Falcons Face CMU to Conclude Cross-Divisional Play

THE OPENING TIP
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after beginning an arduous road stretch with a narrow win, hits the road again ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller, holding a one-game lead in the Mid-American Conference's East Division, conclude cross-divisional play with a Wednesday (Feb. 10) game against Central Michigan University ... tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at CMU's Rose Center (5,200) ... BGSU is coming off an 80-76 win at Ball State on Saturday (Feb. 6) ... beginning with that BSU game, the Falcons play five of seven contests on the road to end the regular season.

BGSU Notes, Stats & Bios | BGSU Game-by-Game Boxscores & Recaps
AUDIO: Curt Miller previews the CMU game

PROCHASKA HAS HONEGGER IN HER SIGHTS
Lauren Prochaska, just a junior, already has etched her name in the BGSU record books numerous times ... in Saturday's win at Ball State, she passed former Falcon Liz Honegger to move into sixth place on the school's career scoring list ... and, Prochaska is poised to pass Honegger on another BGSU list ... with 215 career three-point field goals made, Prochaska is just one away from tying, and two shy of breaking, Honegger's school record ... Honegger had totals of 216 three-pointers made and 1,522 points in her storied BGSU career ... more on Prochaska's climb up each list can be found in the following two notes.

PROCHASKA NOW SIXTH
Junior Lauren Prochaska, as mentioned, now sits in sixth place on the BGSU career scoring list, with a total of 1,528 points in her collegiate career ... she passed no fewer than four players on that list in the Miami game (Jan. 19), and 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 1,580 points from 1998-2003 ... Kate Achter ranks fourth, with 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.

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, as mentioned, hit six triples at Ball State, and is in sole possession of second place on that list ... with 215 long-range makes in her career to date, she is just one 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, with 136 threes in her career.

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 9-1 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.

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 CMU game, Miller now has a career record of 103-35 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
If the Falcons win two of their next 15 games, BGSU head coach Curt Miller will become the fastest coach to 200 overall wins in MAC history ... Miller has a 198-78 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 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 notes.
FASTEST TO 200 OVERALL WINS (at a MAC school)
Coach -- Reached 200 total wins in ...
Mark Ehlen (Toledo) -- 292nd career game
Bob Lindsay (Kent State) -- 308th
CURT MILLER (198 wins in 276 games)

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.

I LOVE MY MICHIGAN
The Falcons have enjoyed success in the state of Michigan as of late ... BGSU has won four consecutive games in the state, and the Falcons have won 13 of the last 14 contests played in Michigan ... BG's lone loss in the Great Lakes State during that time came to Michigan State in the 2008 WNIT in East Lansing ... since the start of the 2005-06 season, the Falcons have posted three road wins against Detroit, and two apiece vs. Oakland and each of the state's three MAC schools (Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan) ... and, the Brown and Orange downed both Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt in the 2007 NCAA Championships First & Second Rounds in East Lansing.

LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons erased a double-digit in the second half, battling back for a narrow road win, 80-76, over Ball State on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 6) ... junior Lauren Prochaska had 26 points, including 23 in the second half, to lead the Falcons ... Prochaska made a career-high six three-pointers in the win, moving her within just one made trey of the BGSU career record ... senior Tamika Nurse scored 15 points, including 12 in the second half, while classmate Tara Breske had a double-double, with 13 points and a game-high 12 rebounds ... the Cardinals got a 28-point, nine-rebound performance from Emily Maggert, while Audrey McDonald chipped in with 16 points, including four three-pointers ... BSU scored the final five points of the first half to take a 35-30 lead into the intermission, and the Cards got off to a quick second-half start ... out of the lockerroom, BSU scored nine points in less than two minutes, taking a 44-33 lead on Maggert's layup with 18:14 left ... the Cardinals' lead was once again in double figures after a Patrice King jumper at the 16:59 mark ... but, the Falcons proceeded to go on an 18-0 run, holding BSU scoreless for nearly seven minutes while taking the lead for good ... the Cards got back within two points on a McDonald three with 1:34 remaining, and BSU was within three points twice in the final minute, but Nurse hit 6-of-8 free throws in the game's final 84 seconds ... Prochaska was 8-of-11 from the field, including a 6-of-8 performance from three-point range.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 19-5 on the season, and BGSU is 9-1 in MAC play ... BG is 11-0 at home and 8-5 on the road this year to date ... the Falcons have won 18 of the last 21 games, including each of the last two ... 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 Saturday's (Feb. 6) 80-76 victory at Ball State.

• 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 24 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 18.3 points and 5.3 rebounds per game ... Prochaska has paced BG in scoring 13 times this year ... after battling through illness and injuries and averaging 10.3 ppg in the three Preseason WNIT games, she has averaged 19.4 ppg over the last 21 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.

• Prochaska leads the MAC in free-throw percentage (.917) and three-point field-goal pct. (.446) and ranks second in three-pointers made (2.75).

• Junior Tracy Pontius and senior Tamika Nurse have 12.5 and 9.7 ppg, respectively ... Pontius has 2.6 rpg, and is second on the team behind Prochaska in three-point field goals made ... Prochaska has hit 66 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 76 assists (3.2 apg) this year ... Nurse ranks third on the team with 27 three-pointers made this season ... Prochaska and Nurse have made 110 and 94 free throws, respectively, this season, 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 8.4 and 6.5 ppg, respectively ... Breske, who missed two games due to injury in early December, has 4.5 rebounds and 1.1 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 5.1 rebounds per game, ranking her second on the team ... she has 122 total rebounds to Prochaska's 126 ... Uhl and Breske are shooting .492 and .473, 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 .467 from the field this year ... six players are averaging from 1.9 to 3.3 ppg heading into the CMU 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 24 games to date, while Uhl has made 21 starts and Breske 19 ... that quintet has started each of the last 14 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 18.8 ppg in MAC games to date, while Pontius has averaged 13.1 ppg ... the duo has combined for 51 successful three-pointers in the 10 conference contests ... Breske has 9.3 ppg and 4.9 rpg in league play, while Nurse has 8.7 ppg and a team-leading 3.0 apg ... Uhl has 7.3 ppg and a team-leading 5.7 rpg, and is shooting .519 from the field ... Hennegan, Zuercher and Steffen all have scored at least 4.3 ppg in MAC action ... the Falcons have a +16.2 scoring margin and a +0.9 rebounding margin in MAC games this year to date.

• Overall, the Falcons are shooting .430 from the field, .373 from three-point land and .784 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .394 overall, .306 from long range and .703 from the stripe ... the Falcons have 37.0 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.4 ... BGSU has been outrebounded only eight times in 24 games this year.

THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
BGSU heads into the Central Michigan game with an all-time record of 330-141 (.701) 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 CMU
Central Michigan enters Wednesday's game with an overall record of 8-14, and the Chippewas are 5-5 in MAC play ... CMU won four-straight MAC games and five-of-six conference contests, but lost the last two games, falling at Akron, 62-55, on Thursday night (Feb. 4) before suffering a 60-52 setback at Buffalo Saturday (Feb. 6) ... the Chippewas are 6-2 at home this year to date, including a perfect 4-0 mark in MAC games at the Rose Center ... all four MAC home wins have come by 10 points or less ... individually, junior guard Shonda Long leads the team in scoring, averaging 14.6 points per game ... Long leads the team in three-point field goals, having made 52, and has 3.2 rebounds ... senior guard Britni Houghton has 13.4 points and 5.5 rebounds per outing, and leads the team in assists (2.9 apg) ... junior forward Kaihla Szunko has 11.6 ppg and 9.4 rpg ... she leads the Chippewas in rebounding, as well as field-goal percentage (.534) and steals (2.7 spg) ... five CMU players average between 4.8 and 5.3 points per game ... Long and Szunko have started all 22 games to date ... junior forward Laura Baker (2.0 ppg), and senior guards Kendra Holman (5.3 ppg) and Heidi Warczinsky (4.8 ppg, 2.4 apg) join that duo in the probable starting lineup for head coach Sue Guevara ... Guevara welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team that finished 18-14 overall and 9-7 in MAC action ... Guevara has a record of 32-51 in her third season in Mount Pleasant ... she is 155-133 in her 10th year as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletics web site is www.cmuchippewas.com.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Central Michigan, 42-12, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won each of the last nine meetings ... last season, the Brown and Orange won a 94-79 decision in the teams' regular-season game at venerable Anderson Arena (Feb.15, 2009), behind a school-record 43 points by Lauren Prochaska ... the Falcons and Chippewas met again in the MAC Tournament's quarterfinal round, with the Brown and Orange picking up an 82-65 win at Quicken Loans Arena (March 13, 2009) ... in the team's last trip to Mount Pleasant, BGSU won a high-scoring affair, 87-82 (Feb. 13, 2008) ... BGSU is 17-6 in road games vs. the Chippewas, and the Falcons have won the last three games at Rose ... CMU's last overall series win was a 42-30 decision in Mount Pleasant (Feb. 5, 2003), a game known in some circles as 'The Ugliest Game in Women's Basketball History' ... despite that 2003 loss, Curt Miller has a record of 10-2 against Central Michigan during his head-coaching tenure ... additional series information can be found in the PDF 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.

STEFFEN STELLAR IN HER HOME STATE
Freshman Chrissy Steffen, a native of Carmel, Ind., had one of the best games of her career in her first collegiate contest in her home state ... Steffen had eight points in the win over Ball State, just one off her career high ... she set new personal bests in minutes played (25), rebounds (five) and assists (five), and tied her season/career best with two three-pointers made.

STEFFEN LENDS AN ASSIST
Freshman Chrissy Steffen had a career-high five assists in Saturday's win at Ball State ... she had entered that game with a total of nine assists on the season, including four in the first nine MAC games.

THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 19-5 this season to date, after going 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 9-1 in the MAC, after finishing 15-1 last year and winning a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 198-78 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 103-35 in MAC games in that time:
• 189-59 overall in the seven years (plus 24 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);
• 177-43 over the last six-plus years, with 2008-09 marking BG's sixth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 156-33 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 133-25 overall and 68-6 in the MAC regular season in the last four-plus years;
• 105-22 in the last three-plus years, including a 52-6 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 74-18 overall, and 37-5 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;
• 48-10 since sophomores Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle ventured to NW Ohio;
• 83-8 in the last 91 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;
• 150-24 when making more free throws during Miller's first eight-plus seasons;
• 116-11 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 49-15 in February games since Miller took the helm, including 39-2 in the last five-plus seasons;
• 42-4 in MAC home games in the last five-plus seasons; and
• 33-3 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 earlier this season [Jan. 30] at Toledo).

WISH IT WASN'T THE SHORTEST MONTH
BGSU has enjoyed great success in the month of February in recent years ... the win over BSU means that the Falcons have won the last 16 February contests, and 34 of the last 35 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.

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 Ball State game, the Falcons now have a 105-22 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.

... 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 game at Central Michigan, the Falcons are 52-6 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 ... 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 toward the back 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.

NOW THAT'S A FIVE-YEAR PLAN (CONFERENCE-ONLY VERSION)
In MAC games over the last five years (plus 10 games), the Falcons have no fewer than 80 victories ... BGSU has averaged 14.4 conference wins per year over the last five full seasons, no small feat considering each team plays just 16 MAC games per season) ... in fact, BG's average win total in MAC play nearly doubles the program's total number of losses (nine) during that span of over five years.

BLOCK PARTY
Senior Tamika Nurse had a career-high three blocked shots at Ball State ... Nurse entered the game with four total blocks this season and seven in her collegiate career.

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 eight categories, the aforementioned seven as well as 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 105-22 overall and 52-6 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 74-18 overall, and the Falcons are 37-5 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 48-10 overall and 24-2 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).

TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE
The Falcons are shooting .784 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 .777 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 .784 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 is ranked second in the country (as of Feb. 7) ... last year, Prochaska led the nation with a .933 FT rate.

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 24 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.

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
The Falcons return to Northwest Ohio for a rare February home game, facing Ohio in Saturday (Feb. 13) action at Anderson Arena ... tipoff is 2:00 p.m., and the contest is the team's annual 'Pink Zone' game in support of breast cancer awareness.

Calendar

Upcoming Events

Recent Results

Next Event

Upcoming Events

Recent Results

Falcons Face CMU to Conclude Cross-Divisional Play

Next Event

Related Videos