Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Wrap Up Another Successful Season
June 09, 2009 | Women's Basketball
BGSU wins fifth-straight MAC regular-season title, returns to national postseason play
PLAYING DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO MARCH
The Falcons participated in national postseason play for the fifth consecutive year ... and, for the third year in a row, BGSU picked up at least one win in a national tournament ... this season's 72-69 win over Syracuse was the program's fifth-ever win in national postseason play, and the fourth in the last three seasons ... the Falcons advanced to the 'Sweet 16' of the NCAA Championships two years ago with wins over Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt, and BGSU downed Dayton at Anderson Arena in the first round of last year's WNIT ... overall, BGSU now has a 5-12 record in national postseason play, having gone 3-9 in the NCAA Championships and 2-3 in the WNIT ... the Falcons are now 4-5 in such games in the Curt Miller Era (2-3 NCAA, 2-2 WNIT).
GOLDEN NUGGET
The Falcons had just one senior on the roster in 2008-09 ... it has been well documented that Lindsey Goldsberry finished her career as the winningest player - man or woman - in MAC basketball history ... the Falcons have posted a record of 114-20 in the four years since 'Golds' ventured to Northwest Ohio prior to the start of the 2005-06 season ... a few more Goldsberry-related notes follow ...
CONVERSATION STARTER
Prior to the start of the 2005-06 season, no MAC women's basketball team had ever won more than 27 games ... a total of four teams - including the 1986-87 and '88-89 Falcon squads - had reached that mark ... if your name was Lindsey Goldsberry, any time you met a current or former MAC women's basketball player, you could begin the conversation by mentioning that not only were you a part of three teams that topped that total, but you also averaged more than 27 wins per season during your uber-successful college career ... with Goldsberry on the roster, the Falcons averaged 28.5 wins per season, going 114-20 during that time ... obviously, Goldsberry is the only MAC women's basketball student-athlete to have played on the three winningest teams in league history.
MAC WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RECORD BOOK
Most Wins, Season
31 - Bowling Green, 2006-07 (31-4)
29 - Bowling Green, 2008-09 (29-5)
28 - Bowling Green, 2005-06 (28-3)
A FEW MORE GOLDSBERRY-RELATED NOTES
• Lindsey Goldsberry became the winningest MAC basketball player - again, male or female - in history when the Falcons won at Buffalo on Feb. 25 ... she broke the 'old' MAC record held by last year's BGSU women's basketball senior class, which consisted of Kate Achter and Whitney Taylor ... that duo helped the Falcons go 108-23 during their careers;
• The Falcons posted at least 26 wins in each of Goldsberry's four seasons in the Brown and Orange, including the three highest win totals in MAC women's basketball history;
• BGSU finished 59-5 in MAC regular-season play and went a combined 68-7 against conference opponents (9-2 in the MAC Tournament) during Goldsberry's four years;
• Goldsberry never lost to seven of the 11 MAC opponents during her career, including Akron (8-0), Buffalo (8-0), Central Michigan (5-0), Eastern Michigan (5-0), Kent State (10-0), Northern Illlinois (5-0) and arch-rival Toledo (7-0) ... BG's seven losses to MAC opponents during Goldsberry's career came vs. Ohio in February of 2007; Miami, Ball State and Western Michigan during a three-game span in January of 2008; OU again in the semifinal round of last year's conference tournament in Cleveland; MU in the second-to-last game of the regular season; and BSU in the MAC Tournament championship game;
• Goldsberry's Falcon teams had a record of 29-3 in home games vs. MAC opponents, 9-2 in neutral-site contests vs. league foes (all in Cleveland), and a mind-boggling 30-2 mark in road games vs. conference competition.
THE SENIOR(S)
Have we mentioned Lindsey Goldsberry's name yet? You might have heard that she was the winningest player in MAC basketball history ... additionally, there was one other senior in the program in 2008-09 ... Goldsberry's former high-school classmate, Randall Clark, is the winningest manager in MAC hoops history ... Clark, like Goldsberry, is a graduate of Chaminade-Julienne High School in Dayton.
THE JUNIORS
Third-year Falcons Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper have helped the Brown and Orange average 28.7 wins per season since arriving on campus ... that trio has been a part of the two winningest teams in program history, as well as four of the five national postseason wins in BG annals ... BGSU has gone 86-17 overall and 43-5 in MAC regular-season action since Breske, Bugher and Clapper came to the school.
THE SOPHOMORES
BGSU has posted a record of 55-13 overall and 28-4 in MAC regular-season games since Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher set foot on campus ... that is an average of 27.5 wins per year ... the Falcons have played national postseason tournament games at Anderson Arena in both seasons, beating Dayton in last year's WNIT and facing Syracuse and Indiana in that tourney at 'The House That Roars' in 2009.
THE FRESHMEN
Maribeth Giese, Jessica Slagle and Victoria McGowan helped the Brown and Orange to 29 wins - the second-highest total in MAC history - along with a school-record 25-game winning streak ... McGowan and another first-year Falcon, junior transfer Niki McCoy, will not return to the program in 2009-10.
THE NEWCOMERS
In November, Curt Miller announced the signing of three student-athletes to National Letters of Intent ... Allison Papenfuss (Whitehouse, Ohio/Anthony Wayne), Chrissy Steffen (Carmel, Ind./Carmel) and Jessie Tamerlano (North Royalton, Ohio/North Royalton) will join the Falcon program for the 2009-10 academic year ... additionally, Simone Eli (Genoa, Ohio/Genoa) will join the BGSU program in the fall of 2009.
THE NEWCOMERS II
Two other players will make their respective BGSU playing debuts in 2009-10, as a pair of NCAA Division-I transfers will suit up for the Brown and Orange ... Tamika Nurse, who came to BG from the University of Oregon, and Maggie Hennegan, from Saint Louis University, sat out the '08-09 season due to NCAA transfer rules ... Nurse will have just one season of eligibility, while Hennegan has two years of eligibility remaining.
PONTIUS IS AN ALL AMERICAN
Sophomore Tracy Pontius was named to the Associated Press All-America Team, it was announced on March 31 ... she earned honorable mention to the squad ... Pontius was the lone player from the MAC to be named to the team ... she had a stellar sophomore season, averaging 14.8 points and 4.1 assists per game ... she led the Falcons in a myriad of categories, including assists, three-point field goals made (77) and three-point pct. (43.0%) ... Pontius fell just one triple shy of tying the school single-season record.
GOLDSBERRY PICKS UP MULTIPLE AWARDS AT TEAM BANQUET
Senior Lindsey Goldsberry picked up multiple awards at the BGSU Women's Basketball Awards Banquet, which was held on May 1 ... sophomore Lauren Prochaska was named the team's Player of the Year, in a vote of team members ... junior Tara Breske was the Falcons' Power Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, while soph Tracy Pontius was named the Playmaker of the Year ... freshman Jessica Slagle picked up the Most Improved Player award, with junior Laura Bugher selected as the Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... Goldsberry, however, picked up no fewer than three awards on the evening ... she was named the Impact Player of the Year, and also earned the Fran & Marty Voll Senior Achievement Award ... and, Goldsberry and senior manager Randall Clark were co-winners of the Falcon Award, given to the person or persons who embody qualities such as dedication, commitment, effort and being the ultimate team player ... Goldsberry also had earned the Falcon award in her junior season.
CO-CAPTAINS NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-MAC TEAM
BGSU's 2008-09 co-captains, senior Lindsey Goldsberry and junior Tara Breske, were named to the Academic All-MAC Team ... the team was announced by the conference office on April 17 ... BG was one of just two teams (Northern Illinois) to have two student-athletes named to the team ... both Goldsberry and Breske started all 34 games in '08-09 ... Goldsberry averaged 5.1 points and 2.6 rebounds, leading the Falcons with 1.8 steals per game and finishing second on the team with 2.3 assists per contest ... Breske averaged 7.5 points, 6.3 boards, 1.2 steals and 1.2 blocked shots per game ... she led the Falcons in blocks and finished second in rebounding.
SPEAKING OF CAPTAINS ...
At the team banquet honoring the 2008-09 Falcons, head coach Curt Miller announced the team's captains for the 2009-10 season ... Tara Breske, Sarah Clapper and Maggie Hennegan will be the team's tri-captains next season ... Breske and Clapper will be seniors, while Hennegan will be a redshirt junior ... 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.
GOLDSBERRY, BUGHER EARN MAJOR ACADEMIC AWARDS
Two Falcon standouts picked up some major awards as the BGSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics held its annual Athletic Honors Night on April 18 ... senior Lindsey Goldsberry and junior Laura Bugher, two of the 12 women's basketball student-athletes who were invited to the event, earned some of the most prestigious honors handed out by the department ... Goldsberry was the female recipient of the Falcon Medal of Honor, while Bugher was the Falcon Club's female Junior Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... Goldsberry finished 11th in the MAC in steals and had an assist/turnover ratio of 2.08 in 2008-09 ... she finished her career with a total of 216 steals, ranking fifth in BGSU history ... Bugher played in 21 games off the bench, averaging 0.8 points and 0.8 rebounds per game ... she, along with Goldsberry, has been a part of the two winningest teams in MAC women's basketball history.
ROOS NAMED A BASKETBALLSCOOP 2009 "RISING STAR"
BGSU associate head coach Jennifer Roos was named a winner of BasketballScoop.com's "Rising Star" Award ... Roos was one of just five national winners of the honor, announced on May 4 ... the awards recognize those assistant coaches who are some of the best in the business as determined by their peers ... the website announced the list of 20 semifinalists on March 30 ... the semifinalists were nominated by at least one of their peers in the coaching profession ... that was followed by an on-line voting process, resulting in the announcement of 10 finalists on April 20 ... from that point, BasketballScoop's panel of coaches selected the five winners ... the rest of that list included Mike Neighbors (Xavier), Vic Schaefer (Texas A&M), Jackie Smith Carson (James Madison) and Jonathan Tsipis (Notre Dame) ... Roos has been on Curt Miller's staff for all eight of his seasons at Bowling Green.
TWENTY NINE WINS
The win over Syracuse gave BGSU 29 victories this season ... that total ranks second on both the school and Mid-American Conference lists ... all three of the MAC's top win totals have been compiled by the Falcons over the last four seasons ... the 2006-07 team had 31 wins en route to the NCAA `Sweet Sixteen,' a year after the 2005-06 Falcons had picked up 28 victories.
NOW THAT'S A FIVE-YEAR PLAN
Over the last five years (since the start of the 2004-05 season), the Falcons have won a total of 137 games ... BGSU has averaged over 27 wins per season during that time ... in fact, the Falcons' average win total (27.4) nearly matches the program's total number of losses (28) during that five-year span ... BGSU has won five MAC regular-season titles and made five national postseason appearances in that time.
NOW THAT'S A FIVE-YEAR PLAN, CONFERENCE-ONLY VERSION
In MAC games over the last five years, the Falcons have no fewer than 72 victories ... that's an average of 14.4 wins per year (a pretty impressive feat considering each team plays just 16 MAC games per season) ... BGSU's average win total in MAC play nearly DOUBLES the program's total number of losses (eight) during that five-year span.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons finished the season with an overall record of 29-5, posting the second-highest win total in school and Mid-American Conference history, and BGSU ended MAC play with a 15-1 league ledger ... after opening the year with road losses against Temple and Valparaiso, BGSU won a school-record 25-straight games from late November until early March ... BG was ranked 25th in the nation in one Associated Press poll (March 2) and two USA Today ESPN (Feb. 24 and March 3) polls, before losing at Miami (March 4) and dropping out.
• Following that Miami game, the Falcons bounced back with a 79-64 home win over Ohio on Senior Day (March 7), then picked up a pair of wins in the Kraft MAC Tournament ... BG defeated Central Michigan, 82-65 (March 13) in the quarterfinal round, then downed arch-rival Toledo by a 79-66 count in the semis (March 14) ... the Brown and Orange suffered a 55-51 loss to Ball State in the championship game (March 15) ... BGSU earned a bid to the WNIT and received a first-round bye ... the Falcons opened WNIT action with a 72-69 win over Syracuse (March 22), before falling to Indiana, 75-67, in the third round (March 26) ... both WNIT games were held at Anderson Arena.
• BG won a school-record 11 non-conference games for the third-straight year, then went 5-0 in the first round-robin swing through the MAC's East Division and 6-0 against the West ... the Falcons began the second trip through the East with road wins over Akron and Buffalo ... the latter game saw the Falcons win in overtime for the third time in a span of four road contests ... the Brown and Orange returned home and downed Kent State, 61-54 (Feb. 28), to move to 14-0 in MAC play before suffering the narrow loss to Miami.
• The Falcons went 14-1 at home, 11-3 on the road and 4-1 in neutral-site games ... the team's home win total set a school record ... BG won two tournaments, the UNCG Marriott Classic and the Dayton Flyer Classic, during the non-league portion of the schedule ... in between, the Falcons had a 4-0 December homestand, winning the first two games by a combined 63 points over Detroit and Youngstown State, then downing St. Bonaventure and Hartford ... at the Dayton tourney, the Falcons topped Gardner-Webb and the host Flyers to win the title ... BGSU closed the non-league slate and opened the 2009 calendar year with a win at SIU Edwardsville, just prior to the MAC schedule ... senior Lindsey Goldsberry, junior Tara Breske and sophomores Tracy Pontius and Lauren Prochaska each started all 34 games ... junior Niki McCoy started the first 21 games of the year, and sophomore Jen Uhl started each of the last 13.
• Prochaska, the 2009 MAC Player of the Year, led the team in both scoring and rebounding, with 17.3 points and 6.5 boards per game ... Prochaska had 13 games of 20 points or more, including a school-record 43-point explosion in the regular-season win over Central Michigan, and was named MAC Player of the Week five times this season ... in the WNIT's second round (March 22), she had 22 points and a career-high 17 rebounds in the win over Syracuse, and blocked two potential game-tying shots in the final seconds ... after suffering an injury on the final play of that game, she returned to play 39 minutes in the Indiana game, scoring a game-high 22 points vs. the Hoosiers ... Prochaska led the entire nation in free-throw percentage (93.3%; 167-of-179), and averaged 19.6 ppg in MAC games to lead the conference in scoring.
• Pontius was second on the team with 14.8 ppg ... the sophomore, who joined Prochaska on the All-MAC First Team, was named the MAC Tournament MVP, becoming the first-ever player to earn the honor from a team other than the tourney champion ... she also was named an honorable-mention All-American by the Associated Press ... Pontius led the Falcons in assists, with 4.2 per game, and is second in steals (1.5 spg) ... she exploded for 17 points in the overtime period alone at Buffalo (Feb. 25), hitting three-pointers on five consecutive trips down the floor, and had a similar trip to 'the zone' vs. UT at the MAC Tournament, with her school record-tying eight three-point field goals including a 7-of-8 performance in the second half ... Pontius finished second in the MAC in assist/turnover ratio (1.66) ... McCoy, who joined Pontius on the MAC's All-Tournament Team, had 13.2 ppg and 5.5 rpg to rank third on the team in both categories.
• Breske averaged 7.5 ppg on the season, while Goldsberry and freshman Jessica Slagle had 5.1 ppg apiece and Uhl 5.0 ... Breske was second on the team in rebounding, with 6.3 rpg ... she averaged 8.8 points and a team-leading 7.4 boards over the final 13 games, including a career-high 14 rebounds at Western Michigan ... Breske also topped BG in blocks (1.2 bpg) ... Goldsberry led the Falcons in steals (1.8 spg) and was second in assists (2.3 apg) ... she also had an impressive assist/TO ratio of 2.08, but fell shy of the minimum number of assists to qualify for the league leaders ... Uhl, in addition to her 5.0 points, had 4.0 boards per game ... she averaged 6.6 ppg and 5.3 rpg after moving into the starting lineup, and had a career-high 14 boards at Miami ... Slagle played in the first 29 games off the bench, but was injured in the regular-season finale vs. Ohio ... she missed the three MAC Tournament games and the two WNIT contests.
• The Falcons shot 42.8% from the field on the year ... BG had a three-point FG pct. of 36.2%, with 6.97 triples made per game, and shot a school-record 79.4% from the free-throw line ... the opponents shot 39.4% from the floor, 31.0% from long range and 67.4% from the stripe ... the Falcons had 36.2 rebounds per game to the opponents' 37.4 ... BG turned the ball over 15.0 times per game, but forced the opponents into 18.3 per outing.
• The Falcons made almost 300 more free throws (651) than the opponents (372) ... in fact, BGSU made nearly 100 more FTs than the foes attempted (552).
• In MAC games, BG shot 42.2% from the floor, 36.5% from the arc and an impressive 81.5% from the stripe ... the opponents shot 40.0% from the field, 29.6% from three-point range and 67.0% from the line ... Prochaska, as mentioned, led the league with 19.6 points in MAC games, and also had 5.9 boards ... Pontius had 15.9 ppg and 4.8 assists per outing, while McCoy had 10.5 ppg and 5.2 rpg ... Breske averaged 8.4 points and 6.8 boards in MAC games, while Uhl had 6.6 ppg and 4.8 rpg.
• The Falcons returned a total of nine letterwinners, including three starters, from last season's team ... the group of returnees combined for 65.9% of the points and 75.0% of the rebounds from last year's 26-8 club ... that BGSU team won the MAC's regular-season title, posting a 13-3 conference record ... the Falcons advanced to the semifinals of the MAC Tournament before falling in double OT ... Goldsberry, the team's lone senior, is one of the three returning starters from the '07-08 squad ... Breske and Prochaska are the other two.
• Sophs Pontius, Uhl and Chelsea Albert each played in all 34 games last year, with Albert making six starts ... the list of returning letterwinners from last season also includes juniors Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper and sophomore Kelly Zuercher.
• There were three freshmen - Maribeth Giese, Slagle and Victoria McGowan - on the 2008-09 roster for the Brown and Orange ... two other newcomers also came into the Falcon fold ... transfers Maggie Hennegan (Saint Louis Univ.) and Tamika Nurse (Univ. of Oregon) sat out the '08-09 season, and will be eligible in 2009-10 ... Nurse will have one season of eligibility remaining, while Hennegan will have two.
FALCONS LIKE THE BIG CROWDS
The fans turned out in droves to watch BGSU play in '08-09, and the Falcons thrived on the big crowds ... BG had a record of 20-2 on the season when playing in front of a crowd of 1,000 or more ... when the attendance was in excess of 2,000, the Falcons were 9-2 ... BG had four-digit crowds at all 15 home games (with not a single inflated attendance figure in the bunch) ... seven of those games, including each of the last six, saw more than 2,000 fans file through the turnstiles at "The House That Roars."
HOME COOKIN'
The Falcons finished the year with a 14-1 mark at Anderson Arena, setting a new school record for home wins in a season ... the 1988-89 and 1992-93 teams each went 13-1 at Anderson Arena ... BG's lone home loss came in the third round of the WNIT, to Indiana ... the Falcons have posted three undefeated home records in school history, in the 1974-75, '75-76 and 2005-06 seasons ... BG has had only one home loss on eight occasions, including three seasons (1992-93, 1993-94 and 2008-09) in which the only home loss came in a national postseason tournament.
THE END OF A LENGTHY STREAK
The Falcons' season-ending loss to Indiana put an end to BGSU's lengthy home winning streak ... the Brown and Orange had won 19-straight games at Anderson Arena, which was tied for the fifth-longest active streak in the nation until the March 26 loss ... the Falcons won the last five contests of 2007-08 at "The House That Roars," and BG reeled off 14-straight home wins during the '08-09 regular season.
TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE - FALCONS SET FT RECORDS
The Falcons shattered the school free-throw records in 2008-09 ... BGSU made 651 free throws in 820 attempts, for a 79.4 percentage ... the Falcons ranked fourth in the nation in FT pct. ... the old school records were 566 free throws made and 745 attempted, with both marks set in 1997-98 ... the 1999-2000 team held the recently-broken school record for FT pct. (77.3; 340-of-440).
TAKE SOME MORE, THEY'RE FREE - A MAC RECORD, TOO
In 2008-09, the Falcons broke not only the school record, but also the Mid-American Conference mark for best free-throw percentage in a season ... BGSU's 79.4% rate topped the 79.0 percentage amassed by Toledo in the 1996-97 season ... the 1999-2000 Kent State team holds the MAC records for free throws made (673) and attempted (879).
YOU HAVE TAKEN MORE THAN YOUR SHARE
Sophomore Lauren Prochaska was a big reason the Falcons set the aforementioned free throw-related records in 2008-09 ... Prochaska led the nation in FT percentage, making 93.3% of her attempts from the stripe ... that is the second-best pct. in school and MAC history ... she was 167-of-179 on the year ... as a freshman in '07-08, Prochaska had a FT pct. of 'only' 86.7%, ranking her third in the MAC and 12th in the nation ... through two years, Prochaska has shot over 90 percent from the line (90.6%), having gone 271-of-299 in that time.
BASKETBALL U.
The 2008-09 season saw both BGSU basketball teams enjoy success ... the women's basketball Falcons won the MAC's regular-season title for the fifth consecutive year ... meanwhile, the BGSU men's basketball team tied for the MAC's East Division title and earned the #1 seed for the league tournament ... a few more notes ...
• 2009 marks the first time in school history that both the men's and women's teams have earned MAC regular-season titles in the same year ... it is the first time any MAC school has done so since 2001-02 ... that year, Kent State won the East Division in both men's and women's hoops, while Ball State won the West and KSU was the #1 seed for each tournament.
• The BG men's and women's teams combined for a record of 26-6 in MAC games this year, five games better than any other school in the conference.
• 2009 marks just the second time in school history that both BGSU teams have advanced to national postseason play ... both Louis Orr's men's team and Curt Miller's women's program each advanced to the NIT.
• The first such occasion came in 1990 ... that year, Fran Voll's women's basketball Falcons earned their fourth consecutive NCAA berth, while the men's team advanced to the NIT under Jim Larranaga.
• Orr was named the MAC Coach of the Year on the men's side, while Miller earned the honor for the women ... Miller picked up the award for a MAC-record fifth year in a row.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 29-5 overall this season;
• 29-3 in the final 32 games, after an 0-2 start to the season;
• 15-1 in MAC play, good for a fifth consecutive 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);
• 179-73 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);
• 170-54 overall in the seven 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);
• 158-38 over the last six years, with 2008-09 marking BG's sixth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 137-28 in the past five years, with no fewer than 23 wins in each year and a MAC regular-season title in every season;
• an eye-popping 114-20 overall and 59-5 in the MAC regular season in the last four years, since senior Lindsey Goldsberry ventured to Northwest Ohio;
• 86-17 in the last three years, including a 43-5 conference ledger, since juniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 55-13 overall, and 28-4 in MAC regular-season games, since sophomores 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 last season at Ball State and earlier this 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 this 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;
• 23-3 in non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season (including the WNIT games); and
• 19-2 against non-league foes at Anderson Arena since November of 2004.
TIMES HAVE CHANGED...
The Falcons' season extended to March 26 this year, the latest the team has ever played into the spring ... ten years ago, the BGSU women's basketball team dropped a MAC Tournament quarterfinal game at Akron's James A. Rhodes Arena ... that game ended the Falcons' 1998-99 season - on February 26.
BOARDWORK
The Falcons outrebounded the opponent in each of the three MAC Tournament games at Quicken Loans Arena ... BGSU was 11-2 when outrebounding the opposition this season, and the Falcons are 102-10 in such games in the Curt Miller Era.
CAPTAINS: 2008-09 VERSION
Senior Lindsey Goldsberry and junior Tara Breske were the co-captains of the 2008-09 women's basketball Falcons.
CAPTAINS: 2009-10 VERSION
Senior-to-be Tara Breske will be a captain again in the 2009-10 season ... she will be joined by classmate Sarah Clapper and Maggie Hennegan ... Hennegan, a transfer from Saint Louis Univ., will be a redshirt junior in '09-10.
