Bowling Green State University Athletics
Saturday, December 31
Fort Collins, CO
1:00 PM MT
Bowling Green State University
at
Colorado State
Curt Miller, after helping Colorado State to 81 wins in 3 seasons, has 243 wins in his BGSU tenure to date (photo by Brandon Heiss)
Miller Returns to Colorado State for New Year's Eve Matchup
December 30, 2011 | Women's Basketball
Falcon head coach came to BG after three uber-successful seasons in Fort Collins
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, coming off a road win over a Mountain West Conference team, looks to duplicate that feat ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller close both the 2011 calendar year and the '11-12 non-conference schedule with a Saturday (Dec. 31) game at Colorado State University ... tipoff is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. locally (3:00 p.m. Eastern) at Moby Arena.
BGSU NOTES | COLORADO STATE NOTES
LIVE STATS | LIVE AUDIO | LIVE VIDEO (fee required for video)
QUICK HITS
• Saturday's game is a homecoming for Falcon head coach Curt Miller ... Miller came to BGSU in 2001 after spending three years as the associate head coach at Colorado State ... while in Fort Collins, Miller helped the Rams go 81-20 and make two NCAA Championships appearances.
• The Falcons, after seeing a seven-game winning streak snapped with a 49-47 loss at Creighton (Dec. 18), have bounced back with a pair of wins ... BGSU posted a 91-41 victory over Madonna in the team's final game before the holidays (Dec. 21), then picked up a 60-53 win at Wyoming on Thursday night (Dec. 29).
• BGSU is meeting Colorado State for the first time in women's basketball ... the Rams will be the fourth first-time opponent for the Falcons this season.
• BG has gone 3-0 against first-time foes this season to date, winning those games by an average of 29 points ... the Falcons had never met Jacksonville (83-53 win on Dec. 11), Madonna or Wyoming prior to the 2011-12 season.
• Senior Jessica Slagle scored a career-high 16 points in the win in Laramie ... she did most of her damage at the free-throw line, making 12 charity tosses in 16 attempts ... Slagle doubled her previous career bests in both FTM and FTA.
• In addition to her career-high point total, Slagle matched her career best with four assists vs. the Cowgirls ... the senior tri-captain played a career-high 35 minutes in the win.
• Redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers had a career-high 12 rebounds in the victory at UW ... it was her second double-digit rebounding game, both this season and in her collegiate career.
• As a team, BGSU had 42 rebounds to Wyoming's 37 on Thursday ... it marked the seventh-straight game that the Falcons have held the advantage on the boards ... BG had been outrebounded in each of the season's first five games ... the Falcons are 6-1 this season and 154-14 in the Miller Era when outrebounding the opponent.
• After going with the same starting lineup for the first 10 games of the year, Miller made a change for the Madonna game ... freshman Jasmine Matthews joined Slagle, redshirt junior Danielle Havel, true junior Chrissy Steffen and redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers in the starting five vs. the Crusaders ... Matthews remained in the starting five for the Wyoming game.
• Matthews became the first freshman to start a game for BGSU in four seasons ... then-freshmen Lauren Prochaska and Crystal Murdaugh each started all 34 games in 2007-08, while Chelsea Albert made six starts that season.
• Last season, the Falcons had a total of 242 steals, averaging 7.3 per game ... this year, BGSU already has 136 steals through 12 games, for an average of 11.3 per contest ... BG is averaging over 11 thefts per game after posting a total of 12 steals only once in 33 games last winter.
• The Falcons had a slightly better field-goal percentage than Wyoming on Thursday ... BGSU is 8-0 this season and 69-0 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 77 points this year after scoring a total of 25 points last winter ... Stein, who scored 30 points a season ago, has 41 in 2011-12 to date ... and, Yoder has a total of 56 points this season after scoring 21 as a freshman.
• Yoder made a total of four three-point field goals during her freshman year, going 4-of-15 from long distance ... she matched that total in the Madonna game alone, hitting a career-high four treys in seven tries ... on the season, Yoder is 12-of-31 from beyond the arc ... she is tied for second on the team in three-pointers made, and leads the Falcons in long-range percentage (.387).
• 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 joined Steffen in the starting lineup for each of the first 10 games, before Matthews drew a starting assignment vs. Madonna and Wyoming.
WAYS TO FOLLOW BGSU-COLORADO STATE
If you can't make it to Fort Collins for Saturday's game, there are a number of ways to follow the Falcons ...
• RADIO/AUDIO STREAM: The 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.
• LIVE STATS: Live stats will be accessable through BGSUFalcons.com or through CSU's web site, CSURams.com.
• VIDEO STREAMING: Live video streaming will also be available, through Colorado State's web site ... the link can be accessed at CSURams.com, and will also be available through BGSUFalcons.com ... there will be a subscription fee required to view the video streaming for Saturday's game.
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 the Colorado State game.
MILLER RETURNS TO MOBY
* For BGSU head coach Curt Miller, Saturday marks the return to a place where he enjoyed a great deal of success ... prior to coming to BG, Miller was the associate head coach at Colorado State under head coach Tom Collen (a 1977 BGSU graduate).
• During those three years, the Rams posted an overall record of 81-20 ... the team went 25-7 in 2000-01, winning the Mountain West Conference Tournament and advancing to the second round of the NCAA Championships.
• The year prior, CSU qualified for the WNIT and advanced all the way to the semifinals of that tourney, losing to eventual champion Wisconsin ... that CSU club finished with a 23-10 mark.
• In 1998-99, Miller's first season in Fort Collins, CSU won the preseason WNIT title and the Western Athletic Conference championship ... that team posted a 33-3 record, the best in school history, and advanced to the 'Sweet Sixteen" in the NCAA Championships ... that squad went a perfect 14-0 in the MWC, and was ranked as high as fourth in the nation.
• Over the last 13-plus seasons (three at CSU and 10-plus at BGSU), Miller has been on the staffs of teams that have combined to go 324-108, for a winning percentage of exactly 75.0%.
MORE ON MILLER
Curt Miller, as mentioned, has spent the last 13-plus seasons at either Colorado State or Bowling Green ... Miller's teams have won at least 21 games in 11 of those 13 seasons ... the lone exceptions have been his first two seasons at BGSU, when he was in the process of turning around the Falcon program ... teams with Miller on staff have won 25 or more games in eight of those 13 full seasons, including in each of the last six at BG.
BGSU NOTES | COLORADO STATE NOTES
LIVE STATS | LIVE AUDIO | LIVE VIDEO (fee required for video)
QUICK HITS
• Saturday's game is a homecoming for Falcon head coach Curt Miller ... Miller came to BGSU in 2001 after spending three years as the associate head coach at Colorado State ... while in Fort Collins, Miller helped the Rams go 81-20 and make two NCAA Championships appearances.
• The Falcons, after seeing a seven-game winning streak snapped with a 49-47 loss at Creighton (Dec. 18), have bounced back with a pair of wins ... BGSU posted a 91-41 victory over Madonna in the team's final game before the holidays (Dec. 21), then picked up a 60-53 win at Wyoming on Thursday night (Dec. 29).
• BGSU is meeting Colorado State for the first time in women's basketball ... the Rams will be the fourth first-time opponent for the Falcons this season.
• BG has gone 3-0 against first-time foes this season to date, winning those games by an average of 29 points ... the Falcons had never met Jacksonville (83-53 win on Dec. 11), Madonna or Wyoming prior to the 2011-12 season.
• Senior Jessica Slagle scored a career-high 16 points in the win in Laramie ... she did most of her damage at the free-throw line, making 12 charity tosses in 16 attempts ... Slagle doubled her previous career bests in both FTM and FTA.
• In addition to her career-high point total, Slagle matched her career best with four assists vs. the Cowgirls ... the senior tri-captain played a career-high 35 minutes in the win.
• Redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers had a career-high 12 rebounds in the victory at UW ... it was her second double-digit rebounding game, both this season and in her collegiate career.
• As a team, BGSU had 42 rebounds to Wyoming's 37 on Thursday ... it marked the seventh-straight game that the Falcons have held the advantage on the boards ... BG had been outrebounded in each of the season's first five games ... the Falcons are 6-1 this season and 154-14 in the Miller Era when outrebounding the opponent.
• After going with the same starting lineup for the first 10 games of the year, Miller made a change for the Madonna game ... freshman Jasmine Matthews joined Slagle, redshirt junior Danielle Havel, true junior Chrissy Steffen and redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers in the starting five vs. the Crusaders ... Matthews remained in the starting five for the Wyoming game.
• Matthews became the first freshman to start a game for BGSU in four seasons ... then-freshmen Lauren Prochaska and Crystal Murdaugh each started all 34 games in 2007-08, while Chelsea Albert made six starts that season.
• Last season, the Falcons had a total of 242 steals, averaging 7.3 per game ... this year, BGSU already has 136 steals through 12 games, for an average of 11.3 per contest ... BG is averaging over 11 thefts per game after posting a total of 12 steals only once in 33 games last winter.
• The Falcons had a slightly better field-goal percentage than Wyoming on Thursday ... BGSU is 8-0 this season and 69-0 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 77 points this year after scoring a total of 25 points last winter ... Stein, who scored 30 points a season ago, has 41 in 2011-12 to date ... and, Yoder has a total of 56 points this season after scoring 21 as a freshman.
• Yoder made a total of four three-point field goals during her freshman year, going 4-of-15 from long distance ... she matched that total in the Madonna game alone, hitting a career-high four treys in seven tries ... on the season, Yoder is 12-of-31 from beyond the arc ... she is tied for second on the team in three-pointers made, and leads the Falcons in long-range percentage (.387).
• 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 joined Steffen in the starting lineup for each of the first 10 games, before Matthews drew a starting assignment vs. Madonna and Wyoming.
WAYS TO FOLLOW BGSU-COLORADO STATE
If you can't make it to Fort Collins for Saturday's game, there are a number of ways to follow the Falcons ...
• RADIO/AUDIO STREAM: The 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.
• LIVE STATS: Live stats will be accessable through BGSUFalcons.com or through CSU's web site, CSURams.com.
• VIDEO STREAMING: Live video streaming will also be available, through Colorado State's web site ... the link can be accessed at CSURams.com, and will also be available through BGSUFalcons.com ... there will be a subscription fee required to view the video streaming for Saturday's game.
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 the Colorado State game.
MILLER RETURNS TO MOBY
* For BGSU head coach Curt Miller, Saturday marks the return to a place where he enjoyed a great deal of success ... prior to coming to BG, Miller was the associate head coach at Colorado State under head coach Tom Collen (a 1977 BGSU graduate).
• During those three years, the Rams posted an overall record of 81-20 ... the team went 25-7 in 2000-01, winning the Mountain West Conference Tournament and advancing to the second round of the NCAA Championships.
• The year prior, CSU qualified for the WNIT and advanced all the way to the semifinals of that tourney, losing to eventual champion Wisconsin ... that CSU club finished with a 23-10 mark.
• In 1998-99, Miller's first season in Fort Collins, CSU won the preseason WNIT title and the Western Athletic Conference championship ... that team posted a 33-3 record, the best in school history, and advanced to the 'Sweet Sixteen" in the NCAA Championships ... that squad went a perfect 14-0 in the MWC, and was ranked as high as fourth in the nation.
• Over the last 13-plus seasons (three at CSU and 10-plus at BGSU), Miller has been on the staffs of teams that have combined to go 324-108, for a winning percentage of exactly 75.0%.
MORE ON MILLER
Curt Miller, as mentioned, has spent the last 13-plus seasons at either Colorado State or Bowling Green ... Miller's teams have won at least 21 games in 11 of those 13 seasons ... the lone exceptions have been his first two seasons at BGSU, when he was in the process of turning around the Falcon program ... teams with Miller on staff have won 25 or more games in eight of those 13 full seasons, including in each of the last six at BG.
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