2009-10 Wrapup: Another Successful Season for Falcons

The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team has seen yet another successful season come to an end ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller captured Mid-American Conference regular-season and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Championships ... the Brown and Orange, a number-12 seed in the Kansas City regional, lost a 72-62 decision to fifth-seeded Michigan State University in NCAA first-round action in Louisville, Ky. (March 20) ... 2009-10 marked the sixth-straight season in which BGSU made a national postseason appearance.

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THAT'S A LOT OF WINS!
Just five years ago, the Mid-American Conference record for wins in a season was 27 ... four conference teams, including two BGSU clubs (the 1986-87 and 1988-89 teams), had reached that milestone ... now, however, Curt Miller's Falcons have won at least 27 games in no fewer than four of the last five seasons (with 26 wins in the other season) ... that streak includes a then MAC-record 28 wins in the 2005-06 campaign, followed by a 31-win season in '06-07 ... that 31-win total remains the conference standard ... Miller's Falcons won 26 games in 2007-08, 29 contests last year and 27 games this season ... in the last five seasons, BGSU has AVERAGED 28.2 wins per year ... the list of winningest MAC teams is on page 12 of the PDF version of these notes.

FALCONS MAKE 10TH TRIP TO NCAAS
In 2009-10, Bowling Green won the MAC Tournament championship and advanced to the NCAA Championships for the 10th time in school history, the most of any conference program ... BGSU earned the MAC's automatic bid to the NCAAs by virtue of picking up three wins in the conference tourney at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena ... the Falcons are 3-10 in NCAA tournament games, with a 1-2 mark in home games and records of 0-4 on the road and 2-4 in neutral-site affairs ... BGSU is 2-4 in NCAA games under head coach Curt Miller.

NATIONAL POSTSEASON PLAY FOR THE SIXTH-STRAIGHT SEASON
The Falcons, as mentioned, participated in the NCAA Championships for the 10th time in school history ... BGSU made the field of 64 for the fourth time in the last six years ... the Falcons qualified for national postseason play for the sixth-straight season, a school record ... BG made WNIT appearances in both 2008 and 2009 ... the school's previous record for consecutive postseason trips was four, as Fran Voll guided the Falcons to the NCAA Championships in each year from 1987 through 1990.

SIX SHOOTERS: FALCONS WIN SIXTH-STRAIGHT MAC TITLE
BGSU has won six consecutive MAC regular-season titles, a new conference record ... and, the Falcons won all six titles outright ... Kent State won five-straight MAC East Division crowns from 1998 through 2002 ... the Golden Flashes had the league's best overall record in three of those five seasons, tying for the top overall mark in one other year.

SIX-SHOOTING FROM A NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
The Falcons, as mentioned, have won six consecutive MAC regular-season titles ... all six of BGSU's crowns have been outright ... BG has won one West Division championship (2005) and five East Division titles (2006-10), but the Falcons had the MAC's best overall record in all six years ... in the history of NCAA Division-I women's basketball, the list of teams to have accomplished this feat is a relatively short one ... and, it can be found in the PDF version of these notes.

PROCHASKA IS A SCORER: SINGLE-SEASON EDITION
Junior Lauren Prochaska set a new BGSU record for points in a season ... Prochaska had 609 points during the 2009-10 campaign, breaking the record of 607, set by Jackie Motycka in the 1987-88 season ... Prochaska is the only player in school history to score at least 500 points in a season three times ... Motycka had over 500 points in a season twice, while no other player has done so more than one time at BGSU.

PROCHASKA IS THIRD ON BGSU CAREER SCORING LIST
Lauren Prochaska, just a junior, has moved into third place on the BGSU career scoring list, and now has a total of 1,699 points in 102 games at BG ... with her season-high total of 29 points in the MAC Tournament championship-game win over Toledo, Prochaska passed BGSU Hall-of-Famer Sara Puthoff (1,678 points from 1994-98) on the career list ... she now trails only Jackie Motycka (2,122 pts. from 1985-89) and Ali Mann (1,825 pts. from 2003-07) ... Prochaska is averaging 16.7 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her storied Falcon career.

PROCHASKA A FINALIST FOR STATE FARM ALL-AMERICA TEAM
Junior Lauren Prochaska was named one of 40 finalists for the 2010 State Farm Coaches' All-American Basketball Team for NCAA Division I ... the announcement was made by the WBCA on March 25 ... the 40 finalists, voted upon by WBCA-member coaches in each of the eight WBCA geographical regions, are now in the running for selection to the 10-member State Farm Coaches' All-America Team ... Prochaska was the only MAC player on the 40-woman list.

PROCHASKA REPEATS AS MAC PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Junior Lauren Prochaska was named the MAC Player of the Year for the second consecutive season ... she also was voted to the all-conference first team for the second successive year, after earning second-team honors in her MAC-Freshman-of-the-Year season of 2007-08 ... Prochaska became only the sixth woman in conference history to be named the MAC P-O-Y on multiple occasions ... her honor marks the fourth time in as many seasons that a BGSU standout was named MAC Player of the Year ... Ali Mann shared that honor in 2006-07, while Kate Achter was named the league's P-O-Y in the '07-08 season ... this is only the second time in league history that players from the same school have won or shared the award in four seasons in a row.

PROCHASKA NAMED MAC TOURNAMENT MVP
Junior Lauren Prochaska was named the MAC Tournament MVP as the Falcons captured the league tourney title in Cleveland ... she averaged 20.3 points and 5.7 rebounds per game in the wins over Miami, Akron and Toledo ... Prochaska shot .488 from the field, including a 9-for-19 (.474) effort from three-point land ... she had a season-high 29 points in the championship game vs. UT, scoring nearly half of BG's points.

PONTIUS EARNS ALL-MAC HONORS
Junior Tracy Pontius joined classmate Lauren Prochaska on the All-MAC Team ... Pontius earned all-conference honors for the second consecutive season, being named to the second team this year after earning first-team accolades a year ago ... the 2009-10 season marked just the second as a starter for Pontius.

BRESKE EARNS ALL-TOURNAMENT HONORS
Senior Tara Breske joined junior Lauren Prochaska on the MAC's All-Tournament Team ... Breske earned the honor after averaging 13.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 2.0 blocked shots in the three wins ... she had a season-high 20 points in the quarterfinal-round win over Miami ... Breske went 9-of-15 from the field in that game, and was 6-of-11 en route to 13 points in the semifinals against Akron ... she had six points, a team-high nine rebounds and three blocks vs. Toledo in the championship game.

SENIOR PRIDE
The Falcons' three fourth-year seniors, Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper, became the fifth group in school history, and the fourth in a row, to be a part of at least 100 career wins at BGSU ... the Falcons had an overall record of 113-24 during the four-year span after that trio joined the program, the second-highest win total in school and MAC annals – and finished just one win shy of tying the conference record ... last year's one-woman senior class, Lindsey Goldsberry, ended her career with a total of 114 wins, the most by any player (male or female) in MAC basketball history ... BGSU's other senior in 2009-10, Tamika Nurse, was in her first playing season after transferring from the University of Oregon.
100-WIN CLASSES AT BGSU
Wins -- Class of ... -- 4th-Year Seniors
114 -- 2009 -- Lindsey Goldsberry
113 -- 2010 -- Tara Breske, Laura Bugher, Sarah Clapper
108 -- 2008 -- Kate Achter, Whitney Taylor
103 -- 2007 -- Amber Flynn, Julie Gompers, Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann, Megan Thorburn
100 -- 1990 -- Angie Bonner, Tecca Thompson

MORE ON THE SENIORS
BGSU's three fourth-year seniors – Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper – averaged 28.25 wins per season after arriving in Northwest Ohio ... that trio also helped the Falcons go 57-7 in conference regular-season games after their arrival on 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 ... the complete list of BG's best MAC records in a four-year span can be found on page 34 of the PDF.

THREE-MENDOUS!
The Falcons shattered the school single-season records for three-point field goals made and attempted ... BGSU went 284-of-733 from beyond the arc in 2009-10 ... this year's team broke the records set by the 1999-2000 club, which made 259 threes in 733 attempts ... the Falcons' total of three-pointers made also set a new MAC record (Ball State, 282 in 2001-02).

THREE-MARKABLE! PROCHASKA SETS SINGLE-SEASON RECORD
Junior Lauren Prochaska has displayed a level of three-point consistency unmatched in BGSU history ... Prochaska shattered the school record for three-ponters made in a season ... she finished with a total of 92 treys on the season, topping the old record of 78 (set by 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 six such seasons in school annals (Tracy Pontius has made 70 threes in a season twice, and Farmer did it once).

BGSU RECORD BOOKS: THREE-POINT FG MADE, SEASON
1. Lauren Prochaska (2009-10) 90
2. Angie Farmer (1999-2000) 78
3. Tracy Pontius (2008-09) 77
4. Lauren Prochaska (2008-09) 75
5. Lauren Prochaska (2007-08) 74
6. Tracy Pontius (2008-09) 70
Current BGSU players in Bold

THREE-LIGHTFUL! PROCHASKA NEARLY SETS MAC RECORD
Junior Lauren Prochaska's total of 92 three-pointers made this season was the second highest in MAC history ... she fell just four shy of tying the conference record, set by Toledo's Kelly Savage ... with three triples in the Falcons' NCAA Championships first-round game vs. Michigan State, Prochaska moved past Keyla Snowden into second place on that list ... Snowden, who made 91 treys for Akron in the 2007-08 season, was in the building when Prochaska passed her on that chart ... Snowden, who transferred to Kentucky, was waiting to play the second game of the day at Louisville's Freedom Hall.
MAC RECORD BOOKS: THREE-POINT FG MADE, SEASON
1. Kelly Savage (Toledo, 1988-89) 96
2. Lauren Prochaska (2009-10) 92
3. Keyla Snowden (Akron, 2007-08) 91

TREY BIEN! PROCHASKA WAS ALREADY AT THE TOP OF THE LIST
Junior Lauren Prochaska has become the most prolific three-point field-goal shooter in BGSU history ... through three seasons, Prochaska has a total of 241 three-point field goals made ... she broke the BGSU record set by Liz Honegger, who 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 159 threes in her career ... Prochaska has a shot at the MAC career record of 323 three-pointers made, set by Ball State's Audrey McDonald.

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 victory ... Miller, now 206-80 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, trailing only Kent State's Bob Lindsay and former Toledo coach Mark Ehlen ... Miller reached the 200-win mark in his 279th career game... the lists of winningest MAC women's basketball coaches can be found on page 10 of the PDF.
FASTEST TO 200 OVERALL WINS (at a MAC school)
Coach -- Reached 200 total wins in ...
CURT MILLER -- 279th career game
Mark Ehlen (Toledo) -- 292nd
Bob Lindsay (Kent State) -- 308th

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 on Jan. 23 was the 100th MAC victory in Falcon head coach Curt Miller's career ... Miller ended the 2009-10 season with a career record of 108-36 (.750) in conference games as a head coach ... he became just the seventh coach in MAC history – and the second fastest – to amass 100 league victories.
FASTEST TO 100 MAC WINS
Coach -- Reached 100 MAC wins in ...
Mark Ehlen (Toledo) -- 123rd career game
CURT MILLER -- 134th
Fran Voll (BGSU/CMU) -- 143rd
Bob Lindsay (Kent State) -- 150th
Donita Davenport (CMU) -- 164th
Ron Stewart (WMU) -- 173rd
Maria Fantanarosa (Miami) -- 179th

... 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 ended the 2009-10 season with 108 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 (if the name still doesn't sound familiar to you, perhaps the 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament rings a bell).

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, is 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.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons finished the season with an overall record of 27-7, and BGSU went 14-2 in MAC play ... BG won an outright MAC regular-season championship for the sixth-straight season, a conference record ... the Falcons earned the league's East Division title for the fifth consecutive year (after winning the West crown in 2005) ... BGSU won three more games in Cleveland to capture the MAC Tournament title for the fourth time in those six seasons ... the Falcons went 13-0 at home, 11-6 on the road and 3-1 in neutral-site games this year ... the neutral-site games came in the MAC Tournament and in the NCAA Championships First Round ... the Falcons had two eight-game winning streaks on the season, with the second one coming to an end with the loss to Michigan State in Louisville.

• BGSU was 10-3 over the last 13 games, and 18-3 in the final 21 contests ... after a 1-2 start to the season, the Falcons won 26 of the next 29 games before falling to Michigan State ... after losing a 67-65 verdict at Central Michigan on Feb. 10, the Brown and Orange bounced back to go unbeaten in the second round-robin swing through the MAC's East Division ... BG posted a 73-57 win over Ohio (Feb. 13), then beat Akron (66-56; Feb. 20), Buffalo (81-64; Feb. 24), Kent State (69-55; Feb. 27) and Miami (March 2) ... the win over KSU clinched the divisional title for the Falcons, and the 63-58 triumph at MU gave BG the outright conference crown.

• BG's two losses in MAC play came to Toledo and CMU ... the Falcons saw this season's first eight-game winning streak snapped with a 66-63 loss at UT (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 also had completed the first swing through the East unbeaten, meaning that the Falcons went a perfect 12-0 (including league tournament games) vs. MAC East opponents this season ... the Brown and Orange 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 prior to beginning the MAC schedule ... 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) ... OSU, Marist and Vandy all joined the Falcons in the NCAA Tournament.

• 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 – another NCAA Tournament team – on 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 2008-09 Falcons went 29-5 overall, posting the second-highest win total in school and conference history, had a 15-1 MAC record and 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 ... this season's fourth-year seniors fell just one win shy of matching that total.

• Junior Lauren Prochaska led the Falcons in scoring and rebounding ... Prochaska, the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, averaged 17.9 points and 5.7 rebounds per game ... she paced BG in scoring 19 times this year, and added a MAC Tournament MVP honor to her lengthy list of awards ... Prochaska was named the MAC Player of the Week four times this season and has earned the honor nine times in her career ... she was named one of 40 finalists for the State Farm Coaches' All-America team.

• Prochaska led the MAC in three-point field-goal pct. by a wide margin (.449 – the league's runner up shot .407) and total three-pointers made (a school-record 92) ... she ranked second in scoring and free-throw percentage (.899) and third in three-pointers made per game (2.71).

• Junior Tracy Pontius and senior Tamika Nurse had 11.7 and 10.5 ppg, respectively, and both players finished among the MAC's top-five in three-point FG pct. ... Pontius had 2.5 rpg, and was second on the team in three-point field goals made ... she made 70 shots from long range, while Nurse hit 43 ... Nurse had a team-high 3.4 assists per game, while Pontius was second with 3.0 apg ... Nurse finished third in the MAC in assist/turnover ratio (1.40), with Pontius sixth (1.21) ... Pontius shot .391 from three-point range, ranking fourth in the MAC, while Nurse was fifth at .384.

• Nurse averaged 14.8 points per game over a six-game span that culminated with the MAC Tournament's championship game ... that stretch included back-to-back games of 20 points or more in the late-season wins over Buffalo and Kent State ... Prochaska and Nurse made 151 and 133 free throws, respectively, while Pontius hit 69 shots from the stripe ... Pontius and Prochaska each converted their free-throw tries at a rate of better than 86 percent.

• In the post, senior Tara Breske and junior Jen Uhl scored 8.4 and 7.0 ppg, respectively ... Breske, who missed two games due to injury in early December, had 4.5 rebounds and 1.1 blocked shots per game, leading the Falcons in the latter category and ranking third in the former ... Breske, who also had a team-leading 1.6 steals per game, joined Prochaska on the MAC's All-Tournament Team ... Uhl had 5.5 rebounds per game, ranking second on the team, and paced the Falcons with three double-doubles this year ... Uhl and Breske shot .497 and .470, respectively, from the field.

• Junior Maggie Hennegan had 4.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, placing her fourth on the team in boards ... she shot .438 from the field on the year ... six additional players averaged between 1.7 and 3.3 ppg.

• A total of six players played in all 34 games this year ... that list includes Hennegan, Nurse, Pontius, Prochaska, Uhl and sophomore Jessica Slagle.

• The list of returnees in 2009-10 included 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 included a pair of highly-decorated players in Prochaska and Pontius ... Prochaska, a wing, is a two-time MAC Player of the Year, while Pontius, a point guard, was an honorable-mention selection to the Associated Press All-America Team in 2009 ... both Pontius and Prochaska earned All-MAC First-Team honors in 2008-09 ... Prochaska was a repeat selection this year, while Pontius was named to the all-league second team in 2010.

• 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 rounded out the returning letterwinners.

• Two other players were 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 included a quartet of freshmen in Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss, Chrissy Steffen and Jessie Tamerlano ... Danielle Havel also joined the program, but sat out this season after transferring from DePaul University ... she will retain three seasons of eligibility.

• Nurse, Pontius and Prochaska each started all 34 games this year, while Uhl made 31 starts and Breske 29 ... that quintet started each of the final 24 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 made eight starts this year.

• Prochaska had 17.4 ppg and 5.5 rpg in MAC games, while Pontius averaged 12.2 ppg ... that duo combined for 79 successful three-pointers in the 16 conference contests ... Nurse finished with 11.0 ppg and a team-leading 3.1 apg in league play, while Breske had 8.1 ppg and 4.6 rpg ... Uhl had 7.6 ppg and a BG-best 6.1 rpg, and shot .523 from the field ... Hennegan, Steffen and Zuercher all scored at least 3.4 ppg in MAC action ... the Falcons finished with a +13.9 scoring margin, a rebounding margin of +0.9 and a +4.8 turnover margin in MAC games.

• Overall, the Falcons shot .426 from the field, .387 from three-point land and .753 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents shot .393 overall, .297 from long range and .705 from the stripe ... the Falcons made nearly as many free throws (525) as the opponents attempted (526) ... BG had 37.6 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.6 ... the Falcons were outrebounded only 11 times in 34 games this year.

THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 27-7 this season, after going 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 14-2 in the MAC, having won a sixth-straight league regular-season title;
• 206-80 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 108-36 in MAC games in that time:
• 197-61 overall in the eight years 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);
• 185-45 over the last seven years, with 2009-10 marking BG's seventh-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 164-35 in the past six years, with no fewer than 23 wins and a MAC regular-season title in each of the last six seasons;
• an eye-popping 141-27 overall and 73-7 in the MAC regular season in the last five years, with at least 26 wins each year;
• 113-24 in the last four years, including a 57-7 conference ledger, since seniors Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper joined the program;
• 82-20 overall, and 42-6 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;
• 56-12 since sophs Maribeth Giese and Jessica Slagle ventured to NW Ohio;
• 91-9 in the last 100 games vs. MAC opponents (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 49-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field in the Miller Era;
• 171-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 43-0 mark in the last two seasons;
• 156-26 when making more free throws during Miller's first nine seasons;
• 123-11 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 44-4 in MAC home games in the last six seasons, including three 8-0 marks;
• 36-4 in MAC road games over the last five years (with the losses coming in 2007-08 at Ball State, in '08-09 at Miami and this year at Toledo and Central Michigan);
• 15-2 in the MAC Tournament over the last six years, with four titles (2005, '06, '07 and 2010), a championship-game appearance last year, and a trip to the semis in 2008;
• 39-16 overall in the MAC Tournament since it was instituted in 1982;
• 27-11 in MAC Tournament contests played at a neutral site;
• 17-4 at Gund/Quicken Loans Arena, the site of the MAC Tournament;
• 18-5 in MAC Tournament games in the Miller Era;
• 17-3 at "The Gund"/"The Q" under Miller;
• 28-3 in all non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 24-2 against non-league foes at Anderson Arena since November of 2004.
• 5-13 in 13 national postseason appearances (including a 3-10 record in the NCAA Championships and a 2-3 mark in WNIT trips); and
• 4-6 in national postseason action under Miller (including a 2-4 mark in the NCAAs and a 2-2 record in the WNIT).

THE FALCON SENIORS
Fourth-year Falcons Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper helped the Brown and Orange average 28.25 wins per season 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 ... they helped the Falcons to national postseason berths in each of their four seasons, with two trips each to the NCAAs and WNIT ... BGSU has gone 113-24 overall and 57-7 in MAC regular-season action since Breske, Bugher and Clapper came to the school ... Tamika Nurse, a fifth-year senior, was in her first playing season at BG in 2009-10, after sitting out last year as a transfer from the Univ. of Oregon.

THE JUNIORS
BGSU has posted a record of 82-20 overall, and the Falcons are 42-6 in MAC regular-season games since Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher set foot on campus ... the team has won an average of 27.3 games per year to date ... the Falcons have made national postseason play in each of those three years, having gone to the NCAA once and the WNIT twice ... BG played national postseason games at Anderson Arena in each of their first two years, beating Dayton in the '08 WNIT and hosting Syracuse and Indiana in that tourney in 2009 ... Maggie Hennegan joined that group for the 2009-10 season ... Hennegan sat out as a transfer in '08-09 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 56-12 overall and 29-3 in the MAC since the duo arrived in Northwest Ohio ... Danielle Havel is a member of the sophomore class, but sat 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).

BLOCKED BY BRESKE
Senior Tara Breske finished her BGSU career with a total of 104 blocked shots ... she is third in BG history on that career list ... the final block of her career came with 1:02 left in the MAC Tournament championship game, with BG holding a three-point lead, and helped the Falcons clinch the title.

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 on 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
In 2009-10, the Falcons 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 (12) have posted 20 or more wins on 10 or more occasions.

THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
BGSU closed the 2009-10 season with an all-time record of 335-142 (.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.

FALCONS VS. THE FIELD(S)
During the 2009-10 regular season, BGSU had a record of 2-3 against teams that wound up making the NCAA Tournament ... the Falcons defeated Vanderbilt and Saint Francis (Pa.) and lost to Ohio State, Marist and Hartford ... the Brown and Orange went 10-5 overall against teams that made national postseason play, including WNIT participants Saint Bonaventure (0-1), Eastern Michigan (1-0), Kent State (2-0) and Toledo (1-1) and WBI entrants Akron (3-0) and Appalachian State (1-0) ... ASU won the WBI championship.

HOME COOKIN'
The Falcons finished with a perfect 13-0 record at venerable Anderson Arena ... BGSU has won 30 consecutive regular-season home games at "The House That Roars" since a loss to Western Michigan on Jan. 30, 2008 ... overall, BG has won 32 of the last 33 home games, with the lone loss coming to Indiana in the third round of last year's WNIT ... 27 of those 32 wins have come by double digits.

HOME COOKIN' II: ELECTRIC BUGALOO (MAC-ONLY EDITION)
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 "The House That Roars."

WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE (THAT ROARS)
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.

LEADERS OF THE MAC
• The Falcons led the MAC in a total of six team statistical categories, including scoring offense (73.4), scoring margin (+12.9), three-point field-goal percentage (.387), three-point FG pct. defense (.297), assist/turnover ratio (0.94) and three-pointers made per game (8.35) ... and, BGSU ranked second in the league in five additional categories, including scoring defense (60.5), free-throw pct. (.753), field-goal pct. (.426), assists (14.68) and turnover margin (+3.18).

• In MAC games only, BG led the entire league in seven categories, including scoring offense (75.3), scoring margin (+13.9), FG pct. (.427), three-point FG pct. (.378), turnover margin (+4.75), assist/turnover ratio (0.94) and three-pointers made per game (8.44) ... the Falcons were second in scoring defense (61.4), FT pct. (.764), three-point FG pct. defense (.291) and assists (14.63).

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.

PURA VIDA!
Head coach Curt Miller and the Falcons jump-started their season in August, heading to Costa Rica on the first foreign tour in program history ... the Falcons benefitted from four games vs. local competition, in addition to 10 days of practices leading up to the tour ... the 12 players (the 10 returnees from 2008-09, plus the two transfers who sat out last season at BGSU) were able to bond together through a week and a half of diverse experiences, including whitewater rafting, zip-lining through the rainforest and hiking on a volcano.

JUST AS SUCCESSFUL IN THE CLASSROOM
• The Falcons had one of the most successful seasons in program history on the court in 2008-09 ... head coach Curt Miller's program had one of its most successful campaigns in the classroom as well ... BGSU was ranked fifth in the entire nation on the WBCA's Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for 2008-09 ... the awards recognized teams throughout the country that had the highest grade point averages for 2008-09.

• As a team, the Falcons had a GPA of 3.470 in '08-09 ... BGSU was the only MAC program on the list, and the Falcons were also the only program from the state of Ohio in the Division-I Top 25.

• UPDATE: Through the fall 2009 semester, the Falcons had a cumulative team GPA of 3.57 ... no fewer than 14 student-athletes had a GPA of at least 3.25 during the fall semester, with six earning a perfect 4.00 GPA.

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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