Falcons Head to Kent for Saturday Date with Flashes

THE OPENING TIP
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, having started the Mid-American Conference schedule with a 3-0 record for the fifth consecutive season, heads to Northeast Ohio to battle Kent State University in a matchup of perennial MAC powers ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will meet the Golden Flashes on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 16), with tipoff scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at the M.A.C. Center (6,327).

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LOOKING FOR 100
The Falcons have posted a record of 99-21 since the team's three fourth-year seniors, Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper, joined the program ... with one more win this season, that trio will become the fourth consecutive class to be a part of 100 career wins at BGSU ... the 2006-07 senior class that kick-started the Falcons' current run of success – Amber Flynn, Julie Gompers, Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann and Megan Thorburn – had a total of 103 wins ... Kate Achter and Whitney Taylor finished their playing careers in '07-08, posting a total of 108 victories ... and, last year's one-woman senior class, Lindsey Goldsberry, finished her career with a total of 114 wins, the most by any player (male or female) in MAC basketball history.

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 10 contests ... BG's total of 11 turnovers in last Saturday's (Jan. 9) win at Ohio tied a season low, and the Falcons had just 13 in Wednesday's (Jan. 13) win over Buffalo ... at the defensive end, BGSU has had double-digit steal totals in six of the last eight games, with nine against UB ... in those eight games, the Falcons have had 104 turnovers (13.0 per game) while the opponents have had 165 (20.6 per game) ... BG has averaged 10.0 steals per contest in that stretch.

LOOKING FOR ANOTHER STRONG START
The Falcons, as mentioned, have started MAC play with a 3-0 record for the fifth consecutive season ... BGSU is looking to begin the conference slate with a 4-0 mark, also for a 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.

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 12 times in the first 17 contests, tying the opponent in that category in one additional game (Hartford) ... when outrebounding opponents, BG is 113-11 in the Curt Miller Era, including a 93-4 mark in the last five-plus seasons.

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.

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
In MAC games over the last five years (plus three 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 Kent State game with an all-time record of 324-140 (.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 13-4 on the season, and BGSU is 3-0 in MAC play ... BG is 7-0 at home and 6-4 on the road this year to date ... the Falcons have won 12 of the last 14 games, including each of the last four games heading into Saturday's KSU 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 ... most recently, the Brown and Orange downed Buffalo, 78-60, at Anderson Arena Wednesday night (Jan. 13).

• 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 17 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 17.8 points and 5.3 rebounds per game ... Prochaska has paced BG in scoring nine times this year, including seven times in the last 10 games ... after averaging 10.3 ppg in the three Preseason WNIT games, she has averaged 19.4 ppg and shot over 50 percent from the field over the last 14 contests ... Prochaska, who has been named the league's Player of the Week three times this season to date, is averaging 20.4 ppg in the Falcons' seven home games.

• Junior Tracy Pontius and senior Tamika Nurse have 12.7 and 9.4 ppg, respectively ... Pontius has 3.1 rpg, and is second on the team behind Prochaska in three-point field goals made ... Prochaska has hit 42 shots from long range to 35 for Pontius ... Pontius leads the Falcons in assists, with is tied for the Falcons' assists lead, with 3.1 per game, and is second in steals (1.4 spg) ... Nurse has 3.0 assists per contest, with her total of 51 helpers just two behind Pontius ... Nurse is third on the team with 20 three-pointers made this season ... Prochaska and Nurse have made 66 and 60 free throws, respectively, this season, while Pontius has hit 41 shots from the stripe ... Pontius and Prochaska each are converting their free-throw tries at a rate of 88 percent or better.

• Senior Tara Breske and junior Jen Uhl have scored 8.3 and 6.4 ppg, respectively ... Breske, who missed two games due to injury in early December, has 4.4 rebounds and 1.3 blocked shots per game, leading the Falcons in the latter category ... Uhl has 4.9 rebounds per game, ranking second on the team ... Uhl and Breske are shooting .489 and .468, respectively, from the field.

• Junior Maggie Hennegan has 4.6 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, ranking fourth on the team in the latter category ... she has shot .468 from the field this year ... six players are averaging from 1.6 to 2.9 ppg heading into the Kent State 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 17 games to date, while Uhl has made 14 starts ... Breske has started 12 total contests, including each of the last eight games ... she had started the first four games of the year before suffering her injury ... Hennegan has made eight starts.

• Through 17 games, the Falcons are shooting .425 from the field, .374 from three-point land and .781 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .386 overall, .315 from long range and .680 from the stripe ... the Falcons have 37.2 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.5 ... BGSU has been outrebounded only four times in 17 games this year.

TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE
The Falcons, as mentioned, are shooting .781 from the free-throw line as a team ... four of the team's five starters have shot .880 or better from the stripe to date, with the fifth starter hitting free throws at a .779 rate.

LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons scored nine points in under a minute in the first half, taking the lead for good in a 78-60 win over Buffalo Wednesday night (Jan. 13) ... junior Tracy Pontius had 16 points to pace four Falcons in double digits ... UB's Kourtney Brown led all players with 20 points and 13 rebounds ... the Falcons had success pounding the ball inside, scoring a whopping 46 points in the paint ... junior forward Jen Uhl scored 13 points to tie her season high, while senior center Tara Breske and junior wing Lauren Prochaska had 12 apiece ... the game featured three ties and two lead changes, all in the first half, and UB led for much of that half ... but, with the Bulls holding a 27-23 lead with five minutes left in the period, the Falcons wemt on an 11-0 run to take the lead for good ... that run began when sophomore Jessica Slagle hit a right-side jumper that barely moved the net ... but, the home team was just getting started ... BGSU ran with (and past) the Bulls, scoring the remaining nine points of that run in only 47 seconds ... after a BG miss, Breske grabbed an offensive rebound in traffic and put her follow-up shot off the glass and in, tying the game with 2:41 on the clock ... Pontius had a steal and uncontested layup, and UB threw the ball away again ... a Pontius inbounds pass resulted in a Uhl layup, and Pontius had another steal and wound up hitting a three-pointer on the next possession, giving the Brown and Orange a 34-27 advantage.

MILLER MOVING UP
The Falcons' win over Akron in the Mid-American Conference opener was the 190th victory of Curt Miller's head-coaching career, moving him into sole possession of third place on the MAC list ... Miller, who became the winningest coach in BGSU history two years ago, moved past Fran Voll (189 career victories) on the conference chart ... BG's win over Buffalo gives Miller a career total of 192 victories ... he now trails only Kent State's Bob Lindsay and former Toledo coach Mark Ehlen ... 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 97 wins in conference games ... the lists are on page 10 of these notes.

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 1,392 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 ... she is poised to move ahead of numerous players in the next few weeks, as she is only 40 points shy of seventh place ... Prochaska is averaging 16.4 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her career.

THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 13-4 in the 2009-10 season to date, after going 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 3-0 in the MAC, after finishing 15-1 last year and winning a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 192-77 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 97-34 in MAC games in that time:
• 183-58 overall in the seven years (plus 17 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);
• 171-42 over the last six-plus years, with 2008-09 marking BG's sixth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 150-32 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 127-24 overall and 62-5 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;
• 99-21 in the last three-plus years, including a 46-5 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 68-17 overall, and 31-4 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;
• 42-9 since sophomores Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle ventured to NW Ohio;
• 77-7 in the last 84 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;
• 162-10 when having a better FG pct. in Miller's tenure, including an 11-0 mark this year to date;
• 144-23 when making more free throws during Miller's first eight-plus seasons;
• 113-11 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 50-18 in January games since Miller took the helm, including 33-4 in the last four-plus seasons;
• 38-4 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 KENT STATE
Kent State enters Saturday's game with an overall record of 9-6, and the Golden Flashes are 2-1 in MAC play ... KSU is 5-2 at home and 4-4 on the road this year to date ... the last time out, the Flashes dropped a 62-55 decision at Akron Wednesday night (Jan. 13), snapping a three-game winning streak ... that streak included conference victories over Ohio (70-66; Jan. 6) and Miami (50-39; Jan. 9), with the OU game being played at the M.A.C. Center ... individually, junior forward Taisja Jones leads the Flashes in scoring, with 13.9 points per game ... Jones is third on the team with 5.1 rebounds per contest ... redshirt junior guard Jamilah Humes has 11.5 ppg and 4.0 rpg, and leads the team in both assists (3.5 apg) and steals (2.4 spg) ... sophomore guard Jena Stutzman has 8.2 ppg, and leads the team with 24 three-point field goals made ... junior center Ellie Shields and senior G/F Yoshica Spears have 7.8 and 7.3 ppg, respectively ... Spears leads the Flashes with 7.5 rpg, while Shields is second with 5.2 rpg ... a total of nine players have started at least four games apiece this year to date ... Humes, Jones and senior center Lorriane Odhiambo (2.9 ppg, 4.5 rpg) each have started all three MAC games ... Spears and senior guard Rachel Bennett (5.1 ppg) joined that trio in the starting lineup at Akron for head coach Bob Lindsay ... Lindsay welcomed back eight letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team that finished with a 19-10 overall mark and an 8-8 MAC ledger ... Lindsay, the winningest coach in MAC history, has a record of 381-220 in his 21st year as a collegiate head coach, all at KSU ... the school's athletics web site is www.kentstatesports.com.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Kent State, 42-27, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has captured 11 consecutive meetings ... BG holds a slim 16-15 lead in games played in Kent, and the Falcons have won the last four games at the M.A.C. Center after a 10-game Golden Flash home winning streak ... last season, the Brown and Orange swept a pair of close games, with a 77-71 win in Kent (Jan. 7, 2009) and a 61-54 victory inside venerable Anderson Arena (Feb. 28, 2009) ... overall, KSU had won 12-straight matchups, and 17-of-18 games from the Falcons, prior to BG's current series winning streak... Curt Miller has a record of 11-5 against Kent State during his head-coaching tenure.

OBI-WAN HAS TAUGHT YOU WELL
It has been pretty well documented to death by now, but just in case you haven't been reading these notes for the past eight-plus years, here it is once again ... Saturday's game matches BGSU head coach Curt Miller with the man he credits for giving him his start in the coaching profession ... Miller spent a year at Kent State as a graduate assistant, and was a volunteer coach on Bob Lindsay's staff during the 1990-91 season ... the Golden Flashes finished 17-12 that year, and enjoyed the second-best turnaround in the nation.

PACKING THE HOUSE EVERY SATURDAY
Saturday's game has been designated as Kent State's "Pack the House" game ... each MAC marketing program has earmarked one specific game as a "Pack the House" game, as part of a league- and nation-wide women's basketball initiative with the goal of growing the sport of women's basketball ... three conference schools – KSU, Toledo (Jan. 30) and Ball State (Feb. 6) – chose their game with BGSU ... those dates, combined with BG's own game (Jan. 23 vs. Eastern Michigan), means that the Falcons will play in front of a "Pack the House" crowd on each of four consecutive Saturdays.

HOME COOKIN'
The Falcons are 7-0 at venerable Anderson Arena this season to date, and BGSU has won 26 of the last 27 games at "The House That Roars" ... 21 of those 26 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 ... BG played a total of nine non-conference road games, including seven vs. 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.

HOLDING THEM UNDER 50
Last 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.

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 99-21 overall and 46-5 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 68-17 overall, and the Falcons are 31-4 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 42-9 overall and 18-1 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 for a team that has won five-straight MAC regular-season titles, it isn't always easy for a freshman to find a great deal of playing time ... but, BGSU's newcomers have battled their way into the rotation ... the three scholarship frosh – Allison Papenfuss, Chrissy Steffen and Jessie Tamerlano – each saw between nine and 11 minutes of action in Wednesday's (Jan. 13) win over Buffalo ... Papenfuss gave the Falcons a great deal of energy off the bench, with six points and six rebounds in the first half alone ... she ended the game with a career-high eight boards ... Papenfuss is averaging 2.4 points and 2.2 rebounds per game, with 3.3 ppg and 4.0 rpg in MAC play ... Steffen, after scoring five points in BG's first 10 games, then had 35 points in the next six games, including a career-high nine at Ohio (Jan. 9) ... she is averaging 4.7 ppg in MAC games ... 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 ... she was 3-of-4 from the floor in the UB game, with six points and four boards ... and, recruited walk-on Simone Eli has played in seven games, including two of the first three MAC contests.

AN INSIDE JOB
The Falcons scored 46 points in the paint in Wednesday's (Jan. 13) win against Buffalo, the team's highest total in over a year ... BG had not scored so many points down low since scoring 50 in last year's 98-74 win at Saint Francis (Pa.) (Nov. 25, 2008).

TREY BIEN!
A pair of juniors are moving up the BGSU career list for three-point field goals made ... Lauren Prochaska, who hit two triples vs. Buffalo, is in sole possession of second place on that list ... with 191 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 ninth on the list ... Pontius has 124 threes in her career ... she moved ahead of her former teammate, Lindsey Goldsberry (123 from 2005-09), in the UB game.

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 had one more in Wednesday's Buffalo contest ... she now has blocked 90 shots in her Falcon tenure to date ... she passed Joelyn Shoup (83 blocks from 1982-86), and is eight shy of matching third-place Megan McGuire (98 blocks from 1985-89) on the BGSU chart.

PRODUCTIVE AT THE STRIPE
The Falcons are shooting a MAC-best .781 from the free-throw line this season ... last year, BGSU had a school-record FT percentage of .794, a rate that ranked fourth in the nation and was the 15th-highest figure in NCAA Division-I history.

A SCHOOL RECORD? WE MAY NEVER KNOW
BGSU head coach Curt Miller has played a total of 15 different players on seven occasions this season already ... that total is the highest in over 25 years ... none of Miller's first eight teams at BGSU had more than 14 players on the active roster ... the last team to have as many as 15 players see action in a season was the 1985-86 squad ... the '84-85 Falcons also had 15 players, while the 1983-84 team – like the 2009-10 team – had 16 players who saw action in at least one game ... tragically, single-game information from the glorious decade of the 1980s is sketchy at best, so we may never know if any of those teams had 15 or more players see action in the same game.

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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