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Falcons Head to Oxford For Saturday Matinee
February 18, 2011 | Women's Basketball
BGSU faces Miami in 2 p.m. tip at Millett Hall
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, for the third and final time this season, embarks upon a Saturday-Tuesday road swing in Mid-American Conference play ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller will head to Oxford for the Saturday (Feb. 19) portion of this set, to take on Miami University ... tipoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. at Millett Hall (3,800) ... 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 | MIAMI NOTES & STATS - PDF
MILLER MOVES UP ON MAC LIST
Falcon head coach Curt Miller became the winningest coach in program history long ago ... now, Miller is poised to move up another notch on the Mid-American Conference list ... BGSU's 77-63 win over Ohio on Wednesday night (Feb. 16) was the 117th MAC victory of Miller's career, moving him into a tie for third place on the conference list ... former BG and Central Michigan coach Fran Voll also had 117 MAC victories in his career ... overall, Miller now has 227 career wins, the third-highest total among MAC coaches ... Kent State's Bob Lindsay tops each list, while former Toledo coach Mark Ehlen is second.
START ME UP: TWO MORE RECORDS ON THE HORIZON FOR PROCHASKA
Senior Lauren Prochaska, who already holds four BGSU career records, is on the verge of setting two more ... on Saturday at Miami, it is possible that she could set those two BGSU career records by the time the clock reads "19:59" in the first half ... should she be in the starting lineup, it would be her 128th career start, breaking the record of 127, set by Liz Honegger (2003-07) ... additionally, it would be Prochaska's 128th consecutive start, topping Honegger's record in that category ... Prochaska has started every game since arriving at BG ... Honegger came off the bench to play in her first collegiate game, in November of 2003, then started each of her final 127 contests.
STEFFEN STEPS UP WITH CAREER-HIGH 22 POINTS
Sophomore Chrissy Steffen had a career-high 22 points in the Falcons' win over Ohio on Wednesday night ... her previous career best was 17 points in last month's (Jan. 12) victory against Akron ... Steffen also set a career standard for field goals made against the Bobcats, hitting eight, and she tied her career bests in both field goals attempted (13) and three-point field goals made (four).
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER AWARD (TWO, ACTUALLY) FOR PROCHASKA
If it seems as if BGSU senior Lauren Prochaska receives some sort of honor every day; well, that's not true at all ... on Monday (Feb. 14), she received two ... Prochaska was named to the 2010-11 Naismith Trophy midseason list ... that list, announced Monday morning by the Atlanta Tipoff Club, includes just 30 players from across the nation ... Prochaska, the only MAC player to make the list, is averaging 18.9 points and 6.2 rebounds this season, leading the Falcons in both categories ... she also paces BGSU with 57 three-point field goals made, 149 free throws made and a FT percentage of 92.0% ... Prochaska is second on the team in assists, steals and blocked shots ... the midseason 30 list was compiled by the Atlanta Tipoff Club's Board of Selectors, which based its criteria on player performances from the 2010-11 season to date ... the Naismith Trophy, presented by AT&T, will be awarded on April 4 at the Final Four in Indianapolis.
... AND, THE OTHER HONOR
Also on Monday (Feb. 14), Lauren Prochaska was named the MAC Player of the Week ... she earned the honor for the third time this season and the 12th time in her storied career ... let's continue reciting Prochaska's statistics, shall we? In MAC games, the Plain City, Ohio native has 17.7 ppg and 6.0 rpg, leading the Falcons in both categories ... she accounted for nearly two-thirds of her team's offense on Saturday (Feb. 12), scoring 37 of BG's 60 points in a 60-55 win at Eastern Michigan ... the point total was the second-highest in BGSU history, behind only Prochaska's 43-point game vs. Central Michigan in her sophomore season.
LAUREN PROCHASKA: BGSU'S CAREER SCORING LEADER
Earlier this month, senior Lauren Prochaska broke the BGSU career scoring record ... Prochaska scored a game-high 21 points in the Falcons' win over Ball State on Feb. 5, 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 had an otherworldly performance in last Saturday's (Feb. 12) win at Eastern Michigan, with 37 points ... she enters the Miami contest with a career total of 2,171 points ... the old BGSU scoring record, set by Jackie Motycka (2,122 points from 1985-89), had stood for over two decades ... Prochaska is averaging 17.1 points per game, the second-highest average in BG annals (behind Motycka's 18.1 ppg), in her storied Falcon career.
FALCONS WIN 20, AGAIN; BGSU SETS A NEW MAC RECORD
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 ... the Falcons' win at Eastern Michigan on Feb. 12 enabled BGSU to reach the 20-victory total ... the Falcons have won at least 20 games in eight consecutive years, extending the school record and setting a new MAC mark ... the old conference record was set by Bob Lindsay's Kent State teams from 1995-96 through 2001-02 ... prior to BG's current run, the longest such streak in school history was four-straight seasons, by the Fran Voll-coached teams of the late 1980s.
BGSU WAS ALREADY AT THE TOP OF THIS LIST
The Falcons have won at least 20 games for the 16th time in school history, the most of any MAC school ... other than BGSU, only Toledo (14) and Kent State (12) have posted 20 or more wins on 10 or more occasions.
PROCHASKA MOVING UP ON MAC LIST
Senior Lauren Prochaska is 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 the Ball State game (Feb. 5), 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 ... Prochaska now ranks fourth, having passed former Toledo standout Mimi Olson (2,144 points from 1993-97) with a 37-point effort vs. Eastern Michigan (Feb. 12) ... Prochaska's next target on the MAC list is Carrie Moore, who had 2,224 points from 2003-07 at Western Michigan.
PROCHASKA HOLDS A LOT OF CAREER RECORDS
As mentioned (at least twice now), Lauren Prochaska is the BGSU career scoring leader, with 2,171 career points ... she also is the school's all-time leader in three-point field goals made, free throws made and FT pct. ... Prochaska ranks fourth in MAC history in scoring, and is second on the conference list in three-pointers made ... and, she has a chance to finish her career in the top-five in NCAA Division-I history in free-throw percentage.
LAST TIME OUT
The Falcons, leading by just four points at the half, opened the second period on a scoring surge en route to a 77-63 win over Ohio ... sophomore Chrissy Steffen scored a career-high 22 points, and senior Tracy Pontius had 17 in the win ... the duo combined to hit eight of BGSU's nine three-point field goals ... Alesia Howard had 14 points to lead a balanced Ohio scoring attack ... four Bobcats hit double digits in the scoring column on the night ... in the first half, the Falcons opened up an early six-point lead, but could not pull away ... the 'Cats battled back in an opening 20 minutes that saw the ties and three lead changes ... Steffen scored the final four points of the first half to break a 27-27 tie and give the Falcons the lead for good, and Pontius took charge at the beginning of the second period ... BG, after scoring 31 first-half points, had 17 points in the first 4:04 of the second half ... during that span of just over four minutes, Pontius scored five points and dished out three assists ... BG scored on the first three possessions of the half, and the Falcons got points on 10 of the first 11 second-half possessions ... that offensive efficiency helped the Falcons open up a 20-point lead ... the Brown and Orange went on a 23-7 run during that time ... the Bobcats ended the game on a 9-2 run against the BG bench ... each team shot an even 50 percent from the floor for the game ... the Falcons made five of six three-point field-goal attempts in the final 20 minutes ... BG committed 11 turnovers on the night, while forcing the Bobcats into a total of 21.
SPREADING IT AROUND
The Falcons had 20 assists on 26 baskets in the win over Ohio ... eight different players had at least one assist, and six of those Falcons had multiple helpers ... senior post player Jen Uhl led the way, dishing out a career-high five assists without a turnover ... senior guard Tracy Pontius had four assists and also did not commit a turnover ... in fact, the Falcons had nearly a two-to-one assist-to-turnover ratio in the win, with just 11 turnovers on the night.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons will enter the Miami game with an overall record of 21-4, and BGSU is 9-3 in MAC play ... BG is in first place in the MAC's East Division standings, a game ahead of Kent State and three games up on third-place Buffalo ... the Falcons are 12-1 at home, 8-3 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games to date, and BG has won four consecutive games heading into Saturday's contest ... most recently, the Falcons downed Ohio, 77-63, at Anderson Arena on Wednesday (Feb. 16).
• BGSU is 4-0 in the month of February ... the Falcons 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 (Feb. 5) ... the Falcons entered the NIU game having lost three of the previous five games after winning 15 in a row ... following the BSU game and the 'bye' week, BG headed north and defeated host Eastern Michigan, 60-55 (Feb. 12), before topping Ohio.
• The Falcons' 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 no longer receiving votes in the national top-25 polls ... the Falcons dropped out of the USA Today ESPN Coaches poll this week, after receiving several votes last week ... the Falcons were ranked 59th 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 finished the cross-divisional phase with a 4-2 mark before downing Ohio Wednesday ... the Falcons had opened league play with a win at OU (Jan. 5), before returning home and scoring 90 points in back-to-back victories ... BG downed Miami, 90-52, then topped Akron by a 90-72 count prior to losing at Kent three days later ... the Falcons bounced back with a 72-61 win at Buffalo, then dismantled Central Michigan, 90-62, at "The House That Roars" ... but, UT snapped BGSU's lengthy homecourt winning streak four days later, and the Falcons then lost at Western before reeling off four-straight wins heading into the Miami game.
• Senior Lauren Prochaska, the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, is averaging a team-high 18.9 points per game, and also paces the Falcons with 6.2 rebounds per contest ... Prochaska has scored 20 or more points in 13 games this year, including three games of more than 30 points ... she had 31 points in the win over nationally-ranked Vanderbilt in December and exploded for 37 points and 12 rebounds in the win at Eastern Michigan (Feb. 12) ... classmate Tracy Pontius has 11.3 ppg to date, and leads the team with 3.7 assists per outing ... she had 17 points, tying her season high in MAC games, in the win over Ohio.
• Prochaska has made 57 three-point field goals this year, while Pontius has hit 53 shots from long range ... Prochaska and Pontius are shooting 39.9 and 34.9 percent from beyond the arc, respectively ... Prochaska is 149-of-162 (92.0%) from the free-throw line on the year, and was fourth in the nation in that category in the latest NCAA rankings (Monday, Feb. 14) ... she was 20th in the country in scoring, while Pontius was ranked 26th in assist/turnover ratio (1.89) in the most recent NCAA listings.
• Head coach Curt Miller's starting lineup for each of the first 25 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 9.8 ppg and has hit 40 three-pointers this year to date ... she leads the Falcons in steals, with 1.8 per game (Steffen has 45 steals, Prochaska 38 and Pontius 33 this year) ... Hennegan and Uhl are averaging 8.8 ppg apiece, having each scored 221 points on the year ... Uhl and Hennegan have 5.8 and 5.2 rpg, respectively ... Uhl has led the Falcons in rebounding in five of the last seven contests ... Hennegan is shooting a team-best 51.9% from the field, and also leads the Falcons in blocked shots (1.1 bpg).
• In MAC games, the Falcons are 5-1 at home and 4-2 on the road ... BGSU has gone 5-1 vs. East Division foes and went 4-2 against the West ... Prochaska has 17.7 ppg and 6.0 rpg in the 12 conference games to date ... Steffen, after scoring a career-high 22 points in the win over Ohio, has 10.8 ppg in MAC contests, good for second on the team, while Hennegan has 10.1 ppg vs. league foes ... Steffen has 4.3 rpg, 2.8 spg and 1.9 spg, leading the team in steals and ranking second in assists ... Hennegan has 4.4 rpg and is shooting 56.8% from the field ... Pontius and Uhl have 9.1 and 9.0 ppg, respectively ... Uhl leads BGSU with 6.7 rebounds, while Pontius paces the club with 3.3 apg in MAC matches.
• 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 25 games off the bench to date, and have 4.1 and 3.0 ppg, respectively ... Slagle has hit 12 of her 27 three-point attempts this year (44.4%), while Papenfuss has 2.2 rpg, ranking sixth on the team in that category.
• Havel also has seen action in all 25 games, while Albert has played in 21 games, Stein 20 and Zuercher 19 ... all 15 players on the active roster have played in at least 11 contests.
• BGSU is shooting 41.7% from the field, 36.8% from three-point land and 80.0% from the free-throw line, leading the nation in the latter category ... BG has allowed opponents to shoot 38.8% from the floor and 27.7% from beyond the arc ... Falcon foes are shooting 66.8% from the stripe ... BGSU has made 180 more free throws than the opponents, and the Falcons have made 56 more free throws than the foes have attempted.
A QUICK LOOK AT MIAMI
Miami will enter Saturday's game with an overall record of 10-15, and the RedHawks are 2-10 in MAC action ... MU will be looking to snap an eight-game losing streak ... the most recent game was a 72-64 setback against Kent State on Thursday night (Feb. 17) in Oxford ... Miami is 4-7 at home and 6-8 on the road this year to date ... in MAC play, the RedHawks are 1-5 at Millett Hall and 1-5 on the road ... individually, sophomore guard Courtney Osborn leads the team in scoring, with 17.7 points per game ... she has hit a team-leading 59 three-point field goals, and also tops the RedHawks in assists (4.4 apg) and steals (2.0 spg) ... Osborn has scored a total of 64 points over the last two games ... junior guard Maggie Boyer and sophomore forward Kirsten Olowinski have 12.4 and 11.2 ppg, respectively ... Boyer has made 51 three-pointers this year, and has 2.8 apg to rank second on the team ... Olowinski is averaging a double-double this season, with 11.2 rpg along with those 11.2 ppg ... she has paced the team in rebounding in 13 consecutive games ... Boyer, Olowinski and Osborn each have started all 25 games on the year, while junior F/G Rachael Hencke (9.4 ppg) and junior forward Lillian Pitts (5.6 ppg, 4.2 rpg) have made 24 starts apiece ... Hencke missed the Kent State game, however, and freshman guard Hannah Robertson (6.7 ppg) joined Boyer, Olowinski, Osborn and Pitts in the starting five for head coach Maria Fantanarosa ... Fantanarosa, in her 13th year at 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, 42-25, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won the last four meetings ... last month, the Falcons posted a 90-52 win over the RedHawks at Anderson Arena (Jan. 8) ... a year ago, the Brown and Orange won three games against MU, 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) ... BGSU is 20-11 in home games, 16-13 on the road and 6-1 in neutral-site contests vs. the Redskins/RedHawks over the years ... Curt Miller has a record of 13-5 against the RedHawks in his stellar BGSU career.
THE 'C' IS SILENT (IT'S PRONOUNCED "pro-HASS-kuh")
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 112 of her 127 career games ... she has scored 20 or more points in a game 13 times this season and 46 times in her BGSU career ... Prochaska has hit the 30-point plateau three times this year and six times as a Falcon ... her total of six career 30-point games ties the school record set by Jackie Motycka.
WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE (THAT ROARS)
BGSU saw a 23-game home winning streak, one of the longest in the nation at the time, snapped with a one-point loss to Toledo on Jan. 26 ... however, the Falcons have won 44 of the last 46 games in venerable Anderson Arena ... the lone losses in that stretch came to Indiana in the third round of the 2009 WNIT as well as to UT ... BG had won 19-straight home games before losing to IU, then winning the next 23 games at "The House That Roars" ... 39 of the Falcons' 44 wins in that span have come by double digits.
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 became 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.
UHL BE SWELL, UHL BE GREAT
Senior Jen Uhl has stepped up to give Curt Miller and the Falcons another scoring option ... Uhl has averaged 11.7 points per game over the last six contests, and also has a team-leading 7.7 rebounds per contest in that time ... the Wadsworth, Ohio, native had a season-high 18 points in the Falcons' win at Northern Illinois, then posted a double-double, with 14 points and 12 boards in a career-high 39 minutes against Ball State ... Uhl has gone 9-of-19 from three-point land during that five-game stretch, hitting a career-high four triples in the NIU game ... Uhl is averaging 9.0 ppg and a team-leading 6.7 rpg in MAC games.
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 8.8 points and 5.2 rebounds per game this year ... in conference games, she is third on the team in scoring, with 10.1 ppg, and is shooting nearly 57 percent from the field ... Hennegan had 16 points, matching her BGSU career best, in the win at NIU ... she has scored in double digits nine times this year, including six in MAC play ... and, Hennegan has shot better than 83% from the three-point line in MAC games, having made five of her six attempts from beyond the arc.
STEFFEN CAN SHOOT IT
Sophomore Chrissy Steffen, in her first season as a starter, has given the Falcons another weapon at both ends of the court ... Steffen scored a career-high 22 points in Wednesday's (Feb. 16) win over Ohio ... she is averaging 9.8 points per game and has made 40 three-point field goals, ranking third on the team in both categories ... she is also third in assists (2.1 apg) this year ... in MAC games only, Steffen has 10.8 ppg and has made 21 shots from three-point land ... she ranks third in both categories, and is second in assists (2.8 apg) ... at the defensive end, Steffen leads the Falcons in steals, both overall (1.8 spg) and in MAC games (1.9 spg).
HENNEGAN GETS IT DONE IN THE CLASSROOM AS WELL
Falcon senior Maggie Hennegan is succeeding in the classroom as well as on the court ... on 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 8.8 points and 5.2 rebounds per game ... she leads the Falcons in blocked shots (27) and field-goal percentage (51.9%) ... in MAC games, Hennegan is third on the team with 10.1 ppg, and is shooting 56.8% 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.
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 Miami game, Pontius has a total of 1,281 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 ranks third on that chart ... entering the Miami game, Prochaska has a total of 298 three-point field goals made ... she broke the BGSU record set by Liz Honegger (216 triples from 2003-07) last season ... Pontius now has 212 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.
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 has hit a total of 298 shots from beyond the arc, good for second place on the MAC list ... that list is as follows ... Pontius, with 212 total three-pointers made, now ranks 15th in MAC history.
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 only 11 turnovers in Wednesday's (Feb. 16) win vs. Ohio ... the Falcons have had 15 or fewer turnovers in a game 19 times this year to date ... as of the last NCAA rankings (Monday, Feb. 14), BG was 14th in the nation in fewest turnovers per game (14.3) ... that number is now 14.1 after the win over Ohio ... the Falcons have committed more turnovers than the opponent in only two of this season's 25 games to date (Buffalo 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 21 of this year's 25 games, including 19 or more in 13 contests.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ... *
• 21-4 this season to date; after finishing with a 27-7 record last season;
• 9-3 in MAC play this season; after going 14-2 last winter, in the process winning a sixth-straight league regular-season title;
• 227-84 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 117-39 in MAC games in that time:
• 218-65 overall in the eight years (plus 25 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);
• 206-49 over the last seven-plus years, with 2010-11 marking BG's eighth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 185-39 in the past six-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins and a MAC regular-season title in six-straight seasons;
• an eye-popping 162-31 overall, and 82-10 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) 134-28 in the last four-plus years, including a 66-10 conference ledger;
• 103-24 overall, and 51-9 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;
• 77-16 overall and 38-6 in MAC action since junior Jessica Slagle and redshirt soph Maribeth Giese ventured to NW Ohio;
• 48-11 overall and 23-5 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.);
• 100-12 in the last 112 games vs. MAC foes (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 53-0 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;
• 174-29 when making more free throws during Miller's first nine-plus years;
• 134-13 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 49-5 in MAC home games in the last six-plus seasons; and
• 40-6 in MAC road games over the last five-plus years.
* Editor's note: I'm sure many of you skim right over these bullet points, since they're in every set of game notes, but they're pretty darn impressive!
TAKE SOME – THEY'RE FREE
As of the latest NCAA rankings (released Monday, Feb. 14), the Falcons were leading the entire nation in free-throw percentage ... BGSU is now converting free throws at a rate of 80.0 percent ... individually, senior Lauren Prochaska was fourth in the country in FT pct. as of Monday ... Prochaska now has made 149 of her 162 attempts this year to date (92.0%).
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.
UP NEXT
BGSU travels to Akron for a Tuesday (Feb. 22) game at James A. Rhodes Arena ... tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ... then, BGSU Closes the Doors of The House That Roars with two home games to end the regular season, facing Kent State (Feb. 26) and Buffalo (March 2) at venerable Anderson Arena.
