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January 07, 2011 | Women's Basketball
Falcons open home portion of MAC schedule by taking on the RedHawks
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after playing four of the last five games on the road, returns to Northwest Ohio for a brief two-game homestand ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will open the home portion of the Mid-American Conference schedule with a Saturday (Jan. 8) game vs. Miami University ... tipoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (3,500) ... the Falcons have won 13 consecutive games after a season-opening loss ... 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.
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MILLER IN MAC HOME OPENERS
Heading into Saturday's Miami game, the Falcons are 6-3 in MAC home-opening games in the Curt Miller Era ... BGSU has won the last five such games ... the team's last loss in the conference home opener came on Jan. 12, 2005, a narrow 51-48 loss to Eastern Michigan ... over the last five seasons, BG has won the MAC home opener by an average of 20.2 points per game ... the Falcons' lone single-digit win in that time came two years ago (Jan. 14, 2009), an 87-79 win over Saturday's opponent, Miami.
HOME COOKIN'
BGSU has enjoyed a great deal of success at home this year to date ... the Falcons are 7-0 at venerable Anderson Arena this season, and BGSU has won those seven games by an average of nearly 30 points ... the Falcons are averaging 83.6 points per game at home, having scored at least 79 points in all seven games ... BG is allowing just 54.3 ppg at "The House That Roars."
WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE (THAT ROARS)
The Falcons will put several impressive streaks on the line in the Miami game ... BGSU has won 36 consecutive regular-season home games at "The House That Roars" ... the Falcons' last regular-season loss at Anderson Arena came vs. Western Michigan on Jan. 30, 2008 ... a few more Anderson-related notes ...
• Overall, BGSU has won 20 home games in a row, and 39 of the last 40 ... 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 20-game streak ... 34 of the Falcons' 39 wins in that span have come by double digits.
• The current 20-game home winning streak is one of the 10 longest in the nation.
• 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.
WE'RE GOING STREAKING: FALCONS HAVE WON 13 IN A ROW
BGSU's 66-54 win at Ohio Wednesday (Jan. 5) increased the Falcons' current winning streak to 13 games ... this marks the ninth double-digit winning streak in school history, and the fifth in six seasons ... Curt Miller's teams had a double-figure win streak in each of four-straight seasons, including a school-record 25-game winning streak after an 0-2 start two years ago ... last year, BGSU did not have a win streak reach double digits, but the Brown and Orange had a pair of eight-game streaks.
FALCONS ARE STREAKY, PART II (AND III)
BGSU enters the weekend ranked on several national lists in terms of winning streaks ... the Falcons, as mentioned, have won 13 games in a row ... as of Thursday afternoon, that is tied for the the fourth-longest streak in the country ... and, BGSU has won 20 consecutive games at Anderson Arena, deadlocked for the ninth-longest streak in the nation.
'SECOND SEASON' UNDERWAY: THE FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons have embarked upon the Mid-American Conference slate ... BGSU enters the Miami game with an all-time record of 336-142 (.703) 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.
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.
FALCONS PICKED TO DEFEND MAC TITLES IN 2010-11
The Falcons were picked to win both the MAC's East Division and the conference tournament titles in 2011, according to the league's preseason poll ... BGSU received 43 of the 48 votes to win the East ... BG has won six consecutive MAC regular-season titles outright, and the Falcons have won four of the last six MAC Tournament crowns, including the 2010 title ... Toledo was picked to win the West Division.
BEST START IN SCHOOL HISTORY
The Falcons' 13-1 record marks the best start in school history ... the 2005-06 team began the year with a 9-1 mark, 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.
PROCHASKA RANKS SECOND ON BGSU CAREER SCORING LIST
Senior Lauren Prochaska, 14 games into her senior season, resides in second place on the BGSU career scoring list, and is nearing the 2,000-point milestone ... Prochaska has a total of 1,982 points in 116 career games ... she trails only Jackie Motycka (2,122 points from 1985-89) ... Prochaska moved past Ali Mann (1,825 points from 2003-07) in the win over Seattle in late November ... Prochaska is averaging 17.1 points per game, the second-highest average in BGSU annals, in her storied Falcon career.
PONTIUS ALSO RESIDES IN THE TOP 20
With her first basket this season (in the opener at Evansville on Nov. 12), senior Tracy Pontius surpassed the 1,000-point mark for her career ... Pontius became the 24th player to reach the milestone ... heading into the Miami game, Pontius has a total of 1,180 points as a Falcon ... over 1,000 of those points have come since the start of her sophomore season ... Pontius has moved into 18th place on the BGSU scoring list, having passed Andrea Nordmann (1,164 points) in the Butler game ... her next target is 17th-place Jacki Raterman (1,213 points).
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 three-point shooter in BGSU history, and Tracy Pontius has moved into the top three ... through three seasons (plus 14 games), Prochaska has a total of 278 three-point field goals made ... she broke the BGSU record set by Liz Honegger (216 triples from 2003-07) last season ... Pontius now has 189 career threes, ranking third at BGSU ... Prochaska 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 a chance to break the Mid-American Conference record for three-point field goals made in a career ... Prochaska hit three triples in the Ohio game, moving into a third-place tie with former Northern Illinois sharpshooter Kylie York.
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.
HOLDING ON TO THE BALL
• The Falcons have been successful at limiting turnovers this season ... as of the latest NCAA rankings (Monday, Jan. 3), BGSU was third in the nation in fewest turnovers per game (13.3) ... that average is at 13.4 after Wednesday's Ohio game ... in each of the Falcons' 13 wins, the Falcons have committed fewer turnovers than the opponents.
• BG and Evansville each coughed the ball up 19 times in the Falcons' lone loss, in the season opener ... BGSU committed no more than 15 turnovers in any game over the next nine contests, before turning it over 17 times at Austin Peay ... the Falcons had only 12 turnovers in both the Canisius and Butler games, and 14 at Ohio.
• In the 13 wins, the Falcons have forced the opponent into an average of 18.2 turnovers per contest ... BG has forced 15 or more opponent turnovers in 13 of this year's 14 games, including 19 or more in eight of those contests.
FALCONS AMONG NCAA LEADERS
BGSU, is ranked among the national leaders in several categories, according to the latest NCAA statistics (released Monday, Jan. 3) ... the Falcons were second in the nation in free-throw percentage, and BG is ranked in the top-10 in the nation in no fewer than three other team categories ... BG was third in the nation in fewest turnovers per game (13.3), sixth in three-point field goals made per game (8.4) and ninth in win-loss percentage (92.3%) ... additionally, the Falcons were ranked 15th in the nation in scoring margin (+21.0) and 18th in assist/turnover ratio (1.08).
MAC OPENERS UNDER MILLER
After the win over Ohio, the Falcons are now 8-2 in MAC openers under Curt Miller, and BG has won seven straight league lid lifters since a 72-70 home loss to Ball State in January of 2004 ... the Falcons have gone 8-2 in conference road openers under Miller, and BGSU has won the first MAC road game of the season in each of the last eight years ... BG's last loss in the MAC road opener came at Northern Illinois, 78-58, on Jan. 11, 2003.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons will enter the Miami game with an overall record of 13-1, and BGSU is 1-0 in MAC play ... the Falcons are 7-0 at home, 5-1 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games to date ... BG owns two of the longest current winning streaks in the nation, with 13-straight overall victories and a 20-game homecourt winning streak.
• BG received 15 votes in Monday's (Jan. 3) Associated Press poll and 26 votes in Tuesday's (Jan. 4) USA Today ESPN Coaches poll ... the Falcons were ranked 46th in the nation in the NCAA's first RPI rankings of the season (released Monday), and BGSU was ranked second in the most recent CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25.
• The Falcons suffered a 63-62 loss at Evansville in the regular-season opener (Nov. 12), but BG has bounced back with 13-straight wins, tied for the fourth-longest streak in the country ... BGSU's victims have 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 ... most recently, the Brown and Orange opened MAC play with a 66-54 win at Ohio on Wednesday (Jan. 5).
• Senior Lauren Prochaska, the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, is averaging a team-high 20.2 points per game, and also paces the Falcons with 6.4 rebounds per contest ... Prochaska has scored 20 or more points in nine games this year, including a season-high 31-point performance in the win over Vanderbilt ... classmate Tracy Pontius has 13.0 ppg to date, and leads the team with 4.1 assists per outing.
• Prochaska has made 37 three-point field goals this year, while Pontius has hit 30 shots from long range ... Prochaska and Pontius are shooting 42.5 and 33.7 percent from beyond the arc, respectively ... Prochaska is 90-of-95 (94.7%) from the free-throw line on the year, and was seventh in the nation in that category in the latest rankings (prior to the Ohio game) ... she was 16th in the country in scoring, while Pontius ranked 20th in assist/turnover ratio (2.45) in the most recent NCAA listings.
• Head coach Curt Miller's starting lineup for each of the first 14 games has remained unchanged ... that lineup has included four seniors in Pontius, Prochaska, Maggie Hennegan and Jen Uhl, along with sophomore Chrissy Steffen.
• Uhl, Steffen and Hennegan rank third through fifth on the team in scoring, and all have scored between 116 and 121 points this season ... Uhl has 8.6 ppg and ranks third on the team in rebounding, with 5.3 rpg ... she is averaging 12.8 ppg over the last eight games ... Steffen has 8.4 ppg and ranks third on the Falcons in steals, with 1.6 per game (Pontius has 25 steals, Prochaska 24 and Steffen 23 this year) ... Hennegan has scored 8.3 ppg, including a season-best 16 points at Ohio ... she is second on the team in rebounding, with 5.6 rpg, and leads the Brown and Orange in blocked shots, with 1.2 per outing.
• 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 season ... 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 joins 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 14 games off the bench to date, and have 3.9 and 3.3 ppg, respectively ... Papenfuss has 2.9 rpg, ranking fifth on the team in that category.
• Havel also has seen action in all 14 games, while Zuercher has played in 13 and Albert 12 ... all 15 players on the active roster have played in at least seven contests.
• BGSU is shooting 41.6% from the field, 36.3% from three-point land and 80.3% from the free-throw line ... BG has allowed opponents to shoot just 37.1% from the floor and 26.0% from beyond the arc ... Falcon foes are shooting 66.2% from the stripe ... BGSU has made 100 more free throws as the opponents, and the Falcons have made 24 more free throws than the foes have attempted.
LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons opened the MAC schedule by gutting out a 66-54 win over a hard-working Ohio squad Wednesday night (Jan. 5) in Athens ... senior Lauren Prochaska led all players with 23 points, while classmate Maggie Hennegan had 16 points, her highest total as a Falcon ... Ohio's Tenishia Benson had 13 points to pace three double-digit scorers for the home team ... the Falcons got off to a slow start, with two missed shots and an offensive foul on the first three possessions of the night ... the Bobcats scored the first four points of the game before Hennegan got herself to the foul line and hit a pair of tosses to get BG on the board ... a few minutes later, Hennegan's short jumper began a 7-0 run for the Brown and Orange ... senior Jen Uhl hit a three-pointer and senior Chelsea Albert followed with a one-handed bank shot for a 14-12 lead, BG's first of the night ... OU tied the score, but another 7-0 run put the visitors back in front for good ... Hennegan scored four points in that stretch, sandwiched around a three-pointer by redshirt soph Danielle Havel ... the Falcons had a four-point lead at the half, and BG extended the lead to double figures with a pair of transition baskets early in the period ... both Prochaska and senior Tracy Pontius went coast to coast and hit shots, resulting in a 38-28 lead ... midway through the period, the Falcons hit three three-pointers – two from Prochaska and one from Uhl – in a span of just 1:33 ... that flurry gave the visitors a 53-36 lead ... Ohio had one final run left in them, getting within single digits with 4:24 left, but a five-point possession by the Falcons salted away the victory.
A QUICK LOOK AT MIAMI
Miami will enter Saturday's game with an overall record of 8-6, and the RedHawks are 0-1 in MAC action ... MU dropped a 76-62 decision at Kent State in Wednesday's conference opener ... the RedHawks are just one win away from matching the team's total for all of last season ... Miami is 3-2 at home and 5-4 on the road this year to date ... MU is averaging 73.7 points per game, while surrendering 73.4 ppg ... individually, sophomore guard Courtney Osborn has 17.7 points per game to pace three double-digit scorers ... Osborn has made 33 three-point field goals to lead the RedHawks in that department, and she also tops the team in assists (4.7 apg) and steals (2.1 spg) ... a pair of juniors, guard Maggie Boyer and forward Rachael Hencke, have 13.5 and 10.2 ppg, respectively ... Boyer has hit 29 three-pointers, and Hencke is shooting 56 percent from long range, having gone 14-of-25 ... sophomore forward Kirsten Olowinski is nearly averaging a double-double, with 9.7 ppg and a team-leading 11.1 rebounds per game this year to date ... Boyer, Hencke, Olowinski, Osborn and junior forward Lillian Pitts (5.1 ppg, 4.3 rpg) each have started all 14 games for head coach Maria Fantanarosa this season ... Fantanarosa, in her 13th season as head coach of her alma mater, welcomed back seven letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's club ... the 2009-10 team went 9-22 overall and 6-10 in MAC play ... the school's athletics web site is www.MURedHawks.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Miami, 41-25, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won the last three meetings ... last year, the Falcons won three games vs. the RedHawks, with an 85-65 triumph inside Anderson Arena (Jan. 19, 2010), a 63-58 win in Oxford (March 2, 2010) and a 91-58 victory in Cleveland, in the quarterfinal round of the MAC Tournament (March 10, 2010) ... Miami has won two of the last seven meetings with BGSU, after the Falcons had captured seven-straight games from MU ... BG is 19-11 in home games vs. the Redskins/RedHawks over the years, and Curt Miller has a record of 12-5 against Miami in his BGSU career.
PROCHASKA SETS AN NCAA RECORD
Most people couldn't make 70 consecutive layups in an empty gym ... senior Lauren Prochaska, however, set an NCAA Division-I record by hitting 70 consecutive shots from 15 feet away ... Prochaska was a perfect 6-of-6 from the free-throw line in the Falcons' win at Western Kentucky on Dec. 9, setting the record in the process ... Prochaska had broken her own BGSU record of 45-straight shots from the stripe in the Vanderbilt game (Dec. 1), then surpassed the Mid-American Conference mark in the win over Cal State Fullerton in the following game (Dec. 4).
LAUREN IS AMONG THE NATIONAL LEADERS ...
Senior Lauren Prochaska is seventh in the nation in free-throw percentage, according to the latest NCAA statistics, released Monday (Jan. 3) ... Prochaska had made 84 free throws in 89 attempts at the time, good for a success rate of 94.4 percent ... she went 6-for-6 from the line at Ohio to increase her seasonal FT pct. to 94.7% ... Prochaska finished fifth in the nation in free-throw pct. last year (shooting 89.9% from the stripe) after leading the entire country as a sophomore (93.3%) ... Prochaska was 12th in the nation (86.7%) as a freshman in the 2007-08 season.
... AND SO ARE THE FALCONS
In the latest NCAA statistics, as mentioned, senior Lauren Prochaska ranked seventh in the country in free-throw percentage ... her teammates are doing just fine in that department as well, thanks ... as a team, the Falcons were ranked second in the nation in free-throw pct. in the latest rankings ... BGSU was shooting 80.6 percent from the stripe, trailing only Milwaukee (82.0%) in that category ... after the Ohio game, BG's team percentage is 80.3% ... the Falcons shot 75.3% from the line last season, ranking second in the MAC and 22nd in the country ... two years ago, BG was fourth in the nation with a 79.4% rate.
PROCHASKA AT THE STRIPE
Senior Lauren Prochaska continues to rewrite BGSU's free-throw records – and, for the most part, they were records that she already owned ...
• Prochaska topped her own single-game mark in the win over UALR on Nov. 26, shooting a perfect 15-for-15 from the stripe ... her 'old' mark was 13-for-13, set last season against Miami (Jan. 19, 2010) ... over the last month or so, Prochaska has made 10 free throws vs. both Detroit and Vanderbilt and eight vs. Fullerton.
• As mentioned earlier, Prochaska has broken the BGSU, MAC and NCAA Division-I records for consecutive free throws made ... her recently-ended streak of 70 in a row marks the third time Prochaska has made over 30-straight free throws in her BGSU career.
70 IS A MAGIC NUMBER
BGSU has scored 70 or more points in 10 of the season's first 14 games, and the Falcons have posted a perfect 10-0 mark in those contests ... at the other end of the court, the Falcons have held all 14 foes under 70 points this year to date ... BG, obviously, is 13-1 in those games.
UHL BE SWELL, UHL BE GREAT
Senior Jen Uhl had 10 points in the Falcons' win at Butler, her sixth double-figure scoring total in a seven-game span ... she had eight points at Ohio in the MAC opener ... after scoring a total of 19 points over BG's first six games, Uhl has scored 102 in the last eight (an average of 12.8 ppg in that time) ... she has more than doubled her season scoring average, from 3.2 ppg to 8.6 ppg, over that eight-game span.
PONTIUS MOVING UP BGSU ASSISTS LIST
Senior Tracy Pontius had a career-high 10 assists in the win over Fullerton (Dec. 4), in the process moving past Judit Lendvay (304 from 1989-93) into eighth place in school history ... heading into the Miami game, Pontius now has a career total of 331 assists.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 13-1 this season to date; after going 27-7 last season and 29-5 in 2008-09;
• 14-2 in the MAC last winter, winning a sixth-straight league regular-season title;
• 219-81 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 109-36 in MAC games in that time:
• 210-62 overall in the eight years (plus 14 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);
• 198-46 over the last seven-plus years, with 2009-10 marking BG's seventh-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 177-36 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 154-28 overall and 74-7 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) 126-25 in the last four-plus years, including a 58-7 conference ledger;
• 95-21 overall, and 43-6 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;
• 69-13 overall and 30-3 in MAC action since junior Jessica Slagle and redshirt soph Maribeth Giese ventured to NW Ohio;
• 40-8 overall and 15-2 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.);
• 92-9 in the last 101 games vs. MAC opponents (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 50-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field in the Miller Era;
• 180-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 52-0 mark in the last two-plus seasons;
• 166-26 when making more free throws during Miller's first nine-plus years;
• 131-12 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 44-4 in MAC home games in the last six seasons, including three 8-0 marks;
• 37-4 in MAC road games over the last five-plus years (with the losses coming in 2007-08 at Ball State, in '08-09 at Miami and last 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;
• 35-3 in all non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 31-2 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).
