Falcons Close Cross-Divisional Play with Saturday Trip to Ypsi

The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after a week off from competition, returns to action with a short road trip north ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will conclude Mid-American Conference cross-divisional play with a Saturday (Feb. 12) game against Eastern Michigan University ... tipoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at the Convocation Center (8,824) ... 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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LAUREN PROCHASKA: BGSU'S CAREER SCORING LEADER
Senior Lauren Prochaska has broken the BGSU career scoring record ... Prochaska scored a game-high 21 points in Saturday's (Feb. 5) win over Ball State, including the record-breaking layup early in the second half ... she posted up to take a pass from classmate Maggie Hennegan and hit a shot over her defender with 16:39 left in the game ... Prochaska now has a career total of 2,217 points ... she broke the record set by Jackie Motycka (2,122 points from 1985-89) ... Prochaska is averaging 17.0 points per game, the second-highest average in BG annals (behind Motycka's 18.1 ppg), in her storied Falcon career.

NO BETTER DAY TO BREAK THE RECORD
In addition to being a prolific scorer, senior Lauren Prochaska has a pretty good sense of timing as well ... Prochaska became the BGSU career scoring leader on a day when many former Falcon greats were in attendance ... Saturday's (Feb. 5) Ball State game was the team's annual Alumnae Day, and also saw the All-Anderson Team recognized in pregame ceremonies ... the team consists of 13 of the top BGSU players ever to play inside "The House That Roars" ... the All-Anderson Team included not only Prochaska, but also the woman who held the BGSU career scoring record entering Saturday's action ... Jackie (Motycka) Mossing was in the crowd to see Prochaska break her record, and participated in a postgame ceremony recognizing Prochaska's achievement ... photo galleries of both the BGSU-Ball State game and the various ceremonies can be found on the internet at BGSUFalcons.com.

FOLLOW THE FALCONS TO YPSILANTI
Falcon fans looking to join the team in Ypsilanti for Saturday's game vs. EMU have several options ... the BGSU Athletic Ticket Office has a block of tickets at a special rate for the game ... fans can purchase tickets for just $3 apiece through the Anderson Arena ticket office (by phone at 877-BGSUTicket or in person weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) ... however, if a three-dollar ticket is three dollars more than fans are willing to pay, any fan wearing a red shirt will be admitted free to the game, according to the EMU web site ... the EMU department of athletics will be holding a "Green Goes Red" event in conjunction with Saturday's doubleheader (the Eastern men host Buffalo following the BGSU-EMU men's game), in support of heart disease prevention for women as part of the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Day, which was held Friday, Feb. 4.

PROCHASKA MOVING UP ON MAC LIST AS WELL
Senior Lauren Prochaska is now the leading scorer – male or female – in BGSU history ... she is also moving up the Mid-American Conference list ... with a basket just over eight minutes into the Falcon's Jan. 12 win over Akron, 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 ... then, in Saturday's (Feb. 5) Ball State game, Prochaska moved past Jackie Motycka with a layup early in the second half ... that gave her the school scoring record, and moved her into fifth on the conference chart ... Prochaska's next target is former Toledo standout Mimi Olson, who had 2,144 points from 1993-97.

ALL-ANDERSON TEAM HONORED IN PREGAME CEREMONY
Saturday's game vs. Ball State was preceded by a ceremony honoring the All-Anderson Team ... the 13-person All-Anderson Team, announced in October in conjunction with a year-long celebration of the final year of Anderson Arena, was selected via nominations through the official web site of BGSU Athletics, BGSUFalcons.com ... a review panel then made the final selections ... the All-Anderson women's basketball team consists of Kate Achter, Lori Albers, Paulette Backstrom, Angie Bonner, Stephanie Coe, Liz Honegger, Ali Mann, Megan McGuire, Jackie Motycka, Lauren Prochaska, Sara Puthoff, Talita Scott and Chris Tuttle ... 11 of the 13 were in attendance at the Ball State game ... Achter (an assistant women's basketball coach at St. Bonaventure) and Mann (playing professionally in Portugal) were not able to make it to Anderson Arena, but were represented by their parents for the festivities.

A FEW MORE ALL-ANDERSON TEAM FACTS ...
The 13 BGSU women's basketball players selected to the All-Anderson Team represent ...

• 19 All-MAC First-Team selections,
• 18 Academic All-MAC selections,
• six MAC Player-of-the-Year awards,
• five MAC Freshman-of-the-Year honorees,
• three Academic All-America awards,
• 19 All-MAC Tournament Team selections,
• eight MAC Tournament MVP awards, and
• nine inductees to the BGSU Athletics Hall of Fame.

As a matter of fact, the four All-Anderson Team members who are not in the BGSU Hall of Fame (Achter, Honegger, Mann and Prochaska) completed their careers too recently to be eligible as of yet ... one of those four players, obviously, is a member of the current team.

Jan 22 2011 vs Central Michigan - photo by Brad Phalin

UHL BE SWELL, UHL BE GREAT
Senior Jen Uhl has stepped up to give Curt Miller and the BGSU coaches another scoring option as of late ... Uhl has averaged 14.3 points per game over the last four contests, and also has a team-leading 9.0 rebounds per contest in that time ... the Wadsworth, Ohio, native had a season-high 18 points in the Falcons' win at Northern Illinois (Feb. 1), then posted a double-double, with 14 points and 12 boards in a career-high 39 minutes against Ball State (Feb. 5) ... Uhl went 9-of-17 from three-point land during that four-game stretch, hitting a career-high four triples in the NIU game ... Uhl is averaging 9.5 ppg and a team-leading 7.0 rpg in MAC games this season to date.

DOUBLE TROUBLE
Senior Jen Uhl's double-double in the win over Ball State was her second of the season and the fifth in her Falcon career ... Uhl, who also had a double-double in the win at Seattle (Nov. 27), is second on the team in career double-doubles ... senior Lauren Prochaska has 11 in her career, including two this season ... Maggie Hennegan has six in her collegiate career, with five coming during her two seasons at Saint Louis University ... Hennegan's lone double-double at BGSU to date came at Evansville in the 2010-11 opener ... and, Tracy Pontius had a points-assists double-double in the Falcons' win over Cal State Fullerton (Dec. 4).

HENNEGAN IS STEPPING UP, TOO
Falcon senior Maggie Hennegan, like fellow senior post player Jen Uhl, has stepped up her game in MAC play ... Hennegan, is averaging 9.0 points and 5.5 rebounds per game this year ... in conference games, she is second on the team in scoring, with 10.7 ppg, and is shooting 59 percent from the field ... Hennegan had 16 points, matching her BGSU career best, in last week's win at NIU ... she has scored in double digits nine times this year, including six in MAC play ... Hennegan has hit 100% of her three-point field-goal attempts in conference action, making all five of her attempts from beyond the arc.

HENNEGAN GETS IT DONE IN THE CLASSROOM AS WELL
Falcon senior Maggie Hennegan is succeeding in the classroom as well as on the court ... last week (Feb. 3), Hennegan was named to the Capital One Academic All-District Team ... the Cincinnati native was named to the first team after earning second-team honors in 2009-10 ... Hennegan has started every game this season, and is averaging 9.0 points and 5.5 rebounds per game ... she leads the Falcons in blocked shots (25) and field-goal percentage (52.4%) ... in MAC games, Hennegan is second on the team with 10.7 ppg, and is shooting 59.0% from the floor ... in the classroom, Hennegan is in the MBA program after earning her undergraduate degree with a perfect 4.00 GPA as a health care administration major with a minor in business.

A 75-HOUR TRIP
The 2010-11 Falcons spent a little more time in DeKalb, Ill., than originally planned ... BGSU left on Monday afternoon, Jan. 31, for a game scheduled for the following evening (Tuesday, Feb. 1) at Northern Illinois ... the plan was to return to Northwest Ohio immediately after Tuesday night's contest, but the 'Blizzard of 2011'* changed those plans ... the Falcons wound up staying in DeKalb until Thursday, Feb. 3, holding a practice at NIU's Convocation Center before returning home ... the team, after leaving town Monday at 3:00 p.m., arrived back in the Anderson Arena parking lot at approximately 6:00 p.m. Thursday evening.
* working title; feel free to insert your own clever nickname or title for the 'Blizzard of 2011'

RANDOM STATEMENTS THAT ARE BOTH ACCURATE AND TWITTER-IFFIC
Fans of Twitter who are looking to blow their followers' minds in 140 characters or less now have two mind-blowing options ...

• Option 1: "Every time Lauren Prochaska makes a free throw, she breaks two school records."

• Option 2: "Every time Lauren Prochaska makes a three-pointer, she breaks two school records."

In addition to setting the BGSU scoring record in the Ball State game, Prochaska also became the school's career leader in free throws made ... her first FTM on Saturday moved her past Kate Achter into first place on that school list ... Achter made a total of 551 free throws in her storied career ... Prochaska, who had tied that record in the win at Northern Illinois (Feb. 1), went 5-for-5 from the stripe vs. BSU and now has hit 556 free throws in her career to date ... Prochaska broke the BGSU career record for three-point field goals made during her junior season, and now has a total of 293 in her career.

DOES LAUREN PROCHASKA HOLD ANY OTHER BGSU CAREER RECORDS?
Yes. Yes she does. Well, she very likely will, at least ... Lauren Prochaska has set the school career records for points, free throws made and three-point field goals made ... additionally, she ranks atop the BGSU career list for FT percentage ... Prochaska is 556-of-612 from the stripe in her career to date, good for a success rate of 90.8% ... Angie Farmer (87.6%; 120-of-137) holds down second place on that list ... at the risk of messing with karma, Prochaska could miss 22 consecutive free throws and still be ranked in first place on the BGSU list.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons will enter the Eastern Michigan game with an overall record of 19-4, and BGSU is 7-3 in MAC play ... BG is tied with Kent State for first place in the MAC's East Division standings ... the Falcons are 11-1 at home, 7-3 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games to date ... prior to the 'bye week,' the Falcons won a pair of games ... BGSU broke a two-game MAC losing streak – the team's first such streak in three years – with a 67-64 win at Northern Illinois (Feb. 1), then returned home to top Ball State, 61-46, last Saturday (Feb. 5) ... prior to the NIU game, the Falcons had lost three of the last five games after winning 15 in a row.

• That 15-game winning streak was one of the longest in the nation at the time it was snapped ... it came to an end with a 44-43 loss at KSU on Jan. 15 ... the Falcons rebounded to win the next two games, before losing to Toledo, 66-65 (Jan. 26) and dropping a 66-55 decision at Western Michigan (Jan. 29).

• BG is receiving votes in one of the national top-25 polls, the USA Today ESPN Coaches poll ... the Falcons, however, dropped out of the Associated Press vote-getters after receiving votes in that poll nearly all season ... the Falcons were ranked 63rd in the nation in the most recent NCAA RPI rankings, and BGSU is sixth in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25.

• The Falcons suffered a 63-62 loss at Evansville in the regular-season opener (Nov. 12), but BG bounced back with the 15-game win streak before losing at KSU ... 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 went 4-1 in the first round-robin swing through the MAC's East Division, and BGSU is 3-2 in the cross-divisional phase so far ... the Falcons opened league play with a 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 (Jan. 18), then dismantled Central Michigan, 90-62, at "The House That Roars" (Jan. 22) ... but, UT snapped BGSU's lengthy homecourt winning streak four days later, and the Falcons then lost at Western before bouncing back with the wins over NIU and BSU.

• Senior Lauren Prochaska, the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, is averaging a team-high 18.6 points per game, and also paces the Falcons with 6.1 rebounds per contest ... Prochaska has scored 20 or more points in 12 games this year, including a season-high 31-point performance in the win over nationally-ranked Vanderbilt in December ... classmate Tracy Pontius has 11.5 ppg to date, and leads the team with 3.8 assists per outing.

• Prochaska has made 52 three-point field goals this year, while Pontius has hit 49 shots from long range ... Prochaska and Pontius are shooting 40.0 and 34.0 percent from beyond the arc, respectively ... Prochaska is 134-of-145 (92.4%) from the free-throw line on the year, and was second in the nation in that category in the latest NCAA rankings (Monday, Feb. 7) ... she was 24th in the country in scoring, while Pontius was ranked 38th in assist/turnover ratio (1.85) in the most recent NCAA listings.

• Head coach Curt Miller's starting lineup for each of the first 23 games has remained unchanged ... that lineup has included four seniors in Pontius, Prochaska, Maggie Hennegan and Jen Uhl, along with sophomore Chrissy Steffen.

• Steffen, Uhl and Hennegan rank third through fifth on the team in scoring ... Steffen has 9.7 ppg and has hit 36 three-pointers this year to date ... she leads the Falcons in steals, with 1.8 per game (Steffen has 42 steals, Prochaska 38 and Pontius 32 this year) ... Uhl and Hennegan are averaging 9.0 ppg apiece this season, as Uhl has scored a total of 208 points to Hennegan's 207 ... Uhl and Hennegan have 5.9 and 5.5 rpg, respectively ... Uhl has led the Falcons in scoring in two of the last four games, and in rebounding in four of the last five contests ... Hennegan is shooting a team-best 52.4% from the field, and also leads the Falcons in blocked shots (1.1 bpg).

• In MAC games, the Falcons are 4-1 at home and 3-2 on the road ... BGSU, as mentioned, has gone 4-1 vs. East Division foes and 3-2 against the West ... Prochaska has 16.8 ppg and 5.6 rpg in the 10 conference games to date ... Hennegan has averaged 10.7 ppg in MAC contests, good for second on the team behind Prochaska, and she has 5.0 rpg and is shooting 59.0% from the field ... Steffen is averaging 10.5 ppg, 4.3 rpg, 3.2 apg and 2.0 spg, leading the team in steals and ranking second in assists ... Uhl and Pontius have 9.5 and 9.1 ppg, respectively ... Uhl leads BGSU with 7.0 rebounds, while Pontius paces the club with 3.3 apg in MAC matches.

• 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 23 games off the bench to date, and have 4.0 and 3.1 ppg, respectively ... Slagle has hit 11 of her 26 three-point attempts this year (42.3%), while Papenfuss has 2.2 rpg, ranking sixth on the team in that category.

• Havel also has seen action in all 23 games, while Albert has played in 20 games, Stein 18 and Zuercher 17 ... all 15 players on the active roster have played in at least 10 contests.

• BGSU is shooting 41.8% from the field, 36.8% from three-point land and 80.4% from the free-throw line ... BG has allowed opponents to shoot 38.6% from the floor and 27.5% from beyond the arc ... Falcon foes are shooting 67.4% from the stripe ... BGSU has made 165 more free throws than the opponents, and the Falcons have made 54 more free throws than the foes have attempted.

LAST TIME OUT
In front of an Anderson Arena crowd that included some of the greatest players in BGSU women's basketball history, one of the current Falcon stars etched her name in the record book yet again ... senior Lauren Prochaska scored a game-high 21 points, breaking the school's career scoring record in the process, as the Falcons downed Ball State, 61-46, Saturday afternoon (Feb. 5) ... Prochaska's feat came on the team's annual Alumnae Day, when many former BGSU women's basketball players were in attendance ... additionally, the All-Anderson Team was recognized in pregame ceremonies ... the All-Anderson Team consists of 13 of the top BGSU players ever to play in "The House That Roars" ... the 2010-11 season is the Falcon women's basketball team's last in Anderson, as BG will move into the brand-new Stroh Center in time for the 2011-12 campaign ... the All-Anderson Team included not only Prochaska, but the woman who held the BGSU career scoring record entering Saturday's action ... Jackie (Motycka) Mossing was in attendance to see Prochaska break her record ... the stellar senior became the University's all-time scoring leader early in the second half, posting up to take a pass from classmate Maggie Hennegan and hit a layup over her defender with 16:39 left in the game ... Prochaska scored 12 of her game-high 21 points in the first half, including 10 in a six-minute span as BG shook off a frigid start to take the lead for good ... along with those 21 points, Prochaska had nine rebounds in the game ... fellow senior Jen Uhl had her second double-double of the season, with 14 points and a game-high 12 boards ... Jazmin Hitchens led the Cardinals with 10 points on the afternoon ... BGSU scored just four points in the first seven-plus minutes of the game, and the Falcons trailed by nine points, 14-5, with 12 minutes left before halftime ... but, a moment later, the home team then went on a 17-3 run to take the lead for the rest of the day ... BG scored seven-straight points, surrendered a three-point field goal, then went on a 10-0 run to go ahead by a 24-19 count ... BG led by eight at the half.

A QUICK LOOK AT EMU
Eastern Michigan will enter Saturday's game with an overall record of 16-8, and the Eagles are 7-3 in MAC action ... Eastern saw a six-game winning streak come to an end last Saturday (Feb. 5), with a narrow 70-68 home loss to Buffalo ... that win streak included four victories over MAC East Division clubs ... the Eagles are 8-5 at home, 7-2 on the road and 1-1 in neutral-site games this year to date ... in MAC play, EMU is 2-3 at the Convocation Center and a perfect 5-0 on the road ... individually, junior guard Tavelyn James leads the team in scoring, with 17.2 points per game ... she paces the Eagles with 47 three-point field goals made ... senior guard Cassie Schrock has 14.1 ppg and leads EMU in both rebounding (7.4 rpg) and assists (5.3 apg) ... Schrock has gotten to the free-throw line a whopping 197 times this season, making 131 (66.5%) ... senior guard Sydney Huntley rounds out the team's double-digit scorers with 10.9 ppg, while junior forward Paige Redditt has 8.5 ppg and 5.3 rpg ... James, Redditt and Schrock each have started all 24 games for head coach AnnMarie Gilbert, while Huntley and senior forward Kristin Thomas have made 23 starts apiece ... that quintet, not surprisingly, comprises the probable starting lineup ... Gilbert, in her fourth season with the Eagles, welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's club ... the 2009-10 team went 22-9 overall and 11-5 in MAC play, advancing to the WNIT ... the school's athletics web site is www.emueagles.com.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Eastern Michigan, 44-14, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won seven consecutive meetings ... last season, the Falcons downed Eastern, 83-71, at Anderson Arena for head coach Curt Miller's 100th win in MAC regular-season play ... two years ago, in the teams' last matchup in Ypsilanti, the Brown and Orange picked up a 69-55 win (Jan. 24, 2009) ... BGSU is 17-9 all-time in road games vs. Eastern ... prior to BG's current seven-game overall winning streak, EMU had won five-straight games and eight of 11 meetings ... that came after the Falcons took 33-of-34 contests vs. the Hurons/Eagles from 1983 to 1998 ... Miller has a record of 9-5 against the Eagles in his stellar BGSU career.

SENIOR PRIDE
The Falcons' five fourth-year seniors – Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl and Kelly Zuercher – have joined a relatively exclusive, and very impressive, group ... with the win at NIU, that quintet has 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.

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 EMU game, Pontius has a total of 1,263 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 EMU game, Prochaska has a total of 293 three-point field goals made ... she broke the BGSU record set by Liz Honegger (216 triples from 2003-07) last season ... Pontius now has 208 career threes, ranking third at BGSU ... she became just the 18th player in MAC history to reach the 200-trey 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.

HOLDING ON TO THE BALL
For the most part, the Falcons have been successful at limiting turnovers this season ... BGSU turned the ball over just 10 times, tying a season low, in the win over Central Michigan, and BG had 13 turnovers against Toledo ... as of the last NCAA rankings (Monday, Feb. 7), BG was 15th in the nation in fewest turnovers per game (14.2) ... the Falcons have committed more turnovers than the opponent in only two of this season's 23 games to date (Evansville and WMU) ... and, the opponent has had more points off turnovers than BG just four times ... BG has forced 15 or more opponent turnovers in 19 of this year's 23 games, including 19 or more in 13 contests.

TAKE SOME – THEY'RE FREE
As of the latest NCAA rankings (released Monday, Feb. 7), the Falcons were leading the entire nation in free-throw percentage ... BGSU is converting free throws at a rate of 80.4 percent ... individually, senior Lauren Prochaska was second in the country in FT pct., at 92.4% ... entering the EMU game, Prochaska has made 134 of her 145 attempts this year to date.

FALCONS AMONG NCAA LEADERS
BGSU is ranked among the national leaders in numerous categories, according to the last NCAA statistics (released Monday, Feb. 7) ... the Falcons are ranked in the top-35 in no fewer than 10 total categories ... as mentioned, BG leads the entire nation in free-throw percentage ... the Falcons also are ranked in the top-10 in the country in three-point field goals made per game (fourth; 8.3) ... additionally, BGSU is 15th in the nation in turnovers per game (14.2), 17th in scoring margin (+16.7), 19th in both winning percentage (82.6) and three-point FG percentage (36.8%), 23rd in three-point FG defense (27.5%), 30th in assist/turnover ratio (0.98), 32nd in scoring offense (73.3) and 33rd in turnover margin (+4.04).

THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 19-4 this season to date; after going 27-7 last season;
• 7-3 in MAC play this season; after going 14-2 last winter, in the process winning a sixth-straight league regular-season title;
• 225-84 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 115-39 in MAC games in that time:
• 216-65 overall in the eight years (plus 23 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);
• 204-49 over the last seven-plus years, with 2009-10 marking BG's seventh-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 183-39 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 160-31 overall, and 80-10 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) 132-28 in the last four-plus years, including a 64-10 conference ledger;
• 101-24 overall, and 49-9 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;
• 75-16 overall and 36-6 in MAC action since junior Jessica Slagle and redshirt soph Maribeth Giese ventured to NW Ohio;
• 46-11 overall and 21-5 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.);
• 98-12 in the last 110 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;
• 185-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 57-0 mark in the last two-plus seasons;
• 172-29 when making more free throws during Miller's first nine-plus years;
• 134-13 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 48-5 in MAC home games in the last six-plus seasons;
• 39-6 in MAC road games over the last five-plus years;
• 15-2 in the MAC Tournament in the last six years, with four titles (2005, '06, '07 and 2010), a championship-game appearance in '09, and a trip to the semis in '08;
• 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).

THREE-MENDOUS! MANY FALCONS CONNECTING FROM DOWNTOWN
Seniors Lauren Prochaska and Tracy Pontius have combined to make 101 three-point field goals this year to date, but they 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-pointer 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.

FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons, along with the rest of the Mid-American Conference teams, are nearing the end of the cross-divisional phase of the league schedule ... BGSU enters the EMU game with an all-time record of 341-145 (.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.

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) ... 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.

• Entering the EMU game, the Falcons are 29-6 against the West Division since the MAC went to the current scheduling format ... BG is 23-2 in the second swing through the East Division over the past five years.

FALCONS LOOKING FOR 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 ... BGSU needs one win to reach the 20-victory total in 2010-11 ... 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.

WHAT ELSE IS NEW?
Falcon women's basketball followers have gotten used to the consistent scoring prowess displayed by senior Lauren Prochaska over the years ... Prochaska has scored in double digits in 111 of her 125 career games ... she has scored 20 or more points in a game 12 times this season and 45 times in her BGSU career ... Prochaska has hit the 30-point plateau twice this year and five times as a Falcon.

CLOSING THE DOORS OF THE HOUSE THAT ROARS
The 2010-11 season is the final year that BGSU's teams will call Anderson Arena home, and there are many events planned as part of the year-long celebration ... the All-Anderson teams for men's and women's basketball were announced in October ... for the BGSU women, the All-Anderson Team recognition took place prior to Saturday's (Feb. 5) win over Ball State ... the final women's home regular-season game inside "The House That Roars" will be March 2 vs. Buffalo ... on March 5, the festivities culminate with the B!G Event, a final farewell celebration at 8:00 p.m. ... this once-in-a-lifetime event will be attended by hundreds of Falcon faithful, as well as members of all three All-Anderson Teams, other former letterwinners, current players and coaching staff members ... for more information, contact the athletics department at 419-372-2401 or rlynv@bgsu.edu.

CAPTAINS
Seniors Maggie Hennegan and Lauren Prochaska are the captains of the 2010-11 Falcons ... Hennegan is a captain for the second consecutive year ... she was chosen as a captain before ever playing her first game as a Falcon.

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