Falcons Head to Buffalo as Regular Season Winds Down

THE OPENING TIP
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, sitting atop the Mid-American Conference's East Division, ends the regular-season schedule with three games in a seven-day span ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller play two of those three games on the road, beginning with Wednesday's (Feb. 24) contest at the University at Buffalo ... tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at Alumni Arena (6,100) ... the Falcons are 11-2 in MAC play, one game ahead of Kent State (10-3) and two games up on Akron (9-4) in the East.

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BGSU'S MAGIC NUMBER FOR A BYE IS ONE
The Falcons, looking to win a sixth consecutive MAC regular-season title, have a one-game lead with three to play ... one step along the way is securing a first-round bye for the MAC Tournament, and BGSU has a magic number of one ... one more Falcon victory (or one loss by both Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan) would clinch a top-four seed and a bye for the Brown and Orange ... the top-four teams in the final standings will earn a bye and advance to the league tourney's quarterfinal round on Wednesday, March 10 ... the remaining eight teams will play first-round games at campus sites on Saturday, March 6, with the four winners advancing to join the top-four seeds at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena.

IF THE SEASON ENDED TODAY ...
If the MAC Tournament began on Wednesday, the Falcons would be the number-one seed, and would have a first-round bye ... BGSU would play a quarterfinal-round game against the winner of the #9 Northern Illinois-at-#8 Ball State 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.
Current MAC Tournament seeding: 1 - Bowling Green (11-2); 2 - Toledo (10-3); 3 - Kent State (10-3); 4 - Akron (9-4); 5 - Central Michigan (8-5); 6 - Eastern Michigan (8-5); 7 - Miami (6-7); 8 - Ball State (5-8); 9 - Northern Illinois (4-9); 10 - Buffalo (3-10); 11 - Western Michigan (2-11); 12 - Ohio (2-11).

MILLER BECOMES FASTEST MAC COACH TO 200 WINS
BGSU's 66-56 win at Akron was Falcon head coach Curt Miller's 200th win ... Miller, now 200-79 at the BGSU helm, becomes the fastest coach to 200 wins in MAC women's basketball history ... he is third on the MAC list for overall career wins, and trails only Kent State's Bob Lindsay and former Toledo coach Mark Ehlen on the list ... Miller reached the 200-win mark (obviously) in his 279th career game... the lists of winningest MAC women's basketball coaches can be found in the PDF version of these notes.

MILLER. ANDERSON. THAT'S IT; THAT'S THE LIST.
Curt Miller, who became the winningest coach in Falcon women's basketball history two years ago, has become only the second basketball coach at Bowling Green (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.

MILLER HOLDS THIS RECORD, TOO
BGSU's Curt Miller is believed to be the fastest basketball coach – in MAC men's or women's basketball annals – to 200 wins ... since the inception of the MAC, a total of six men's coaches have amassed 200 career wins at one or more conference institutions ... that list includes Bob Nichols (Toledo), James Snyder (Ohio), Charlie Coles (Central Michigan and Miami), Darrell Hedric (Miami), Larry Hunter (Ohio) and Stan Joplin (Toledo) ... none of those six coaches are believed to have reached 200 wins faster than Miller.

MILLER ALREADY HAD REACHED 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 Buffalo game, Miller now has a career record of 105-36 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 HOLDS YET ANOTHER RECORD
Add yet another record to the long list for Falcon head coach Curt Miller ... Miller has the most MAC wins of any BGSU basketball coach, men's or women's ... as mentioned in the previous note, he enters the Buffalo game with 105 conference victories ... Jim Larranaga, who coached the BG men from 1986-97, posted a total of 102 MAC wins ... Larranaga is now the head men's coach at George Mason University (in case you weren't watching the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in 2006).

A CHART-TOPPER: FALCONS REACH 20 WINS AGAIN
BGSU coach Curt Miller has talked about wanting his program to maintain a level of consistency, and avoid being a 'one-hit wonder' ... it is safe to say that mission has been accomplished ... the Falcons' win over Ohio (Feb. 13) was BG's 20th of the season ... the Falcons have won at least 20 games in seven consecutive years, extending the school record and tying the MAC record ... the conference mark was set by Bob Lindsay's Kent State teams from 1995-96 through 2001-02 ... prior to the current run, the longest such streak in BGSU history was four-straight seasons, by the Fran Voll-coached teams of the late 1980s.

BGSU WAS ALREADY AT THE TOP OF THIS LIST
The Falcons have won at least 20 games for the 15th time in school history, the most of any MAC school ... other than BGSU, only Toledo (14) and Kent State (11) have posted 20 or more wins on 10 or more occasions.

TREY BIEN! PROCHASKA IS AT 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 the Central Michigan game (Feb. 10) was the 217th made trey of her BGSU career, moving her past Liz Honegger ... entering the Buffalo game, Prochaska now has a total of 224 three-point field goals made ... Honegger made 216 triples from 2003-07 ... Tracy Pontius, in just her second year as a starter, is tied for eighth on the list, with 143 threes in her career.

PROCHASKA MOVING UP THE SINGLE-SEASON LIST, TOO
Junior Lauren Prochaska has displayed a level of three-point consistency that is perhaps unmatched in BGSU history ... Prochaska has made a total of 75 treys this season, and is just three shy of the school record (78, Angie Farmer in 1999-2000) ... Prochaska is the only player in BG history to make more than 70 triples in a season three times ... in fact, she has three of the five such seasons in school annals (Farmer and Tracy Pontius have made 70 threes in a season once each) ... the MAC record is 96 three-pointers made, by Toledo's Kelly Savage in 1988-89.

PROCHASKA MOVES INTO FIFTH (AND EYES FOURTH)
Junior Lauren Prochaska has moved into fifth place on the BGSU career scoring list, and now has a total of 1,576 points ... she passed Francine Miller, who had 1,574 points from 1998-2003, in the Akron game ... Prochaska's next target is fourth-place Kate Achter (1,580 points from 2004-08) ... Prochaska is averaging 16.6 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her storied Falcon career.

BLOCK BY BRESKE
Senior Tara Breske was credited with one blocked shot in the Akron game on Saturday (Feb. 20), giving her 97 in her career ... Breske sits in fourth place on the BGSU career list, just one behind Megan McGuire (98 blocks from 1985-89) ... Liz Honegger (2003-07) holds the school record with 188 blocked shots, while Angie Bonner (1986-90) is second, having blocked 155 shots in her BG career.

LAST TIME OUT
Junior Lauren Prochaska scored 14 of her 20 points in the second half as the Falcons picked up a 66-56 road win over Akron Saturday afternoon (Feb. 20) ... the win was the 200th in the BGSU head-coaching career of Curt Miller ... Miller became just the third coach in MAC women's basketball history to reach 200 victories, and the fastest in MAC basketball annals – men's or women's – to reach the milestone ... Prochaska paced four BGSU players in double figures, as senior Tamika Nurse had 14 points, including seven free throws in the last 85 seconds, while juniors Tracy Pontius and Jen Uhl scored 10 points apiece ... Uhl had a double-double, with a game-high total of 10 rebounds ... the Falcons held a 40-38 advantage on the boards ... Rachel Tecca led the Zips with 20 points and nine rebounds off the bench ... the Falcons ended the first half on a 12-2 run, holding the Zips without a field goal over the final 6:53, to take a 31-27 halftime lead ... BG would keep the home team without a basket for the first two-plus minutes of the second period, taking an eight-point lead with two minutes gone ... in all, the Falcons had an 18-4 run over a span of just over nine minutes, with all four UA points during that time coming at the free-throw line ... BG's lead reached double digits for the first time on a Prochaska three-pointer midway through the half ... UA scored six-straight points to cut the lead to 50-46, but a 7-0 run lifted BG's lead to a game-high 11 points with under six minutes left, and Akron could not get closer than five points the rest of the day.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 21-6 on the season, and BGSU is 11-2 in MAC play ... BG, leading the MAC's East Division by one game over Kent State, is 12-0 at home and 9-6 on the road this year to date ... the Falcons are 4-2 over the last six games, after winning the previous eight contests ... BGSU has won 20 of the last 24 games ... after losing a 67-65 decision at Central Michigan (Feb. 10), the Brown and Orange bounced back for a 73-57 win over Ohio (Feb. 13), then downed Akron, 66-56, on Saturday (Feb. 20).

• BG saw that aforementioned eight-game winning streak snapped with a 66-63 loss at Toledo (Jan. 30), but rebounded with wins over Northern Illinois at home (85-67; Feb. 2) and Ball State (80-76; Feb. 6) on the road, prior to the CMU game.

• 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 18.0 points and 5.5 rebounds per game ... she has paced BG in scoring 15 times this year ... Prochaska, who has been named the league's Player of the Week three times this season, is averaging 19.5 ppg in the Falcons' 12 home games.

• Prochaska leads the MAC in free-throw percentage (.913) and three-point field-goal pct. (.446) and ranks second in three-pointers made (2.78) ... she is third in the conference in scoring.

• Junior Tracy Pontius and senior Tamika Nurse have 12.4 and 9.8 ppg, respectively ... Pontius has 2.5 rpg, and is second on the team in three-point field goals made ... Prochaska has hit 75 shots from long range to 54 for Pontius ... Pontius is second on the Falcons in assists (3.1 apg) and third in steals (1.4 spg) ... Nurse has a team-high 3.2 assists per game, and ranks third on the team with 30 three-pointers made ... Prochaska and Nurse have made 115 and 107 free throws, respectively, while Pontius has hit 59 shots from the stripe ... Pontius and Prochaska each are converting their free-throw tries at a rate of better than 84 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 1.6 steals per game ... Uhl has 5.0 rebounds per game, ranking her second on the team, and paces the Falcons with three double-doubles this year to date ... Uhl and Breske are shooting .482 and .476, respectively, from the field.

• Junior Maggie Hennegan has 4.8 points and 4.2 rebounds per game, ranking fourth on the team in boards ... she has shot .451 from the field this year ... six players are averaging from 1.6 to 3.3 ppg heading into the Buffalo game.

• A total of six players have played in all 27 games this year ... that list includes Hennegan, Nurse, Pontius, Prochaska, Uhl and sophomore Jessica Slagle.

• 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 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 27 games to date, while Uhl has made 24 starts and Breske 22 ... that quintet has started each of the last 17 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 18.2 ppg and 4.9 rpg in MAC games to date, while Pontius has averaged 12.8 ppg ... the duo has combined for 67 successful three-pointers in the 13 conference contests ... Breske has 9.2 ppg and 4.8 rpg in league play, while Nurse also has 9.2 ppg, along with a team-leading 3.2 apg ... Uhl has 6.9 ppg and a BG-best 5.3 rpg, and is shooting .493 from the field ... Hennegan, Steffen and Zuercher all have scored at least 3.8 ppg in MAC action ... the Falcons have a +14.3 scoring margin, and a rebounding margin of +0.2 in MAC games to date.

• Overall, the Falcons are shooting .428 from the field, .367 from three-point land and .772 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .399 overall, .306 from long range and .700 from the stripe ... the Falcons have 36.7 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.5 ... BGSU has been outrebounded only nine times in 27 games this year.

THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
BGSU heads into the Buffalo game with an all-time record of 332-142 (.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, making the Falcons the only team in the league, obviously, with a winning series record against every other school.

SCOUTING BUFFALO
Buffalo enters Wednesday's game with an overall record of 7-19, and the Bulls are 3-10 in MAC play ... UB is looking to snap a three-game losing streak ... one of those losses came by just six points to Akron (Feb. 13) ... most recently, the Bulls suffered a 67-52 loss on the road vs. Miami Saturday (Feb. 20) ... Buffalo is 4-6 at home this year to date, including a 2-4 mark in MAC home games ... UB ranks among the league leaders in rebounding margin (+2.9) and blocked shots (4.1 bpg) ... a big reason for the Bulls' success in both of those categories is junior forward Kourtney Brown ... Brown is averaging a double-double, with 17.6 points and 11.3 rebounds per game ... she leads the entire league in rebounding and blocks (2.21 bpg), and is second in the MAC in field-goal percentage (.552) ... Brown is fourth in the conference in scoring ... sophomore guard Brittany Hedderson and junior forward Jessica Fortman are scoring in double digits as well, with 11.8 and 10.6 ppg, respectively ... Hedderson has hit 31 three-point field goals, while Fortman is second on the team in rebounding (5.2 rpg) and leads the Bulls in assists (2.7 apg) ... freshman guard Abby Dowd has 6.7 ppg, and has made a team-leading 33 three-pointers ... freshman guard Chrissy Cooper (4.0 ppg) and junior G/F Bridgette Kendricks join Brown, Dowd and Fortman in the probable starting lineup for head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald ... Hill-MacDonald welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team that finished with an 8-24 overall mark and a 2-14 MAC ledger ... Hill-MacDonald has a record of 50-95 in her fifth year with the Bulls ... she is 283-351 in her 22nd season as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletics web site is www.buffalobulls.com.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Buffalo, 15-5, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won the last 11 meetings ... earlier this season, the Falcons downed the Bulls by a 78-60 final at venerable Anderson Arena (Jan. 13, 2010) ... last season, the Falcons posted a 75-52 home win (Jan. 21, 2009), capping an eight-game stretch in which the Falcons had won by an average of 26.1 points per game ... but, in last year's second meeting, the host Bulls took the Falcons down to the wire, before BGSU pulled out an 89-82 win in overtime in Western New York (Feb. 25, 2009; see next note) ... BGSU is 7-3 in road games vs. the Bulls, and the Falcons have won five-straight games at Alumni Arena ... Curt Miller has a record of 13-1 against Buffalo during his head-coaching tenure ... additional series information can be found in the never-tedious PDF version of these never-tedious game notes.

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

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

TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE
Despite an uncharacteristically poor performance from the free-throw line at Akron, the Falcons are shooting .772 from the line as a team, not too far off of last year's school-record .794 pace ... all five of BGSU's starters are shooting .730 or better from the stripe, including three who are hitting FTs at .843 or higher ... in fact, those five players – Tara Breske, Tamika Nurse, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska and Jen Uhl – have combined to shoot .837 (334-for-399) from the line.

PRODUCTIVE AT THE STRIPE
As mentioned, the Falcons are shooting a MAC-best .772 from the free-throw line this season ... BG is ranked sixth in the country as of Monday (Feb. 21) ... 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 .913 from the line this season to date, and is ranked third in the country (as of Monday) ... last year, Prochaska led the nation with a .933 FT rate.

THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 21-6 this season to date, after going 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 11-2 in the MAC, after finishing 15-1 last year and winning a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 200-79 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 105-36 in MAC games in that time:
• 191-60 overall in the seven years (plus 27 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);
• 179-44 over the last six-plus years, with 2009-10 marking BG's seventh-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 158-34 in the past five-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins and a MAC regular-season title in every full season;
• an eye-popping 135-26 overall and 70-7 in the MAC regular season in the last four-plus years;
• 107-23 in the last three-plus years, including a 54-7 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 76-19 overall, and 39-6 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;
• 50-11 since sophomores Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle ventured to NW Ohio;
• 85-9 in the last 94 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;
• 167-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 16-0 mark this year to date;
• 152-25 when making more free throws during Miller's first eight-plus seasons;
• 118-11 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 51-16 in February games since Miller took the helm, including 41-3 in the last five-plus seasons;
• 43-4 in MAC home games in the last five-plus seasons; and
• 34-4 in MAC road games over the last four-plus years (with the lone losses coming in 2007-08 at Ball State, in March of 2009 at Miami and this season at Toledo and Central Michigan).

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 ... 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 on 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 ... entering the Buffalo game, the Falcons have a 107-23 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 Wednesday's Buffalo game, the Falcons are 54-7 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 way back on page 32 of the PDF notes.

SENIOR PRIDE
As mentioned, the Falcons' win over Ohio was the 107th 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 26.75 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.

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 six categories – four of the aforementioned six (all but free-throw pct. and three-point FG pct.) as well as field-goal pct. and turnover margin.

THE FALCON SENIORS
Fourth-year Falcons Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper have helped the Brown and Orange average 26.75 wins per season – with at least four games remaining this year – since 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 107-23 overall and 54-7 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 76-19 overall, and the Falcons are 39-6 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 25.3 games per year to date ... the Falcons have played national postseason tournament games at Anderson Arena in each of their first two years, 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 50-11 overall and 26-3 in the MAC since the duo arrived in Northwest Ohio ... Danielle Havel is a member of the sophomore class, but is sitting out the '09-10 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).

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