BGSU Battles Broncos Wednesday Night

THE OPENING TIP
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after beginning Mid-American Conference cross-divisional play with a win, concludes a season-long three-game homestand Wednesday evening (Jan. 27) ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller host Western Michigan University in a 7:00 p.m. tip at venerable Anderson Arena (3,500).

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THROW THOSE RECORDS OUT THE WINDOW
The phrase "you can throw the records out the window when these teams meet" is used quite often ... but, in the case of Wednesday's game, it might be appropriate ... BGSU is 6-0 in MAC play to date, while Western Michigan is 0-6 ... when the teams met last year (Feb. 7, 2009) in Kalamazoo, the Falcons were 8-0 in conference, and the Broncos were 1-7 ... however, Western gave BG everything it could handle and more ... the Broncos led by five points with under five minutes left ... then, with the score tied in the final seconds of regulation, WMU saw three shot attempts bounce off the rim ... BG won by two points, 79-77, in overtime ... and, the last time the teams met in Anderson Arena (Jan. 30, 2008), the Broncos picked up a 79-73 win ... that was BGSU's last regular-season loss at "The House That Roars."

MILLER REACHES 100 MAC WINS ...
BGSU's 83-71 win over Eastern Michigan on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 23) was the 100th MAC victory in Falcon head coach Curt Miller's career ... Miller now has a career record of 100-34 in conference games as a head coach ... Miller, who holds the school records for overall and MAC wins, became just the seventh coach in MAC history – and the second fastest – to amass 100 league victories.
FASTEST TO 100 MAC WINS
Coach -- Reached 100 wins in ...
Mark Ehlen (Toledo) -- 123rd career game
CURT MILLER -- 134th
Fran Voll (BGSU/CMU) -- 143rd
Bob Lindsay (Kent State) -- 150th
Donita Davenport (CMU) -- 164th
Ron Stewart (WMU) -- 173rd
Maria Fantanarosa (Miami) -- 179th

... AND APPROACHES 200 OVERALL WINS
BGSU head coach Curt Miller has a 195-77 overall record in his ninth year at the Falcon helm ... he has moved into third place on the MAC list for career wins, and is just five away from the 200 mark ... he trails only Kent State's Bob Lindsay and former Toledo coach Mark Ehlen on the MAC list ... Miller, who became the winningest coach in BGSU history two years ago, is looking to become only the second basketball coach at the school (men's or women's) to reach the 200-win mark ... the legendary Harold Anderson had a 367-193 (.655) record in 21 years at the helm of the BGSU men's program ... the complete list of winningest MAC women's basketball coaches can be found in the PDF version of these notes.

HOME COOKIN'
Saturday's (Jan. 23) 83-71 win over Eastern Michigan gives the Falcons a 9-0 record at venerable Anderson Arena this season to date ... BGSU has won 26 consecutive regular-season games at "The House That Roars" ... the last regular-season home loss for the Falcons came to Wednesday's opponent, Western Michigan ... the Broncos captured a 79-73 decision two years ago.

HOME COOKIN' II
In addition to the regular-season wins noted above, the Falcons have played three national postseason games at Anderson Arena in the last two years ... those games include wins over Dayton in the 2008 WNIT and Syracuse in the '09 WNIT ... overall, BGSU has won 28 of the last 29 games at "The House That Roars" ... 23 of those 28 wins have come by double digits ... the lone loss in that time came to Indiana in the third round of last year's WNIT.

WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE (THAT ROARS)
BGSU is now 40-4 in MAC home games over the last five-plus seasons ... since the start of the 2004-05 season, the Falcons have gone a perfect 8-0 in MAC home games on two occasions, with a pair of 7-1 records and one 6-2 mark ... the Falcons are 4-0 in MAC games at Anderson Arena this year to date.

BEASTS OF THE EAST
The 2009-10 season marks the fifth year that the MAC has utilized the current scheduling format ... each team plays five intradivisional games to start and end the conference schedule, with six cross-divisional contests in between ... the Falcons' win over Miami last Tuesday (Jan. 19) means that BGSU has gone 5-0 in the initial East Division round robin four times in those five years ... BG also went 5-0 against the East to begin league action in 2005-06, '06-07 and '08-09 ... in the 2007-08 campaign, the Falcons started MAC play with a 4-0 record before suffering a 63-60 home loss to Miami (Jan. 22, 2008).

LOOKING FOR ANOTHER STRONG START
The Falcons have started MAC play with a 6-0 record for the fourth time in the last five years ... BGSU is looking to begin the conference slate with a 6-0 mark. also for the fourth time in five seasons ... believe it or not, the Brown and Orange has gotten off to a 14-0 MAC start in three of the previous four seasons.

FALCONS "PACK THE HOUSE"
Saturday's Eastern Michigan game was BGSU's "Pack The House" game (more about that in the next note), and also was the women's basketball program's annual annual Alumnae Day celebration ... a crowd of 2,823 was on hand at venerable Anderson Arena, the seventh-largest home attendance in BGSU women's basketball history and the largest home throng in over two years ... the school attendance record for a home game is 4,408, vs. Florida in the 1993 NCAA Championships.

PACKING THE HOUSE EVERY SATURDAY
Saturday's (Jan. 23) win over Eastern Michigan, as mentioned, was BGSU's annual "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 – Kent State (Jan. 16), Toledo (Jan. 30) and Ball State (Feb. 6) – chose their game with BGSU ... those dates, combined with BG's own game, mean that the Falcons will play in front of a "Pack the House" crowd on each of four consecutive Saturdays.

PONTIUS NAMED MAC PLAYER OF WEEK
Falcon junior Tracy Pontius was named the MAC Player of the Week on Monday (Jan. 25), earning the honor for the first time this season and the second time in her Falcon career ... she averaged 21.5 points per game as the Falcons went 2-0 last week, with wins over Miami and Eastern Michigan ... Pontius had a season-high 27 points in the Miami game (Jan. 19), and led the Brown and Orange with 16 points in Saturday's (Jan. 23) win over EMU ... she shot .519 from the field on the week, going 6-of-14 (.429) from three-point range, and also averaged 3.0 assists and 3.0 steals per game to lead the Falcons in both categories.

SENIORS SURPASS CENTURY MARK
The Falcons' 89-61 win at Kent State (Jan. 16) enabled BGSU's three fourth-year seniors, Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper, to reach a career milestone ... the group became the fifth in school history, and the fourth in a row, to be a part of at least 100 career wins at BGSU ... after the win over EMU, the Falcons now have a 102-21 record since the trio joined the program ... 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.

LAST TIME OUT
BGSU, in front of a large home crowd that included many past Falcon greats, led from wire to wire in an 83-71 win over Eastern Michigan Saturday afternoon (Jan. 23) ... Tracy Pontius had 16 points to pace four juniors in double figures ... Lauren Prochaska scored 14 points, while Jen Uhl had her first career double-double, with 12 points and a game-high 11 rebounds ... Kelly Zuercher had a career-high 10 points in the win ... EMU's Tavelyn James led all scorers with 22 points, while Cassie Schrock added 17 ... the win was the 100th MAC victory in the illustrious head-coaching career of Curt Miller ... already the winningest coach in BGSU annals, he became just the seventh coach in MAC history to reach the century mark in league wins, and the second fastest to get there ... the win came in front of a crowd of 2,823, the seventh-largest home attendance in BGSU history ... among those in attendance were numerous former BGSU standouts, as the team celebrated Alumnae Day ... those former Falcons, like everyone else in attendance, saw the 2009-10 team take a 41-22 lead into the half ... BG led by as many as 25 points on several occasions in the second half, before Eastern made a 21-8 run over the game's final five-plus minutes ... Uhl's 11 rebounds led a relentless BGSU assault on the boards ... EMU entered the game with a +6.8 rebounding margin, tops in the MAC, but the Falcons held a 46-31 advantage on the day, and had 22 offensive boards.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 16-4 on the season, and BGSU is 6-0 in MAC play ... BG is 9-0 at home and 7-4 on the road this year to date ... the Falcons have won 15 of the last 17 games, including each of the last seven games heading into Wednesday's WMU contest ... most recently, BGSU downed Eastern Michigan, 83-71, at Anderson Arena Saturday afternoon (Jan. 23).

• BG completed the first swing through the East Division unbeaten, with home victories over Akron (74-62; Jan. 6), Buffalo (78-60; Jan. 13) and Miami, and road victories against Ohio (77-42; Jan. 9) and Kent State (89-61; Jan. 16) ... in the KSU game, the Falcons took a 30-point halftime lead before winning by 28 ... the EMU contest began a six-game stretch in which BG will face each West Division team.

• 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, going 1-2 with road losses vs. 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 returned 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 20 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 17.9 points and 5.1 rebounds per game ... Prochaska has paced BG in scoring 10 times this year ... after averaging 10.3 ppg in the three Preseason WNIT games, she has averaged 19.2 ppg over the last 17 contests ... Prochaska, who has been named the league's Player of the Week three times this season to date, is averaging 19.3 ppg in the Falcons' nine home games.

• Junior Tracy Pontius and senior Tamika Nurse have 13.6 and 9.2 ppg, respectively ... Pontius has 2.9 rpg, and is second on the team behind Prochaska in three-point field goals made ... Prochaska has hit 49 shots from long range to 44 for Pontius ... Pontius, the reigning MAC Player of the Week, leads the Falcons in both assists (3.2 apg) and steals (1.5 spg) ... Nurse has 3.0 assists per contest, with her total of 60 helpers just four behind Pontius ... Nurse is third on the team with 21 three-pointers made this season ... Prochaska and Nurse have made 92 and 73 free throws, respectively, this season, while Pontius has hit 50 shots from the stripe ... Pontius and Prochaska each are converting their free-throw tries at a rate of 87 percent or better.

• Senior Tara Breske and junior Jen Uhl have scored 8.2 and 6.7 ppg, respectively ... Breske, who missed two games due to injury in early December, has 4.2 rebounds and 1.2 blocked shots per game, leading the Falcons in the latter category Breske also has 1.4 steals per game to rank second ... Uhl has 5.0 rebounds per game, placing her second on the team ... Uhl and Breske are shooting .505 and .470, respectively, from the field.

• Junior Maggie Hennegan has 4.5 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, ranking third on the team in the latter category ... she has shot .471 from the field this year ... six players are averaging from 1.8 to 3.0 ppg heading into the Western Michigan 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 20 games to date, while Uhl has made 17 starts and Breske 15 ... that quintet has started each of the last 11 games ... Breske, who had started the first four games of the year before suffering her injury, came off the bench for several contests before returning to the starting lineup ... Hennegan has made eight starts this year.

• Prochaska has 17.8 ppg in MAC games to date, while Pontius has averaged 17.2 ppg ... the duo has combined for 31 successful three-pointers in the six conference contests ... Breske has 9.3 ppg and 4.5 rpg in league play, while Uhl has 8.5 ppg and a team-leading 5.8 rpg ... Uhl is shooting .571 from the field against MAC foes ... four players have averaged between 2.0 and 2.7 assists in conference games.

• Through 20 games, the Falcons are shooting .430 from the field, .374 from three-point land and .788 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .389 overall, .307 from long range and .691 from the stripe ... the Falcons have 37.3 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.2 ... BGSU has been outrebounded only five times in 20 games this year.

THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
BGSU enters the Western Michigan game with an all-time record of 327-140 (.700) in MAC regular-season contests, the most wins and highest winning pct. of all league institutions ... and, BGSU leads the series with all 11 MAC foes (the only team in the MAC, obviously, with a winning series record against every other school).

SCOUTING WMU
Western Michigan enters Wednesday's game with an overall record of 5-14, and the Broncos are 0-6 in MAC play ... Western is looking to snap a seven-game losing streak ... the Broncos' most recent game was a 58-44 loss at Akron on Saturday (Jan. 23) ... WMU is 2-4 at home, 2-7 in road games and 1-3 in neutral-site contests to date ... sophomore forward Miame Giden leads the team in scoring, with 15.6 points per game, and ranks second in rebounding (5.5 rpg) ... she has hit 18 three-point field goals as well, ranking third on the team ... junior forward Ebony Cleary has 12.4 ppg and leads the Broncos with 7.1 rpg ... she has shot a team-best .512 from the field ... junior guard Taylor Manley and junior forward Brenna Banktson have 9.8 and 7.3 ppg, respectively ... Manley leads the Broncos with 25 three-pointers made, while Banktson is second with 19 successful triples ... all 11 players that have seen action this year have started at least one game ... Miami Giden is the only player to have started all 19, while senior guard Molly Dwyer (5.3 ppg, a team-leading 2.2 assists per game) has made 18 starts ... Cleary, Manley and freshman forward DeAirra Goss (4.9 ppg) joined that duo in the starting lineup at Akron ... head coach Tasha McDowell welcomed back four letterwinners – all starters – from last year's team that finished 7-23 overall and 3-13 in MAC action ... McDowell has a record of 12-37 in her second season as a collegiate head coach, both in Kalamazoo ... the school's athletics web site is www.wmubroncos.com.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Western Michigan, 31-21, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU won the most recent meeting ... in that game, the Brown and Orange pulled out a 79-77 overtime win in Kalamazoo (Feb. 7, 2009), after WMU had very nearly won the game in the dying seconds of regulation ... BGSU has a 15-10 record in home games vs. the Broncos, but Western won the most recent meeting in Anderson Arena, with a 79-73 win over the Falcons two years ago (Jan. 30, 2008) ... that snapped a six-game series winning streak for BGSU ... Curt Miller has a record of 7-3 against WMU during his head-coaching tenure ... additional series information can be found -- where? -- in the PDF.

PROCHASKA MOVING UP
Just over halfway through her junior season, Lauren Prochaska has moved into seventh place on the BGSU career scoring list ... Prochaska now has a total of 1,447 points in her Falcon tenure ... she passed no fewer than four players on that list in the Miami game, moving ahead of Chris Tuttle (1,420 career points), Lori Albers (1,424), Charlotta Jones (1,430) and Talita Scott (1,432) in that game ... Prochaska's next target on the list is sixth-place Liz Honegger, who had 1,522 points from 2003-07 ... Prochaska is averaging 16.4 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her career.

THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 16-4 this season to date, after going 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 6-0 in the MAC, after finishing 15-1 last year and winning a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 195-77 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 100-34 in MAC games in that time:
• 186-58 overall in the seven years (plus 20 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);
• 174-42 over the last six-plus years, with 2008-09 marking BG's sixth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 153-32 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 130-24 overall and 65-5 in the MAC regular season in the last four-plus years;
• 102-21 in the last three-plus years, including a 49-5 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 71-17 overall, and 34-4 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;
• 45-9 since sophomores Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle ventured to NW Ohio;
• 80-7 in the last 87 games vs. MAC opponents (regular-season and tourney games);
• A perfect 46-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field in the Miller Era;
• 164-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 13-0 mark this year to date;
• 147-23 when making more free throws during Miller's first eight-plus seasons;
• 115-11 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 53-18 in January games since Miller took the helm, including 36-4 in the last four-plus seasons;
• 40-4 in MAC home games in the last five-plus seasons;
• 32-2 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 year, and a trip to the semis 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).

PROCHASKA PROLIFIC AT THE STRIPE
Junior Lauren Prochaska set a school record in last Tuesday's (Jan. 19) win over Miami ... Prochaska set a single-game mark for free-throw percentage, going a perfect 13-for-13 from the stripe ... a BGSU player had gone 12-of-12 from the line on four occasions, the most recent being Prochaska last season at Akron.
BGSU SINGLE-GAME RECORDS – FT PCT.
1.000 (13-13), Lauren Prochaska vs. Miami, 1/19/10
1.000 (12-12), four times (Most recent: Prochaska at Akron, 2/21/09)
(other 12-12 gms.: Kate Achter in 2005; Sara Puthoff in 1997 & Talita Scott in '94)

TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE
The Falcons are shooting .788 from the free-throw line as a team, not too far off of last year's school-record .794 pace ... four of BGSU's five starters have shot .823 or better from the stripe to date, with the fifth hitting free throws at a .785 rate.

PRODUCTIVE AT THE STRIPE
As mentioned, the Falcons are shooting a MAC-best .788 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 ... individually, junior Lauren Prochaska is shooting .911 from the line this season to date, ranking third in the country ... last year, Prochaska led the nation with a .933 FT rate.

TAKING CARE OF THE BALL
It's no secret that a big key to offensive success is limiting turnovers ... if you can force your 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 10 of the last 12 contests ... the Falcons have a turnover margin of +3.9 overall and +8.2 in MAC games.

LEADERS OF THE MAC
The Falcons lead the MAC in a total of six team categories, including scoring offense, scoring margin, free-throw percentage, three-point field-goal pct., assist/turnover ratio and three-pointers made per game ... in MAC games only, BGSU leads the league in each of those categories, plus field-goal percentage and turnover margin.

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 14 times in the first 20 contests, tying the opponent in that category in one additional game (Hartford) ... when outrebounding opponents, BG is 115-11 in the Curt Miller Era, including a 95-4 mark in the last five-plus seasons.

TREY BIEN!
A pair of juniors are moving up the BGSU career list for three-point field goals made ... Lauren Prochaska, who hit five triples at Kent State, is in sole possession of second place on that list ... with 198 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 ... after hitting two treys vs. Eastern Michigan, Pontius now has 133 threes in her career.

NOW THAT'S A FIVE-YEAR PLAN (CONFERENCE-ONLY VERSION)
In MAC games over the last five years (plus six games), the Falcons have no fewer than 77 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 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 102-21 overall and 49-5 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 71-17 overall, and the Falcons are 34-4 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 45-9 overall and 21-1 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).

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 ... however, BGSU has/had just one overnight trip – the win at Ohio – during the entire month of January.

MILLER ON THE AIR
Falcon coach Curt Miller can be heard on several radio shows during the season ... Miller appears on the "Falcons' Nest Coaches Show" every other Monday at approximately 6:30 p.m. ... the show is broadcast live from the Bowling Green Fricker's location ... Miller's next scheduled appearance is Feb. 8 ... additionally, Miller can be heard every Tuesday on "The Front Row" with Norm Wamer at approximately 3:30 p.m. ... "The Front Row" can be heard on ESPN The Ticket (106.5 FM / 1470 AM) in Toledo, or on the web at 1065theticket.com ... and, Miller is on "First Serves with Steve Jarnicki" each Thursday at approximately 3:00 p.m. ... "First Serves" can be heard on Fox Sports Radio WCWA (1230 AM) in Toledo or on the web at www.wcwa.com.

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