Senior Tara Breske and the Falcons close the regular season with Tuesday's game at Miami (BGSU Photo Services)
Falcons Head to Oxford to Close Regular Season
March 01, 2010 | Women's Basketball
BGSU meets Miami at Millett on Tuesday night
THE OPENING TIP
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, for the sixth consecutive season, has clinched a Mid-American Conference division title ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller are a win away from capturing the MAC's overall regular-season title, also for the sixth consecutive year, but that task will not be an easy one ... BGSU heads to Oxford to close the regular season with a Tuesday (March 2) game vs. Miami University ... tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at Millett Hall (6,400).
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Curt Miller's Monday press conference (video at bottom of this page)
STEP BY STEP
The Falcons have reached several goals over the past few games ... on Wednesday (Feb. 24), BGSU's win over Buffalo enabled the team to clinch a first-round bye for the upcoming MAC Tournament ... then, Saturday's (Feb. 27) victory over Kent State clinched the East Division title, and means that BGSU will be no worse than the number-two seed for the conference tourney ... a win over Miami would give BG the overall MAC regular-season crown, and the number-one seed for the league tournament ... a Miami win, however, coupled with a Toledo win at Eastern Michigan on Tuesday night, would give the Falcons and Rockets identical 13-3 MAC records ... in such a case, UT would earn the first seed for the MAC Tournament by virtue of a win over BGSU in the teams' head-to-head meeting.
SIX SHOOTERS
The Falcons have clinched at least a tie for the overall MAC regular-season title, and can win the title outright with a win or a Toledo loss on Tuesday night ... BGSU now has won six consecutive MAC divisional titles, capturing the West Division crown in 2005 before winning the East Division title in each of the last five seasons ... in every season from 2005 through 2009, BGSU won the overall crown with the best regular-season record among all league institutions.
IF THE SEASON ENDED TODAY ...
If the MAC Tournament began on Tuesday, 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 ... as the East Division champion, the Falcons have clinched no lower than the second seed for the 12-team tourney.
Current MAC Tournament seeding: 1 - Bowling Green (13-2); 2 - Toledo (12-3); 3 - Kent State (11-4); 4 - Akron (10-5); 5 - Eastern Michigan (10-5); 6 - Central Michigan (8-7); 7 - Miami (6-9); 8 - Ball State (6-9); 9 - Northern Illinois (4-11); 10 - Ohio (4-11); 11 - Buffalo (3-12); 12 - Western Michigan (3-12).
THANKS, SENIORS
Saturday's (Feb. 27) 69-55 win over Kent State came on "Senior Day" for the BGSU women ... the program's four seniors – Tara Breske, Laura Bugher, Sarah Clapper and Tamika Nurse – were recognized in ceremonies prior to the game ... heading into Tuesday's game at Miami, the three fourth-year seniors have helped the Falcons to an overall record of 109-23 (the second-most wins in a four-year span in school history) and a MAC regular-season mark of 56-7 ... Nurse is in her first playing season with the Brown and Orange after transferring from the University of Oregon.
"SENIOR DAY" SUCCESS
BGSU continued a streak of success with the win over Kent State Saturday afternoon (Feb. 27) ... the Falcons are now a perfect 9-0 in "Senior Day/Night' games in the Curt Miller Era, and BG is 14-1 in the last 15 such contests ... the lone loss in that time came to Miami in February of 2001.
SENIOR PRIDE
The Falcons' win over Kent State was the 109th 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 27.25 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.
WE NEED A NURSE, STAT
Tamika Nurse has stepped up her scoring as the season winds down ... the senior tied for team honors with 20 points at Buffalo Wednesday (Feb. 24), her highest point total in a MAC game to that point ... then, she topped that total with a career-high 24-point game in the win over Kent State Saturday afternoon (Feb. 27) ... Nurse tied her career best with four three-point field goals made in each game ... Nurse's previous scoring highs were 21 points at BGSU (vs. Chicago State in the season opener on Nov. 13, 2009) and 22 points in her career (in a game vs. UCLA while at the Univ. of Oregon).
MILLER BECOMES FASTEST MAC COACH TO 200 WINS
BGSU's 66-56 win at Akron on Feb. 20 was Falcon head coach Curt Miller's 200th win ... Miller, now 202-79 at the BGSU helm, became 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 in his 279th career game.
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, back on Jan. 23, was the 100th MAC victory in Falcon head coach Curt Miller's career ... entering the Miami game, Miller now has a career record of 107-36 in conference games as a head coach ... Miller 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 Miami game with 107 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).
HOME COOKIN'
BGSU's 69-55 win over Kent State Saturday (Feb. 27) means that the Falcons have completed the home portion of the regular-season schedule with a 13-0 record at venerable Anderson Arena ... BGSU has won 30 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 32 of the last 33 games at "The House That Roars" ... 27 of those 32 wins have come by double digits ... the lone loss in that time came to Indiana in the third round of last year's WNIT.
LUCKY 13
The Falcons posted a 13-0 home regular-season record for the second consecutive year ... BGSU now has gone undefeated at home in the regular season seven times in program history ... in three of those years, including last season, the Falcons' lone blemish was a home loss suffered in national tournament play.
WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE (THAT ROARS)
BGSU is 44-4 in MAC home games over the last six seasons ... since the start of the 2004-05 season, the Falcons have gone a perfect 8-0 in MAC home games on three occasions, including in each of the last two years ... BG also has had a pair of 7-1 records and one 6-2 mark at Anderson.
PROCHASKA NOW FOURTH ON BGSU SCORING LIST
Lauren Prochaska, just a junior, has moved into fourth place on the BGSU career scoring list, and now has a total of 1,594 points ... she passed Francine Miller, who had 1,574 points from 1998-2003, in the Akron game, and moved ahead of Kate Achter (1,580 points from 2004-08) in the Buffalo contest ... Prochaska's next target is third-place Sara Puthoff (1,678 points from 1994-98) ... Prochaska is averaging 16.4 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her storied Falcon career.
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 ... she broke Liz Honegger's record early in the Central Michigan game (Feb. 10) ... entering the Miami game, Prochaska now has a total of 225 three-point field goals made ... Honegger made 216 triples from 2003-07 ... Tracy Pontius, in just her second year as a starter, has moved into eighth place on the list, with 146 threes in her career.
BLOCK BY BRESKE
With a blocked shot in the Kent State game (Feb. 27), senior Tara Breske now has 98 in her career ... Breske has moved into a tie for third place on the BGSU career list, matching the total amassed by 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, with 155 career blocks.
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 76 treys this season, and is just two 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.
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.
LAST TIME OUT
Senior Tamika Nurse scored a career-high 24 points, helping the Falcons clinch the MAC's East Division title with a 69-55 win over Kent State on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 27) at venerable Anderson Arena ... with the win on 'Senior Day,' BGSU wins a divisional crown for the sixth-straight year (one West, five East) ... juniors Lauren Prochaska and Tracy Pontius added 12 points apiece for the Falcons, who conclude the home portion of the regular-season schedule with a perfect 13-0 record at Anderson ... Prochaska had a double-double, pulling down a game-high 10 rebounds as BGSU held a 40-28 advantage on the boards ... junior Jen Uhl had nine boards, to go along with seven points ... Jamilah Humes, the lone player in double digits for the Golden Flashes, had 17 points ... Jena Stutzman added nine off the bench ... BGSU shot an even 50 percent from the field, the team's highest percentage in conference play this season ... the Falcon defense held KSU to a .356 field-goal rate, including a 7-of-28 (.250) performance in the opening half ... with the score tied at 12, the Falcons used a 15-0 run, holding the Flashes without a point for five minutes, to take the lead for good ... in fact, following that run, BGSU's lead never dropped below double digits the rest of the way ... the Falcons completed the home regular-season schedule without a loss for the second consecutive year and the seventh time in school history ... the Falcons went 8-of-15 from three-point land, as Nurse hit four triples for the second-straight game.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons are 23-6 on the season, and BGSU is 13-2 in MAC play ... BG has clinched the MAC's East Division title, and the Falcons are a game up on Toledo (12-3 MAC) in the race for the overall regular-season crown ... the Falcons, 13-0 at home and 10-6 on the road this year, have won four consecutive games ... BGSU is 6-2 over the last eight games, after winning the previous eight contests ... BGSU has won 22 of the last 26 games ... after losing a 67-65 verdict at Central Michigan (Feb. 10), the Brown and Orange bounced back for a 73-57 win over Ohio (Feb. 13), then beat Akron (66-56; Feb. 20), Buffalo (81-64; Feb. 24) and Kent State ... the 69-55 win over KSU Saturday (Feb. 27) clinched the divisional title for the Falcons.
• 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 UA (74-62), UB (78-60) and Miami (85-65), and road victories against Ohio (77-42) and KSU (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 17.4 points and 5.7 rebounds per game ... she has paced BG in scoring 15 times this year, and had a double-double in the win over Kent State.
• Prochaska leads the MAC in three-point field-goal pct. (.447) and ranks second free-throw percentage (.899) and third in three-pointers made (2.62) ... she is fifth in the conference in scoring.
• Junior Tracy Pontius and senior Tamika Nurse have 12.1 and 10.7 ppg, respectively ... Pontius has 2.7 rpg, and is second on the team in three-point field goals made ... Prochaska has hit 76 shots from long range to 57 for Pontius ... Pontius is second on the Falcons in assists (3.1 apg) ... Nurse has a team-high 3.2 assists per game, and ranks third on the team with 38 three-pointers made ... Nurse has averaged 22.0 points per game over the last two contests ... Prochaska and Nurse have made 124 and 117 free throws, respectively, while Pontius has hit 61 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 8.1 and 6.9 ppg, respectively ... Breske, who missed two games due to injury in early December, has 4.3 rebounds and 1.0 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 5.2 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 .503 and .475, respectively, from the field.
• Junior Maggie Hennegan has 4.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game, ranking fourth on the team in boards ... she has shot .450 from the field this year ... six players are averaging from 1.9 to 3.2 ppg heading into the Miami game.
• A total of six players have played in all 29 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 29 games to date, while Uhl has made 26 starts and Breske 24 ... that quintet has started each of the last 19 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 16.9 ppg and 5.4 rpg in MAC games to date, while Pontius has averaged 12.2 ppg ... the duo has combined for 71 successful three-pointers in the 15 conference contests ... Nurse has 10.9 ppg and a team-leading 3.1 apg in league play, while Breske has 8.5 ppg and 4.5 rpg ... Uhl has 7.8 ppg and a BG-best 5.7 rpg, and is shooting .531 from the field ... Hennegan, Steffen and Zuercher all have scored at least 3.6 ppg in MAC action ... the Falcons have a +14.5 scoring margin, a rebounding margin of +1.1 and a +4.9 turnover margin in MAC games.
• Overall, the Falcons are shooting .430 from the field, .376 from three-point land and .770 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .400 overall, .309 from long range and .697 from the stripe ... the Falcons have 36.8 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.2 ... BGSU has been outrebounded only nine times in 29 games this year.
THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
BGSU heads into the Miami game with an all-time record of 334-142 (.702) 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 MIAMI
Miami enters Tuesday's game with an overall record of 8-20, and the RedHawks are 6-9 in MAC play ... MU has won three of the last four home games, downing Northern Illinois, Ball State and Buffalo at Millett Hall over the past month ... the NIU game was a 96-51 blowout on Jan. 27 ... most recently, the RedHawks suffered a seven-point setback, 72-65, at Akron on Saturday (Feb. 27) ... Miami is 5-7 in home games this season to date, including a 4-3 mark in MAC games in Oxford ... individually, freshmen guard Courtney Osborn leads the team in scoring, with 16.8 points per game ... she has made a team-high 68 three-point field goals, and also leads the RedHawks in assists (4.1 apg) and steals (2.5 spg) ... sophomore guard Maggie Boyer has 10.7 ppg and has hit 40 three-pointers this season to date ... sophomore forward Rachael Hencke has 9.6 ppg and 4.0 rebounds per contest, while senior guard Ashleigh Brown has 7.6 ppg and a team-leading 5.9 rpg ... Osborn has started all 28 games this year, while Boyer, Brown and Hencke all have made at least 24 starts ... freshman forward Kirsten Olowinski (6.9 ppg, 5.6 rpg) joined that group in the starting lineup at UA for head coach Maria Fantanarosa ... Fantanarosa welcomed back eight letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that finished with a 16-15 overall mark and a 7-9 MAC ledger ... Fantanarosa has a record of 185-168 in her 12th season at her alma mater ... she is 192-188 in her 13th year as a collegiate head coach ... the school's athletics web site is www.MURedHawks.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Miami, 39-25, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU captured this season's first meeting, with an 85-65 triumph inside Anderson Arena (Jan. 19, 2010) ... Tracy Pontius scored a season-high 27 points in that game ... the RedHawks, however, held the entire Falcon team to just 40 points the last time BG ventured to Oxford, posting a 45-40 win late last season (March 4, 2009) ... Miami has won two of the last five meetings with BGSU, after the Falcons had captured seven-straight games from MU ... BGSU is 15-13 in road games vs. the Redskins/RedHawks through the years ... Curt Miller has a record of 10-5 against Miami during his head-coaching tenure ... additional series information can be found in the PDF version of these never-tedious game notes.
TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE
The Falcons are shooting .770 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 .711 or better from the stripe, including three who are hitting FTs at .847 or higher ... in fact, those five players – Tara Breske, Tamika Nurse, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska and Jen Uhl – have combined to shoot .835 (359-for-430) from the line.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 23-6 this season to date, after going 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 13-2 in the MAC, after finishing 15-1 last year and winning a fifth-straight league regular-season title;
• 202-79 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 107-36 in MAC games in that time:
• 193-60 overall in the seven years (plus 29 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);
• 181-44 over the last six-plus years, with 2009-10 marking BG's seventh-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 160-34 in the past five-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins and a MAC regular-season title in each of the last six seasons;
• an eye-popping 137-26 overall and 72-7 in the MAC regular season in the last four-plus years;
• 109-23 in the last three-plus years, including a 56-7 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 78-19 overall, and 41-6 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;
• 52-11 since sophomores Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle ventured to NW Ohio;
• 87-9 in the last 96 games vs. MAC opponents (regular-season and tourney games);
• A perfect 47-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field in the Miller Era;
• 168-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 40-0 mark in the last two seasons;
• 154-25 when making more free throws during Miller's first eight-plus seasons;
• 120-11 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 44-4 in MAC home games in the last six seasons, including three 8-0 marks; and
• 35-4 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).
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 Miami game, the Falcons have a 109-23 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.
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.
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