Divisional Leaders, Arch-Rival Programs Collide as Toledo Invades Anderson Arena

The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, currently tied atop the Mid-American Conference East Division standings, will continue cross-divisional play by hosting the West Division leader ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will face the arch-rival University of Toledo in Wednesday (Jan. 26) action at venerable Anderson Arena (3,500), with tipoff scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ... both the Falcons and the Rockets are 5-1 in MAC action entering Wednesday night's contest ... Miller and his staff returned 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's 27-7 team that won the MAC regular-season and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Championships.

BGSU NOTES & STATS - PDF
TOLEDO NOTES & STATS - PDF
MAC NOTES & STATS - PDF
MONDAY PRESS CONFERENCE AUDIO: Jen Uhl | Curt Miller

THE PROCHASKA WATCH
Senior Lauren Prochaska is moving ever closer to the BGSU career scoring record ... with 16 points in Saturday's (Jan. 22) 90-62 win over Central Michigan, Prochaska now has a career total of 2,081 points at BGSU ... she currently resides in second place on the school's career scoring list, and is 41 points shy of matching the BGSU record ... that record is held by Jackie Motycka (2,122 points from 1985-89) ... Prochaska is averaging 17.2 points per game, the second-highest average in BG annals, in her storied Falcon career.

PROCHASKA MOVING UP ON MAC LIST AS WELL
BGSU senior Lauren Prochaska recently joined a very exclusive club ... with her basket just over eight minutes into the win over Akron (Jan. 12), the native of Plain City, Ohio surpassed the 2,000-point mark for her career ... Prochaska became just the second player in school history, and only the 10th in MAC annals, to reach that milestone ... in Saturday's CMU game, Prochaska moved past former Kent State star Tracey Lynn into seventh place on the MAC list ... she needs 10 points to match Tamara Bowie (Ball State) for sixth place.

HOME COOKIN'
BGSU has enjoyed a great deal of success at home this year to date ... the Falcons are 10-0 at Anderson Arena this season, and BGSU has won those 10 games by an average of nearly 29 points (28.9, to be exact) ... the Falcons are averaging 85.5 points per game at home, having scored at least 79 points in all 10 games ... BG is allowing just 56.6 ppg at "The House That Roars" this season to date ... (random note: believe it or not, the Falcons' average margin of victory at Anderson Arena actually decreased after the 90-62 win over Central Michigan on Saturday).

WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE (THAT ROARS)
The Falcons will put some impressive streaks on the line in the Toledo game ... BGSU has won 39 consecutive regular-season home games at "The House That Roars" ... the Falcons' last regular-season loss at Anderson Arena came vs. Western Michigan nearly three years ago; on Jan. 30, 2008 ... a few more Anderson-related notes ...

• Overall, BGSU has won 23 home games in a row, and 42 of the last 43 ... the lone loss in that stretch came to Indiana in the third round of the 2009 WNIT ... BG had won 19-straight home games before losing to IU, then beginning the current 22-game streak ... 37 of the Falcons' 42 wins in that span have come by double digits.

• The current 23-game home winning streak is the sixth longest in the nation.

• BGSU is 10-0 at Anderson Arena this year to date ... in 2009-10, the Falcons posted a 13-0 home regular-season record for the second consecutive year ... BGSU has gone undefeated at home in the regular season seven times in program history ... in three of those years, including in 2008-09, the Falcons' lone blemish was a home loss suffered in national tournament play.

ONE MORE NOTE RE: HOME GAMES
The Falcons took a 48-27 lead into the half en route to Saturday's (Jan. 22) win over Central Michigan ... BGSU has held a double-digit lead at halftime in nine of the 10 home games this year to date ... BG and Creighton were tied, 30-30, at halftime of the home opener, before the Falcons pulled away in the second half ... BGSU has led by at least 12 points at halftime in each of the last nine games at "The House That Roars," with a lead of over 20 points at the intermission in six of those games.

OK, MAYBE JUST ONE MORE NOTE RE: HOME GAMES
BGSU is averaging 90.0 points per game in home MAC games this season ... the Falcons have scored exactly 90 points in each of this season's three conference contests at Anderson Arena, wins over Miami (90-52), Akron (90-72) and Central Michigan (90-62).

NINETY IS FINE(TY) *
The Falcons, as mentioned, have scored exactly 90 points in each of the last three home games ... no BGSU team had put up 90 points in three-straight games at Anderson Arena since the 1997-98 season, when Jaci Clark's club did so against three Michigan teams – Michigan State (91-73; Dec. 6, 1997), Western Michigan (102-69; Jan. 3, 1998) and Central Michigan (92-82; Jan. 5, 1998) ... the current streak marks the first time in school history that the Falcons have hit 90 points in three consecutive MAC home games (note: BG had 90 points in three consecutive games vs. conference foes in the 1991-92 season, but the final game of the three came in the MAC Tournament quarterfinals).
* technically, this is another note re: home games ... and, there will be more such notes.

WE FIND THIS NOTE OFFENSIVE
The Falcons have hit the 90-point mark in four home games this year, including each of the last three ... BGSU reached 90 points in a home game just seven times in the first nine years of the Curt Miller Era, including only four times in MAC games (and one of those games was a four-overtime contest).

CAN YOU BORE US WITH ONE MORE 90-POINT NOTE?
You betcha ... as mentioned, BGSU has hit 90 points in four of this year's 10 games at Anderson Arena ... no Falcon team has scored ninety points in more than four home games since the 1991-92 team did so in a school-record seven contests at Anderson.

HOLDING ON TO THE BALL
• The Falcons have been successful at limiting turnovers this season ... BGSU turned the ball over just 10 times, tying a season low, in Saturday's (Jan. 22) win over Central Michigan ... as of the latest NCAA rankings (Monday, Jan. 24), BG was 10th in the nation in fewest turnovers per game (13.8) ... the Falcons have committed more turnovers than the opponent in only one of this season's 19 games to date.

• BG and Evansville each coughed the ball up 19 times in the season opener ... then, however, BGSU committed 15 or fewer turnovers in 14 of the next 15 games, before turning the ball over 19 times at Kent State and 17 at UB.

• During the 15-game win streak, the Falcons forced the opponent into an average of 18.8 turnovers per contest ... overall, BG has forced 15 or more opponent turnovers in 16 of this year's 18 games, including 19 or more in 11 of those contests.

TAKE SOME – THEY'RE FREE
As of Monday's (Jan. 24) latest NCAA rankings, the Falcons are once again leading the entire nation in free-throw percentage ... BGSU is converting free throws at a rate of 80.5 percent ... Milwaukee (79.8%) currently ranks second in the nation ... individually, senior Lauren Prochaska is second in the country in FT pct. ... Prochaska has made 118 of her 125 attempts this year (94.4%) ... she trails only Samford's Emily London (96.2%; 51-of-53) in that category.

FALCONS AMONG NCAA LEADERS
BGSU is ranked among the national leaders in numerous categories, according to the latest NCAA statistics (released Monday, Jan. 24) ... the Falcons were ranked in the top-25 in no fewer than nine total categories ... as mentioned above, BG leads the entire nation in free-throw percentage ... the Falcons also rank in the top-10 in the country in three-point field goals made per game (third; 8.5) and turnovers per game (10th; 13.8) ... additionally, the Falcons are 11th in the country in winning percentage (89.5), 13th in scoring margin (+19.9), 14th in three-point pct. (37.1%), 18th in three-point FG defense (26.6%), 22nd in assist/turnover ratio (1.03) and 24th in scoring offense (75.7 ppg) ... BGSU is ranked among the top-75 teams in the nation in 13 of the 18 categories kept by the NCAA.

PROCHASKA NAMED MAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
On Monday (Jan. 24), Falcon senior Lauren Prochaska was named MAC Player of the Week ... she earned the honor for the second time this season and the 11th time in her BGSU career ... Prochaska received the accolade after averaging 23.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in the Falcons' wins over Buffalo and Central Michigan ... she shot 45.5% from three-point land (5-of-11) and made all 19 of her free-throw attempts on the week.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons will enter the Toledo game with an overall record of 17-2, and BGSU is 5-1 in MAC play ... BG is tied with Kent State for first place in the MAC East Division standings ... the Falcons are 10-0 at home, 6-2 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games to date ... BG saw one of the longest streaks in the nation – a 15-game overall winning streak – come to an end with a one-point loss at KSU on Jan. 15 ... BGSU still owns one of the longest homecourt winning streaks in the country, having won 23-straight games at venerable Anderson Arena.

• BG received votes in each of the most recent national top-25 polls, Monday's (Jan. 24) Associated Press poll and last Tuesday's (Jan. 18) USA Today ESPN Coaches poll ... the Falcons were ranked 44th in the nation in the most recent NCAA RPI rankings (released Jan. 24) ... BGSU dropped from second to third in the latest (Jan. 18) CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 after the loss to KSU.

• The Falcons suffered a 63-62 loss at Evansville in the regular-season opener (Nov. 12), but BG bounced back with 15-straight wins before losing at KSU, 44-43 ... in non-conference play, BGSU's victims included Creighton, Youngstown State, Oakland, Detroit, #23/23 Vanderbilt, Cal State Fullerton and Canisius at Anderson Arena; Seattle, Western Kentucky, Austin Peay and Butler on the road; and UALR at a neutral site ... the Brown and Orange opened MAC play with a 66-54 win at Ohio (Jan. 5), before returning home and scoring 90 points in back-to-back victories ... BG downed Miami, 90-52 (Jan. 8), then topped Akron by a 90-72 count (Jan. 12) prior to losing at Kent three days later ... the Falcons bounced back with a 72-61 win at Buffalo on Tuesday (Jan. 18), then dismantled Central Michigan, 90-62, on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 22) at "The House That Roars."

• Senior Lauren Prochaska, the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, is averaging a team-high 20.1 points per game, and also paces the Falcons with 5.9 rebounds per contest ... Prochaska has scored 20 or more points in 11 games this year, including a season-high 31-point performance in the win over Vanderbilt in December ... she had 30 points in last week's win at UB ... classmate Tracy Pontius has 12.6 ppg to date, and leads the team with 4.1 assists per outing.

• Prochaska has made 50 three-point field goals this year, while Pontius has hit 43 shots from long range ... Prochaska and Pontius are shooting 43.1 and 35.0 percent from beyond the arc, respectively ... Prochaska is 118-of-125 (94.4%) from the free-throw line on the year, and is second in the nation in that category in the latest NCAA rankings ... she is 16th in the country in scoring and 20th in three-point field-goal percentage, while Pontius is ranked 19th in assist/turnover ratio (2.11) in the most recent NCAA listings.

• Head coach Curt Miller's starting lineup for each of the first 19 games has remained unchanged ... that lineup has included four seniors in Pontius, Prochaska, Maggie Hennegan and Jen Uhl, along with sophomore Chrissy Steffen.

• Steffen, Hennegan and Uhl rank third through fifth on the team in scoring, and all three have scored between 151 and 181 points this season ... Steffen has 9.5 ppg and has hit 30 three-pointers this year to date ... she leads the Falcons in steals, with 1.9 per game (Steffen has 36 steals, Prochaska 32 and Pontius 31 this year) ... Hennegan and Uhl are averaging 8.6 and 7.9 ppg, respectively ... Hennegan is second on the team in rebounding, with 5.4 rpg, while Uhl is third in that category (5.2 rpg) ... Hennegan has averaged 10.5 ppg in the six MAC contests, and she leads the Falcons in blocked shots this season (1.1 bpg) ... Uhl has averaged 10.2 ppg and a team-leading 5.7 rpg over the last 13 contests.

• BGSU returned 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that won 27 games, captured MAC regular-season and tournament titles and advanced to the NCAA Championships ... the Falcons finished the 2009-10 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 last year ... the neutral-site games came in the MAC Tournament and in the NCAA Championships.

• The Falcons lost the services of four seniors – Tara Breske, Laura Bugher, Sarah Clapper and Tamika Nurse – from a year ago ... the three fourth-year players were part of 113 wins, the second-highest total in school and MAC annals ... Nurse was in her first playing season in 2009-10 after transferring from the University of Oregon ... Breske, Bugher and Clapper averaged 28.25 wins per season and helped the Falcons go 57-7 in MAC regular-season games after their arrival on campus.

• Miller and his staff have six seniors on the 15-player active roster this year ... that group includes three returning starters in Prochaska, Pontius and Uhl ... Prochaska and Pontius each started all 34 games a year ago, while Uhl made 31 starts ... Prochaska, of course, has been named the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, while Pontius earned all-league second-team honors in 2009-10.

• Hennegan, a co-captain along with Prochaska, played in all 34 games last season ... post players Chelsea Albert and Kelly Zuercher round out the senior class ... Zuercher played in 30 games off the bench last winter, while Albert appeared in 28 contests.

• The Falcons' lone junior is Jessica Slagle, who played in every game last year ... BG has a pair of redshirt sophomores in Maribeth Giese and Danielle Havel ... Giese played in two games early last season before suffering an injury and sitting out the rest of the season as a redshirt ... Havel sat out the entire campaign after transferring from DePaul University.

• The roster includes three true sophomores in Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Steffen ... four newcomers join the program in 2010-11 ... that list includes a pair of guards in Jillian Halfhill and Noelle Yoder, along with post player Jill Stein ... additionally, Alexis Rogers has joined the program, but will sit out this season after transferring from Duke University ... she will retain three seasons of eligibility.

• Slagle and Papenfuss each have played in all 19 games off the bench to date, and have 4.2 and 3.2 ppg, respectively ... Slagle, who had a career-high 13 points in Saturday's (Jan. 22) win over CMU, has hit nine of her 20 three-point attempts this year (45.0%), while Papenfuss has 2.5 rpg, ranking sixth on the team in that category.

• Havel also has seen action in all 19 games, while Zuercher and Albert and have played in 16 apiece and Stein 15 ... all 15 players on the active roster have played in at least nine contests.

• BGSU is shooting 42.5% from the field, 37.1% from three-point land and 80.5% from the free-throw line ... BG has allowed opponents to shoot 37.5% from the floor and 26.6% from beyond the arc ... Falcon foes are shooting 68.6% from the stripe ... BGSU has made over 140 more free throws than the opponents, and the Falcons have made 53 more free throws than the foes have attempted.

A QUICK LOOK AT UT
Toledo will enter Wednesday's game with an overall record of 13-6, and the Rockets are 5-1 in MAC action ... UT is alone in first place in the MAC's West Division after a 67-53 win over Buffalo (combined with BGSU's win over Central Michigan) on Saturday ... the Rockets' lone league loss came to the Chippewas, 78-74, last Wednesday in Mount Pleasant ... Toledo has won six of the last seven games since the start of the 2011 calendar year, and the Rockets are 12-3 since starting the season by losing three of four games ... UT is 8-1 at home, 4-5 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games ... in MAC play, the Rockets are 2-1 away from home, with wins over Western Michigan and Eastern Michigan and the narrow loss to CMU ... individually, junior guard Naama Shafir leads the team in scoring with 13.4 points per game ... Shafir also paces the Rockets in assists, with 5.7 per game ... she has a team-leading 16.5 ppg in MAC games ... senior forward Melissa Goodall has 13.2 ppg, along with a team-leading 7.1 rebounds per game, this year ... senior guard Jessica Williams has 10.4 ppg, and has made a team-leading 46 three-point field goals to date ... sophomore post players Lecretia Smith and Yolanda Richardson each are averaging 6.7 ppg ... Smith leads the team in steals per game, with 1.9, while Richardson has 19 blocked shots, second on the Rockets behind Goodall's total of 26 ... Shafir, Williams and junior guard Courtney Ingersoll (5.0 ppg) each have started all 19 games this season for head coach Tricia Cullop, while Goodall has made 18 starts and Smith 15 ... Smith missed several games due to injury, before coming off the bench to play 21 minutes vs. UB Saturday ... redshirt freshman guard Andola Dortch (4.5 ppg) was in the starting lineup for that contest, and has made four starts ... Cullop, in her third season with the Rockets, welcomed back seven letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's club ... the 2009-10 team went 25-9 overall and 12-4 in MAC play, winning the West and advancing to the WNIT ... the school's athletics web site is www.utrockets.com.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Toledo, 41-26, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU won the most recent meeting ... the teams' last matchup came in Cleveland, in the championship game of the 2010 MAC Tournament (March 13, 2010), with the Falcons pulling out a 62-53 win to capture the title ... Lauren Prochaska scored 29 points in that win en route to earning tourney MVP honors ... last year's regular-season meeting went to the Rockets, 66-63, in the Glass City (Jan. 30, 2010), before a crowd of over 5,800 ... that UT win snapped a 12-game BGSU series winning streak, and was the Rockets' first win over the Falcons in over seven years (since Jan. 15, 2003) ... in the most recent meeting at Anderson Arena two years ago (Feb. 12, 2009), the Brown and Orange came away with a 70-53 win ... BGSU is 20-7 all-time in home games vs. the Rockets, and the Falcons have won six-straight games vs. Toledo at Anderson ... UT's last win at "The House That Roars" was a 79-65 decision on Jan. 13, 1999 ... Curt Miller has a record of 13-3 against Toledo in his stellar BGSU career.

CENTURY (AND A HALF) MARK
The CMU game was the 150th MAC game in Curt Miller's BGSU tenure ... Miller, in his 10th season, now has a record of 113-37 (75.3%) in MAC regular-season games ... after going 11-21 in league games over his first two seasons, Miller's teams have gone 102-16 (86.4%) in MAC regular-season play since the start of the 2003-04 campaign.

LAST TIME OUT
Five players scored in double digits as the Falcons ran past visiting CMU, 90-62, before a crowd in excess of 2,500 at Anderson Arena on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 22) ... senior Tracy Pontius had 17 points to lead a balanced scoring attack for the Brown and Orange ... classmate Lauren Prochaska had 16 points, while sophomore Chrissy Steffen scored 15 ... Steffen led the team with five assists in the win ... junior Jessica Slagle scored a career-high 13 points, while senior Maggie Hennegan rounded out the quintet of double-figure scorers with 12 ... senior Chelsea Albert had seven points, six rebounds and two assists in 16 minutes off the bench ... another senior, Jen Uhl, had eight rebounds as the Falcons held a 44-35 advantage on the glass ... BG had a decisive 26-5 margin in bench scoring in the win ... Kaihla Szunko had 27 points and nine rebounds to lead all players in both categories ... she became the first player to score at least 20 points against the Falcons in a game this year ... the Falcons never trailed, although the game got off to a slow start ... but, BG began to heat up, scoring nine-straight points to take a 13-2 advantage ... Central got back within nine points on three occasions, but the Falcons slowly extended the lead ... Pontius hit four free throws within a 39-second span to begin an 8-0 run late in the first half ... that was the start of a larger 14-2 run that ended the half ... BG led, 48-27, at the break ... the Falcons forced 11 turnovers and had an 18-4 advantage in points off turnovers in that opening half ... the Chippewas turned the ball over just twice in the second half, but the Falcons' lead never fell below 17 points after halftime.

BEST START IN SCHOOL HISTORY
The Falcons' 17-2 record is tied for the best start in school history ... the 2010-11 team is the fifth in BGSU history – and the fourth under Curt Miller – to begin the year with a 17-2 ledger ...
• Fran Voll's 1986-87 club began the season with a 6-2 mark, then won 21 consecutive games, a streak that took BGSU all the way to the NCAA Championships.
• The 2005-06 team began the year with a 9-1 record, but lost the season's 11th game, in overtime at Kentucky ... that '05-06 club then proceeded to win the next 19 games to advance to the NCAA Championships.
• The following year (2006-07), BGSU began the season with a 7-2 mark ... after a loss to Duke in Cancun, Mexico, the Brown and Orange won the next 18 games.
• Two years ago (2008-09), the Falcons started the year with an 0-2 record, losing at Temple and Valparaiso ... BG then proceeded to reel off a school-record 25-game winning streak that did not end until early March.

PONTIUS MOVING UP BGSU SCORING LIST
As mentioned earlier in this long, rambling game-notes packet, Falcon senior Lauren Prochaska has surpassed the 2,000-point mark for her career ... classmate Tracy Pontius, like Prochaska, resides in the BGSU top-20 in career points ... with her first basket this season (in the opener at Evansville on Nov. 12), Pontius surpassed the 1,000-point mark for her career ... Pontius became the 24th player to reach the milestone ... heading into the Toledo game, Pontius has a total of 1,238 points as a Falcon ... over 1,000 of those points have come since the start of her sophomore season ... Pontius currently sits in 15th place on the BGSU scoring list, having passed both Melissa Chase (1,223 points from 1979-83) and Michelle Shade (1,233 points from 1991-95) in the Central Michigan game ... for Pontius, her next target on the list is 14th-place Carin Horne, who had 1,341 points from 2003-07.

TREY BIEN! PROCHASKA, PONTIUS AMONG BGSU'S TOP THREE
A pair of BGSU seniors sit high atop the school's three-point field-goal list ... Lauren Prochaska is the most prolific long-range shooter in school history, and Tracy Pontius has moved into the top three ... entering the Toledo game, Prochaska has a total of 291 three-point field goals made ... she broke the BGSU record set by Liz Honegger (216 triples from 2003-07) last season ... Pontius now has 202 career threes, ranking third at BGSU ... she became just the 18th player in MAC history to reach the milestone ... Prochaska ranks second on the conference career list, and has a shot at breaking the MAC career record of 323 three-pointers made, set by Ball State's Audrey McDonald.

SPEAKING OF THAT RECORD ...
As mentioned (about five seconds ago), senior Lauren Prochaska has an outside chance (no pun intended) to break the Mid-American Conference record for three-point field goals made in a career ... Prochaska hit one triple in the Central Michigan game, giving her a total of 291 in her career, good for second place on the MAC list.

THREE-MENDOUS! MANY FALCONS CONNECTING FROM DOWNTOWN
Seniors Lauren Prochaska and Tracy Pontius are certainly not the only Falcons with the capability to score from beyond the arc ... no fewer than 12 different players have hit at least one three-point field goal this season ... and, two of the three players on the active roster who have not made a triple – senior Chelsea Albert and freshman Jill Stein – have not attempted one.

THAT'S A FIRST
Central Michigan's Kaihla Szunko did something that no BGSU opponent had been able to do in the 2010-11 season ... Szunko had a game-high total of 27 points in the Falcons' win over the Chippewas ... in the process, she became the first player to score 20 points in a game vs. BG this season ... the Falcons had not allowed an opposing player to score 20 points since Miami's Courtney Osborn had 23 points in the 2009-10 regular-season finale (March 2, 2010) ... the last opposing player to score 20 points inside Anderson Arena was Eastern Michigan's Tavelyn James nearly a year before Szunko's feat ... James had 22 points last Jan. 23.

THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 17-2 this season to date; after going 27-7 last season;
• 5-1 in MAC play this season; after going 14-2 last winter, in the process winning a sixth-straight league regular-season title;
• 223-82 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 113-37 in MAC games in that time:
• 214-63 overall in the eight years (plus 19 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);
• 202-47 over the last seven-plus years, with 2009-10 marking BG's seventh-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 181-37 in the past six-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins and a MAC regular-season title in each of the last six seasons;
• an eye-popping 158-29 overall, and 78-8 in the MAC regular season, in the last five-plus years, with at least 26 wins each year;
• a/an (insert your own adjective here) 130-26 in the last four-plus years, including a 62-8 conference ledger;
• 99-22 overall, and 47-7 in MAC regular-season games, since seniors Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher began their respective playing careers at BGSU;
• 73-14 overall and 34-4 in MAC action since junior Jessica Slagle and redshirt soph Maribeth Giese ventured to NW Ohio;
• 44-9 overall and 19-3 in the MAC in the BGSU playing careers of senior Maggie Hennegan and sophomores Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Chrissy Steffen (2009-10 was Hennegan's first playing season at BGSU, after she sat out the prior year as a transfer from Saint Louis Univ.);
• 96-10 in the last 106 games vs. MAC opponents (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 52-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field in the Miller Era;
• 184-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 56-0 mark in the last two-plus seasons;
• 170-27 when making more free throws during Miller's first nine-plus years;
• 133-12 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 47-4 in MAC home games in the last six-plus seasons, including three 8-0 marks; and
• 38-5 in MAC road games over the last five-plus years (with the losses coming in 2007-08 at Ball State, '08-09 at Miami, last year at Toledo and CMU, and last weekend at Kent State).

SENIOR PRIDE
The Falcons' five fourth-year seniors – Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher – need just one more win to join a relatively exclusive, and very impressive, group ... with one more win, that quintet would become the sixth class in school history, and the fifth in a row, to be a part of at least 100 career wins at BGSU ... last year's group of fourth-year Falcons (Tara Breske, Laura Bugher and Sarah Clapper) helped the Falcons to 113 wins, the second-highest win total in school and MAC annals ... the record is held by the one-woman class of two seasons ago ... 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 sixth senior in 2010-11, Maggie Hennegan, is in her second playing season after transferring from Saint Louis University.

2 SCORES 20 AGAIN (OR IN THIS CASE, 30)
Senior Lauren Prochaska scored a game-high 30 points in the win at Buffalo (Jan. 18) ... Prochaska has scored 20 or more points in a game 11 times this season and 44 times in her BGSU career ... she has hit the 30-point plateau twice this year (31 points vs. Vanderbilt) and five times as a Falcon.

THE MAC SCHEDULE
• The 2010-11 season is the sixth utilizing the current MAC scheduling format for women's basketball ... each of the 12 schools opens conference action with five intra-divisional games, followed by six cross-divisional games and five more intra-divisional contests to close the regular season ... so, BGSU plays five games vs. East Division schools to begin and end the MAC season, with six games vs. the West Division teams in the middle of the league schedule.

• Over the first five years of that scheduling format, the Falcons have finished the first swing through the East Division with a perfect 5-0 record four times, and BGSU has gone 4-1 on two occasions (2007-08 and this season) ... so, the Falcons are a combined 28-2 against East Division foes during the first round-robin phase of the season in the last six years.

FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons, along with the rest of the Mid-American Conference teams, are in the cross-divisional phase of the league schedule ... BGSU enters the Toledo game with an all-time record of 340-143 (.704) 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.

70 IS A MAGIC NUMBER
BGSU has scored 70 or more points in 14 of the season's first 19 games, and the Falcons have posted a perfect 14-0 mark in those contests ... at the other end of the court, the Falcons have held 18 of the 19 foes under 70 points this year to date ... BG is 16-2 in those games ... Akron (72 points on Jan. 12) is the only Falcon foe to surpass 70 points this year.

THE FALCON SENIORS
BGSU has posted a record of 99-22 overall, and the Falcons are 47-7 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 ... Maggie Hennegan joined that group for the 2009-10 season.

THE JUNIOR
The Falcons are 73-14 overall and 34-4 in the MAC since junior Jessica Slagle arrived in Northwest Ohio ... that stretch includes a 25-game winning streak in Slagle's freshman year ... redshirt sophomore Maribeth Giese has been at BGSU for those two-plus seasons, but played in just two games a year ago before missing the rest of the year due to injury ... Giese and Slagle helped the Falcons to a total of 29 wins – the second-highest total in school and MAC history – during their freshman campaign of 2008-09.

THE SOPHOMORES
Three sophomores have helped the Falcons to a 44-9 mark, with a 27-7 record a year ago and a 17-2 ledger this year to date ... that group includes Simone Eli, Allison Papenfuss and Chrissy Steffen ... Danielle Havel is now a member of the sophomore class, having sat out the '09-10 season after transferring from DePaul.

THE FRESHMEN
Three freshmen joined the Falcons for the 2010-11 season ... that list includes Jillian Halfhill (Canfield, Ohio/Canfield), Jill Stein (Clyde, Ohio/Tiffin Columbian) and Noelle Yoder (Millersburg, Ohio/Berlin Hiland) ... Alexis Rogers also joined the Brown and Orange this year, but will sit out the '10-11 season after transferring from Duke Univ.

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