Falcons Return Home for Wednesday's Buffalo Matchup

THE OPENING TIP
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, having started the Mid-American Conference schedule with a 2-0 record for the sixth consecutive season, looks to go 3-0 for a fifth-straight year ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller return to the friendly confines of venerable Anderson Arena (3,500) to host the University at Buffalo Wednesday (Jan. 13) ... tipoff is at 7:00 p.m.

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TAKING CARE OF THE BALL
It's no secret that one key to offensive success is limiting turnovers ... if you can force the opponent to turn the ball over while keeping your own turnovers to a minimum, that's even better ... the Falcons, after turning the ball over at least 16 times in each of this season's first seven games, have had 15 or fewer turnovers in each of the last nine contests ... BG's total of 11 turnovers in Saturday's (Jan. 9) win at Ohio tied a season low ... at the defensive end, BGSU has had double-digit steal totals in six of the last seven games ... in those seven games, the Falcons have had 91 turnovers (13.0 per game) while the opponents have had 146 (20.9 per game) ... BG has averaged 10.1 steals per contest in that stretch.

HOLDING THEM UNDER 50
Saturday's 77-42 win over Ohio marked the fifth time in the 2009-10 season that the Falcons held the opponent to fewer than 50 points ... BGSU held only three teams to under 50 points during all of last season.

HOLDING THEM UNDER 50, PART II
The Ohio game marked the 36th time a Curt Miller-coached BGSU squad has held the opponent to under 50 points ... Miller has been the Falcons' coach for roughly eight and a half years ... prior to his arrival in Northwest Ohio, it had taken 22 seasons for the Falcons to amass 30 such games ... BGSU teams held the opponent to fewer than 50 points on a total of 30 occasions from 1979-80 to 2000-01.

LOOKING FOR ANOTHER STRONG START
The Falcons, as mentioned, have started MAC play with a 2-0 record for the sixth consecutive season ... BGSU is looking to begin the conference slate with a 3-0 mark for the fifth-straight year ... believe it or not, the Brown and Orange has gotten off to a 14-0 MAC start in three of the last four seasons ... the Falcons' recent MAC starts ...
BGSU'S RECENT STARTS IN MAC PLAY
Year // Start // Notes (Final MAC record)
2009-10 // 2-0 // BGSU hosts Buffalo Wednesday
2008-09 // 14-0 // Lost second-to-last regular-season game (15-1)
2007-08 // 4-0 // Then lost 3-straight games before winning last 9 (13-3)
2006-07 // 14-0 // Lost 15th MAC game, but advanced to NCAA Sweet 16 (15-1)
2005-06 // 16-0 // Finished undefeated in the MAC & won league tourney (16-0)
2004-05 // 2-0 // Lost, 51-48, to EMU in third game (13-3)
2003-04 // 0-1 // Dropped opener, then won next 4 (11-5)

PROCHASKA NAMED MAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Falcon junior Lauren Prochaska was named the MAC Player of the Week on Monday (Jan. 11), earning the honor for the third time this season and the eighth time in her Falcon career ... she averaged 20.0 points per game as the Falcons went 2-0 to begin the MAC schedule ... Prochaska shot .522 from the field in wins over Akron and Ohio, including an impressive 7-of-11 (.636) from three-point range ... she also averaged 3.0 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game on the week.

PASSING THEIR BOARDS
Last season, the Falcons had more rebounds than the opponent just 13 times in 34 games ... this year, BGSU has outrebounded the opposition 11 times in the first 16 contests, tying the opponent in that category in one additional game (Hartford) ... when outrebounding opponents, BG is 112-11 in the Curt Miller Era, including a 92-4 mark in the last five-plus seasons.

THE MAC SCHEDULE
The 2009-10 season is the fifth utilizing the current MAC scheduling format for women's basketball ... each of the 12 schools opens conference action with five intra-divisional games, followed by six cross-divisional games and five more intra-divisional contest to close the regular season ... so, BGSU plays five games vs. East Division schools to begin and end the MAC season, with six games vs. the West Division teams in the middle of the league schedule.

NOW THAT'S A FIVE-YEAR PLAN (CONFERENCE-ONLY VERSION)
In MAC games over the last five years (plus two games), the Falcons have no fewer than 74 victories ... BGSU has averaged 14.4 conference wins per year over the last five full seasons, a pretty impressive feat considering each team plays just 16 MAC games per season) ... in fact, BG's average win total in MAC play nearly DOUBLES the program's total number of losses (eight) during that five-year span.

THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
BGSU enters the Buffalo game with an all-time record of 323-140 (.698) in MAC regular-season contests, the most wins and highest winning percentage 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 record against every other school.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 12-4 on the season, and BGSU is 2-0 in MAC play ... BG is 6-0 at home and 6-4 on the road this year to date ... the Falcons have won 11 of the last 13 games, including each of the last three games heading into Wednesday's UB contest ... BG posted a 70-57 home win over SIU Edwardsville in the final non-conference game (Jan. 2) and a 74-62 decision vs. visiting Akron in the league opener (Jan. 6), before heading to Ohio and picking up a 77-42 victory in Saturday's (Jan. 9) MAC road-opening contest.

• BG had ended the 2009 calendar year with a 65-60 loss at Hartford (Dec. 30), breaking a three-game winning streak ... the Falcons had seen an earlier five-game winning streak snapped with a 70-54 loss at St. Bonaventure (Dec. 12), but bounced back with three wins in five days before Christmas ... all three of those wins, over Canisius, Youngstown State and Appalachian State, were by more than 20 points.

• The Falcons opened the 2009-10 campaign with three games in the Preseason WNIT, starting with a 76-41 win over Chicago State at venerable Anderson Arena ... then, however, the Brown and Orange lost road games against third-ranked Ohio State and Marist ... BGSU bounced back with wins in the next five games, with three on the road ... included in that five-game win streak was a trip to Nashville, where head coach Curt Miller's club defeated nationally-ranked Vanderbilt, 66-60 (Dec. 4).

• BGSU returns 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team that won the Mid-American Conference's regular-season title for a fifth-straight season ... the Falcons went 29-5 overall, posting the second-highest win total in school and conference history, and had a 15-1 MAC record in 2008-09 ... the Brown and Orange advanced to the third round of the Postseason WNIT.

• The Falcons had just one senior on the roster a year ago ... 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, for an average of 28.5 wins.

• Through 16 games this year, junior Lauren Prochaska leads the Falcons in both scoring and rebounding ... Prochaska, the reigning Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, is averaging 18.1 points and 5.6 rebounds per game ... Prochaska has paced BG in scoring nine times this year, including seven times in the last nine games ... after averaging 10.3 ppg in the three Preseason WNIT games, she has averaged 19.9 ppg and shot over 50 percent from the field over the last 13 contests ... Prochaska, who was named the league's Player of the Week on both Dec. 7 and Dec. 14, is averaging 21.8 ppg and 6.2 rpg in the Falcons' six home games this season.

• Junior Tracy Pontius and senior Tamika Nurse have 12.5 and 9.9 ppg, respectively ... Pontius has 3.1 rpg, and is second on the team behind Prochaska in three-point field goals made ... Prochaska has hit 40 shots from long range to 33 for Pontius ... Pontius is tied for the Falcons' assists lead, with 3.1 per game, and paces the team in steals (1.3 spg) ... Nurse also has 3.1 assists per contest, as each player has dished out 50 total helpers ... Nurse is third on the team with 20 three-pointers made this season ... Prochaska and Nurse have made 62 and 60 free throws, respectively, this season, while Pontius has hit 37 shots from the stripe ... Pontius and Prochaska each are converting over 87 percent of their free-throw tries.

• Senior Tara Breske and junior Jen Uhl have scored 8.0 and 5.9 ppg, respectively ... Breske, who missed two games due to injury in early December, has 4.1 rebounds and 1.4 blocked shots per game, leading the Falcons in the latter category ... Uhl has 4.9 rebounds per game, ranking second on the team ... Breske is shooting a BG-best .475 from the field.

• Junior Maggie Hennegan has 4.8 points and 4.6 rebrounds per game, ranking third on the team in the latter category ... she has shot .467 from the field this year ... six players are averaging from 1.6 to 3.1 ppg heading into the Buffalo game.

• 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 returned ... Uhl started the final 13 games last year at a forward spot ... sophomores Jessica Slagle and Maribeth Giese round out the returning letterwinners.

• Two other players are in their first playing season at BGSU ... Nurse, a fifth-year senior (Univ. of Oregon), and Hennegan, a redshirt junior (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 joined 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, Pontius and Prochaska each have started all 16 games to date, while Uhl has made 13 starts ... Breske has started 11 total contests, including each of the last seven games ... she started the first four games of the year before suffering her injury ... Hennegan has made eight starts.

• Through 16 games, the Falcons are shooting .423 from the field, .378 from three-point land and .781 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .386 overall, .315 from long range and .676 from the stripe ... the Falcons have 37.0 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.4 ... BGSU has been outrebounded only four times in 16 games this year.

LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons used tough defense and deadly three-point shooting to open up a large first-half lead, and BGSU rolled along to a 77-42 win at Ohio Saturday (Jan. 9) ... juniors Tracy Pontius and Lauren Prochaska combined for 35 points, and each player hit four triples ... Pontius scored a game-high 18 points, with Prochaska scoring 17 ... Thia Gholson was the lone double-digit scorer for the Bobcats, with 15 points off the bench ... BGSU held Ohio's top-three scorers, Jenny Poff, Jennifer Bushby and Da'Keisha Mann, to a combined three points ... the Falcons forced 26 Ohio turnovers in the game, and BG had an eye-popping 39-6 advantage in points off turnovers ... BGSU turned the ball over just 11 times, the team's ninth consecutive game of 15 turnovers or fewer ... BG hit a total of 11 three-pointers, including eight in the first half ... the Falcons committed only four first-half turnovers ... a total of 15 BGSU players saw action, with 14 playing seven minutes or more ... thirteen Falcons found the scoresheet, with 10 different players dishing out an assist ... the Falcons held a narrow 32-31 rebounding advantage, with juniors Jen Uhl and Maggie Hennegan grabbing five apiece ... Uhl also led the visitors in assists, with four ... the Falcons led, 4-3, before Ohio made only one field goal in a 12-minute span ... BG went on a 16-1 run, and eventually opened up a 31-8 lead with five minutes left in the half, and the Falcons never looked back.

A FEW MORE NOTES FROM THE OHIO GAME
• The Falcons' 35-point margin of victory tied a season high ... BGSU downed Chicago State by 35 points, 76-41, in the season opener on Nov. 13.

•The victory was BG's most lopsided in a MAC game, and in a conference road game, since an 85-44 win at Buffalo on Feb. 17, 2007 ... additionally, it was the most lopsided win in the history of the BGSU-Ohio series ... the Falcons had won a 34-point decision in March of 1992, downing the Bobcats by a 91-57 final.

MILLER MOVING UP
Last Wednesday's (Jan. 6) 74-62 win over Akron was the 190th victory of Curt Miller's head-coaching career, moving him into sole possession of third place on the Mid-American Conference list ... Miller, who became the winningest coach in BGSU history two years ago, now has 191 wins after the Ohio game ... he recently passed Fran Voll, who had a total of 189 victories at BGSU and Central Michigan (144 with the Falcons and 41 with the Chippewas) ... only Kent State's Bob Lindsay and former Toledo coach Mark Ehlen have more wins at a MAC institution than Miller ... in MAC games only, the win over Akron moved Miller past former UT coach Bill Fennelly into seventh place on that chart ... he now has 96 wins in conference games.

PROCHASKA, TOO
Roughly halfway through her junior season, Lauren Prochaska has moved into 12th place on the BGSU career scoring list ... Prochaska now has a total of 1,380 points in her Falcon tenure ... she passed Carin Horne (1,341 points from 2003-07) in the Akron game, moving into a deadlock with Stephanie Coe (1983-87), and moved ahead of Coe in the Ohio game ... Prochaska's next target is 11th-place Angie Bonner, who had 1,412 points from 1987-90 ... Prochaska is averaging 16.4 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her career.

THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 12-4 in the 2009-10 season to date, after going 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 2-0 in the MAC, after finishing 15-1 last year and winning a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 191-77 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 96-34 in MAC games in that time:
• 182-58 overall in the seven years (plus 16 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);
• 170-42 over the last six-plus years, with 2008-09 marking BG's sixth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 149-32 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 126-24 overall and 61-5 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;
• 98-21 in the last three-plus years, including a 45-5 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 67-17 overall, and 30-4 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;
• 41-9 since sophomores Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle ventured to NW Ohio;
• 76-7 in the last 83 games vs. MAC opponents (including regular-season and tourney games);
• A perfect 46-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field in the Miller Era;
• 161-10 when having a better FG pct. in Miller's tenure, including a 10-0 mark this year to date;
• 144-23 when making more free throws during Miller's first eight-plus seasons;
• 112-11 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 49-18 in January games since Miller took the helm, including 32-4 in the last four-plus seasons;
• 37-4 in MAC home games in the last five-plus seasons;
• 31-2 in MAC road games over the last four-plus 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, the site of the MAC Tournament;
• 15-5 in MAC Tournament games in the Miller Era;
• 14-3 at "The Gund"/"The Q" under Miller;
• 28-3 in all non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 24-2 against non-league foes at Anderson Arena since November of 2004.
• 5-12 in 12 national postseason appearances (including a 3-9 record in the NCAA Championships and a 2-3 mark in WNIT trips); and
• 4-5 in national postseason action under Miller (including a 2-3 mark in the NCAAs and a 2-2 record in the WNIT).

SCOUTING BUFFALO
Buffalo enters Wednesday's game with an overall record of 4-11, and the Bulls are 0-2 in MAC play ... UB won back-to-back games over Stetson and Bucknell to end the non-conference portion of the schedule, but lost a home game to Miami last Wednesday (55-62, Jan. 6) before falling at Akron, 72-56, on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 9) ... the Bulls have been outscored by only four points per game ... UB is outrebounding opponents by nearly four boards per contest ... UB is 2-3 at home, 2-6 on the road and 0-2 at neutral sites ... individually, redshirt junior forward Kourtney Brown is averaging a double-double ... Brown leads the Bulls with 16.5 points and 11.5 rebounds per game ... she is shooting .560 from the field, and also paces UB in blocks (1.7 bpg) and steals (2.4 spg) ... Brown is averaging 19.5 ppg and 13.5 rpg in MAC games ... junior forward Jessica Fortman has 10.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per contest, while sophomore guard Brittany Hedderson has 9.7 ppg, but has missed the last six games due to injury ... freshman guard Abby Dowd has 7.9 ppg and a team-leading 3.0 assists per contest, but suffered an injury in the Akron game ... Brown and Fortman each have started all 15 games, while Dowd and junior F/G Bridgette Kendricks (4.1 ppg, 5.9 rpg) have made 13 starts apiece ... a total of nine players have made at least one start this year to date for head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald ... Hill-MacDonald welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team that finished with an 8-24 overall mark and a 2-14 MAC ledger ... Hill-MacDonald has a record of 47-87 in her fifth year with the Bulls ... she is 280-323 in her 22nd season as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletics web site is www.buffalobulls.com.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Buffalo, 14-5, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won the last 10 meetings ... the Falcons hold a 6-2 advantage in series meetings at 'The House That Roars,' including a 75-52 win over the Bulls last season (Jan. 21, 2009) ... BG has won six-straight home games vs. Buffalo after dropping the first two meetings at Anderson Arena ... overall, the Falcons had won eight consecutive series meetings by an average of 26.1 points, culminating with last season's home win ... but, the Bulls took the Falcons down to the wire in the most recent meeting, before BGSU pulled out an 89-82 win in overtime in Western New York (Feb. 25, 2009; see next note) ... Curt Miller has a record of 12-1 against Buffalo during his head-coaching tenure.

BGSU-BUFFALO: THE LAST MEETING
The Falcons' last meeting with Buffalo was a doozy ... Tracy Pontius exploded for 17 points in overtime, lifting BGSU to an 89-82 win in Buffalo (Feb. 25, 2009) ... the Falcons, ranked #25 in the nation, set a school single-game record by shooting a perfect 24-for-24 from the free-throw line ... additionally, the game saw a pair of NCAA records fall ... the Falcons' total of 23 points in the overtime period set a new record, as did the two-team total of 39 points ... the NCAA does not keep records for points by an individual in an overtime period ... for the Bulls, Kourtney Brown had game-high totals of 30 points and 14 rebounds ... Pontius, who scored 27 points in the game, was a perfect 5-for-5 from three-point land in the extra session ... she hit triples on five consecutive BGSU possessions in the OT ... Pontius had seven threes in the game, one shy of tying the school record (she later tied it with eight treys vs. Toledo in the MAC Tournament).

BGSU-BUFFALO TIES
BGSU assistant coach Kevin Eckert, in his eighth year with the Falcons, spent four seasons on the staff at UB before coming to Northwest Ohio.

HOME COOKIN'
The Falcons are 6-0 at venerable Anderson Arena this season to date, and BGSU has won 25 of the last 26 games at "The House That Roars" ... 20 of those 25 wins have come by double digits ... the lone loss in that time came to Indiana in the third round of the 2009 Postseason WNIT.

ROAD WARRIORS
The Falcons have posted six wins on the road this year, including five in non-conference play ... three of those victories came against teams – Oakland, Vanderbilt and Canisius – that qualified for national postseason play last year ... the Hartford game (Dec. 30) was the ninth road contest for the Falcons this season ... seven of those nine non-league opponents were teams that won at least 20 games and advanced to national postseason play last season ... three of them – Ohio State, Marist and Vandy – went to the NCAA Championships last March, while four – OU, St. Bonaventure, CC and Hartford – advanced to the WNIT ... those seven teams had a total of 177 wins, an average of 25.3 victories per team, in 2008-09.

HOME IS WHERE THE JANUARY GAMES ARE
After playing nine of the season's first 13 games on the road, the Falcons are at home for much of the month of January ... BG plays six of this month's nine games in the friendly confines of Anderson Arena ... the Falcons spent 11 nights in hotels during the first month-and-a-half of the season ... now, however, BGSU has/had just one overnight trip – the win at Ohio – during the entire month of January.

THE FALCON SENIORS
Fourth-year Falcons Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper helped the Brown and Orange average 28.7 wins per season in their first three years after 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 98-21 overall and 45-5 in MAC regular-season action since Breske, Bugher and Clapper came to the school ... Tamika Nurse, a fifth-year senior, is in her first playing season after sitting out last year as a transfer from the Univ. of Oregon.

THE JUNIORS
BGSU has posted a record of 67-17 overall, and the Falcons are 30-4 in MAC regular-season games since Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher set foot on campus ... the team has won an average of 27.5 wins per year through their first two seasons ... the Falcons have played national postseason tournament games at Anderson Arena in each year, beating Dayton in the '08 WNIT and facing Syracuse and Indiana in that tourney at home in 2009 ... Maggie Hennegan joined that group for the 2009-10 season ... Hennegan sat out last season as a transfer after playing two years at Saint Louis Univ.

THE SOPHOMORES
Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle helped the Brown and Orange to 29 wins – the second-highest total in MAC history – along with a school-record 25-game winning streak in their first year in BG ... the Falcons are 41-9 overall and 17-1 in the MAC since the duo arrived in Northwest Ohio ... Danielle Havel is a member of the sophomore class, but will sit out the 2009-10 season after transferring from DePaul.

THE FRESHMEN
Four freshmen joined the Falcons for the 2009-10 season ... that list includes Simone Eli (Genoa, Ohio/Genoa), Allison Papenfuss (Whitehouse, Ohio/Anthony Wayne), Chrissy Steffen (Carmel, Ind./Carmel) and Jessie Tamerlano (North Royalton, Ohio/North Royalton).

FRESHMEN FINDING THEIR WAY
With a 16-player active roster, it is always a battle for playing time ... but, BG's four freshmen have had success in spots ... Chrissy Steffen had eight points at Hartford, setting a career scoring high for the third-straight game, and set another best with nine points at Ohio Saturday (Jan. 9) ... after scoring five points in BG's first 10 games, she has had 35 points in the last six games ... Jessie Tamerlano scored her first six collegiate points at Canisius, going 3-for-3 from the field, to start a three-game span in which she scored 14 points ... Allison Papenfuss had six points in the win at Youngstown State, after scoring eight points in the UNC Greensboro game earlier this year ... she has had eight points and eight rebounds over the last three games ... and, Simone Eli hit a triple for her first career points in the win over Appalachian State ... she had a rebound and her first collegiate assist vs. SIU Edwardsville.

PURA VIDA!
Head coach Curt Miller and the Falcons jump-started their season in August, heading to Costa Rica on the first foreign tour in program history ... the Falcons benefitted from four games vs. local competition, in addition to 10 days of practices leading up to the tour ... in addition to the practices and games, the 12 players (the 10 returnees from 2008-09, plus the two transfers who sat out last season at BGSU) were able to bond together through a week and a half of diverse experiences, including whitewater rafting, zip-lining through the rainforest and hiking on a volcano.

MAC ROAD OPENERS UNDER MILLER
The Falcons are now 7-2 in MAC road openers under Curt Miller, and BG has won the first conference road game in each of the last seven years ... the Falcons' last loss in the MAC road opener was a 78-58 setback at Northern Illinois in the 2002-03 season.

TREY BIEN!
A pair of juniors are moving up the BGSU career list for three-point field goals made ... Lauren Prochaska hit four more triples at Ohio, and is in sole possession of second place on that list ... with 189 long-range makes in her career to date, she trails only school record-holder Liz Honegger ... Honegger made 216 triples from 2003-07 ... Tracy Pontius, in just her second year as a starter, ranks 10th on the list ... Pontius has 122 threes in her career ... she is one behind her former teammate, Lindsey Goldsberry (123 from 2005-09).

THREE-MENDOUS
The Falcons hit 11 three-point field goals in the win at Ohio, shooting 44 percent from long range ... BGSU is averaging 8.1 successful three-pointers per game this year ... the Falcons have hit at least seven triples in 11 of this season's 16 games.

BLOCK PARTY
Senior Tara Breske has moved into sole possession of fourth place on the BGSU career list for blocked shots ... Breske had a career-high four blocks in the Akron game, and now has blocked 89 shots in her Falcon tenure to date ... she passed Joelyn Shoup (83 blocks from 1982-86), and is nine shy of matching third-place Megan McGuire (98 blocks from 1985-89) on the BGSU chart.

TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE
BGSU had season-high totals in free throws made (32) and attempted (40) in Saturday's win over SIU Edwardsville ... then, on Wednesday, the Falcons shot .947 from the line, going 18-of-19 vs. Akron ... in fact, BG made the first 16 tries before finally missing in the final minute of the game ... and, BG was 20-of-26 (.769) at Ohio ... on the year, the Falcons are shooting a MAC-best .781 from the free-throw line ... last year, BGSU had a school-record free-throw percentage of .794, a rate that ranked fourth in the nation and was the 15th-highest figure in NCAA Division-I history.

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.

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