASKA MOVING UP BGSU SCORING LIST
Junior Lauren Prochaska enters the Oakland game ranked 18th on the BGSU career scoring list ... Prochaska has a total of 1,121 points in her Falcon tenure ... her next target on that list is 17th-place Andrea Nordmann, who had 1,164 points from 1989-93.
JUST AS SUCCESSFUL IN THE CLASSROOM
The Falcons had one of the most successful seasons in program history on the court in 2008-09 ... head coach Curt Miller's program had one of its most successful campaigns in the classroom as well ... BGSU was ranked fifth in the entire nation on the WBCA's Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for 2008-09 ... the awards recognized teams throughout the country that had the highest grade point averages for 2008-09 ... as a team, the Falcons had a GPA of 3.470 in '08-09 ... BGSU was the only MAC program on the list, and the Falcons were also the only program from the state of Ohio in the Division-I Top 25.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 1-2 on the young season;
• 29-5 overall in 2008-09;
• 29-3 in the final 32 games of last year, after an 0-2 start to the season;
• 15-1 in MAC play last year, good for a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 5-12 in 12 national postseason appearances (including a 3-9 record in the NCAA Championships and a 2-3 mark in WNIT trips);
• 180-75 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 94-34 in MAC games in that time:
• 4-5 in national postseason action under Miller (including a 2-3 mark in the NCAAs and a 2-2 record in the WNIT);
• 171-56 overall in the seven years (plus three games) 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);
• 159-40 over the last six-plus years, with 2008-09 marking BG's sixth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 138-30 in the past five-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in each year and a MAC regular-season title in every season;
• an eye-popping 115-22 overall and 59-5 in the MAC regular season in the last four-plus years, with the first 114 of those wins coinciding with the career of Lindsey Goldsberry;
• 87-19 in the last three-plus years, including a 43-5 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 56-15 overall, and 28-4 in MAC regular-season games, since juniors Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher began their respective playing careers at BGSU;
• 74-7 in the last 81 games vs. MAC opponents (including regular-season and tourney games);
• 36-4 in MAC home games in the last five seasons;
• 30-2 in MAC road games over the last four years (with the lone losses during that time coming in 2007-08 at Ball State and last March at Miami);
• 12-2 in the MAC Tournament over the last five years, with three titles (2005, '06 and '07), a championship-game appearance last season, and a trip to the semifinals in 2008;
• 36-16 overall in the MAC Tournament since it was instituted in 1982;
• 24-11 in MAC Tournament contests played at a neutral site;
• 14-4 at Gund/Quicken Loans Arena;
• 15-5 in MAC Tournament games in the Curt Miller Era;
• 14-3 at "The Gund"/"The Q" under Miller;
• 24-3 in non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season (including the WNIT games); and
• 20-2 against non-league foes at Anderson Arena since November of 2004.
CAPTAINS
Seniors Tara Breske and Sarah Clapper and redshirt junior Maggie Hennegan are the captains of the 2009-10 Falcons ... Breske is a captain for the second consecutive year ... the captains earned that distinction in a vote of their teammates ... the award is particularly impressive in Hennegan's case, as she was chosen as a captain before ever playing her first game as a Falcon.
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, for the third consecutive game, will hit the road to face a team that advanced to national postseason play a year ago ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will travel to Rochester, Mich., for a Tuesday (Nov. 24) matchup with Oakland University ... tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m. at the Athletics Center O'Rena (3,000) ... Miller and his staff return 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's club that won the Mid-American Conference's regular-season title for a fifth-straight season ... BGSU ended the 2008-09 campaign with an overall record of 29-5 (15-1 MAC) and advanced to the third round of the Postseason WNIT.
LINKS
BGSU Notes & Stats - PDF | BGSU Cumulative Stats only - PDF
BGSU Cumulative Stats - HTML | Oakland's Cumulative Stats - PDF
Oakland women's basketball home page - HTML
Final Preseason WNIT Championship Bracket - PDF
Final Preseason WNIT Consolation Bracket - PDF
Live Stats for Tuesday night's game
THAT'S A RARITY
• Rarely do the Falcons lose a game when making more three-point field goals than the opponent ... it's also pretty rare that BGSU loses when hitting more free throws than the other team ... and, it's not very often that the Brown and Orange will lose a game when outrebounding the opposition.
• It's VERY rare that the Falcons do all three things, but STILL lose the game ... however, BGSU fell at Marist despite making more three-point field goals, hitting more free throws and pulling down more rebounds than the Red Foxes.
• Such a phenomenon had not taken place in the Curt Miller Era ... in fact, the last such occurrence was over a decade ago, when Dee Knoblauch's Falcons lost at Northern Illinois on Feb. 23, 1999 ... the Falcons had three three-pointers to NIU's two, had a 12-6 advantage in free throws made and a 30-28 edge on the boards, but lost on a shot at the buzzer in the final game of the regular season.
• Last season at Miami, BG had more three-pointers and more rebounds, but the same number of free throws made in a loss to the RedHawks (March 4, 2009).
TOUGH CROWD
The Falcons' early-season schedule is difficult, to say the least ... BGSU is coming off of road games vs. third-ranked Ohio State and Marist ... the Falcons, Buckeyes and Red Foxes all recorded a total of 29 wins a year ago ... BG's first four opponents of the season – Chicago State, OSU, Marist and Oakland – averaged 25.0 wins a year ago ... the last three of those foes averaged 28.0 victories last season, and BGSU faces all three of those teams on the road.
FALCONS' FIVE-YEAR FLIGHT PATTERN
BGSU is near the top of the NCAA's list of winningest Division-I teams over the past five years ... the Falcons are 10th on both lists – wins and winning pct. ... the lists can be found in the PDF version of these notes
FALCONS PICKED TO WIN MAC TITLES IN 2009-10
The BGSU women's basketball team has been picked to win both the MAC's East Division and the conference tournament in 2010, according to the league's preseason poll ... the poll was released Oct. 28 by the MAC office ... Additionally, juniors Lauren Prochaska and Tracy Pontius were selected to the Preseason All-MAC Team ... the Falcons received 22 of the 36 votes to win the East Division ... BG was picked ahead of – in order – Kent State, Miami, Akron, Ohio and Buffalo ... BGSU has won five consecutive MAC regular-season titles ... Toledo was picked to win the West Division, followed by Ball State, Northern Illinois, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 1-2 on the young season, having played three games in the Preseason WNIT ... BGSU opened the 2009-10 campaign with a 76-41 win over Chicago State at venerable Anderson Arena (Nov. 13) ... that victory gave the Falcons a quarterfinal matchup with Ohio State (Nov. 15), and the third-ranked Buckeyes posted a 91-72 win in Columbus ... then, the Brown and Orange headed to Marist and suffered a 70-65 setback Saturday (Nov. 21).
• BGSU returns 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team that posted the second-highest win total in school and MAC history ... the Falcons went 29-5 overall, including a 15-1 MAC record, in 2008-09 ... the Brown and Orange won a fifth consecutive conference regular-season title and advanced to the third round of the Postseason WNIT.
• The Falcons had just one senior on the roster a year ago, and Lindsey Goldsberry ended her career as the winningest basketball player – man or woman – in MAC history ... BG had a record of 114-20 in her four years, an average of 28.5 wins per season.
• Through three games, junior Tracy Pontius leads the Falcons in scoring, with 13.7 points per game ... she also has 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per contest, and has made a team-leading eight three-point field goals ... senior Tamika Nurse has 12.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg and has hit seven three-pointers to date.
• Junior Jen Uhl has scored 11.0 points per game off the bench, and is shooting a team-best 63.2 percent from the field ... Uhl has gone 6-of-10 from long range to date ... junior Lauren Prochaska has 10.3 ppg, and leads the Falcons in both rebounds (7.0 rpg) and assists (3.7 apg).
• Senior Tara Breske and sophomore Jessica Slagle have 8.0 and 5.0 ppg, respectively ... Breske has 4.3 rebounds and a team-high 1.3 blocked shots per game ... Slagle has 2.0 assists per outing to date.
• The list of returnees in 2009-10 includes three seniors – Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper – along with five juniors ... Breske started all 34 games in the post last season.
• The returnees in the junior class include a pair of highly-decorated players in Prochaska and Pontius ... Prochaska, a wing, was the 2009 MAC Player of the Year, while Pontius, a point guard, was an honorable-mention selection to the Associated Press All-America Team ... both Pontius and Prochaska earned All-MAC First-Team honors in 2008-09.
• Juniors Uhl, Chelsea Albert and Kelly Zuercher also return ... Uhl started the final 13 games of the year at a forward spot ... sophomores Slagle and Maribeth Giese round out the returning letterwinners.
• Two other players get to suit up in a BG uniform for the first time ... Nurse, a fifth-year senior (Univ. of Oregon), and redshirt junior Maggie Hennegan (Saint Louis Univ.) participated in practices at BGSU last season, but sat out the year after transferring from other NCAA Division-I schools.
• Five newcomers also join the program in 2009-10 ... that list includes a quartet of freshmen in Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss, Chrissy Steffen and Jessie Tamerlano ... Danielle Havel also joins the program, but will sit out this season after transferring from DePaul University ... she will retain three seasons of eligibility.
• Nurse and Hennegan have joined Breske, Pontius and Prochaska in the starting lineup for each of the three games to date.
• Through those three games, the Falcons are shooting .390 from the field, .402 from three-point land and .809 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .424 overall, .333 from long range and .760 from the stripe.
THEY'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
The Falcons haven't started the season with a 1-2 record since ... well, since last year ... in fact, BG began 2008-09 with an 0-2 mark, suffering double-digit losses at Temple and Valparaiso ... then, the Brown and Orange proceeded to reel off a school-record 25 consecutive wins, en route to a 29-5 overall mark.
HIT THE BOARDS
The Falcons have a record of 103-11 when outrebounding opponents during the Curt Miller Era ... over the last five-plus seasons, BGSU has gone 83-4 in such games ... but, one of those losses was the Marist game on Saturday.
"T.B." STANDS FOR "THREE BALL"
Senior post player Tara Breske has hit the occasional three-point shot during her career, but stepped up her long-range production on Saturday at Marist ... Breske was a perfect 3-for-3 from three-point land vs. the Red Foxes, setting a new career high ... in her career, she is now 11-of-26 from long distance.
UHL BE KNOWN AS "THE MICROWAVE"
Junior Jen Uhl also displayed her proclivity from beyond the arc on Saturday at Marist ... she hit a career-high three three-point field goals, with all three coming within a 67-second span late in the opening half ... Uhl has made six three-pointers in 10 attempts this year to date.
LAST TIME OUT
Host Marist rallied from a double-digit deficit to post a 70-65 win over the Falcons Saturday afternoon (Nov. 21) at the McCann Center, in a Consolation Round 3 contest in the Preseason WNIT ... senior Tara Breske had 16 points to lead a balanced BG scoring attack ... juniors Tracy Pontius and Jen Uhl had 13 points apiece on the afternoon ... Marist All-American Rachele Fitz led all players with 28 points and eight rebounds, going 10-of-14 from the field and 8-for-9 from the free-throw line ... the Falcons built a 16-point lead late in the opening period ... but, the home team scored the last six points of the half, then went on a 16-4 run to take a two-point lead, 52-50, midway through the second half ... Breske hit one of her career-high three three-pointers at the 2:49 mark, and Pontius knocked down a pair of free throws to tie the game with 2:15 on the clock ... Lynzee Johnson's layup gave Marist a two-point lead, but junior Lauren Prochaska made a pair of free throws with exactly one minute left, tying the score at 65-65 ... on the ensuing possession, the Falcons forced a missed shot by Allanspach, but the Marist junior grabbed the rebound and hit an 'and-one' layup with 42 seconds remaining ... she missed the free throw, however, and Uhl grabbed the rebound ... BG missed a three-point try, and Fitz corralled the rebound and was fouled with 16.5 seconds left ... she hit both free throws, and the hosts salted away the win ... the Falcons hit a total of 12 triples on the afternoon, with Breske, Pontius and Uhl all making three ... Marist shot 50.0 percent from the field for the game, including a 53.6% rate in the second half.
SCOUTING OAKLAND
Oakland will enter Tuesday's game with an overall record of 1-3 ... the Golden Grizzlies posted a road win over Columbia in overtime (61-58; Nov. 15), but have suffered losses to Detroit and Toledo at home ... the team's most recent game was a 79-62 loss to Marquette on Saturday (Nov. 21) in Milwaukee ... Oakland will be BG's third consecutive opponent that won at least 25 games and made a national postseason appearance a year ago ... freshman F/C Bethany Watterworth paces the team in scoring, with 15.0 points per game, and is second in rebounding with 6.8 per contest ... senior guard Melissa Jeltema has 12.3 ppg and a team-leading 8.0 rpg ... Jeltema also leads the Grizzlies in blocked shots (1.0 bpg) and steals (1.8 spg) ... senior forward Hanna Reising and sophomore guard Sharise Calhoun has 10.8 and 9.3 ppg, respectively ... Calhoun is a Toledo native (Central Catholic H.S.) ... freshman guard Karli Harris (2.3 ppg) joined Calhoun, Jeltema, Reising and Watterworth in the starting lineup at Marquette ... the Golden Grizzlies returned eight letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team that finished 26-7 overall and 16-2 in Summit League play ... OU, like BGSU, advanced to the Postseason WNIT in March ... head coach Beckie Francis is 171-102 in her 10th season at Oakland ... she has an overall record of 201-150 in her 13th season as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletics web site is ougrizzlies.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons and Oakland are tied, 3-3, in the all-time series between the teams ... BGSU has won the last two meetings with the Golden Grizzlies ... the Falcons downed OU by an 89-58 outcome the last time the teams met, three years ago (Nov. 29, 2006) at Anderson Arena ... in the last meeting in Rochester, BGSU posted a 72-59 win just before Christmas four seasons ago (Dec. 22, 2005) ... BGSU is 2-1 in road games vs. the Grizzlies ... Curt Miller has a record of 3-1 vs. the Golden Grizzlies in his Falcon head-coaching tenure ... the complete list of game-by-game series results can be found in the PDF version o' these notes.
PROCHASKA MOVING UP BGSU SCORING LIST
Junior Lauren Prochaska enters the Oakland game ranked 18th on the BGSU career scoring list ... Prochaska has a total of 1,121 points in her Falcon tenure ... her next target on that list is 17th-place Andrea Nordmann, who had 1,164 points from 1989-93.
JUST AS SUCCESSFUL IN THE CLASSROOM
The Falcons had one of the most successful seasons in program history on the court in 2008-09 ... head coach Curt Miller's program had one of its most successful campaigns in the classroom as well ... BGSU was ranked fifth in the entire nation on the WBCA's Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for 2008-09 ... the awards recognized teams throughout the country that had the highest grade point averages for 2008-09 ... as a team, the Falcons had a GPA of 3.470 in '08-09 ... BGSU was the only MAC program on the list, and the Falcons were also the only program from the state of Ohio in the Division-I Top 25.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 1-2 on the young season;
• 29-5 overall in 2008-09;
• 29-3 in the final 32 games of last year, after an 0-2 start to the season;
• 15-1 in MAC play last year, good for a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 5-12 in 12 national postseason appearances (including a 3-9 record in the NCAA Championships and a 2-3 mark in WNIT trips);
• 180-75 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 94-34 in MAC games in that time:
• 4-5 in national postseason action under Miller (including a 2-3 mark in the NCAAs and a 2-2 record in the WNIT);
• 171-56 overall in the seven years (plus three games) 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);
• 159-40 over the last six-plus years, with 2008-09 marking BG's sixth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 138-30 in the past five-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in each year and a MAC regular-season title in every season;
• an eye-popping 115-22 overall and 59-5 in the MAC regular season in the last four-plus years, with the first 114 of those wins coinciding with the career of Lindsey Goldsberry;
• 87-19 in the last three-plus years, including a 43-5 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 56-15 overall, and 28-4 in MAC regular-season games, since juniors Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher began their respective playing careers at BGSU;
• 74-7 in the last 81 games vs. MAC opponents (including regular-season and tourney games);
• 36-4 in MAC home games in the last five seasons;
• 30-2 in MAC road games over the last four years (with the lone losses during that time coming in 2007-08 at Ball State and last March at Miami);
• 12-2 in the MAC Tournament over the last five years, with three titles (2005, '06 and '07), a championship-game appearance last season, and a trip to the semifinals in 2008;
• 36-16 overall in the MAC Tournament since it was instituted in 1982;
• 24-11 in MAC Tournament contests played at a neutral site;
• 14-4 at Gund/Quicken Loans Arena;
• 15-5 in MAC Tournament games in the Curt Miller Era;
• 14-3 at "The Gund"/"The Q" under Miller;
• 24-3 in non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season (including the WNIT games); and
• 20-2 against non-league foes at Anderson Arena since November of 2004.
CAPTAINS
Seniors Tara Breske and Sarah Clapper and redshirt junior Maggie Hennegan are the captains of the 2009-10 Falcons ... Breske is a captain for the second consecutive year ... the captains earned that distinction in a vote of their teammates ... the award is particularly impressive in Hennegan's case, as she was chosen as a captain before ever playing her first game as a Falcon.
Amy Velasco, Lexi Fleming, & Coach Chmiel Postgame Interview (Mar. 5, 2025)
Thursday, March 06
Paige Kohler, Coach Chmiel, & Amy Velasco Postgame Interview (Feb. 26, 2025)
Thursday, February 27
In the Paint: Lexxus Graham-Blincoe
Wednesday, February 26
Erika Porter, Amy Velasco, & Coach Chmiel Postgame Interview (Feb. 22, 2025)
Sunday, February 23