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February 25, 2011 | Women's Basketball
BGSU faces Kent State in crucial MAC East-Division battle
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, still undefeated in the month of February, hosts a team that is undefeated against the Mid-American Conference's East Division this year to date ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller return home for the final two games of the regular season, beginning with a Saturday (Feb. 26) game vs. Kent State University ... tipoff is scheduled for 12:07 p.m. at venerable Anderson Arena (3,500) ... Saturday's game is the MAC TV Game of the Week, and will be aired by SportsTime Ohio ... Mike Cairns and Jacki Windon will handle the play-by-play and analysis duties, respectively ... the Falcons lead the Golden Flashes by a game in the MAC's East Division race, but KSU picked up a one-point victory in the teams' first meeting this season ... 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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PROGRAMMING NOTE - In addition to being televised on SportsTime Ohio, Saturday's game is also part of the ESPN Full Court package, and will be available via ESPN3.com as well.
THE PROCHASKAN ASSASSIN: BIG-TIME PLAYER HITS BIG-TIME SHOT
BGSU senior Lauren Prochaska has a long list of accomplishments during her three-plus years in Northwest Ohio ... but, Prochaska achieved a first on Tuesday night (Feb. 22) ... the two-time MAC Player of the Year hit the first buzzer-beater of her career, as her three-pointer with just 0.2 seconds left in the game gave the Falcons a 47-45 win at Akron ... Prochaska stepped up and hit the winning shot despite having missed 11-straight three-point tries prior to the final play ... she had not made a triple since late in the Eastern Michigan game of Feb. 12.
THE FALCONS AND THE MAC TOURNAMENT PICTURE
With two games left in the MAC regular-season race, the Falcons hold a one-game lead over Kent State in the East Division ... according to tiebreaker information provided by the league office, BGSU could finish anywhere from the second to the fourth seed for the MAC Tournament ...
• IF BGSU BEATS KENT STATE: The Falcons would clinch the East Division title and the second seed for the MAC Tournament ... BG would be two games ahead of KSU with one game to play ... Toledo has clinched the top seed for the league tourney.
• IF BGSU LOSES TO KENT STATE: A BG loss would put the Falcons and Golden Flashes into a first-place tie in the East, and KSU would hold the tiebreaker over BGSU ... additionally, depending upon the fortunes of Eastern Michigan and Central Michigan, the Falcons could still slide as low as the fourth seed, but could not drop to fifth ... one scenario involves a four-way tie involving BGSU, CMU, EMU and KSU at 11-5 ... in such a case, the first tiebreaker is total win-loss record of games played among the tied teams, and all four teams would be 2-2 ... the second tiebreaker (different from past years) is divisional records ... in this tiebreaker scenario, KSU would be 9-1 against the East Division, while BGSU would be 7-3 ... CMU and EMU also would have 7-3 marks against their own division ... so, Kent State would earn the #2 seed for the tournament ... in breaking the three-way tie between the remaining teams, BGSU would be 2-0 while CMU and EMU both would be 1-2 ... the Falcons would earn the #3 seed ... there are other scenarios which would allow two of the three teams (CMU, EMU and KSU) to pass BGSU, but no scenario would enable all three teams to pass the Falcons.
• SO, IN SUMMARY...: BGSU needs just one win over the remaining two contests to clinch a top-four seed and a first-round bye for the MAC Tournament ... should BG go 2-0, or should that one win come vs. KSU, the Falcons would clinch the East Division title and the number-two seed.
STREAKS COLLIDE ON SATURDAY
The Falcons and Golden Flashes each bring some winning streaks into Saturday's game at Anderson Arena ... BGSU has won six consecutive games, coinciding with the start of February ... Kent State has won the last three games, and the Flashes have won all eight games against MAC East Division foes this season to date.
THAT'S A LOT OF WINS!
The Falcons are now 23-4 overall on the season ... BGSU has won at least 21 games in each of the last eight seasons, and the Falcons have posted 23 or more wins in each of the last seven years.
THAT'S A LOT OF WINS! PART 2
Over the last eight years (including 2010-11, which still has at least three games left), BGSU has AVERAGED 26.0 wins per season ... after posting a combined record of 21-35 in Curt Miller's first two seasons (9-19 in 2001-02, 12-16 in '02-03), the Falcons have gone 208-49 since that time.
MAKING EVERY POINT COUNT
The Falcons' 47 points in Tuesday night's (Feb. 22) win at Akron marked the second-lowest point total in a win in school history, and the lowest in 32 years ... BGSU's only lower point total in a victory came on Jan. 17, 1979, in a 43-39 win at Defiance.
FALCONS TAKE FLIGHT IN FEBRUARY
BGSU has had a great deal of success in the month of February over the last few years ... the Falcons are 6-0 in February games this season to date, and BG is 59-16 in the second month of the year during the Curt Miller Era ... since the start of the 2004-05 season, the Falcons are 49-3 in February games.
SHOOTING FOR SUCCESS
Obviously, it helps to have a better field-goal percentage than the opponent ... but, the Falcons have had uncommonly good success in such games over the last few years ... BGSU has not lost since the 2007-08 season when having a better field-goal percentage than the foes ... the Falcons are 58-0 in those games over the past two-plus seasons.
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 the win at Eastern Michigan (Feb. 12), with 37 points ... she enters the Kent State contest with a career total of 2,189 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 17.0 points per game, the second-highest average in BG annals (behind Motycka's 18.1 ppg), in her storied Falcon career.
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 became just the second player in school history, and only the 10th in MAC annals, to reach the 2,000-point milestone ... then, in the Ball State game (Feb. 5), Prochaska moved past Jackie Motycka with a layup early in the second half ... Prochaska now ranks fourth on the MAC list, 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.
START ME UP: PROCHASKA SETS TWO MORE CAREER RECORDS
Senior Lauren Prochaska, who already held four BGSU career records entering the Miami game, set two more when the ball was tipped at 2:05 p.m. (give or take) last Saturday ... the game marked the 128th start of Prochaska's career, breaking the record of 127 set by Liz Honegger (2003-07) ... additionally, it was 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 ... Prochaska now has started all 129 games in her BG career.
PROCHASKA HOLDS A LOT OF CAREER RECORDS
As mentioned (at least twice now), Lauren Prochaska is the BGSU career scoring leader, with 2,189 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 ... let's put together a list, in bullet-point form, shall we?
BGSU CAREER RECORDS HELD BY LAUREN PROCHASKA
• Points: 2,189
• Three-Point Field Goals Made: 299
• Free Throws Made: 580
• Free-Throw Percentage: 90.8%
• Games Started: 129
• Consecutive Games Started: 129
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 streak in school history was four-straight seasons, by the Fran Voll-coached teams of the late 1980s ...
MOST CONSECUTIVE 20-WIN SEASONS, MAC TEAMS
8 BOWLING GREEN 2003-04 to 2010-11 (active streak)
7 Kent State 1995-96 to 2001-02
6 Toledo 1993-94 to 1998-99
4 BOWLING GREEN 1986-87 to 1989-90
4 Toledo 1988-89 to 1991-92
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 (15) and Kent State (12) have posted 20 or more wins on 10 or more occasions.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons will enter the Kent State game with an overall record of 23-4, and BGSU is 11-3 in MAC play ... BG is in first place in the MAC's East Division standings, a game ahead of KSU ... the Falcons are 12-1 at home, 10-3 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games to date, and BG has won six consecutive games heading into Saturday's contest ... most recently, the Falcons downed Akron, 47-45, Tuesday night (Feb. 22) in Northeast Ohio.
• BGSU is 5-0 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 four days later ... the Falcons had 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 defeated Eastern Michigan on the road, 60-55 (Feb. 12); Ohio at home, 77-63 (Feb. 16); and Miami in Oxford, 73-61, last Saturday (Feb. 19), before venturing to Akron and pulling-out a last-season win.
• 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 received votes in both major polls – the Associated Press poll and the USA Today ESPN Coaches listings – for much of the year, but the Falcons are not currently garnering votes in either ... the Falcons were ranked 64th in the nation in the most recent NCAA RPI rankings, and BGSU was fifth in the latest 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 winning three games vs. East teams in the second go-around ... the Falcons had opened league play with a win at Ohio (Jan. 5), before returning home and scoring 90 points in back-to-back victories over Miami and Akron ... BG lost at Kent, but the Falcons bounced back with a 72-61 win at Buffalo, then dismantled Central Michigan, 90-62, at "The House That Roars" ... however, UT snapped BGSU's lengthy homecourt winning streak four days later, and the Falcons then lost at Western before reeling off six-straight wins heading into the KSU rematch.
• Senior Lauren Prochaska, the MAC Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, is averaging a team-high 18.1 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 11.7 ppg to date, and leads the team with 3.6 assists per outing ... she had 17 points, tying her season high in MAC games at the time, in the win over Ohio, then exploded for 29 points at Miami.
• Pontius has made 59 three-point field goals this year, while Prochaska has hit 58 shots from long range ... Prochaska and Pontius are shooting 37.9 and 35.3 percent from beyond the arc, respectively ... Prochaska is 158-of-172 (91.9%) from the free-throw line on the year, and was fourth in the nation in that category in the latest NCAA rankings (Monday, Feb. 21) ... she was 30th in the country in scoring, while Pontius was ranked 36th in assist/turnover ratio (1.88) in the most recent NCAA listings.
• Head coach Curt Miller's starting lineup for each of the first 27 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 10.0 ppg and has hit 42 three-pointers this year to date ... she leads the Falcons in steals, with 1.7 per game (Steffen has 47 steals, Prochaska 39 and Pontius 34 this year), and is shooting 35.3% from three-point land.
• Uhl and Hennegan are averaging 9.0 and 8.9 ppg, respectively ... Uhl has 243 points to Hennegan's 239 this year to date ... Uhl is second on the team with 5.9 rpg, while Hennegan ranks third with 5.3 rpg ... Uhl has led the Falcons in rebounding in five of the last nine contests ... Hennegan is shooting a team-best 52.9% from the field, and also leads the Falcons in blocked shots (1.0 bpg).
• In MAC games, the Falcons are 5-1 at home and finished at 6-2 on the road ... BGSU has gone 7-1 vs. East Division foes and went 4-2 against the West ... all five starters are averaging at least 9.3 points per game in league action ... Prochaska has 16.4 ppg and 5.9 rpg in the 14 conference games to date ... Steffen, who scored a career-high 22 points in the home win over Ohio, has 10.9 ppg in MAC contests, good for second on the team, while Pontius has 10.1 ppg vs. league foes ... Hennegan and Uhl have 9.9 and 9.3 ppg, respectively, in conference games.
• Steffen has 4.1 rpg, 2.6 apg and 1.8 spg in MAC games, leading the team in steals and ranking second in assists ... Hennegan has 4.9 rpg and is shooting 58.3% from the field ... Uhl leads BGSU with 6.8 rebounds, while Pontius paces the club with 3.0 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.
• 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 has played in all 27 games off the bench, while Papenfuss has seen action in 26 ... Slagle and Papenfuss have 3.9 and 2.9 ppg, respectively ... Slagle has hit 12 of her 29 three-point attempts this year (41.4%), while Papenfuss has 2.1 rpg, tied for sixth on the team in that category.
• Havel has seen action in all 27 games, while Albert has played in 23 games, Stein 22 and Zuercher 20 ... all 15 players on the active roster have played in at least 11 contests.
• BGSU is shooting 41.1% from the field, 35.6% 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 38.5% from the floor and 27.8% from beyond the arc ... Falcon foes are shooting 67.6% from the stripe ... BGSU has made 195 more free throws than the opponents, and the Falcons have made 64 more free throws than the foes have attempted.
LAST TIME OUT
Senior Lauren Prochaska's three-pointer with just 0.2 seconds left lifted the Falcons to a 47-45 victory at Akron Tuesday night (Feb. 22) ... Prochaska's game-winner came after she and her teammates had struggled through a frigid shooting night ... BGSU shot just 23.8 percent from the field, and the Falcons made only three three-pointers in 21 attempts (14.3%) ... Prochaska had made only 2-of-13 shots and was 0-of-4 from beyond the arc in the first 39-plus minutes, but got open in the left corner to hit the first game-winning shot of her BG career ... Prochaska led the Falcons with 11 points, while sophomore Chrissy Steffen had 10 ... Prochaska's heroics came after UA's Rachel Tecca had scored with just 8.7 seconds left on the clock ... Tecca led all players with 14 points and 13 rebounds ... she connected on a short jumper from the right side to give the Zips a 45-44 lead ... BG quickly got the ball over midcourt and called a timeout with 5.2 seconds left ... after the teams lined up, the Falcons used another timeout before the final shot ... on that final play, Tracy Pontius dribbled from right to left across the top of the arc and threw a pass to Prochaska in the left corner, in front of the BGSU bench ... senior Maggie Hennegan set a screen to free Prochaska, who caught and fired a shot that hit nothing but net ... Prochaska nearly had a double-double, with a team-leading nine rebounds in addition to her 11 points ... BGSU held a 41-39 advantage on the boards ... the Falcons held the Zips to a 28.6% shooting night, and the teams combined for 37 turnovers (18 by BGSU, 19 by Akron) ... the game featured no fewer than 14 ties and 15 lead changes, and neither team led by more than four points all night.
A QUICK LOOK AT KENT STATE
Kent State will enter Saturday's game with an overall record of 19-7, and the Golden Flashes are 10-4 in MAC action ... KSU is in second place in the East Division, just a game behind the Falcons ... the Flashes are a perfect 8-0 against MAC East teams to date ... Kent State has won three consecutive games, with the most recent being a 68-62 home victory over Ohio on Wednesday (Feb. 23) ... the Flashes are 12-1 at home, 6-6 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games to date ... in MAC play, KSU went 7-1 at the M.A.C. Center and is 3-3 away from home ... individually, senior forward Taisja Jones leads the team in scoring and rebounding, with 16.3 points and 6.1 rebounds per game ... she has hit a team-leading 31 three-point field goals ... senior guard Jamilah Humes has 14.5 ppg and 4.4 rpg, and leads the Flashes in both assists (4.6 apg) and steals (2.6 spg) ... senior center Ellie Shields and senior forward Chenel Harris have 8.3 and 7.3 ppg, respectively ... Shields is shooting a team-best 52.0 percent from the field, while Harris has 4.8 rpg and has hit 28 three-pointers ... senior guard Stephanie Gibson (6.8 ppg, 3.8 apg) joins that quartet in the probable starting lineup for head coach Bob Lindsay ... Harris has started all 26 games this winter, while Gibson, Humes and Jones have made 25 starts apiece ... Lindsay, in his 22nd season in Kent, is the MAC's all-time wins leader, both overall and in MAC games ... he welcomed back seven letterwinners, including two starters, from last year's club ... the 2009-10 team went 20-11 overall and 12-4 in MAC play ... the school's athletics web site is kentstatesports.com.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Kent State, 44-28, in the all-time series between the teams, but KSU won this season's first meeting ... the Golden Flashes broke a 13-game BGSU series winning streak with a 44-43 win in Kent last month (Jan. 15, 2011) ... last season, the Brown and Orange swept the two meetings, including a 69-55 victory inside venerable Anderson Arena (Feb. 27, 2010) ... the Falcons are 20-10 in home games vs. Kent/Kent State, and BGSU has won five-straight meetings at "The House That Roars" since KSU's last victory at BG, in February of 2004 ... overall, KSU had won 12-straight matchups, and 17-of-18 contests, before BGSU captured the next 13 meetings heading into this season ... Curt Miller has a record of 13-5 against Kent State in his stellar BGSU career.
OBI-WAN HAS TAUGHT YOU WELL
Yes, it has been pretty well documented by now, but just in case you haven't been reading these notes for the past nine-plus years, here it is once again ... Saturday's game matches BGSU head coach Curt Miller with the man he credits for giving him his start in the coaching profession, KSU head coach Bob Lindsay ... Miller spent a year at Kent State as a graduate assistant, and was a volunteer coach on Lindsay's staff during the 1990-91 season ... the Golden Flashes finished 17-12 that year, enjoying the second-best turnaround in the nation.
PONTIUS IS BACK IN A BIG WAY; SHARES MAC P-O-W HONORS
Senior Tracy Pontius earned MAC Player-of-the-Week honors, the league office announced on Monday (Feb. 21) ... Pontius shared the East Division honor with KSU's Taisja Jones ... Pontius earned the award after shooting herself out of a recent slump, with two big games last week ... after scoring a total of 26 points over the previous five games, Pontius went 6-of-7 from the field and had 17 points in the win over Ohio (Feb. 16) ... then, she exploded for a game- and season-high 29 points in last Saturday's (Feb. 19) victory at Miami ... Pontius, who had hit only four total field goals in the three previous games, went 15-for-25 in last week's two contests ... vs. Ohio and Miami, she was a combined 9-of-16 from three-point land, including a 4-of-5 effort vs. the Bobcats and a 5-of-11 performance against the RedHawks.
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 ... that quintet is 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.
100-WIN CLASSES AT BGSU
Wins Class of... Fourth-Year Seniors
114 - 2009 - Lindsey Goldsberry
113 - 2010 - Tara Breske, Laura Bugher, Sarah Clapper
108 - 2008 - Kate Achter, Whitney Taylor
105 - 2011 - Chelsea Albert, Tracy Pontius, Lauren Prochaska, Jen Uhl, Kelly Zuercher
103 - 2007 - Amber Flynn, Julie Gompers, Liz Honegger, Carin Horne, Ali Mann, Megan Thorburn
100 - 1990 - Angie Bonner, Tecca Thompson
WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE (THAT ROARS)
BGSU has won 44 of the last 46 games in venerable Anderson Arena ... the Falcons saw a 23-game home winning streak snapped with a one-point loss to Toledo on Jan. 26 ... the only other loss in the last 46 home contests came to Indiana in the third round of the 2009 WNIT ... 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.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 23-4 this season to date; after finishing with a 27-7 record last season;
• 11-3 in MAC play this season; after going 14-2 last winter, in the process winning a sixth-straight league regular-season title;
• 229-84 since Curt Miller took the BGSU helm in May of 2001;
• 119-39 in MAC games in that time:
• 220-65 overall in the eight years (plus 27 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);
• 208-49 over the last seven-plus years, with 2010-11 marking BG's eighth-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 187-39 in the past six-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in seven-straight seasons and a MAC regular-season title each year from 2004-10;
• an eye-popping 164-31 overall, and 84-10 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) 136-28 in the last four-plus years, including a 68-10 conference ledger;
• 105-24 overall, and 53-9 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;
• 79-16 overall and 40-6 in MAC action since junior Jessica Slagle and redshirt soph Maribeth Giese ventured to NW Ohio;
• 50-11 overall and 25-5 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.);
• 102-12 in the last 114 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;
• 186-10 when having a better FG pct. than the opposition in Miller's tenure, including a 58-0 mark in the last two-plus seasons;
• 176-29 when making more free throws during Miller's first nine-plus years;
• 136-13 when outrebounding the opponent in the Miller Era;
• 49-5 in MAC home games in the last six-plus seasons;
• 42-6 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).
TREY BIEN: PROCHASKA, PONTIUS RACK UP LONG-DISTANCE FEES
The top-two long-distance shooters in BGSU history reside on the current roster ... seniors Lauren Prochaska and Tracy Pontius rank first and second, respectively, on the BGSU list for three-pointers made ... Prochaska broke the school career record last season, and now has hit 299 three-pointers since venturing to Northwest Ohio ... Pontius hit a game-high five triples in last Saturday's (Feb. 19) win at Miami, in the process moving past Liz Honegger (216 triples from 2003-07) into second place on the BGSU list ... Pontius now has 218 career threes.
PROCHASKA, PONTIUS MOVING UP MAC LIST FOR THREE-POINTERS
Falcon 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 299 shots from beyond the arc, good for second place on the MAC list ... senior Tracy Pontius is moving up that list as well, ranking 13th with 218 career three-pointers made heading into the KSU game.
SHE'S A SCORER
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 113 of her 129 career games ... she has scored 20 or more points in a game 13 times this season and 46 times in her 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.
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 have been 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 the Feb. 5 win over Ball State ... the final women's game inside "The House That Roars" will be Wednesday (March 2) vs. Buffalo ... next Saturday (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.
MILLER MOVES UP
Falcon head coach Curt Miller became the winningest coach in program history long ago ... now, Miller has moved up another notch on the Mid-American Conference list ... BGSU's 73-61 win at Miami last Saturday afternoon (Feb. 19) was the 118th MAC victory of Miller's career, moving him into sole possession of third place on the conference list ... Miller moved past former BG and Central Michigan coach Fran Voll, who had 117 MAC victories in his career ... overall, Miller now has 229 career wins and 119 MAC wins after the Akron game – both totals are the third highest among MAC coaches ... Kent State's Bob Lindsay tops each list, while former Toledo coach Mark Ehlen is second on both the MAC's overall and league-only wins lists.
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 Kent State game, Pontius has a total of 1,313 points as a Falcon ... over 1,200 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.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Senior Lauren Prochaska's double-double in the win at Eastern Michigan (Feb. 12) was her third of the season, and was the Falcons' second in as many games ... Prochaska had 37 points and 12 rebounds vs. the Eagles ... seven days prior, senior Jen Uhl had a double-double in the win over Ball State ... Prochaska now has 12 career double-doubles, while Uhl has five ... Uhl has two double-doubles this season ... two other seniors, Maggie Hennegan and Tracy Pontius, each have one double-double at BGSU, with both coming this season ... Hennegan has six in her collegiate career, with five coming during her two seasons at Saint Louis University ... her lone double-double at BGSU to date came at Evansville in the 2010-11 opener ... Pontius had a points-assists double-double in the Falcons' win over Cal State Fullerton (Dec. 4).
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 11.5 points and 7.6 rebounds per game over the last eight contests, leading the team in boards and ranking second in scoring ... 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 ... she had 15 points at Miami ... Uhl hit a career-high four triples in the NIU game ... she is averaging 9.3 ppg and a team-leading 6.8 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 8.9 points and 5.3 rebounds per game this year ... in conference games, she has 9.9 ppg and is shooting over 58 percent from the field ... Hennegan had 16 points, matching her BGSU career best, in the win at NIU ... she nearly had a double-double at Miami (Feb. 19), with nine points and 11 rebounds ... Hennegan has scored in double digits nine times this year, including six in MAC play ... and, she has shot better than 71% from the three-point line in MAC games, having made five of her seven 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 the win over Ohio (Feb. 16), and had 13 more points at Miami three days later ... she is averaging 10.0 points per game and has made 42 three-point field goals, ranking third on the team in both categories ... she is also third in assists (2.0 apg) this year ... in MAC games only, Steffen has 10.9 ppg and has made 23 shots from three-point land ... she ranks third in both categories, and is second in assists (2.6 apg) ... at the defensive end, Steffen leads the Falcons in steals, both overall (1.7 spg) and in MAC games (1.8 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 8.9 points and 5.3 rebounds per game ... 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.
