Friday, January 4
Bowling Green, OH
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
UCF
Falcons Host UCF on Buck Night
January 03, 2013 | Women's Basketball
BGSU meets the Knights on Friday at the Stroh Center
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BUCK NIGHT
The BGSU department of athletics is offering a special promotion for Friday's UCF game ... fans can purchase seats in sections 106 through 112 for just one dollar apiece.
QUICK HITS
• The Falcons are coming off one of the program's top performances in recent memory ... BGSU posted a 65-40 win over nationally-ranked Dayton on Sunday afternoon (Dec. 30) at the Stroh Center ... UD entered the game ranked 14th in the country in the USA Today Sports Top 25 poll and 15th in the Associated Press poll.
• The Falcons have a ratings percentage index (RPI) of 33, according to the RealTimeRPI.com web site (as of Wednesday evening, Jan. 2) ... that site also listed BGSU's strength of schedule as the 51st-most difficult in the nation.
• BGSU now has an all-time record of 5-31 against nationally-ranked teams ... the Falcons have a 4-12 mark in such games since Jennifer Roos arrived in Northwest Ohio ... BG is now 3-4 in home games vs. nationally-ranked foes over the years, including 1-1 at the Stroh Center.
• Redshirt junior Alexis Rogers had a stellar game vs. the Flyers on Sunday afternoon, leading all players with 20 points, 10 rebounds and six steals ... it marked her second-straight game with a double-double.
• For her efforts, Rogers was named the Mid-American Conference Player of the Week for the second consecutive week and the fifth time in her BGSU career ... additionally, Rogers received league P-O-W honors from the College Sports Madness web site, earning that honor for her third time as a Falcon.
• Senior Chrissy Steffen reached a career milestone in the win over the Flyers ... with a layup early in the second half, Steffen became the 25th player in BGSU history to reach the 1,000-point plateau for her career ... the Carmel, Ind., native now has 1,007 career points, ranking 24th on the school scoring list.
• Steffen had 16 points and seven rebounds in the victory, while junior point guard Jillian Halfhill scored 15 points vs. Dayton ... the 5-foot-6 Halfhill had nine rebounds in the win as BGSU held a 43-39 advantage on the glass.
• BGSU has won six consecutive games, and the Falcons were a perfect 6-0 in the month of December ... BG's last undefeated calendar month was January of 2012, when the Brown and Orange went a perfect 8-0 ... the Falcons capped that month with a win at Central Michigan in overtime (Jan. 28), with Jennifer Roos serving as interim head coach.
• The Dayton game began a season-long five-game homestand for the Falcons ... following Friday's UCF game, BGSU will open the MAC schedule with three games – all at the Stroh Center – during a seven-day span ... Kent State (Jan. 10), Toledo (Jan. 13) and Ball State (Jan. 16) all will come to town during that time ... BG's next road game is Jan. 20 at Ohio.
• The Falcons outscored Dayton, 37-15, in the second half of Sunday's game ... UD entered the game averaging 82.6 points per game, but BGSU held the Flyers more than 42 points under that average ... additionally, all five of Dayton's starters came into Sunday's action averaging at least 9.8 ppg, but no Flyer scored more than eight points vs. BGSU.
• Sunday's game marked a 56-point reversal from the teams' previous meeting ... in the 2011-12 season opener, host Dayton posted a 69-38 victory over the Falcons, BGSU's most lopsided loss in seven seasons.
• Last year's Dayton game marked Rogers' BGSU debut ... she had just two points and three rebounds in 12 minutes at UD Arena, with four fouls and four turnovers ... on Sunday, as mentioned, she led all players with 20 points, 10 boards and six steals.
• BGSU has held four of the last six opponents to under 50 points, and the Falcons have forced two of the last four foes to shoot less than 30 percent from the field for the game.
• The Falcons had not held an opponent to four or fewer field goals made in a half since December 1, 2007 ... in December of 2012, however, BGSU turned that trick three times in the six games ... Colorado State (first half), Northwestern (first half) and Dayton (second half) each made only four field goals in a 20-minute span.
• UD's 16.0 percent field-goal rate in the second half of Sunday's game was the lowest for a BG opponent since the Cornell game on the aforementioned date of Dec. 1, 2007 ... Cornell shot just 3-for-22 (13.6%) in the second half of that game.
• Dayton's 25.5% field-goal percentage for the game was the lowest by a BGSU opponent since March 12, 2011, when Eastern Michigan shot 24.6% in a loss to the Falcons in the MAC Tournament's championship game.
• BGSU has won six consecutive games, and the Falcons have outscored the opponents by 17.2 points per game during that time ... five of the six wins have come by double digits, with four wins by 20 points or more during that span.
• The lone single-digit margin in those six December games came at Massachusetts, a 64-61 BGSU win on Dec. 19 ... that victory enabled BGSU to reach a program – and conference – milestone ... the Falcons are the first Mid-American Conference school with 700 overall wins ... BG will enter the UCF game with an all-time record of 701-380, good for a winning percentage of 64.8% ... the Falcons have the most wins (obviously) and highest winning pct. of any MAC program.
• Rogers tied her career high for free throws made in the UMass game, going 8-for-9 at the stripe, including a perfect 4-for-4 in the final 28.5 seconds ... then, she set a new career mark with 11 free throws made in the win over Dayton.
• Rogers has scored 83 points over the last four games, with three games of 20 or more points in that stretch ... after missing the season opener vs. Madonna, she scored 43 points over the next seven games (5.9 ppg) ... she is averaging 20.8 ppg, along with 9.0 rebounds and 4.0 steals per game, in the last four contests.
• Steffen has averaged 17.3 points and 5.5 boards per game over the last four games ... she is shooting 54.3% from the field (25-of-46) and 45.4% from three-point range (10-for-22) in that time.
• Halfhill has averaged an impressive 7.3 rebounds per game during the Falcons' six-game winning streak ... she entered the month of December with a career high of six rebounds per game, but obliterated that total with 13 boards against Colorado State ... she has had three more games of seven or more rebounds during the last month.
• BGSU has never met UCF in women's basketball, but the Falcons have played no fewer than five games in the Knights' home arena ... BG has participated in tournaments hosted by UCF on two occasions, playing three games in the UCF Turkey Shootout from Nov. 28-30, 1997, and two contests at the Knights' tournament on Nov. 17-18, 2006 ... the Falcons went 4-1 in those games.
NON-CONFERENCE SUCCESS
BGSU has a chance to extend the school and MAC records for non-conference success ... a win over UCF would give the Falcons 10 victories, and would mark BG's seventh consecutive year with a double-digit win total in non-league play ... last season, the Falcons finished the non-conference schedule with 10 wins, after BG won a total of 12 games during the non-league schedule two years ago ... that 2010-11 BGSU club broke the school – as well as the MAC – record for non-conference wins in a season ... the Falcons had never posted a double-digit non-league win total prior to '06-07 before beginning the current streak ... BG's current six-season streak is a MAC record by far (by five seasons, to be exact).
NON-CONFERENCE SUCCESS II
The Falcons, as mentioned, have posted a double-digit win total in non-conference play in six consecutive seasons, a MAC record ... no other MAC team has ever had back-to-back seasons with double-digit non-league victory totals ... in fact, no other MAC program has had more than two total years, consecutive or non-consecutive, in league history ... the complete list ...
10-WIN NON-CONFERENCE SEASONS, MAC TEAMS
No. - School Years (Wins)
6 - BGSU 2006-07 (11) // 2007-08 (11) // 2008-09 (11) //
2009-10 (10) // 2010-11 (12) // 2011-12 (10)
2 - Eastern Mich. 2004-05 (10) // 2009-10 (10)
2 - Toledo 2009-10 (10) // 2012-13 (12)
1 - Kent State 2008-09 (11)
1 - Miami 2011-12 (10)
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the UCF game with a record of 9-3 on the season ... BGSU has won six games in a row, capping off a perfect month of December with a 65-40 win over #14/15 Dayton on Sunday (Dec. 30) ... BG began the month with home victories over Colorado State (71-49; Dec. 1) and Butler (67-47; Dec. 5) ... the Brown and Orange then went on the road to record a third-straight win of 20-plus points, downing Northwestern, 60-37, in Chicagoland (Dec. 9) ... BG returned home to post a 79-69 win over Wyoming (Dec. 16), and won a 64-61 decision at Massachusetts (Dec. 19) prior to breaking for the holidays.
BGSU opened the 2012-13 campaign with a 68-57 win over Madonna at the Stroh (Nov. 10), then hit the road and bested Niagara, 79-74 (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, as BG topped CSU to begin the current six-game win streak.
• The Falcons are 5-1 at home, 4-1 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site games this season to date ... BGSU has a scoring margin of +7.5, and the Falcons lead the MAC in rebounding margin, at +6.1.
• Individually, senior Chrissy Steffen paces a balanced Falcon scoring attack, with 12.8 points per game ... Steffen also averages 4.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists per contest, and she leads the Brown and Orange with 22 successful three-point field goals this season ... the senior is shooting a team-best 47.8% from the floor.
• Redshirt junior Alexis Rogers and true junior Jillian Halfhill have 11.3 and 9.5 ppg, respectively ... Rogers has a team-leading 6.6 rpg, and she also leads BGSU in steals (2.0 spg) ... Halfhill has 5.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists per contest, leading the team in helpers and ranking third in boards.
• Fifth-year senior Danielle Havel has 7.5 ppg, and is near the top of the team lists in a multitude of categories ... she is second on the Falcons in both rebounds (5.6 rpg) and assists (2.4 apg), and leads the Brown and Orange in blocked shots ... Havel also paces the Falcons in free-throw percentage (80.0%) and ranks second in field-goal pct. (43.5%).
• Sophomore Jasmine Matthews has 5.9 ppg, while freshman Miriam Justinger averages 4.8 ppg ... Matthews is second on the Falcons in three-pointers, having hit 16 long-range attempts on the season ... Justinger is 6-of-13 (46.2%) from three-point land and 23-of-29 (79.3%) from the free-throw line this year to date.
• Junior Jill Stein and senior Allison Papenfuss have 4.0 and 3.9 ppg, respectively ... Stein has 3.8 rebounds per contest, while Papenfuss has 3.5 rpg ... freshman Bailey Cairnduff averages 3.5 points per outing, and has made seven three-pointers this season to rank fifth on the Falcons.
• Each of the aforementioned nine players has scored in double digits at least once this season.
• Junior Katrina Salinas is averaging 1.8 ppg in her first season at BGSU, while sophomore Deborah Hoekstra has played in six games and is averaging 0.8 ppg ... senior Simone Eli, currently sidelined due to an injury, has yet to see game action this season.
• Halfhill, Havel and Steffen each have started all 12 games to date, while Rogers has made 11 starts ... Cairnduff started the first four games of the season, while Matthews has been in the starting lineup in each of the last eight 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.
• Havel, Rogers and Steffen each started all 31 games a year ago, while Matthews made 21 starts as a freshman ... Halfhill played in all 31 games last year, starting the first 10.
• The Falcons are shooting .379 from the field, and BG is .331 from three-point range and .720 from the free-throw line through the first 12 games ... the opponents have shot .387 from the floor, .275 from beyond the arc and .691 from the stripe.
THE FALCONS VS. NATIONALLY-RANKED TEAMS
• After the win over Dayton, BGSU has an all-time record of 5-31 against nationally-ranked teams, including a 3-4 record at home (1-1 at the Stroh Center) and a 4-12 mark since Jennifer Roos arrived at BG ... a few more notes about BGSU and top-25 foes ...
• The victory over the Flyers was by far the Falcons' most lopsided win over a ranked team in school history ... the first two such wins came by three points apiece ... BGSU's last three wins over nationally-ranked opponents have been by six, 11 and 25 points, respectively.
• Three of the Falcons' five wins over nationally-ranked teams have come against Vanderbilt ... BGSU downed the Commodores, 59-56, in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Championships in East Lansing, Mich., en route to the only 'Sweet Sixteen' appearance in school and MAC history ... BGSU went to Nashville three years ago (Dec. 4, 2009) and posted a 66-60 win ... and, two years ago, the Falcons vanquished Vandy at Anderson Arena, 69-58 (Dec. 1, 2010).
• The first-ever BG home win over a ranked team came against Purdue in the 1991-92 season opener, as the Falcons downed the 10th-ranked Boilermakers at Anderson Arena in Jaci Clark's head-coaching debut (Nov. 23, 1991).
• Dayton was the second nationally-ranked foe to face BGSU at the Stroh Center ... last season, Purdue pulled out a one-point victory, 54-53, over the Falcons in the first-ever regular-season women's basketball game in the building (Nov. 17, 2011).
• BGSU has not had many chances to defeat a top-25 team at home, as this year's UD game marked only the seventh time a nationally-ranked foe has ventured to Bowling Green ... in addition to the aforementioned Vanderbilt and Purdue games, the other home games vs. top-25 opponents came against Georgia (82-63 loss; Dec. 19, 1994) and Notre Dame ... the Irish have come to BG twice as a top-25 team, downing BG, 85-70, in the 1996-97 opener (Nov. 23, 1996) and topping the Falcons in overtime five years ago (86-84; Dec. 5, 2007).
BGSU'S WINS OVER RANKED TEAMS
Date Opponent (Ranking) Result
11/23/91 PURDUE (#10 AP / #10 USA) W 75-72
3/20/07 vs. Vanderbilt ^ (#7 AP / #8 USA) W 59-56
12/4/09 at Vanderbilt (#16 AP / #14 USA) W 66-60
12/1/10 VANDERBILT (#23 AP / #23 USA) W 79-68
12/30/12 DAYTON (#15 AP / #14 USA) W 65-40
^ NCAA Championships Second Round; East Lansing, Mich.
A QUICK LOOK AT UCF
UCF has a record of 5-8 on the season, but the Knights will come to BGSU riding a two-game winning streak ... the team's last win came on the road, 60-53 over a Florida Gulf Coast team that made the NCAA Tournament last season ... UCF posted a win over Mississippi State on Nov. 22, the first win over a Southeastern Conference school in program history ... the Knights are 3-3 at home, 1-2 on the road and 1-3 in neutral-site games to date ... freshman guard Briahanna Jackson leads the team in scoring, with 16.1 points per game, and also has 5.4 rebounds and a team-best 3.8 steals per contest ... senior guard Gevenia Carter has 12.6 ppg, 3.0 rpg and a UCF-high 3.1 assists per outing ... junior forward Sara Djassi (6.5 ppg), junior F/C Erika Jones (6.2 ppg) and fifth-year senior forward Kayli Keough (6.2 ppg) all are averaging over six points per game, with Jones pulling down a team-high 6.9 rebounds per contest ... head coach Joi Williams welcomed back seven letterwinners, including four starters, from the 2011-12 team ... last year, the Knights went 12-17 overall and 7-9 in Conference USA play.
THE SERIES
BGSU and UCF have never met in women's basketball.
UP NEXT
Following the UCF game, the Falcons will begin the Mid-American Conference schedule with three games in a seven-day span at the Stroh Center ... the Falcons will open conference play by hosting Kent State on Thursday, Jan. 10 ... BGSU then faces Toledo (Jan. 13) and Ball State (Jan. 16) to complete the season-long five-game homestand.
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