Bowling Green State University Athletics
Wednesday, January 4
Bowling Green, Ohio
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Kent State
Freshman Deborah Hoekstra & the Falcons host Kent State Wednesday (photo by Brad Phalin)
Falcons Host Kent State to Begin MAC Play
January 03, 2012 | Women's Basketball
BGSU starts a three-game homestand by facing Golden Flashes on Wednesday night
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, coming off a pair of road wins in Mountain West Conference country, returns home for the next three games ... the Falcons of head coach Curt Miller begin both the 2012 calendar year and the Mid-American Conference schedule with a three-game homestand, starting with Wednesday's (Jan. 4) game against Kent State University ... tipoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. inside BGSU's brand-new Stroh Center.
HANDY LINKS
BGSU NOTES & STATS | KSU NOTES & STATS
LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO | LIVE AUDIO | TICKETS
BGSU STATS | BGSU MEDIA GUIDE
CAREER STATS OF 2011-12 FALCONS
FALCONS DEFEAT WYOMING | AND COLORADO STATE
STEFFEN HONORED BY COLLEGE SPORTS MADNESS | AND THE MAC OFFICE
QUICK HITS
• Wednesday's game features the coaches ranked first and second in Mid-American Conference history in wins ... Falcon head coach Curt Miller, in his 11th season at BGSU, is second on the MAC's all-time win list with a total of 244 overall victories ... the man Miller credits with giving him his start in the coaching business, KSU coach Bob Lindsay, has a total of 413 wins in his legendary career with the Golden Flashes.
• In MAC games only, Lindsay has 255 victories to lead all other coaches by a triple-digit margin ... Miller ranks third on that chart with a career total of 121 MAC wins ... the complete lists are on page 11 of the attached BGSU game-notes PDF.
• Miller spent a year on Lindsay's staff two decades ago ... Miller was a graduate assistant at Kent State in 1990-91, and was a volunteer coach on the women's basketball staff ... the Golden Flashes finished 17-12 that year, and enjoyed the second-best turnaround in the nation.
• Miller got a win at another former coaching stop over the weekend, as the Falcons downed Colorado State, 70-57, Saturday afternoon (Dec. 31) ... it was Miller's first time on the Moby Arena sideline since the 2000-01 campaign ... he came to BG in 2001 after spending three years as CSU's associate head coach (under BGSU grad Tom Collen) ... while in Fort Collins, Miller helped the Rams go 81-20 and make a pair of NCAA Championships appearances.
• Junior Chrissy Steffen earned numerous honors on Monday (Jan. 2) for her exploits on the team's post-Christmas trip ... Steffen was named National High-Major Player of the Week by the College Sports Madness web site, and also took home MAC P-O-W accolades from that site.
• Later on Monday, the MAC office named Steffen the league's East Division P-O-W ... Steffen earned all three honors for the first time in her career ... she averaged 20.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals in the Falcons' road wins over a pair of Mountain West Conference teams.
• Steffen had 15 points in the Falcons' 60-53 win at Wyoming (Dec. 29), hitting a game-high three three-pointers ... at Colorado State, she almost singlehandedly lifted the Falcons out of an early-game offensive slump, and finished with a career-high 25 points vs. the Rams.
• Steffen also had seven boards, four assists and three steals vs. the Rams ... she scored 16 first-half points in a nine-minute stretch, including her own personal 8-0 run, which came in a span of just 92 seconds and gave BGSU the lead for good.
• The win over CSU closed the non-conference schedule, and gave the Falcons a 10-3 record ... BGSU has posted a double-digit win total in non-league play in each of the last six seasons, a MAC record ... in fact, no other league team has had more than two such seasons – consecutive or non-consecutive – in MAC history.
• The Falcons, after beginning the season with a pair of losses, have won 10 of the last 11 games ... the lone loss in that time came by two points (49-47) at Creighton on Dec. 18.
• BGSU went a perfect 4-0 against first-time opponents, with a pair of home wins by an average of 40 points before the wins on the Wyoming-CSU trip ... in addition to UW and Colorado State, the Falcons had never met Jacksonville (83-53 win on Dec. 11) or Madonna (91-41 on Dec. 21) prior to the 2011-12 season.
• Senior Jessica Slagle scored a career-high 16 points in the win in Laramie ... she did most of her damage at the free-throw line, making 12 charity tosses in 16 attempts ... Slagle doubled her previous career bests in both FTM and FTA.
• In addition to her career-high point total, Slagle matched her career standard with four assists vs. Wyoming ... the senior tri-captain played a career-high 35 minutes in the win ... a day-and-a-half later, Slagle set a new career best with five assists in the victory vs. Colorado State ... she had not had more than two assists in a game this season, prior to the UW win.
• Freshman Jasmine Matthews, after hitting a total of eight three-point field goals in this season's first 10 games, has made eight over the last three contests ... she tied her career high with a pair of treys vs. Madonna, hit two more shots from behind the arc at Wyoming, then doubled her previous career best with four triples in the win over Colorado State ... she was 4-for-8 from the arc against the Rams, en route to a career-best 12 points.
• BGSU had 33 rebounds to Colorado State's 31 on Saturday ... it marked the eighth-straight game that the Falcons have held the advantage on the boards ... BG had been outrebounded in each of the season's first five games ... the Falcons are 7-1 this season and 155-14 in the Miller Era when outrebounding the opponent.
• Coincidentally (or perhaps not), the Falcons' eight-game rebounding streak came after freshman Kaila Hulls was unofficially named the team's 'rebounding coach' ... Hulls, who is sitting out the season due to injury, has had much more success in the 'rebounding coach' department than her predecessor, assistant coach Kevin Eckert.
• Eckert may be 0-for-5 as 'rebounding coach' this season, but he has been a good-luck charm in another area ... BGSU's win at Wyoming came on Dec. 29, which also happens to be Eckert's birthday ... the Falcons are now a perfect 7-0 in games played on Dec. 29 since Eckert joined the program in 2002-03.
• After going with the same starting lineup for the first 10 games of the year, Miller made a change for the Madonna game ... Matthews joined Slagle, Steffen, redshirt junior Danielle Havel and redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers in the starting five vs. the Crusaders ... Matthews now has started each of the last three games for the Brown and Orange.
• Matthews became the first freshman to start a game for BGSU in four seasons ... then-freshmen Lauren Prochaska and Crystal Murdaugh each started all 34 games in 2007-08, while Chelsea Albert made six starts that season.
• Last season, the Falcons had a total of 242 steals, averaging 7.3 per game ... this year, BGSU already has 143 steals through 13 games, for an average of 11.0 per contest ... BG is averaging those 11 thefts per game after posting a total of 12 steals only once in 33 games last winter.
WAYS TO FOLLOW BGSU-KENT STATE
The best way to follow BGSU women's basketball, of course, is to be at the Stroh Center on Wednesday night when the Falcons host Kent State ... but, fans who can't make it to a BG game can follow the Falcons all year long in a variety of ways ...
• RADIO/AUDIO STREAM: The Kent State game – like every game on the 2011-12 schedule – can be heard on the radio at WBGU-FM 88.1, and the audio stream will be available, free of charge, at BGSUFalcons.com.
• TELEVISION: Six of the Falcons' home games – including the KSU contest – are scheduled to be televised in the Toledo area on BCSN ... two additional games at the Stroh Center, along with one road contest, will be aired as the MAC Game of the Week by SportsTime Ohio ... the televised games can be found in the schedule on page 1 of these notes.
• VIDEO STREAMING: All home games will be available via live video stream, through B2/America One, for a small fee ... fans can watch the action on their computers by visiting BGSUFalcons.com and clicking on the America One logo on the right-hand side of the page ... a number of the Falcons' road games also will have live video, at the jurisdiction of the host school, and the link(s) will be available at BGSUFalcons.com ... the video production for home games is courtesy of the campus television station, WBGU-TV.
• LIVE STATS: Links are also available at BGSUFalcons.com for live stats for all home games (and all road games in which the host team provides live stats [which should be all road games]).
The links to the audio, video and stats can be found at BGSUFalcons.com, in the 'schedule' section on the home page, or by accessing the women's basketball schedule and choosing that day's game.
HANDY LINKS
BGSU NOTES & STATS | KSU NOTES & STATS
LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO | LIVE AUDIO | TICKETS
BGSU STATS | BGSU MEDIA GUIDE
CAREER STATS OF 2011-12 FALCONS
FALCONS DEFEAT WYOMING | AND COLORADO STATE
STEFFEN HONORED BY COLLEGE SPORTS MADNESS | AND THE MAC OFFICE
QUICK HITS
• Wednesday's game features the coaches ranked first and second in Mid-American Conference history in wins ... Falcon head coach Curt Miller, in his 11th season at BGSU, is second on the MAC's all-time win list with a total of 244 overall victories ... the man Miller credits with giving him his start in the coaching business, KSU coach Bob Lindsay, has a total of 413 wins in his legendary career with the Golden Flashes.
• In MAC games only, Lindsay has 255 victories to lead all other coaches by a triple-digit margin ... Miller ranks third on that chart with a career total of 121 MAC wins ... the complete lists are on page 11 of the attached BGSU game-notes PDF.
• Miller spent a year on Lindsay's staff two decades ago ... Miller was a graduate assistant at Kent State in 1990-91, and was a volunteer coach on the women's basketball staff ... the Golden Flashes finished 17-12 that year, and enjoyed the second-best turnaround in the nation.
• Miller got a win at another former coaching stop over the weekend, as the Falcons downed Colorado State, 70-57, Saturday afternoon (Dec. 31) ... it was Miller's first time on the Moby Arena sideline since the 2000-01 campaign ... he came to BG in 2001 after spending three years as CSU's associate head coach (under BGSU grad Tom Collen) ... while in Fort Collins, Miller helped the Rams go 81-20 and make a pair of NCAA Championships appearances.
• Junior Chrissy Steffen earned numerous honors on Monday (Jan. 2) for her exploits on the team's post-Christmas trip ... Steffen was named National High-Major Player of the Week by the College Sports Madness web site, and also took home MAC P-O-W accolades from that site.
• Later on Monday, the MAC office named Steffen the league's East Division P-O-W ... Steffen earned all three honors for the first time in her career ... she averaged 20.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals in the Falcons' road wins over a pair of Mountain West Conference teams.
• Steffen had 15 points in the Falcons' 60-53 win at Wyoming (Dec. 29), hitting a game-high three three-pointers ... at Colorado State, she almost singlehandedly lifted the Falcons out of an early-game offensive slump, and finished with a career-high 25 points vs. the Rams.
• Steffen also had seven boards, four assists and three steals vs. the Rams ... she scored 16 first-half points in a nine-minute stretch, including her own personal 8-0 run, which came in a span of just 92 seconds and gave BGSU the lead for good.
• The win over CSU closed the non-conference schedule, and gave the Falcons a 10-3 record ... BGSU has posted a double-digit win total in non-league play in each of the last six seasons, a MAC record ... in fact, no other league team has had more than two such seasons – consecutive or non-consecutive – in MAC history.
• The Falcons, after beginning the season with a pair of losses, have won 10 of the last 11 games ... the lone loss in that time came by two points (49-47) at Creighton on Dec. 18.
• BGSU went a perfect 4-0 against first-time opponents, with a pair of home wins by an average of 40 points before the wins on the Wyoming-CSU trip ... in addition to UW and Colorado State, the Falcons had never met Jacksonville (83-53 win on Dec. 11) or Madonna (91-41 on Dec. 21) prior to the 2011-12 season.
• Senior Jessica Slagle scored a career-high 16 points in the win in Laramie ... she did most of her damage at the free-throw line, making 12 charity tosses in 16 attempts ... Slagle doubled her previous career bests in both FTM and FTA.
• In addition to her career-high point total, Slagle matched her career standard with four assists vs. Wyoming ... the senior tri-captain played a career-high 35 minutes in the win ... a day-and-a-half later, Slagle set a new career best with five assists in the victory vs. Colorado State ... she had not had more than two assists in a game this season, prior to the UW win.
• Freshman Jasmine Matthews, after hitting a total of eight three-point field goals in this season's first 10 games, has made eight over the last three contests ... she tied her career high with a pair of treys vs. Madonna, hit two more shots from behind the arc at Wyoming, then doubled her previous career best with four triples in the win over Colorado State ... she was 4-for-8 from the arc against the Rams, en route to a career-best 12 points.
• BGSU had 33 rebounds to Colorado State's 31 on Saturday ... it marked the eighth-straight game that the Falcons have held the advantage on the boards ... BG had been outrebounded in each of the season's first five games ... the Falcons are 7-1 this season and 155-14 in the Miller Era when outrebounding the opponent.
• Coincidentally (or perhaps not), the Falcons' eight-game rebounding streak came after freshman Kaila Hulls was unofficially named the team's 'rebounding coach' ... Hulls, who is sitting out the season due to injury, has had much more success in the 'rebounding coach' department than her predecessor, assistant coach Kevin Eckert.
• Eckert may be 0-for-5 as 'rebounding coach' this season, but he has been a good-luck charm in another area ... BGSU's win at Wyoming came on Dec. 29, which also happens to be Eckert's birthday ... the Falcons are now a perfect 7-0 in games played on Dec. 29 since Eckert joined the program in 2002-03.
• After going with the same starting lineup for the first 10 games of the year, Miller made a change for the Madonna game ... Matthews joined Slagle, Steffen, redshirt junior Danielle Havel and redshirt sophomore Alexis Rogers in the starting five vs. the Crusaders ... Matthews now has started each of the last three games for the Brown and Orange.
• Matthews became the first freshman to start a game for BGSU in four seasons ... then-freshmen Lauren Prochaska and Crystal Murdaugh each started all 34 games in 2007-08, while Chelsea Albert made six starts that season.
• Last season, the Falcons had a total of 242 steals, averaging 7.3 per game ... this year, BGSU already has 143 steals through 13 games, for an average of 11.0 per contest ... BG is averaging those 11 thefts per game after posting a total of 12 steals only once in 33 games last winter.
WAYS TO FOLLOW BGSU-KENT STATE
The best way to follow BGSU women's basketball, of course, is to be at the Stroh Center on Wednesday night when the Falcons host Kent State ... but, fans who can't make it to a BG game can follow the Falcons all year long in a variety of ways ...
• RADIO/AUDIO STREAM: The Kent State game – like every game on the 2011-12 schedule – can be heard on the radio at WBGU-FM 88.1, and the audio stream will be available, free of charge, at BGSUFalcons.com.
• TELEVISION: Six of the Falcons' home games – including the KSU contest – are scheduled to be televised in the Toledo area on BCSN ... two additional games at the Stroh Center, along with one road contest, will be aired as the MAC Game of the Week by SportsTime Ohio ... the televised games can be found in the schedule on page 1 of these notes.
• VIDEO STREAMING: All home games will be available via live video stream, through B2/America One, for a small fee ... fans can watch the action on their computers by visiting BGSUFalcons.com and clicking on the America One logo on the right-hand side of the page ... a number of the Falcons' road games also will have live video, at the jurisdiction of the host school, and the link(s) will be available at BGSUFalcons.com ... the video production for home games is courtesy of the campus television station, WBGU-TV.
• LIVE STATS: Links are also available at BGSUFalcons.com for live stats for all home games (and all road games in which the host team provides live stats [which should be all road games]).
The links to the audio, video and stats can be found at BGSUFalcons.com, in the 'schedule' section on the home page, or by accessing the women's basketball schedule and choosing that day's game.
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