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BGSU Journeys to Chicagoland for Sunday's Northwestern Game
December 07, 2012 | Women's Basketball
BGSU NOTES & STATS | NORTHWESTERN NOTES & STATS
2012-13 BGSU MEDIA GUIDE | Sentinel-Tribune feature on Danielle Havel
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QUICK HITS
• The Falcons used a fast-shooting start to the second half to pull away from visiting Butler Wednesday night (Dec. 5) at the Stroh Center ... BGSU, leading by four points at the half, made 6-of-7 shots to begin the second period en route to a 67-47 win ... the Falcons shot 55.6% from the floor in that second half, and had a season-high field-goal percentage of 45.8% for the night.
• BGSU has held each of the last two opponents under 50 points ... the Falcons defeated Colorado State, 71-49, on Saturday (Dec. 1) before downing Butler ... the BG defense forced 37 turnovers in the last two games, and allowed the Rams and Bulldogs to shoot a combined 34.3% from the field.
• For the second-straight game, head coach Jennifer Roos got great production from her bench players ... against Colorado State, the starters combined for 35 points, with the players off the bench scoring 36 ... in the Butler game, the bench again outscored the starters by a single point ... the BG reserves outscored the BU bench players, 34-7, while the Falcon starters combined for 33 points in the victory.
• Northwestern is the second Big Ten Conference opponent the Falcons will face this season ... BGSU suffered a 59-45 loss on the road against then-#14/14 Purdue roughly three weeks ago (Nov. 19).
• Many members of the Falcon travel party will recognize a familiar face when the team arrives in Evanston this weekend ... Janna Blais, deputy director of athletics at Northwestern, joined NU in February of 2010 after over a decade as the Senior Woman Administrator at BGSU ... among other duties with the Falcons, Blais was the sport coordinator for the women's basketball program.
• Northwestern's Mid-American Conference ties do not end there ... in addition to Blais, NU director of athletics Jim Phillips was in the MAC, serving as AD at Northern Illinois for four years prior to coming to Evanston ... additionally, NU women's basketball coach Joe McKeown is a Kent State alumnus.
• Sophomore Jasmine Matthews will not be too far from home this weekend ... Matthews is a native of Matteson, Ill., and attended Marian Catholic H.S.
• The Falcons got balanced scoring on Wednesday night, as senior Danielle Havel and freshman Miriam Justinger each scored 12 points, while Matthews and senior Allison Papenfuss had 10 apiece and junior Jill Stein nine.
• 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 Havel, Justinger, Matthews, Papenfuss, Stein, senior Chrissy Steffen, juniors Jillian Halfhill and Alexis Rogers and freshman Bailey Cairnduff.
• BGSU seems to be getting point production from a different player or players each time out, with seven different Falcons leading the team in scoring in as many games ... Halfhill, Havel, Matthews, Papenfuss and Steffen (not necessarily in that order) each paced the Falcons in the scoring column once over the first five games ... Rogers shared team scoring honors with Steffen in the Temple game (Nov. 28), and Justinger led the way vs. Colorado State ... the Butler game, as mentioned, saw Justinger and Havel tie for the BG scoring lead.
• Havel had a solid game vs. the Bulldogs, to say the least ... she posted her second double-double of the season, with 12 points and 10 rebounds ... Havel was just two away from matching her career-best total in each category ... the fifth-year senior also dished out a career-high five assists vs. Butler ... she tied for the team lead in points, and paced the Falcons in both rebounds and assists.
• Justinger averaged 3.5 points per game over her first six collegiate contests, but has 12.0 ppg in the last two games ... Stein entered the Colorado State game with a career average of 1.8 ppg in 62 games ... she has averaged 10.0 ppg in the last two wins, with a career-high 11 points vs. CSU and nine more points vs. Butler.
• Stein hit the first three-point field goal of her career in the Colorado State contest, and the junior made it two triples in as many games with another long-range shot vs. Butler ... she is a perfect 2-for-2 from three-point range this season, and is now 2-of-5 for her career.
• Of the 11 Falcons who have seen action this season, nine have made at least one three-point field goal.
• The Brown and Orange enjoyed a 42-31 rebounding advantage vs. Butler, marking the second-straight game that BG had a double-digit margin in that category ... the Falcons had a 48-31 rebounding edge vs. Colorado State.
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 263-95 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 242-60 (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.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Northwestern game with a record of 5-3 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, at the Stroh (Nov. 28) ... again, though, after losing to a Philadelphia Big Five school, the Falcons responded with a win over a Mountain West Conference foe ... BG topped Colorado State, 71-49, at the Stroh last Saturday (Dec. 1), then downed visiting Butler by a 67-47 score.
• The Falcons are 3-1 at home, 2-1 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site games this season to date ... BGSU has a scoring margin of +3.6, and the Falcons lead the MAC in rebounding margin, at +6.2.
• Individually, senior Chrissy Steffen paces an uber-balanced Falcon scoring attack, with 10.6 points per game to date ... Steffen also averages 4.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists per contest, and she leads the Brown and Orange with 12 successful three-point field goals this season.
• Steffen is one of eight Falcons averaging at least 4.8 points per game this season ... additionally, six of those eight players have averaged 4.0 or more rebounds.
• Junior Jillian Halfhill and fifth-year senior Danielle Havel have 9.1 and 9.0 ppg, respectively ... the two rank 1-2 in assists, with Havel averaging 2.5 helpers per game and Halfhill dishing out 2.4 apg ... Havel leads the Falcons in assists and rebounding (6.6 rpg), and is tied for the BG lead in blocked shots (0.8 bpg) ... she has two double-doubles on the young season, tops among Falcon players ... Halfhill has 4.8 rebounds per game to rank third on the team.
• Havel leads the Falcons in yet another category, with 10 steals (1.3 per game), while Steffen has nine.
• Sophomore Jasmine Matthews has 6.5 ppg, while redshirt junior Alexis Rogers and freshman Miriam Justinger average 5.9 and 5.6 ppg, respectively ... Rogers has 5.3 rpg to rank second on the team, while Matthews is second on the Falcons with 1.4 three-pointers made per game ... Justinger has scored 12 points in each of the last two games, both wins ... she is 5-of-11 (.455) from three-point land and 18-of-23 (.783) from the free-throw line this year to date.
• Junior Jill Stein has 4.9 ppg and 4.6 rpg ... Stein has averaged 10.0 points over the last two games, and is second on the team with a .471 field-goal percentage ... senior Allison Papenfuss has 4.8 ppg and 4.0 rpg, while freshman Bailey Cairnduff averages 3.8 points per outing ... Papenfuss scored 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting vs. Butler ... Cairnduff has made six three-pointers this season to rank fifth on the Falcons.
• Junior Katrina Salinas is averaging 2.4 ppg in her first season at BGSU, while sophomore Deborah Hoekstra has played in four games and is averaging 1.3 ppg.
• Halfhill, Havel and Steffen each have started all eight games to date, while Rogers has made seven starts ... Cairnduff started the first four games of the season, while Matthews has been in the starting lineup in each of the last four 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.
• The Falcons are shooting .369 from the field, and BG is .314 from three-point range and .687 from the free-throw line through the first eight games ... the opponents have shot .400 from the floor, .280 from beyond the arc and .694 from the stripe.
HAVEL LEADS IN MANY WAYS
Tri-captain Danielle Havel has led the Falcons in numerous ways this season ... in addition to her off-court leadership role, the fifth-year senior also has led the Brown and Orange on the court ... she ranks third in scoring, with 9.0 points per game, but Havel leads the Falcons in nearly every other statistical category ... the Carmel, Ind., native paces BGSU in rebounding (6.6 rpg), assists (2.5 apg), steals (1.3 spg), field-goal percentage (.490), three-point field-goal pct. (.412; 7-of-17) and free-throw pct. (.882) ... Havel also has a team-leading two double-doubles this year to date, and she is tied for the BG lead in blocked shots (0.8 bpg).
A QUICK LOOK AT NORTHWESTERN
Northwestern has a record of 6-1 on the season, heading into a Friday (Dec. 7) game at Illinois State ... the Wildcats are a perfect 5-0 at home, and NU is 1-1 on the road to date ... the 'Cats posted six-straight wins to begin the season, with the first five of those victories coming at Welsh-Ryan Arena ... four of those five home wins were by double-digit margins, including an 82-72 victory over a MAC team, Central Michigan (Nov. 11) ... after the five home wins, NU picked up a 67-63 win at Boston College (Nov. 28) before suffering an 89-61 loss at DePaul on Sunday (Dec. 2) ... four Wildcats have double-figure scoring averages, while a fifth is averaging 9.7 points per game ... senior F/C Dannielle Diamant leads the way with 15.3 ppg, and she also paces the team with 8.3 rebounds per outing ... freshman forward Maggie Lyon has 15.0 ppg, while senior forward Kendall Hackney has 14.7 ppg and freshman forward Lauren Douglas 12.0 ppg ... that quartet has started all seven games to date for head coach Joe McKeown, as has sophomore guard Karly Roser (9.7 ppg, a team-leading 7.0 assists per game) ... McKeown welcomed back eight letterwinners, including three starters, from the 2011-12 team ... last year, the Wildcats went 14-16 overall and 4-12 in Big Ten Conference play.
THE SERIES
BGSU trails Northwestern, 2-1, in the all-time series between the schools ... Sunday's meeting will be the teams' first in nearly a quarter-century ... the Falcons and Wildcats met three times in a four-year span in the 1980s ... NU downed the Brown and Orange, 68-62, in the Wildcats' own tournament on Dec. 6, 1985 ... two years later, the 'Cats came to Anderson Arena and posted an 80-62 victory over the Falcons (Nov. 28, 1987) ... the next season, coach Fran Voll's club returned the favor with a double-digit road victory, 81-71 (Nov. 26, 1988) ... Voll was the Falcons' head coach in all three of those meetings with NU.
FALCONS VS. McKEOWN
Although the Falcons have not faced Northwestern in just over 24 years, BGSU has played a Joe McKeown-coached team on one occasion ... McKeown, the long-time mentor at George Washington, led the Colonials to an 89-61 dismantling of BGSU at a tournament hosted by Seton Hall (Nov. 27, 1998) ... GW, ranked 22nd in the nation, opened up a 32-9 lead and led by a 48-25 halftime score en route to the win.
UP NEXT
The Northwestern game is the Falcons' first of two road contests in a three-game span ... after a break for fall semester exams, BGSU will host Wyoming on Sunday, Dec. 16, with tipoff set for 1:00 p.m. at the Stroh Center ... then, the Falcons 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.
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