Bowling Green State University Athletics
Saturday, February 6
Muncie, IN
2:30 PM
Bowling Green State University
at
Ball State
Indiana native Chrissy Steffen and the Falcons take on Ball State Saturday
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February 05, 2010 | Women's Basketball
BGSU meets Cardinals in Saturday afternoon matchup
THE OPENING TIP
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after posting an 18-point win in a rare February home game, hits the road for four of the next five contests ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller, holding a one-game lead in the Mid-American Conference's East Division, continue cross-divisional play by heading to Muncie, Ind., for a Saturday (Feb. 6) game against Ball State University ... tipoff is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at BSU's John E. Worthen Arena (11,500) ... the game, the second half of a doubleheader, will be televised by Fox Sports Net, and is scheduled to air live on both FSN Ohio and FSN Indiana ... the Ball State men host the University of Akron at noon, in the opening game of the DH.
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CHAMPIONSHIP-GAME REMATCH
Saturday's game is a rematch of the 2009 Kraft MAC Tournament's championship contest ... last March 15, the Cardinals pulled out a 55-51 win over the Falcons at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland ... it marked BSU's first MAC Tournament victory over the Brown and Orange in six tries.
HOUSE OF HORRORS
Since the start of the 2003-04 season, the Falcons have played a total of 123 games (regular-season and tournament) against MAC schools ... BG has lost only 17 of those 123 games ... just two of those losses have come by double digits, and the Falcons have dropped only one game by 20 or more points ... that lopsided loss came the last time the Brown and Orange ventured to Worthen Arena, as BSU came away with a 68-47 decision (Jan. 26, 2008).
HOUSE OF HORRORS II
In the eight-and-a-half year span since Curt Miller became BGSU's head coach, the Falcons have lost a total of eight games by 20 or more points to a MAC opponent ... seven of those games came during Miller's first two years at the helm ... all eight of those 20-point setbacks took place on the road, and no fewer than three have come at Worthen Arena ... the Cardinals downed the Falcons by lopsided margins during the games in Indiana in each of Miller's first two seasons, in addition to the 2007-08 meeting mentioned above ... the complete list of BGSU-Ball State series meetings can be found on page 11.
GEEZ, ARE YOU GOING TO LIST ANY POSITIVE NOTES?
Well, the fact that BG has lost only 17 of the last 123 MAC games is a positive ... but, we understand what you're saying ... how about this ... the Falcons' 85-67 win over Northern Illinois on Tuesday night (Feb. 2) was the 104th victory for the team's three fourth-year seniors ... even if BGSU doesn't win another game this year (oops, more negativity), those three players – Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper – will have finished their careers with an average of 26.0 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.
NO TURNOVERS, PLEASE
The Falcons turned the ball over just eight times, including only twice in the second half, against Northern Illinois ... that marked BGSU's lowest turnover total of the season, and the first single-digit total in that category since the final game of 2008-09 ... BG had eight turnovers against Indiana in the WNIT last year (March 26, 2009) ... the last time the Falcons had fewer turnovers was earlier last season (Dec. 28, 2008), when BG turned the ball over just seven times against Gardner-Webb, in the first game of the Dayton Flyer Classic.
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.
WISH IT WASN'T THE SHORTEST MONTH
The Falcons' game vs. Northern Illinois on Tuesday, obviously, was the team's first February contest this season ... BGSU has enjoyed great success in that month in recent years, having gone 7-0 in February of both 2008 and 2009 ... in fact, the win over NIU means that the Falcons have won the last 16 February contests, and have captured 33 of the last 34 games played in the second month of the year ... BG's only February loss since the 2004-05 season came in '07, when Ohio downed the Falcons by three points.
PROCHASKA HITS THE 1,500 MARK
Lauren Prochaska, just a junior, currently sits in seventh place on the BGSU career scoring list ... Prochaska now has a total of 1,502 points in her collegiate career ... she passed no fewer than four players on that list in the Miami game on Jan. 19, moving ahead of Chris Tuttle (1,420 pts.), Lori Albers (1,424), Charlotta Jones (1,430) and Talita Scott (1,432) on that night ... Prochaska's next target on the list is sixth-place Liz Honegger, who had 1,522 points from 2003-07 ... Prochaska is averaging 16.5 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her storied Falcon career.
TREY BIEN! PROCHASKA NEARING THE TOP OF THIS LIST
A pair of juniors are moving up the BGSU career list for three-point field goals made, with one of those two players nearing the school record ... Lauren Prochaska, who hit four triples vs. Northern Illinois, is in sole possession of second place on that list ... with 209 long-range makes in her career to date, she is only seven behind school record-holder Liz Honegger ... Honegger made 216 triples from 2003-07 ... Tracy Pontius, in just her second year as a starter, ranks ninth on the list ... Pontius now has 136 threes in her career.
LAST TIME OUT
Senior co-captain Tara Breske scored 16 points to pace four BGSU double-digit scorers in an 18-point win over Northern Illinois, 85-67, Tuesday night (Feb. 2) at Anderson Arena ... junior Lauren Prochaska had 15 points, including a team-high four three-pointers, to surpass the 1,500-point mark for her career ... senior Tamika Nurse scored four points and had a team-leading five assists, while junior Maggie Hennegan had 10 points, seven rebounds and four assists ... Hennegan and Prochaska tied for team rebounding honors as BGSU held a 41-34 advantage on the glass ... Mauvolyene Adams had game-high totals of 19 points and nine rebounds for the Huskies, who had five players in double figures in the scoring column ... the Falcons never trailed, but the game was tied three times in the early stages ... a jumper by Breske gave the home team an 8-6 lead, putting the Falcons on top for good ... BG surged to a 22-10 lead, but Northern proceeded to score nine-straight points ... then, though, the hosts scored eight points in a row to take a double-digit lead ... BG led by 14 points, 43-29, at the half ... Northern scored four of the first six points of the second half, but the Falcons then held the Huskies without a basket for nearly seven minutes ... BGSU scored 14 consecutive points, essentially putting the game away ... that run began with back-to-back triples from Prochaska, and concluded with BG holding a 59-33 lead ... the Falcons turned the ball over a season-low eight times.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 18-5 on the season, and BGSU is 8-1 in MAC play ... BG is 11-0 at home and 7-5 on the road this year to date ... the Falcons have won 17 of the last 20 games, but saw an eight-game winning streak snapped with a 66-63 loss at Toledo Saturday (Jan. 30) ... the Brown and Orange bounced back with Tuesday's (Feb. 2) 85-67 home win over Northern Illinois.
• 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, prior to the loss at UT.
• 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).
• 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.
• Through 23 games this year, junior Lauren Prochaska leads the Falcons in scoring and rebounding ... Prochaska, the reigning Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, is averaging 17.9 points and 5.3 rebounds per game ... Prochaska has paced BG in scoring 12 times this year ... after battling through illness and injuries and averaging 10.3 ppg in the three Preseason WNIT games, she has averaged 19.1 ppg over the last 20 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' 11 home games.
• Junior Tracy Pontius and senior Tamika Nurse have 12.7 and 9.5 ppg, respectively ... Pontius has 2.6 rpg, and is second on the team behind Prochaska in three-point field goals made ... Prochaska has hit 60 shots from long range to 47 for Pontius ... Pontius, who was named MAC P-O-W on Jan. 25, leads the Falcons in steals (1.5 spg), and is tied for the team's assists lead (3.2 apg) ... Nurse, like Pontius, has a total of 74 assists (3.2 apg) this year ... Nurse ranks third on the team with 25 three-pointers made this season ... Prochaska and Nurse have made 106 and 85 free throws, respectively, this season, while Pontius has hit 54 shots from the stripe ... Pontius and Prochaska each are converting their free-throw tries at a rate of better than 88 percent.
• In the post, senior Tara Breske and junior Jen Uhl have scored 8.2 and 6.8 ppg, respectively ... Breske, who missed two games due to injury in early December, has 4.1 rebounds and 1.2 blocked shots per game, leading the Falcons in the latter category and ranking fourth in the former ... Breske also has 1.4 steals per game ... Uhl has 5.3 rebounds per game, ranking her second on the team ... she has 121 total rebounds to Prochaska's 123 ... Uhl and Breske are shooting .508 and .468, 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 .476 from the field this year ... six players are averaging from 1.9 to 3.1 ppg heading into the BSU 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 23 games to date, while Uhl has made 20 starts and Breske 18 ... that quintet has started each of the last 13 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 18.0 ppg in MAC games to date, while Pontius has averaged 13.8 ppg ... the duo has combined for 45 successful three-pointers in the nine conference contests ... Breske has 8.9 ppg and 4.1 rpg in league play, while Uhl has 8.1 ppg and a team-leading 6.2 rpg and is shooting .560 from the field ... the Falcons have a +17.6 scoring margin and a +1.2 rebounding margin in MAC games this year to date.
• Overall, the Falcons are shooting .430 from the field, .375 from three-point land and .783 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .391 overall, .305 from long range and .700 from the stripe ... the Falcons have 37.2 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.4 ... BGSU has been outrebounded only seven times in 23 games this year.
THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
BGSU heads into the Ball State game with an all-time record of 329-141 (.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 BSU
Ball State enters Saturday's game with an overall record of 9-13, and the Cardinals are 3-6 in MAC play ... BSU is looking to break a five-game losing streak, with the first four of those losses coming by 10 points or fewer ... most recently, the Cards suffered a 69-54 loss at Miami Wednesday night (Feb. 3) ... BSU is 6-3 at home and 3-10 on the road this year to date ... included among the six home wins is a 73-69 victory over MAC West Division-leading Toledo (Jan. 17) ... the Cards are 2-1 at Worthen Arena in MAC games, with the lone loss a 66-64 overtime decision to Akron (Jan. 27) ... individually, junior forward Emily Maggert leads the team in scoring and rebounding ... Maggert is averaging a double-double, with 18.2 points and 11.0 rebounds per game ... she is third in the MAC in scoring and second in rebounding, and leads the conference with a .556 field-goal percentage ... senior guard Audrey McDonald has 11.0 ppg, and leads the Cards with 3.4 assists per game and 51 three-point field goals made ... she is the school's career record-holder in three-pointers made ... McDonald and Maggert rank first and second, respectively, in minutes per game in MAC contests ... junior G/F Ty'Ronda Benning and senior forward Danielle Gratton have 9.5 and 9.3 ppg, respectively ... Gratton has 5.3 rpg, while Benning ranks second on the team with 2.9 assists per outing ... junior guard Shannon Klei (2.7 ppg) joined Benning, Gratton, Maggert and McDonald in the starting lineup at Miami ... head coach Kelly Packard welcomed back eight letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that finished 26-9 overall and 14-2 in MAC action ... BSU won the MAC's West Division a year ago, then downed BGSU in the championship game of the conference tournament ... Packard has a record of 35-22 in her second season as a collegiate head coach, both in Muncie ... the school's athletics web site is www.ballstatesports.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Ball State, 39-14, in the all-time series between the teams, but the Cardinals have captured two of the last three meetings ... last season, the Brown and Orange won a 76-67 decision in the teams' regular-season game at venerable Anderson Arena (Feb. 3, 2009), but the Cards downed the Falcons, 55-51, in the championship game of the MAC Tournament at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena (March 15, 2009) ... BGSU holds a 15-10 advantage in road games against the Cardinals, but Ball State won a lopsided decision, 68-47, in the Falcons' last trip to Worthen Arena two years ago (Jan. 26, 2008) ... BSU did not win back-to-back series games for over two decades, before winning four-straight games from 2002 to '04 ... the Falcons then won five consecutive contests from February of 2004 through March of '07, including three games in Muncie, prior to BSU's taking two of the last three games ... Curt Miller has a record of 6-6 against Ball State during his head-coaching tenure ... additional series information can be found in the PDF version of these never-tedious game notes.
BGSU-BALL STATE TIES
• If it seems as though Falcon coach Curt Miller has worked with everyone in the coaching profession, that's only because it's true ... okay, that's a slight exaggeration ... but, Miller has ties with a great many coaches ... Miller and Ball State head coach Kelly Packard worked together at Colorado State ... the two were on head coach Tom Collen's staff together in 1998-99 ... Collen (a BGSU graduate), Miller and Packard guided that '98-99 team to a 33-3 record and a trip to the "Sweet 16."
• Miller also coached with BSU assistant coach Carter Shaw in Fort Collins ... Shaw was on the Colorado State staff from 2000-02 ... Miller was at CSU from '98-99 through the 2000-01 season, prior to taking the BGSU job.
• BSU assistant coach Lindsay Shade, like Falcon associate head coach Jennifer Roos, is a Davidson graduate and played basketball for the Wildcats ... Shade is a 2004 Davidson grad ... Roos played several sports for DC, and was an assistant coach from 1993-2001 ... Shade was a freshman during Roos' last season there, before Roos became Miller's first hire at BGSU ... Roos is a member of the Davidson Athletics Hall of Fame.
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 BSU game, Miller now has a career record of 102-35 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
BGSU head coach Curt Miller has a 197-78 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 four 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 lists of winningest MAC women's basketball coaches can be found in the PDF.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 18-5 this season to date, after going 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 8-1 in the MAC, after finishing 15-1 last year and winning a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 197-78 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 102-35 in MAC games in that time:
• 188-59 overall in the seven years (plus 23 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);
• 176-43 over the last six-plus years, with 2008-09 marking BG's sixth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 155-33 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 132-25 overall and 67-6 in the MAC regular season in the last four-plus years;
• 104-22 in the last three-plus years, including a 51-6 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 73-18 overall, and 36-5 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;
• 47-10 since sophomores Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle ventured to NW Ohio;
• 82-8 in the last 90 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;
• 149-24 when making more free throws during Miller's first eight-plus seasons;
• 116-11 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 48-15 in February games since Miller took the helm, including 38-2 in the last five-plus seasons;
• 42-4 in MAC home games in the last five-plus seasons; and
• 32-3 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 last Saturday [Jan. 30] at Toledo).
LEADERS OF THE MAC
The Falcons lead the MAC in a total of seven team categories, including scoring offense, scoring margin, free-throw percentage, field-goal pct., three-point FG pct., assist/turnover ratio and three-pointers made per game ... in MAC games only, BGSU leads the league in seven categories as well ... the Falcons are second in FG pct. in MAC games, but BG leads the conference in turnover margin.
ANOTHER STRONG START
Despite the loss to Toledo, the Falcons got off to a pretty good start in MAC play ... BGSU started the conference schedule with a 7-0 record for the fourth time in the last five years ... believe it or not, the Brown and Orange got off to at least a 14-0 MAC start in three of the previous four seasons.
HOME COOKIN'
Tuesday's (Feb. 2) 85-67 win over Northern Illinois gives the Falcons a 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.
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 Northern Illinois game, the Falcons now have a 104-22 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.
SENIORS HIT 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 game at Ball State, the Falcons are 51-6 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.
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 .750 or better from the stripe, including three who are hitting FTs at .885 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 .914 from the line this season to date, and was ranked third in the country (as of Jan. 31) ... 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 13 of the last 16 contests, including a season-low eight in the win over Northern Illinois Tuesday (Feb. 2) ... the Falcons have a turnover margin of +3.9 overall and +6.8 in MAC games.
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 15 times in the first 23 contests, tying the opponent in that category in one additional game (Hartford) ... when outrebounding opponents, BG is 116-11 in the Curt Miller Era, including a 96-4 mark in the last five-plus seasons.
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 104-22 overall and 51-6 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 73-18 overall, and the Falcons are 36-5 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 47-10 overall and 23-2 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).
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