Bowling Green State University Athletics
Wednesday, December 21
Bowling Green, Ohio
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Madonna
Freshman Jasmine Matthews & the Falcons host Madonna Wednesday night
Madonna to Visit BGSU Prior to the Holidays
December 20, 2011 | Women's Basketball
Falcons host Crusaders Wednesday night at the Stroh
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team has one final game before taking a brief break for the holidays ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller host Madonna University in Wednesday (Dec. 21) action ... tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at BGSU's Stroh Center.
BGSU NOTES & STATS | LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO | LIVE AUDIO | TICKETS
QUICK HITS
• The Falcons saw a seven-game winning streak snapped on Sunday (Dec. 18), as BGSU fell, 49-47, on the road against Creighton ... after starting the season with losses to Dayton and Purdue, BGSU posted victories over Evansville, Detroit, Western Kentucky, Butler, Youngstown State, Austin Peay and Jacksonville, prior to losing at CU ... five of the seven wins came at BG's brand-new Stroh Center.
• Junior Chrissy Steffen led the Falcons in scoring at Creighton, with 10 points, while senior Jessica Slagle and redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers had nine points apiece.
• Junior Allison Papenfuss had a solid game at CU, with eight points and a career-high nine rebounds for the Brown and Orange ... her point total tied a season best, and she played a season-high 22 minutes vs. the Bluejays.
• Madonna University, a member of the NAIA, is located in Livonia, Mich. ... the Crusaders, a member of the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference, are 5-5 overall and 2-2 in WHAC play this year to date.
• BGSU had 33 rebounds to Creighton's 32 on Sunday ... it marked the fifth consecutive game that the Falcons had held the rebounding advantage ... BG had been outrebounded in each of the season's first five games.
• Sunday's game marked BG's first loss this season (4-1) when outrebounding the opposition ... the Falcons now have a record of 143-14 in such games in the Curt Miller Era.
• Creighton had a slightly better field-goal percentage than the Falcons, shooting 40.4 percent from the floor to BG's 40.0% ... BGSU is 6-0 this season and 67-0 in the last three-plus seasons when posting a better FG percentage than the opponent ... the Falcons are 24-20 when the opposition has a higher field-goal rate during that time.
• BGSU's three true sophomores, Jillian Halfhill, Jill Stein and Noelle Yoder, all have topped their scoring totals for all of last season ... Halfhill has 68 points this year after scoring a total of 25 points last winter ... Stein, who scored 30 points a season ago, has 37 in 2011-12 to date ... and, Yoder has 36 points this season after scoring 21 as a freshman.
• Miller and his staff returned nine letterwinners – but just one starter – from last year's 28-5 team ... Steffen, the lone returning starter, was chosen to the Preseason All-MAC Team.
• Not only is Steffen the lone returning starter, she was the only player on the BGSU roster to have started even one collegiate game prior to the 2011-12 season opener at Dayton ... that group included Halfhill, Havel, Rogers and Slagle ... the quartet has joined Steffen in the starting lineup for each of the 10 games to date.
WAYS TO FOLLOW BGSU-MADONNA
The best way to follow BGSU women's basketball, of course, is to be at the Stroh Center on Wednesday night when the Falcons host Madonna ... but, fans who can't make it to the game can follow the Falcons all year long in a variety of ways ...
• RADIO/AUDIO STREAM: The Madonna game – like every game on the 2011-12 schedule – can be heard on the radio at WBGU-FM 88.1, and the audio stream will be available, free of charge, at BGSUFalcons.com.
• TELEVISION: Six of the Falcons' home games are scheduled to be televised in the Toledo area on BCSN ... two additional games at the Stroh Center, along with one road contest, will be aired as the MAC Game of the Week by SportsTime Ohio ... the televised games can be found in the schedule on page 1 of these notes.
• VIDEO STREAMING: All home games will be available via live video stream, through B2/America One, for a small fee ... fans can watch the action on their computers by visiting BGSUFalcons.com and clicking on the America One logo on the right-hand side of the page ... a number of the Falcons' road games also will have live video, at the jurisdiction of the host school, and the link(s) will be available at BGSUFalcons.com ... the video production for home games is courtesy of the campus television station, WBGU-TV.
• LIVE STATS: Links are also available at BGSUFalcons.com for live stats for all home games (and all road games in which the host team provides live stats [which should be all road games]).
The links to the audio, video and stats can be found at BGSUFalcons.com, in the 'schedule' section on the home page, or by accessing the women's basketball schedule and choosing that day's game.
UP NEXT
Following the Madonna game, the Falcons will take a break for the Christmas holidays before heading westward ... BGSU will close the non-conference schedule with games at Wyoming (Dec. 29) and Colorado State (Dec. 31) ... the Brown and Orange then will return home to begin the Mid-American Conference slate with a three-game homestand ... the league schedule starts Jan. 4, when Kent State comes to the Stroh Center.
BGSU NOTES & STATS | LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO | LIVE AUDIO | TICKETS
QUICK HITS
• The Falcons saw a seven-game winning streak snapped on Sunday (Dec. 18), as BGSU fell, 49-47, on the road against Creighton ... after starting the season with losses to Dayton and Purdue, BGSU posted victories over Evansville, Detroit, Western Kentucky, Butler, Youngstown State, Austin Peay and Jacksonville, prior to losing at CU ... five of the seven wins came at BG's brand-new Stroh Center.
• Junior Chrissy Steffen led the Falcons in scoring at Creighton, with 10 points, while senior Jessica Slagle and redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers had nine points apiece.
• Junior Allison Papenfuss had a solid game at CU, with eight points and a career-high nine rebounds for the Brown and Orange ... her point total tied a season best, and she played a season-high 22 minutes vs. the Bluejays.
• Madonna University, a member of the NAIA, is located in Livonia, Mich. ... the Crusaders, a member of the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference, are 5-5 overall and 2-2 in WHAC play this year to date.
• BGSU had 33 rebounds to Creighton's 32 on Sunday ... it marked the fifth consecutive game that the Falcons had held the rebounding advantage ... BG had been outrebounded in each of the season's first five games.
• Sunday's game marked BG's first loss this season (4-1) when outrebounding the opposition ... the Falcons now have a record of 143-14 in such games in the Curt Miller Era.
• Creighton had a slightly better field-goal percentage than the Falcons, shooting 40.4 percent from the floor to BG's 40.0% ... BGSU is 6-0 this season and 67-0 in the last three-plus seasons when posting a better FG percentage than the opponent ... the Falcons are 24-20 when the opposition has a higher field-goal rate during that time.
• BGSU's three true sophomores, Jillian Halfhill, Jill Stein and Noelle Yoder, all have topped their scoring totals for all of last season ... Halfhill has 68 points this year after scoring a total of 25 points last winter ... Stein, who scored 30 points a season ago, has 37 in 2011-12 to date ... and, Yoder has 36 points this season after scoring 21 as a freshman.
• Miller and his staff returned nine letterwinners – but just one starter – from last year's 28-5 team ... Steffen, the lone returning starter, was chosen to the Preseason All-MAC Team.
• Not only is Steffen the lone returning starter, she was the only player on the BGSU roster to have started even one collegiate game prior to the 2011-12 season opener at Dayton ... that group included Halfhill, Havel, Rogers and Slagle ... the quartet has joined Steffen in the starting lineup for each of the 10 games to date.
WAYS TO FOLLOW BGSU-MADONNA
The best way to follow BGSU women's basketball, of course, is to be at the Stroh Center on Wednesday night when the Falcons host Madonna ... but, fans who can't make it to the game can follow the Falcons all year long in a variety of ways ...
• RADIO/AUDIO STREAM: The Madonna game – like every game on the 2011-12 schedule – can be heard on the radio at WBGU-FM 88.1, and the audio stream will be available, free of charge, at BGSUFalcons.com.
• TELEVISION: Six of the Falcons' home games are scheduled to be televised in the Toledo area on BCSN ... two additional games at the Stroh Center, along with one road contest, will be aired as the MAC Game of the Week by SportsTime Ohio ... the televised games can be found in the schedule on page 1 of these notes.
• VIDEO STREAMING: All home games will be available via live video stream, through B2/America One, for a small fee ... fans can watch the action on their computers by visiting BGSUFalcons.com and clicking on the America One logo on the right-hand side of the page ... a number of the Falcons' road games also will have live video, at the jurisdiction of the host school, and the link(s) will be available at BGSUFalcons.com ... the video production for home games is courtesy of the campus television station, WBGU-TV.
• LIVE STATS: Links are also available at BGSUFalcons.com for live stats for all home games (and all road games in which the host team provides live stats [which should be all road games]).
The links to the audio, video and stats can be found at BGSUFalcons.com, in the 'schedule' section on the home page, or by accessing the women's basketball schedule and choosing that day's game.
UP NEXT
Following the Madonna game, the Falcons will take a break for the Christmas holidays before heading westward ... BGSU will close the non-conference schedule with games at Wyoming (Dec. 29) and Colorado State (Dec. 31) ... the Brown and Orange then will return home to begin the Mid-American Conference slate with a three-game homestand ... the league schedule starts Jan. 4, when Kent State comes to the Stroh Center.
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