Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Ranked 11th in Nation on WBCA Academic Honor Roll
July 11, 2011 | Women's Basketball
BGSU Earns a Third-Straight Top-15 Ranking
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team – having won Mid-American Conference championships in each of the last seven seasons – obviously had yet another successful season on the court in 2010-11. And, head coach Curt Miller's program had another highly-successful campaign in the classroom as well, having earned national recognition for the third consecutive year.
The Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) has announced its 2010-11 Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll, and BGSU is ranked 11th in the entire nation on the NCAA Division I list. The announcement marks the third-straight year that the Falcons are in the top 15. BG was ranked fifth on the 2008-09 list and sixth on last year's chart.
The WBCA awards recognized teams throughout the country that have the highest grade point averages (GPA) for the 2010-11 season based upon nominations submitted by WBCA-member coaches.
Miller's Falcons had a team GPA of 3.433 for the '10-11 campaign. BGSU is one of only two Mid-American Conference programs on the list, and the Falcons are one of four programs from the state of Ohio in the Division-I Top 25. Dayton ranked ninth, Akron 14th and Youngstown State 17th on the list.
On the hardwood, BGSU won MAC's East Division championship, marking the seventh consecutive season that the Falcons had won a conference regular-season crown of some sort. The Brown and Orange posted a 13-3 league mark, then won the MAC Tournament title to advance to the NCAA Championships for the fifth time in seven seasons. The 2010-11 campaign marked BGSU's seventh-straight season with a national postseason appearance.
The Falcons are one of seven schools to make an appearance in the 2011 NCAA Championships and on the WBCA Top 25 Team Honor Roll. The other such schools are South Dakota State (1st on the WBCA list), DePaul (3rd), Hartford (7th), Dayton, Montana (13th) and Green Bay (19th).
BGSU made the list for the fourth time in the last five seasons. In addition to each of the last three years, the Falcons also made the WBCA Top 25 Team Honor Roll in 2006-07 (23rd, 3.300 GPA).
The 2011 WBCA Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for NCAA Division I is as follows:
| Institution | 2010-11 Head Coach |
Team GPA
|
|
|
1 |
South Dakota State University |
Aaron Johnston |
3.666 |
|
2 |
Bucknell University |
Kathy Fedorjaka |
3.632 |
|
3 |
DePaul University |
Douglas Bruno |
3.582 |
|
4 |
Creighton University |
Jim Flanery |
3.527 |
|
5 |
Utah Valley University |
Cathy Nixon |
3.524 |
|
6 |
Indiana State University |
Teri Moren |
3.518 |
|
7 |
University of Hartford |
Jennifer Rizzoti |
3.456 |
|
8 |
University of New Mexico |
Yvonne Sanchez |
3.454 |
|
9 |
University of Dayton |
James Jabir |
3.445 |
|
10 |
Canisius College |
Terrence Zeh |
3.441 |
|
11 |
Bowling Green State University |
Curt Miller |
3.433 |
|
12 |
Montana State University-Bozeman |
Tricia Binford |
3.419 |
|
13 |
University of Montana |
Robin Selvig |
3.411 |
|
14 |
University of Akron |
Jodi Kest |
3.405 |
|
15 |
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
Sandy Botham |
3.402 |
|
16 |
Oakland University |
Beckie Francis |
3.399 |
|
17 |
Youngstown State University |
Robert Boldon |
3.395 |
|
18 |
University of South Dakota |
Ryun Williams |
3.390 |
|
19 |
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay |
Matthew Bollant |
3.378 |
|
20 |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
Phil Stern |
3.374 |
|
21 |
Lipscomb University |
Frank Bennett |
3.373 |
|
T22 |
University of North Dakota |
Gene Roebuck |
3.358 |
|
T22 |
University of Northern Colorado |
Jaime White |
3.358 |
|
24 |
University of Evansville |
Oties Epps |
3.340 |
|
25 |
University of Denver |
Erik Johnson |
3.335 |
