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Falcons Begin Southern Sojourn by Taking on WKU
December 08, 2010 | Women's Basketball
BGSU heads to Bowling Green, Ky., for Thursday matchup
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, riding an eight-game winning streak, will head to Bowling Green, Ky., to begin a two-game road swing ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will face Western Kentucky in Thursday (Dec. 9) action, with tipoff scheduled for 7:00 p.m. locally – 8:00 p.m. Eastern – at E.A. Diddle Arena (7,326) ... following the WKU game, the Brown and Orange will venture to Clarksville, Tenn., for a Saturday (Dec. 11) game vs. Austin Peay State University ... Miller and his staff returned 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's 27-7 team that won the Mid-American Conference regular-season and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Championships.
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PROCHASKA IS PROLIFIC FROM FOUL LINE
Most people couldn't make 61 consecutive layups in an empty gym ... senior Lauren Prochaska, however, has hit 61 consecutive shots from 15 feet away ... Prochaska was a perfect 8-of-8 from the free-throw line in Saturday's (Dec. 4) win over Cal State Fullerton, in the process increasing her streak of consecutive free throws made to a MAC-record total ... Prochaska had broken her own school record of 45-straight shots from the stripe in the Vanderbilt game (Dec. 1), then surpassed the conference record against Fullerton ... she is just five shots shy of matching the NCAA Division-I mark ... continue reading for more notes about Prochaska's proclivity from the line.
PROCHASKA AT THE STRIPE
Senior Lauren Prochaska, as mentioned, continues to rewrite BGSU's free-throw records – and, for the most part, they were records that she already owned ...
• Prochaska topped her own single-game mark in the win over UALR on Nov. 26, shooting a perfect 15-for-15 from the stripe ... her 'old' mark was 13-for-13, set last season against Miami (Jan. 19, 2010) ... she has gone at least 8-of-8 from the line in four of the last five games, making 10 free throws vs. both Detroit and Vanderbilt and eight vs. Fullerton.
• Prochaska has made 69 of her 70 shots from the stripe this year, a 98.6-percent success rate ... she ranks second in the country in the most recent NCAA Division-I statistics, released Monday (Dec. 6) ... the lone player ahead of her, Monmouth's Erin Rooney, has attempted just 20 free throws this year, having gone 20-of-20.
• As mentioned earlier, Prochaska has made a BGSU- and MAC-record 61 consecutive free-throw attempts ... that streak is the second longest in NCAA Division-I history, trailing only Richmond's Ginny Doyle (66 from 1991-92) ... the current streak marks the third time Prochaska has made over 30-straight free throws in her BGSU career ... the Division-I list, according to the NCAA Record Book ...
NCAA DIVISION-I RECORDS: MOST CONSECUTIVE FREE THROWS MADE
FTM Player, School (Year[s])
66 Ginny Doyle, Richmond (1991-92)
61 LAUREN PROCHASKA, Bowling Green (2010-11) – current
60 Adrienne Squire, Penn State (2004-06)
57 Jody Beerman, Central Michigan (1986-87)
53 Katie Miller, UNI (1999-00)
49 Lisa Rathburn, BYU (1990-91)
46 Brooke Lassiter, Louisiana Tech (2000-01)
45 LAUREN PROCHASKA, Bowling Green (2008-09)
45 Amy Slowikowski, Kent St. (1988-89)
45 Wendy Scholtens, Vanderbilt (1988-89)
PROCHASKA'S ALREADY GOT THIS RECORD
Falcon senior Lauren Prochaska already owns the NCAA Division-I single-season record for consecutive free throws made ... as mentioned, Richmond's Ginny Doyle made 66-straight free throws ... Doyle made 60 consecutive shots from the line to end the 1991-92 season, then hit her first six free throws of the '92-93 campaign ... all 61 of Prochaska's consecutive makes have come in the 2010-11 season.
AND, SHE'S GOT A SHOT AT THIS RECORD
Entering Thursday's Western Kentucky game, senior Lauren Prochaska has made 491 free throws in 537 attempts in her career ... that is good for a percentage of 91.4 ... Prochaska is in line to finish among the NCAA's all-time leaders in free-throw pct. ... the list can be found in the PDF version of this release, just a click away at the top of the page.
BUT WHAT ABOUT OTHER NCAA DIVISIONS?
Good question ... the NCAA record for consecutive free throws made, regardless of division, is 78 ... that streak was put together just two years ago, by Jamey Gelhar of St. Martin's ... the NCAA all-divisions list follows ...
NCAA RECORDS (ALL DIVISIONS): MOST CONSECUTIVE FT MADE
FTM Player, School (Year[s])
78 Jamey Gelhar, St. Martin's (2008-09)
69 Jamie Visness, Concordia-Moorhead (2002-03)
66 Ginny Doyle, Richmond (1991-92)
61 LAUREN PROCHASKA, Bowling Green (2010-11) – current
61 Valerie Kepner, Baldwin-Wallace #
# Kepner had eight in a row to finish the 1986-87 season at Lake Erie, not an NCAA member at the time, and made her first 61 attempts to start the 1988-89 season at Baldwin-Wallace, thereby making 69 consecutive free throws
LAUREN'S TEAMMATES AREN'T TOO SHABBY, EITHER
Entering Thursday's Western Kentucky game, as mentioned, senior Lauren Prochaska is ranked second in the country in free-throw percentage ... her teammates are doing just fine in that department as well, thanks ... as a team, the Falcons also rank second in the nation in free-throw accuracy ... BGSU is shooting 83.7 percent from the stripe this season, trailing only Villanova (84.9%) ... last season, the Falcons shot 75.3% from the free-throw line, ranking second in the MAC and 22nd in the country.
PROCHASKA RANKS SECOND ON BGSU CAREER SCORING LIST
Senior Lauren Prochaska, nine games into her senior season, resides in second place on the BGSU career scoring list, and has a total of 1,882 points in 111 games ... she now trails only Jackie Motycka (2,122 points from 1985-89) ... Prochaska moved past Ali Mann (1,825 points from 2003-07) in the win over Seattle ... Prochaska is averaging 17.0 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her storied Falcon career.
PONTIUS MOVES INTO THE TOP 20
With her first basket in the season opener at Evansville (Nov. 12), senior Tracy Pontius surpassed the 1,000-point mark for her career ... Pontius became the 24th player to reach the milestone ... heading into the WKU game, Pontius has a total of 1,116 points as a Falcon ... over 1,000 of those points have come since the start of her sophomore season ... Pontius has moved into 19th place on the BGSU scoring list, having passed Stefanie Wenzel (1,099 points from 2000-04) in the Vanderbilt game ... her next target is 18th-place Andrea Nordmann (1,164 points).
PROCHASKA NAMED MAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
On Monday (Dec. 6), Falcon senior Lauren Prochaska was named MAC Player of the Week ... she earned the honor for the first time this season and the 10th time in her Falcon career ... Prochaska averaged 26.0 points in wins over nationally-ranked Vanderbilt and Cal State Fullerton, including a 31-point outing vs. the Commodores ... she also tied her career high with six assists in that game ... on the week, Prochaska also averaged 4.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 3.0 steals.
GOOD START
BGSU's 8-1 record is tied for the best start in school history ... the 1974-75, '91-92 and 2005-06 teams all won eight of nine games to begin the year ... of those three teams, only the '05-06 group won the 10th game of the season to improve to 9-1 ... no BGSU team ever has gone 10-1 to begin the year.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Hey, how about a note pertaining to Lauren Prochaska? Prochaska scored 21 points in the win over Fullerton on Saturday (Dec. 4) ... that marked the 100th time she has scored in double digits during her BGSU tenure ... Prochaska has played in 111 games in her collegiate career to date.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE TROUBLE
Senior Tracy Pontius had 11 points and a career-high 10 assists vs. Cal State Fullerton, for her first career double-double ... the double-double was the Falcons' fifth this season to date ... senior Lauren Prochaska has had two, while classmates Maggie Hennegan and Jen Uhl have had one apiece ... all but the Pontius double-double have been of the points-rebounds variety.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons will enter the Western Kentucky game with a record of 8-1 ... BGSU is 6-0 at home, 1-1 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games to date ... the Falcons' 19-game win streak at Anderson Arena was tied for the ninth-longest current homecourt winning streak in the nation, as of the latest NCAA rankings (Monday, Dec. 6) ... BG received five votes in both Monday's Associated Press poll and Tuesday's USA Today ESPN Coaches poll, and the Falcons are ranked second in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25.
• The Falcons suffered a 63-62 loss at Evansville in the regular-season opener (Nov. 12), but BG has bounced back with eight-straight wins ... BG swept a four-game homestand, with the victims including Creighton, Youngstown State, Oakland and Detroit ... the Falcons headed West and won a pair of games in the Seattle University Thanksgiving Tournament, with a 56-47 win over UALR (Nov. 26) and a 71-51 win over the host school in the championship game (Nov. 27) ... last week, the Brown and Orange picked up two more wins at Anderson Arena, downing #23/23 Vanderbilt, 79-68, on Wednesday (Dec. 1), and dismantling Cal State Fullerton by a 91-51 score on Saturday (Dec. 4).
• Senior Lauren Prochaska, the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, is averaging a team-high 20.3 points per game, and also paces the Falcons with 6.9 rebounds per contest ... Prochaska has scored 20 or more points in six of this season's nine games, including a season-high 31-point performance in the win over Vanderbilt ... she is the reigning MAC Player of the Week as well ... classmate Tracy Pontius has 13.1 ppg, and has a team-leading 21 three-point field goals made, one more than Prochaska ... Prochaska and Pontius are shooting 40.0 and 35.0 percent from beyond the arc, respectively ... Prochaska is 69-of-70 (98.6%) from the free-throw line on the year.
• Head coach Curt Miller's starting lineup for each of the first nine games has remained unchanged ... that lineup has included four seniors in Pontius, Prochaska, Maggie Hennegan and Jen Uhl, along with sophomore Chrissy Steffen.
• Steffen is third on the team in scoring, with 8.8 ppg, and is second on the team in steals, with 1.8 per game ... Hennegan has 8.6 ppg and 6.4 rpg, ranking second on the team in the latter category ... she has had two double-digit rebounding games to date, and leads BGSU with 1.2 blocked shots per game ... Uhl is averaging 7.1 points and 4.8 boards ... she had a double-double in the Seattle game, and has scored in double figures in each of the last three games.
• Pontius paces BGSU in assists (4.1 apg), with Prochaska ranking second (2.9 apg) ... Prochaska leads the Falcons in steals (2.1 bpg) and is second in blocks.
• BGSU returned 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that won 27 games, captured MAC regular-season and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Championships ... the Falcons finished the 2009-10 season with an overall record of 27-7, and BGSU went 14-2 in MAC play ... BG won an outright MAC regular-season championship for the sixth-straight season, a conference record ... the Falcons earned the league's East Division title for the fifth consecutive year (after winning the West crown in 2005) ... BGSU won three more games in Cleveland to capture the MAC Tournament title for the fourth time in those six seasons ... the Falcons went 13-0 at home, 11-6 on the road and 3-1 in neutral-site games last year ... the neutral-site games came in the MAC Tournament and in the NCAA Championships.
• The Falcons lost the services of four seniors – Tara Breske, Laura Bugher, Sarah Clapper and Tamika Nurse – from a year ago ... the three fourth-year players were part of 113 wins, the second-highest total in school and MAC annals ... Nurse was in her first playing season in 2009-10 after transferring from the University of Oregon ... Breske, Bugher and Clapper averaged 28.25 wins per season and helped the Falcons go 57-7 in MAC regular-season games after their arrival on campus.
• Miller and his staff have six seniors on the 15-player active roster this year ... that group includes three returning starters in Prochaska, Pontius and Uhl ... Prochaska and Pontius each started all 34 games a year ago, while Uhl made 31 starts ... Prochaska, of course, has been named the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, while Pontius earned all-league second-team honors in 2009-10.
• Hennegan, a co-captain along with Prochaska, played in all 34 games last season ... post players Chelsea Albert and Kelly Zuercher round out the senior class ... Zuercher played in 30 games off the bench last winter, while Albert appeared in 28 contests.
• The Falcons' lone junior is Jessica Slagle, who played in every game last season ... BG has a pair of redshirt sophomores in Maribeth Giese and Danielle Havel ... Giese played in two games early last season before suffering an injury and sitting out the rest of the season as a redshirt ... Havel sat out the entire campaign after transferring from DePaul University.
• The roster includes three true sophomores in Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Steffen ... four newcomers join the program in 2010-11 ... that list includes a pair of guards in Jillian Halfhill and Noelle Yoder, along with post player Jill Stein ... additionally, Alexis Rogers joins the program, but will sit out this season after transferring from Duke University ... she will retain three seasons of eligibility.
• Slagle and Papenfuss each have played in all nine games off the bench to date, and have 4.7 and 4.2 ppg, respectively ... Papenfuss has 3.1 rpg, tying her for fourth on the team in that category.
• Havel and Zuercher also have seen action in all nine games this year ... all 15 players on the active roster have played in at least six contests.
• BGSU is shooting 41.7% from the field, 35.4% from three-point land and 83.7% from the free-throw line ... BG has allowed opponents to shoot just 37.0% from the floor and 30.8% from beyond the arc ... Falcon foes are shooting 59.7% from the stripe ... BGSU has made 51 more free throws than the opponents have attempted.
PONTIUS JOINS ASSISTS LIST
Senior Tracy Pontius had a career-high 10 assists in the win over Fullerton (Dec. 4) ... Pontius now has a total of 310 in her career ... she moved past Judit Lendvay (304 from 1989-93) and now ranks eighth in school history.
LAST TIME OUT
It was a complete team effort as the Falcons recorded a 91-51 win over Cal State Fullerton Saturday afternoon (Dec. 4) at venerable Anderson Arena ... senior Lauren Prochaska scored a game-high 21 points, and continued her all-out assault on the BGSU and Mid-American Conference record books, while three other Falcons hit double digits in the scoring column ... seniors Jen Uhl and Tracy Pontius had 13 and 11 points, respectively ... Pontius dished out a career-high 10 assists, including eight in the first half alone, en route to her first career double-double ... junior Jessica Slagle rounded out the Falcons' list of double-figure scorers with 10 points on the afternoon ... Lyndsey Grove led the visitors with 11 points ... Prochaska and the BGSU defense held Fullerton's leading scorer, Megan Richardson, without a point on 0-of-10 shooting ... Richardson entered the day averaging 15.3 ppg ... Prochaska was perfect from the free-throw line yet again, going 8-for-8 on Saturday ... she increased her streak to 61 consecutive free throws made, a new MAC record ... additionally, the game marked the 100th time (in 111 career games) that she has scored in double digits in her BGSU career ... BG had 21 assists on 27 baskets, with nine different players handing out at least one assist ... the Falcons also had a commanding 53-34 advantage on the boards ... BGSU never trailed, scoring the first eight points of the game ... the Falcons led 49-26 at the half, scored eight of the first 10 points of the second period, and steadily increased the lead.
A QUICK LOOK AT WESTERN KENTUCKY
Western Kentucky has a record of 2-5, and the Lady Toppers are 1-0 in Sun Belt Conference play ... WKU began the year with five-straight losses, but has won the last two games ... the Lady Toppers picked up a 78-61 win at Troy last Wednesday (Dec. 1) in the league opener, then downed Kent State, 77-68, Tuesday night (Dec. 7) ... the five losses included games against nationally-ranked Duke and Michigan State, with just an eight-point loss to the Spartans in the latter game (51-59; Nov. 26) ... the Lady Toppers are 1-1 at home, 1-3 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site games this year to date ... the lone home game – prior to Tuesday's KSU contest – was a 61-54 loss to Northwestern on Nov. 18 ... individually, sophomore forward Janae Howard, a transfer from Louisville, leads a balanced scoring attack with 12.3 points per game ... senior forward Arnika Brown has 11.6 ppg and a team-leading 8.3 rebounds per contest ... senior guard Amy McNear and junior forward LaTeira Owens are averaging 10.5 and 9.1 ppg, respectively, while senior guard Hope Brown has 8.9 ppg ... Owens has 5.9 rpg, and McNear has 23 assists in just four games played ... Owens and Hope Brown have started all seven games to date ... Arnika Brown, McNear and junior guard Vanessa Obafemi (4.7 ppg) joined that duo in the starting lineup in the Troy and KSU games for head coach Mary Taylor Cowles ... Cowles, in her ninth season, welcomed back eight letterwinners, including two starters, from last year's club ... the 2009-10 team went 21-11 overall and 14-4 in Sun Belt games ... the school's athletics web site is www.wkusports.com.
THE SERIES
BGSU and Western Kentucky have never met in women's basketball ... the Falcons have a 3-0 record against Sun Belt Conference schools, including a 1-0 mark this season to date ... BGSU topped UALR, 56-47, in the Seattle University Thanksgiving Tournament a week-and-a-half ago (Nov. 26) ... the Falcons' other two games vs. current Sun Belt Conference members came in the state of Florida, as Curt Miller's club won at Florida Atlantic in his second season (77-62; Dec. 6, 2002) and at FIU in his fifth (67-56; Dec. 10, 2005).
HOLDING ON TO THE BALL
The Falcons have been successful at limiting turnovers this season ... as of the latest NCAA rankings (Monday, Dec. 6), BGSU was sixth in the nation in fewest turnovers per game (13.6) ... in each of the Falcons' eight wins, the Falcons have committed fewer turnovers than the opponents ... BG and Evansville each coughed the ball up 19 times in the Falcons' lone loss, in the season opener ... since then, however, BGSU has committed 12.9 turnovers per game, with no more than 15 turnovers in any of the eight games ... in those eight games, the Falcons have forced the opponent into an average of 18.5 turnovers per contest ... BG has forced 15 or more opponent turnovers in each of the nine games, including 19 or more in six of those contests.
CLOSING THE DOORS OF THE HOUSE THAT ROARS
The 2010-11 season is the final year that BGSU's teams will call Anderson Arena home, and there are many events planned as part of the year-long celebration ... the All-Anderson teams for men's and women's basketball, announced in October, will be recognized at a home game ... for the BGSU women, the All-Anderson Team recognition is scheduled for the Feb. 5 game vs. Ball State ... the final women's home regular-season game inside "The House That Roars" will be on March 2 vs. Buffalo ... on March 5, the year-long festivities will culminate with the B!G Event, a final farewell celebration at 8:00 p.m. ... this once-in-a-lifetime event will be attended by hundreds of Falcon faithful, as well as members of all three All-Anderson Teams, other former letterwinners, current players and coaching staff members ... for more information, contact the athletics department at 419-372-2401 or rlynv@bgsu.edu.
HOME COOKIN'
BGSU has enjoyed a great deal of success at home this year to date ... the Falcons are 6-0 at venerable Anderson Arena this season, and BGSU has won those six games by an average of 30.3 points .. the Falcons are averaging 83.3 points per game at home, having scored at least 79 points in all six games ... BG is allowing just 53.5 ppg at "The House That Roars."
UHL BE SWELL, UHL BE GREAT
Senior Jen Uhl had 13 points in the Falcons' win over Cal State Fullerton, her third consecutive game with a double-figure scoring total ... after scoring a total of 19 points over BG's first six games, Uhl has scored 45 in the last three ... she has more than doubled her season scoring average, from 3.2 ppg to 7.1 ppg, in that time.
CLEANING THE GLASS
The Falcons have outrebounded the opponent in seven of this season's first nine games ... the Falcons are averaging 41.0 rebounds per game, to the opponents' 33.2 ... BGSU has had a rebounding margin of +10 or better four times this year, matching the total for all of last season ... the Falcons, obviously, had a double-digit rebounding advantage over the opponent only four times in 34 games last year, and turned the trick just twice in 34 contests in 2008-09 ... BG's total of 56 rebounds vs. Youngstown State (Nov. 17) was the team's highest in just under six years, and the Falcons had 53 rebounds in the Fullerton game (Dec. 4).
TREY BIEN! PROCHASKA, PONTIUS AMONG BGSU'S TOP THREE
A pair of BGSU seniors sit high atop the school's three-point field-goal list ... Lauren Prochaska is the most prolific three-point shooter in BGSU history, and Tracy Pontius has moved into the top three ... through three seasons (plus nine games), Prochaska has a total of 261 three-point field goals made ... she broke the BGSU record set by Liz Honegger (216 triples from 2003-07) last season ... Pontius now has 180 career threes, ranking third at BGSU ... Prochaska has a shot at breaking the MAC career record of 323 three-pointers made, set by Ball State's Audrey McDonald.
THREE-MENDOUS! MANY FALCONS CONNECTING FROM DOWNTOWN
Seniors Lauren Prochaska and Tracy Pontius are not the only Falcons with the capability to score from beyond the arc ... no fewer than 12 different players have hit at least one three-point field goal this season ... the three players on the active roster who have not made a triple – senior Chelsea Albert, sophomore Simone Eli and freshman Jill Stein – have not attempted one.
PROCHASKA'S NAME IS ON MANY LISTS
Falcon senior Lauren Prochaska has received her share of accolades in the early stages of the 2010-11 season ... here are just a few ...
• Prochaska was named to the Naismith Trophy preseason watch list ... the watch list was compiled by the Atlanta Tipoff Club's Board of Selectors, which based its criteria on player performances from the previous year and expectations for the 2010-11 season.
• She also was selected to the Women's Basketball John R. Wooden Award Preseason Top 30 list by the Los Angeles Athletic Club ... the list is comprised of 30 student-athletes who, based on last year's individual performance and team records, are the early frontrunners for college basketball's most prestigious honor.
• Prochaska also was one of 30 women's basketball student-athletes nationally who were selected as candidates for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award ... to be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition.
• And, last but not least, Prochaska was voted to the Preseason All-MAC Team by the league's 12 head coaches.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 8-1 this season to date; after going 27-7 last season and 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 14-2 in the MAC last winter, winning a sixth-straight league regular-season title;
• 214-81 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 108-36 in MAC games in that time:
• 205-62 overall in the eight years (plus nine 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);
• 193-46 over the last seven-plus years, with 2009-10 marking BG's seventh-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 172-36 in the past six-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins and a MAC regular-season title in each of the last six seasons;
• an eye-popping 149-28 overall and 73-7 in the MAC regular season in the last five-plus years, with at least 26 wins each year;
• 121-25 in the last four-plus years, including a 57-7 conference ledger;
• 90-21 overall, and 42-6 in MAC regular-season games, since seniors Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher began their respective playing careers at BGSU;
• 64-13 since junior Jessica Slagle and redshirt soph Maribeth Giese ventured to NW Ohio;
• 35-8 in the BGSU playing careers of senior Maggie Hennegan and sophomores Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Chrissy Steffen (2009-10 was Hennegan's first playing season at BGSU, after she sat out the prior year as a transfer from Saint Louis Univ.);
• 91-9 in the last 100 games vs. MAC opponents (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 50-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field in the Miller Era;
• 177-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 49-0 mark in the last two-plus seasons;
• 165-26 when making more free throws during Miller's first nine-plus years;
• 129-12 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 44-4 in MAC home games in the last six seasons, including three 8-0 marks;
• 36-4 in MAC road games over the last five years (with the losses coming in 2007-08 at Ball State, in '08-09 at Miami and last year at Toledo and Central Michigan);
• 15-2 in the MAC Tournament over the last six years, with four titles (2005, '06, '07 and 2010), a championship-game appearance last year, and a trip to the semis in 2008;
• 39-16 overall in the MAC Tournament since it was instituted in 1982;
• 27-11 in MAC Tournament contests played at a neutral site;
• 17-4 at Gund/Quicken Loans Arena, the site of the MAC Tournament;
• 18-5 in MAC Tournament games in the Miller Era;
• 17-3 at "The Gund"/"The Q" under Miller;
• 34-3 in all non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 30-2 against non-league foes at Anderson Arena since November of 2004;
• 5-13 in 13 national postseason appearances (including a 3-10 record in the NCAA Championships and a 2-3 mark in WNIT trips); and
• 4-6 in national postseason action under Miller (including a 2-4 mark in the NCAAs and a 2-2 record in the WNIT).
THE FALCON SENIORS
BGSU has posted a record of 90-21 overall, and the Falcons are 42-6 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 27.3 games per year to date ... the Falcons have made national postseason play in each of those three years, having gone to the NCAA once and the WNIT twice ... Maggie Hennegan joined that group for the 2009-10 season.
THE JUNIOR
The Falcons are 64-13 overall and 29-3 in the MAC since junior Jessica Slagle arrived in Northwest Ohio ... that stretch includes a 25-game winning streak in Slagle's freshman year ... redshirt sophomore Maribeth Giese has been at BGSU for those two seasons, but played in just two games a year ago before missing the rest of the year due to injury ... Giese and Slagle helped the Falcons to a total of 29 wins – the second-highest total in school and MAC history – during their freshman campaign of 2008-09.
THE SOPHOMORES
Three sophomores have helped the Falcons to a 27-7 mark a year ago and a 8-1 record this year to date ... that group includes Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Chrissy Steffen ... Danielle Havel is now a member of the sophomore class, having sat out the '09-10 season after transferring from DePaul Univ.
THE FRESHMEN
Three freshmen joined the Falcons for the 2010-11 season ... that list includes Jillian Halfhill (Canfield, Ohio/Canfield), Jill Stein (Clyde, Ohio/Tiffin Columbian) and Noelle Yoder (Millersburg, Ohio/Berlin Hiland) ... Alexis Rogers also joins the Brown and Orange this year, but will sit out the '10-11 season after transferring from Duke Univ.
BGSU TO HOST 2012 NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST AND SECOND ROUNDS
BGSU's Stroh Center has been selected as one of 16 sites for the first and second rounds of the 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship ... that announcement was made by the NCAA Women's Basketball Committee on Oct. 26 ... BGSU will host first- and second-round games at the Stroh Center on either Saturday, March 17, and Monday, March 19 or Sunday, March 18, and Tuesday, March 20, 2012 ... exact dates will be determined in June of 2011, with ticket information to be released at a later time ... the 2011-12 season will be the first year of operation for the Stroh Center, which will serve as the new home for the Falcon men's and women's basketball, volleyball and gymnastics teams ... Anderson Arena served as the site for first-round games in 1989, 1993 and 1994.
CAPTAINS
Seniors Maggie Hennegan and Lauren Prochaska are the captains of the 2010-11 Falcons ... Hennegan is a captain for the second consecutive year ... she was chosen as a captain before ever playing her first game as a Falcon.