Bowling Green State University Athletics
Wednesday, December 5
Bowling Green, OH
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Butler
BGSU Battles Butler Wednesday Night at the Stroh
December 04, 2012 | Women's Basketball
Falcons face Bulldogs to close three-game homestand
BGSU NOTES & STATS | BUTLER NOTES & STATS
2012-13 BGSU MEDIA GUIDE
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KIDS ADMITTED FREE
All kids ages 12 and under will be admitted free to Wednesday night's game ... kids must go to the ticket window to receive a free ticket, and all free tickets will be for sections 108, 109 and 110 ... this offer will be extended for all midweek men's and women's basketball games throughout the entire season, with the exception of the Dec. 18 men's game vs. Michigan State.
QUICK HITS
• The Falcons scored the first 15 points of the game on Saturday afternoon (Dec. 1), taking control early en route to a 71-49 win over Colorado State ... BGSU held the Rams to just four first-half field goals, and had a 31-14 lead at the break ... the visitors shot just 21.1 percent from the field in the opening half, and BG held a 28-13 rebounding advantage in the first 20 minutes.
• For the game, the Falcons outrebounded the Rams by a 48-31 count, with point guard Jillian Halfhill leading the way ... the 5-6 junior had the first double-double of her career, scoring 10 points and obliterating her previous rebounding high with 13 ... her prior best had been six rebounds, set seven days earlier against another Mountain West Conference team (UNLV) ... on Saturday, Halfhill had eight rebounds in the first half alone.
• Halfhill was not the only BGSU player who set career standards on Saturday ... another junior, Jill Stein, scored 11 points, the highest total of her Falcon career to date ... additionally, Stein hit her first collegiate three-point field goal early in the second half against the Rams.
• Freshman Miriam Justinger also set a career scoring high, with 12 points vs. CSU ... Justinger led the team in scoring for the first time in her brief BGSU tenure.
• Through seven games, no fewer than seven different players have led the team in scoring at least once ... seniors Danielle Havel, Allison Papenfuss and Chrissy Steffen, Halfhill and sophomore Jasmine Matthews each paced the Falcons in the scoring column once over the first five games ... redshirt junior Alexis Rogers shared scoring honors with Steffen for the Falcons against Temple last week (Nov. 28), and Justinger led the way on Saturday.
• A total of 11 players have seen action for the Falcons this season to date ... no fewer than nine of those players have posted a double-digit scoring total at least once ... that list includes Halfhill, Havel, Justinger, Matthews, Papenfuss, Rogers, Steffen, Stein and freshman Bailey Cairnduff.
• The Falcons got a total of 36 points from players off of the bench on Saturday, more than double the team's previous high this season (17 at Purdue).
• The BG starters were more than holding their own, however ... the Falcons' starting five combined for 24 points in the first half of play, while holding CSU's starters to just two points ... for the game, BG's starters outscored the Rams, 35-20, while the bench players had a 36-29 scoring advantage ... only two BG players saw more than 24 minutes of action.
ROOS = SUCCESS
• BGSU began the regular-season schedule with a 68-57 win over Madonna, the first official victory of the Jennifer Roos Era ... Roos was hired as the Falcons' head coach on April 16, 2012.
• Roos, of course, has been on the BGSU staff for over a decade, having been Curt Miller's first hire when he took the job in 2001 ... Roos spent three seasons as an assistant coach, and served as Miller's associate head coach for the last eight years ... BGSU captured Mid-American Conference divisional titles in each of those eight years, winning the MAC regular-season title outright in seven of those seasons.
• BGSU has gone 262-95 overall and 135-41 in MAC play since Roos arrived at BG ... those numbers represent a success rate of nearly 74 percent overall and a winning percentage of almost 77% in conference action.
• Over the last nine-plus years, the numbers are even more staggering ... the Falcons are 241-60 (80.1%) overall, 124-20 (86.1%) in MAC regular-season play and 145-24 (85.7%) in all games vs. league foes during that time ... BGSU has won more than 20 games in each of the last nine seasons, a MAC record.
• Although the Madonna game marked the 'official' head-coaching debut for Roos, as well as her first 'official' win, it was not her first regular-season contest in charge of the Falcons ... when Miller suffered a mild stroke in January of 2012, Roos assumed interim head-coaching duties and led BGSU to a 2-0 record, with wins on the road against Central Michigan and at home vs. Northern Illinois prior to Miller's return to the bench in early February.
WINNING THE BATTLE OF THE BOARDS
The Falcons enjoyed a 48-31 rebounding advantage vs. Colorado State ... BGSU had a 28-13 edge in the first half, with the Falcons' 13 offensive boards matching CSU's total at both ends of the floor ... BG has outrebounded the opponent in five of this year's seven games, and the Falcons have a rebounding margin of +5.6.
DOING IT WITH DEFENSE
The Falcons got out to a 15-0 lead against Colorado State ... BGSU shot a respectable 5-for-12 from the floor in building that 15-point margin to start the game ... but, the Falcons enjoyed a great deal of success at the defensive end during that time ... BG forced the Rams to go 0-for-8 from the field with four turnovers in the first eight-plus minutes of the game ... CSU did not make a field goal until 11:05 remained in the half, and the Rams hit only four shots from the floor over the entire period.
DOING IT WITH FRESHMEN, TOO
BGSU's two freshmen, Miriam Justinger and Bailey Cairnduff, combined to score the Falcons' final 13 points of the game on Saturday vs. CSU ... Justinger scored seven points in the final 2:52, while Cairnduff had six in the last 4:40 of the contest ... each first-year Falcon made an 'and-one' layup and converted the ensuing free throw during that stretch ... the duo combined for 20 points in 21 minutes, as Justinger had a team-leading 12 points in just 10 minutes of action, while Cairnduff had eight points in 11 minutes vs. the Rams.
BGSU AN ATLANTIC 10 AFFILIATE MEMBER?
Wednesday's opponent, Butler, is one of four teams the Falcons will face from the Atlantic 10 Conference ... BG played Temple at the Stroh Center last week, and the Falcons also will meet Massachusetts (Dec. 19) and nationally-ranked Dayton (Dec. 30).
OR PERHAPS THE MOUNTAIN WEST?
Colorado State was the second of three Mountain West Conference opponents the Falcons will face in a span of roughly three weeks ... BGSU is 2-0 vs. the MWC to date, having posted a 64-54 win over UNLV in Sin City on Nov. 25 ... Wyoming will come to the Stroh Center to face the Falcons one week from Sunday (Dec. 16).
THE REST OF THE NON-LEAGUE SLATE
In addition to the four Atlantic 10 and three MWC opponents, the Falcons' non-conference schedule includes two foes from the Big Ten Conference (Purdue and Northwestern) and one each from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (Niagara), Big East Conference (Villanova) and Conference USA (UCF) ... BGSU also faced one school (Madonna) from the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference of the NAIA ... all of this, of course, is assuming none of these schools have changed conferences in the last few hours.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Butler game with a record of 4-3 on the young season ... BGSU opened the 2012-13 campaign with a 68-57 win over Madonna at the Stroh Center (Nov. 10), then hit the road and posted a 79-74 victory at Niagara (Nov. 15) ... BG then suffered back-to-back losses at Purdue (45-59; Nov. 19) and against Villanova, with the latter setback coming by a 53-42 score in Las Vegas (Nov. 24).
• The Brown and Orange bounced back with a 64-54 win over host UNLV (Nov. 25), before falling to Temple, 70-56, last Wednesday night (Nov. 28) at the Stroh ... again, though, after losing to a Philadelphia school, the Falcons responded with a win over a Mountain West Conference foe ... BG topped Colorado State, 71-49, at the Stroh on Saturday (Dec. 1).
• Senior Chrissy Steffen paces a balanced Falcon scoring attack, with 11.4 points per game to date ... she has 4.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game, and leads the Brown and Orange with 12 successful three-point field goals this season.
• Junior Jillian Halfhill and fifth-year senior Danielle Havel are averaging 9.6 and 8.6 ppg, respectively ... the two rank 1-2 in assists, with Halfhill averaging 2.3 assists per game and Havel dishing out 2.1 apg ... Havel leads the Falcons in rebounding, with 6.1 boards per game, and in blocked shots (0.9 bpg) ... Havel and Steffen each have eight steals on the season, while Halfhill has six.
• Redshirt junior Alexis Rogers has 6.8 ppg, while sophomore Jasmine Matthews averages 5.8 ppg ... Rogers has 5.8 rpg to rank second on the team, while Matthews is second on the Falcons with 1.3 three-pointers made per game.
• Freshman Miriam Justinger has 4.7 ppg, while classmate Bailey Cairnduff and junior Jill Stein have 4.3 ppg apiece ... Justinger is shooting .783 from the free-throw line, second on the team behind Havel (.923) ... Cairnduff has made six three-pointers to tie for fourth on the Falcons ... Stein has 4.7 rebounds per game to tie for third on the team, and she also is deadlocked for third on the Falcons in steals.
• Senior Allison Papenfuss has 4.0 ppg and 3.9 rpg, while junior Katrina Salinas has 2.3 ppg ... sophomore Deborah Hoekstra has played in three games this season, and is averaging 1.7 ppg.
• Halfhill, Havel and Steffen each have started all seven games to date, while Rogers has made six starts ... Cairnduff started the first four games of the season, while Matthews has been in the starting lineup in each of the last three contests.
• Head coach Jennifer Roos welcomed back nine letterwinners, including four starters, from a year ago ... the Brown and Orange went 24-7 overall and 14-2 in the MAC in 2011-12 ... two of those starters, Steffen and Rogers, were selected to the Preseason All-MAC Team in 2012-13 ... Steffen led the Falcons in scoring last season, with 13.2 points per game, and also averaged 5.0 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.8 steals.
• Rogers averaged 12.3 points and a team-leading 8.7 rebounds per game, and was named to the All-MAC First Team in her first playing season with the Falcons (Steffen earned All-MAC Second-Team honors last year) ... Rogers also was a WBCA Coaches' All-America Team honorable-mention selection in '11-12.
• Rogers was a 2012-13 Preseason All-MAC First-Team selection by the College Sports Madness web site, while Steffen was a preseason all-league second-team choice.
• In addition to Rogers and Steffen, Havel returned after starting all 31 games a year ago ... Havel averaged 6.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.6 steals and a team-high 0.7 blocked shots ... Matthews is back after making 21 starts as a freshman ... Matthews, who averaged 7.0 points per game as a freshman, hit 51 three-point field goals, the second-highest total on the team last winter.
• Halfhill returned after playing in all 31 games last year, starting the first 10 ... she averaged 4.3 ppg a year ago ... the other returnees include seniors Hoekstra, Papenfuss, Stein and senior Simone Eli.
• Four newcomers joined the program this season ... one of those four, Erica Donovan, will sit out the season after transferring from North Carolina State Univ. ... she played in all 35 games for the Wolfpack a year ago, averaging 4.9 points and 2.5 rebounds per game ... Donovan, who graduated from John Jay H.S. in Northside, Texas, attended Notre Dame Academy in Toledo as a freshman.
• Salinas also joined BGSU as a transfer, as she came to Northwest Ohio after two years at Central Arizona College ... Salinas averaged 10.3 points and 4.1 assists last year, and helped the Vaqueras to a 20-0 league record and a 10th consecutive appearance in the NJCAA national tournament.
• Freshmen Cairnduff (Morley, Mich.) and Justinger (Sylvania, Ohio) joined the Falcons this season after each earned first-team all-state honors last year ... Cairnduff finished her career at Morley Stanwood H.S. as the school's all-time leading scorer, helping the Mohawks to state titles in both volleyball and basketball last year ... Justinger helped Northview H.S. to a 21-2 record last season, averaging 19.6 points per game to lead the Northern Lakes League in scoring.
• The Falcons are shooting .356 from the field, and BG is .307 from three-point range and .701 from the free-throw line through the first seven games ... the opponents have shot .409 from the floor, .280 from beyond the arc and .711 from the stripe ... the Falcons have a rebounding margin of +5.6.
A QUICK LOOK AT BUTLER
Butler is 3-4 on the year ... the Bulldogs are 2-1 at home, 1-2 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site games to date ... BU has been idle since a 65-59 home win over Eastern Michigan last Wednesday (Nov. 28) ... the team is 2-0 against MAC schools, with a 70-62 win at Ball State on Nov. 13 ... a pair of transfers rank 1-2 on the team in scoring ... sophomore G/F Taylor Schippers (Oklahoma State) is averaging 19.0 points per game to date, while junior forward Daress McClung (Cincinnati) has 17.0 ppg ... McClung also has team-leading averages of 7.9 rebounds and 2.4 blocked shots per game ... head coach Beth Couture welcomed back six letterwinners, including three starters, from the 2011-12 team ... last year, the Bulldogs went 13-17 overall and 9-9 in Horizon League play ... BU is now a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
THE SERIES
BGSU and Butler are tied, 3-3, in the all-time series between the schools ... the Bulldogs will be the first team to face the Falcons twice in the Stroh Center ... just over a year ago, the Brown and Orange posted a 71-61 victory over visiting BU (Dec. 3, 2011) ... two years ago, the Falcons headed to Indianapolis and came away with a 73-64 win (Dec. 29, 2010) ... the first four series meetings came within a six-year span ... BGSU downed the Bulldogs, 85-67, in neutral-site play at the UCF Turkey Shootout in Orlando, Fla. (Nov. 28, 1997) ... later that same season, the Bulldogs came to venerable Anderson Arena and posted a 95-90 win in the first round of the WNIT (March 13, 1998) ... BU pulled out a 78-73 overtime win in Curt Miller's first season at the BG helm (Dec. 4, 2001) ... exactly one year later, Butler posted a 61-54 win at "The House That Roars" ... BGSU has records of 1-2 in home games, 1-1 in road contests and 1-0 in neutral-site meetings with the Bulldogs.
UP NEXT
Following the Butler game, the Falcons will hit the road for two of the next three games, beginning Sunday (Dec. 9) at Northwestern ... that game is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. local time (2:00 p.m. ET) at Welsh-Ryan Arena ... BGSU will return home to face Wyoming on Sunday, Dec. 16, then will play at Massachusetts on Dec. 19 ... following the UMass game and a break for the holidays, the Falcons will begin a season-long five-game homestand against Dayton on Dec. 30 at the Stroh Center.
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