Falcons Host Ohio to Begin Third Phase of MAC Schedule

THE OPENING TIP
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, having concluded a six-game stretch against the Mid-American Conference's West Division, now turns its attention back to the East Division ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller, holding a one-game lead in the East, close the regular season with five intradivisional games, beginning Saturday (Feb. 13) vs. Ohio University ... tipoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (3,500) ... Saturday's game is one of just two home contests in the final seven regular-season games.

YOU TAKE THE GOOD, YOU TAKE THE BAD ...
... you take them both and there you have ... sorry, we're rambling ... the good news: junior Lauren Prochaska hit a pair of three-point field goals early in the first half of Wednesday night's (Feb. 10) game at Central Michigan, breaking the school's career record in the process ... Prochaska now has made 217 career three-pointers ... the bad news: she went scoreless for the final 34-plus minutes of the CMU game, en route to her lowest scoring output of the season ... Prochaska's six-point total also marked her lowest in a MAC regular-season game since late in her freshman season.

THINK PINK
Saturday's game vs. Ohio is the Falcons' annual "Pink Zone" game in support of breast cancer awareness ... the "Pink Zone" initiative, created by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), began in 2007 as a unified effort to raise awareness for breast cancer through women's basketball, both on campuses and in communities ... all fans are encouraged to wear pink to the game in support of the initiative ... the women's basketball Falcons will be wearing special pink T-shirts during pre-game warmups, and "Colleges Against Cancer," the American Cancer Society's on-campus student organization, will have an informational table in the main lobby of Anderson Arena through halftime of Saturday's game.

TWO FOR TEN
On several Saturdays in the months of January and February, Falcon fans can get a ticket for two events for one low price of ten dollars ($10) ... the remaining dates follow ... more information is available here at BGSUFalcons.com.
• Feb. 13 - WBK vs. Ohio (2 pm); IH vs. Miami (5:05 pm)
• Feb. 20 - MBK vs. Valparaiso (2 pm); IH vs. Notre Dame (5:05 pm)
• Feb. 27 - WBK vs. Kent State (Noon); MBK vs. Akron (2:30 pm)

TREY BIEN! PROCHASKA MOVES TO THE TOP OF THE LIST
Junior Lauren Prochaska has become the most prolific three-point field-goal shooter in BGSU history ... Prochaska's shot with 14:55 left in the first half of Wednesday's (Feb. 10) Central Michigan game was the 217th made trey of her BGSU career, moving her past Liz Honegger ... Honegger made 216 triples from 2003-07 ... Tracy Pontius, in just her second year as a starter, ranks ninth on the list, with 140 threes in her career.

IF THE SEASON ENDED TODAY ...
If the MAC Tournament began on Saturday, the Falcons would be the number-two seed, and would have a first-round bye ... BGSU would play a quarterfinal-round game against the winner of the #10 Buffalo-at-#7 Miami game ... beginning this year, the MAC women's basketball tournament seeding mirrors the men's basketball procedure ... the two divisional champions earn the top-two seeds, and the remaining teams are seeded #3 through #12, regardless of division.

FALCONS LOOKING FOR 20
The Falcons have a total of 19 wins this season to date ... BGSU entered the 2009-10 season having won at least 20 games in six consecutive years, a school record ... prior to the current run, the longest such streak was four-straight seasons, by the Fran Voll-coached teams of the late 1980s ... the Falcons need one more win this year to tie the MAC record of seven consecutive 20-win seasons, set by Kent State from 1995-96 to 2001-02.

BGSU ALREADY AT THE TOP OF THIS LIST
The Falcons are looking to win at least 20 games for the 15th time in school history, the most of any MAC school ... other than BGSU, only Toledo (13) and Kent State (11) have posted 20 or more wins on 10 or more occasions.

A WINNING MAC RECORD
With a 9-2 MAC record, the Falcons have clinched a winning league mark for the seventh consecutive year ... the school record is nine consecutive winning records in MAC play, from 1985-86 through 1993-94 ... Fran Voll was the head coach for the first six years of that streak, with Jaci Clark at the helm for the latter three.

PROCHASKA NOW SIXTH
Junior Lauren Prochaska has moved into sixth place on the BGSU career scoring list, with a total of 1,534 points in her collegiate career ... she moved ahead of Liz Honegger (1,522 points from 2003-07) in Saturday's (Feb. 6) win over Ball State ... Prochaska's next target on the list is fifth-place Francine Miller, who had 1,574 points from 1998-2003 ... Kate Achter ranks fourth, with 1,580 points from 2004-08) ... Prochaska is averaging 16.5 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her storied Falcon career.

HOME COOKIN'
BGSU's 85-67 win over Northern Illinois on Feb. 2 gives the Falcons an 11-0 record at venerable Anderson Arena this season to date ... BGSU has won 28 consecutive regular-season games at "The House That Roars" ... the last regular-season home loss for the Falcons came to Western Michigan, as the Broncos captured a 79-73 decision two years ago (Jan. 30, 2008).

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 30 of the last 31 games at "The House That Roars" ... 25 of those 30 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 42-4 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 6-0 in MAC games at Anderson Arena this year to date.

MILLER REACHES 100 MAC WINS ...
BGSU's 83-71 win over Eastern Michigan (Jan. 23) was the 100th MAC victory in Falcon head coach Curt Miller's career ... entering the Ohio game, Miller now has a career record of 103-36 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.

... AND APPROACHES 200 OVERALL WINS
If the Falcons win two of their next 14 games, BGSU head coach Curt Miller will become the fastest coach to 200 overall wins in MAC history ... Miller has a 198-79 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 two away from the 200 mark ... Miller trails only Kent State's Bob Lindsay and former Toledo coach Mark Ehlen on the MAC list for overall wins ... the lists of winningest MAC women's basketball coaches can be found in the PDF version of these poorly-written notes.

MILLER LOOKING TO JOIN AN ELITE GROUP
Curt Miller, who became the winningest coach in BGSU women's basketball 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.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 19-6 on the season, and BGSU is 9-2 in MAC play ... BG is 11-0 at home and 8-6 on the road this year to date ... the Falcons have won 18 of the last 22 games, but have dropped two of the last four contests ... most recently, the Brown and Orange lost a 67-65 decision at Central Michigan Wednesday night (Feb. 10).

• BG saw an eight-game winning streak snapped with a 66-63 loss at Toledo (Jan. 30), but bounced back with a home win over Northern Illinois (85-67; Feb. 2) and last Saturday's (Feb. 6) 80-76 victory at Ball State, prior to heading to CMU.

• BG completed the first swing through the East Division unbeaten, with home wins over Akron (74-62), Buffalo (78-60) and Miami (85-65), and road victories against Ohio (77-42) and Kent State (89-61) ... the Brown and Orange then began cross-divisional play with home wins over Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan, before losing to UT.

• The Falcons went 10-4 in non-conference play ... BG 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).

• After a loss at St. Bonaventure (Dec. 12), BG bounced back with three wins in a five-day span before Christmas ... the Falcons ended the 2009 calendar year with a five-point loss at Hartford (Dec. 30), but topped SIU Edwardsville (Jan. 2) before beginning the MAC portion of the schedule with seven-straight wins.

• 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.

• Junior Lauren Prochaska leads the Falcons in scoring and rebounding ... Prochaska, the reigning Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, is averaging 17.8 points and 5.4 rebounds per game ... she has paced BG in scoring 13 times this year ... Prochaska, who has been named the league's Player of the Week three times this season, is averaging 19.3 ppg in the Falcons' 11 home games.

• Prochaska leads the MAC in free-throw percentage (.917) and three-point field-goal pct. (.447) and ranks second in three-pointers made (2.72).

• Junior Tracy Pontius and senior Tamika Nurse have 12.6 and 9.7 ppg, respectively ... Pontius has 2.6 rpg, and is second on the team in three-point field goals made ... Prochaska has hit 68 shots from long range to 51 for Pontius ... Pontius is second on the Falcons in both assists (3.1 apg) and steals (1.4 spg) ... Nurse has a team-high 3.4 assists per game, and ranks third on the team with 28 three-pointers made ... Prochaska and Nurse have made 110 and 97 free throws, respectively, while Pontius has hit 55 shots from the stripe ... Pontius and Prochaska each are converting their free-throw tries at a rate of better than 85 percent.

• In the post, senior Tara Breske and junior Jen Uhl have scored 8.5 and 6.4 ppg, respectively ... Breske, who missed two games due to injury in early December, has 4.4 rebounds and 1.1 blocked shots per game, leading the Falcons in the latter category and ranking third in the former ... Breske also has a team-leading 1.5 steals per game ... Uhl has 5.0 rebounds per game, ranking her second on the team ... she has 124 total rebounds to Prochaska's 134 ... Uhl and Breske are shooting .481 and .474, respectively, from the field.

• Junior Maggie Hennegan has 5.0 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, ranking third on the team in boards ... she has shot .459 from the field this year ... six players are averaging from 1.8 to 3.5 ppg heading into the Ohio 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 25 games to date, while Uhl has made 22 starts and Breske 20 ... that quintet has started each of the last 15 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 17.6 ppg in MAC games to date, while Pontius has averaged 13.4 ppg ... the duo has combined for 57 successful three-pointers in the 11 conference contests ... Breske has 9.5 ppg and 4.8 rpg in league play, while Nurse has 8.8 ppg and a team-leading 3.5 apg ... Uhl has 7.1 ppg and a BG-best 5.4 rpg, and is shooting .492 from the field ... Hennegan, Steffen and Zuercher all have scored at least 4.1 ppg in MAC action ... the Falcons have a +14.5 scoring margin and a -0.6 rebounding margin in MAC games this year to date.

• Overall, the Falcons are shooting .429 from the field, .370 from three-point land and .783 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .397 overall, .307 from long range and .705 from the stripe ... the Falcons have 36.6 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.7 ... BGSU has been outrebounded only nine times in 24 games this year.

LAST TIME OUT
Host Central Michigan rallied from a 16-point second-half deficit, taking the lead with half a minute left en route to a 67-65 win over the Falcons Wednesday night (Feb. 10) ... Central's win snapped a nine-game BGSU winning streak in the series, and marked the Chippewas' first over the Falcons in just over seven years ... CMU's last win over the Brown and Orange came on Feb. 5, 2003 ... junior Tracy Pontius led the Falcons with 16 points, including 13 in the second half ... Pontius hit four of the Falcons' nine three-point field goals on the evening ... senior Tara Breske had 11 points vs. the Chippewas, while classmate Tamika Nurse had 10 points and a game-high eight assists, tying her career best in the latter ... junior Lauren Prochaska hit a pair of three-pointers in the first half, becoming the school's career leader in made treys in the process ... Kaihla Szunko had a monster game for the Chippewas, with game-high totals of 21 points and 18 rebounds ... Szunko was 9-of-12 from the field and had seven offensive boards ... after scoring the game's first two points, the Chippewas did not lead again until Shonda Long's layup with just 28.9 seconds left in the game ... that shot gave the hosts a 66-65 lead ... on the next possession, BG turned the ball over, then fouled Rachel Mauk with 16.1 seconds left ... Mauk split her free-throw tries for a two-point lead ... on BG's final possession, an inbounds pass went to Breske, who was forced to fire a three-point attempt that hit the iron and bounced away as the horn sounded ... the Chippewas overcame a total of 28 turnovers by shooting .548 from the field in the second half ... BGSU had led by 16 points with 14 minutes left, but Central came all the way back to tie the game in a span of five and a half minutes ... the Falcons went back ahead by eight points, 61-53, with 5:07 left, but CMU outscored the visitors by a 14-4 count the rest of the way.

THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
BGSU heads into the Ohio game with an all-time record of 330-142 (.699) 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, making the Falcons the only team in the league, obviously, with a winning series record against every other school.

SCOUTING OHIO
Ohio enters Saturday's game with an overall record of 6-18, and the Bobcats are 2-9 in MAC play ... Ohio is looking to snap a three-game losing streak ... the 'Cats have lost five out of the last six games, but four of the five losses in that span have come by single digits ... most recently, Ohio dropped a 68-61 decision at Northern Illinois Wednesday night (Feb. 10) ... the Bobcats are 5-7 at home and 1-11 on the road to date this year ... Ohio's MAC wins both have come at home, against Akron and Ball State ... individually, senior guards Jenny Poff and Jennifer Bushby are Ohio's top-two scorers ... Poff has 11.1 points per game, and has made 50 three-point field goals this year to date ... Bushby has averaged 9.8 points and 5.0 rebounds per game, and leads the Bobcats with 1.9 steals per outing ... sophomore G/F Da'Keisha Mann has 7.0 ppg and 4.2 rpg, while junior G/F Carolyn Barnett has 6.4 ppg off the bench ... Barnett had a career-high 29 points in the NIU game Wednesday ... Poff, junior forward Kamille Buckner (6.3 ppg, a team-leading 5.8 rpg) and freshman guard Ashley Fowler (4.9 ppg) each have started all 24 games this year to date ... Bushby and freshman forward Tina Fisher (2.3 ppg) joined that trio in the starting lineup at NIU ... head coach Semeka Randall welcomed back nine letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that finished with a 13-18 overall mark and a 7-9 MAC ledger ... Randall has a record of 19-36 in her second season as a collegiate head coach, both in Athens ... the school's athletics web site is OhioBobcats.com.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Ohio, 46-20, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won the last three meetings ... earlier this season, the Falcons began the road portion of MAC action with a 77-42 win in Athens (Jan. 9, 2010) ... last year, the Brown and Orange captured both decisions, including a 79-64 win on 'Senior Day' at Anderson Arena (March 7, 2009) ... Ohio's last series win was a 68-66, double-overtime decision in the semifinal round of the 2008 MAC Tournament (March 14, 2008) in downtown Cleveland ... BGSU is 26-5 in home games, 18-13 in road games and 2-2 in neutral-site affairs vs. the Bobcats ... BG has won two-straight meetings in Anderson vs. Ohio, since the Bobcats posted a 70-67 victory in Northwest Ohio on Feb. 24, 2007 ... that was the lone MAC loss for BGSU's "Sweet Sixteen" team ... Curt Miller has a record of 12-4 against Ohio during his head-coaching tenure ... additional series information, along with the complete list of game-by-game series results, can be found in the PDF version of these never-tedious game notes.

BUGHER, HENNEGAN EARN ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT HONORS
A pair of BGSU student-athletes were named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 4 Team, it was announced Thursday (Feb. 4) ... senior Laura Bugher and redshirt junior Maggie Hennegan each were named to the second team ... both Bugher and Hennegan maintain a perfect 4.00 cumulative grade point average ... the District 4 team is made up of student-athletes from Division I schools in the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee ... to be nominated, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore and must carry a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher ... Bugher and Hennegan were the only two MAC players named to any of the eight district teams.

SENIORS SURPASS CENTURY MARK IN OVERALL WINS ...
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 Central Michigan game, the Falcons now have a 105-23 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.

... AND HALF-CENTURY MARK IN MAC PLAY
BGSU's fourth-year seniors – Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper – have won more than 50 MAC games in their careers ... heading into Saturday's Ohio game, the Falcons are 52-7 in conference regular-season games since that trio came to campus ... the school record for MAC wins in a four-year span is 59, set by the 1986-89 teams and matched by the 2006-09 clubs ... it should be noted that the MAC utilized an 18-game schedule in 1985-86 ... the complete list of BGSU's best MAC records in a four-year span can be found somewhere in the back pages of the PDF version of these notes.

SENIOR PRIDE
As mentioned, the Falcons' win at Ball State was the 105th victory for the team's three fourth-year seniors ... even if BGSU doesn't win another game this year, those three players – Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper – will have finished their careers with an average of 26.25 wins per season ... BGSU's other senior, Tamika Nurse, is in her first playing season with the Falcons after transferring from the University of Oregon.

THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 19-6 this season to date, after going 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 9-2 in the MAC, after finishing 15-1 last year and winning a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 198-79 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 103-36 in MAC games in that time:
• 189-60 overall in the seven years (plus 25 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);
• 177-44 over the last six-plus years, with 2008-09 marking BG's sixth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 156-34 in the past five-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in each year and a MAC regular-season title in every full season;
• an eye-popping 133-26 overall and 68-7 in the MAC regular season in the last four-plus years;
• 105-23 in the last three-plus years, including a 52-7 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 74-19 overall, and 37-6 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;
• 48-11 since sophomores Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle ventured to NW Ohio;
• 83-9 in the last 92 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;
• 166-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 15-0 mark this year to date;
• 150-25 when making more free throws during Miller's first eight-plus seasons;
• 116-11 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 49-16 in February games since Miller took the helm, including 39-3 in the last five-plus seasons;
• 42-4 in MAC home games in the last five-plus seasons; and
• 33-4 in MAC road games over the last four-plus years (with the lone losses during that time coming in 2007-08 at Ball State, in March of 2009 at Miami and this season at Toledo and Central Michigan).

LEADERS OF THE MAC
The Falcons lead the MAC in a total of six team statistical categories, including scoring offense, scoring margin, free-throw percentage, three-point FG pct., assist/turnover ratio and three-pointers made per game ... and, BGSU ranks second in the league in five additional categories ... in MAC games only, BG leads the league in eight categories, the aforementioned six as well as field-goal pct. and turnover margin.

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 105-23 overall and 52-7 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 74-19 overall, and the Falcons are 37-6 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 27.5 games 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 48-11 overall and 24-3 in the MAC since the duo arrived in Northwest Ohio ... Danielle Havel is a member of the sophomore class, but is sitting 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).

TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE
The Falcons are shooting .783 from the free-throw line as a team, not too far off of last year's school-record .794 pace ... all five of BGSU's starters are shooting .771 or better from the stripe, including three who are hitting FTs at .859 or higher.

PRODUCTIVE AT THE STRIPE
As mentioned, the Falcons are shooting a MAC-best .783 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 .917 from the line this season to date, and is ranked second in the country (as of Feb. 7) ... last year, Prochaska led the nation with a .933 FT rate.

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.

UP NEXT
Following the Ohio game, the Falcons will return to the road for two consecutive games and three of the final four regular-season contests ... BGSU will head to the Rubber City to face Akron on Saturday, Feb. 20 ... that game will begin at 2:00 p.m. at UA's Rhodes Arena, and the contest is the Akron's 'Pink Zone' game. -- CLICK HERE FOR BGSU'S SCHEDULE

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