Falcons Open 2013-14 Season Saturday Against Earlham

BGSU (0-0) vs. Earlham (0-0)
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013; 2:00 p.m.
Stroh Center (4,280) / Bowling Green, Ohio
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2013-14 MAC STANDINGS
EAST TEAMS	MAC	OVERALL
Akron	0-0	0-0
Bowling Green	0-0	0-0
Buffalo	0-0	0-0
Kent State	0-0	0-0
Miami	0-0	0-0
Ohio	0-0	0-0
WEST TEAMS	MAC	OVERALL
Ball State	0-0	0-0
Central Michigan	0-0	0-0
Eastern Michigan	0-0	0-0
Northern Illinois	0-0	0-0
Toledo	0-0	0-0
Western Michigan	0-0	0-0

QUICK HITS (SIZED FOR YOUR TWITTER ADDICTION)
* Bowling Green opens the regular season by hosting NCAA Division III Earlham College Saturday at 2 pm in the Stroh Center.
* BGSU went 11-5 at home a year ago and is 23-9 in two seasons in the Stroh Center.
* This is the first ever meeting between Bowling Green and Earlham.
* Bowling Green opens its 99th season of basketball this year.
* The Falcons are 86-12 all-time in home openers and have won 21 in a row since a loss to Findlay in 1991-92.
* BGSU is 7-0 against non-Division I schools under Louis Orr.
* With 73 blocked shots last year, junior Richaun Holmes broke BGSU's single-season record.
* Richaun Holmes' .633 field-goal percentage in 2012-13 was the sixth-best single-season total in program history.
* BGSU returns two starters from a year ago in senior Cam Black and junior Chauncey Orr.
* Head coach Louis Orr is 499-300 as a player, assistant coach and head coach at the college level.
* Cam Black ranks sixth all-time at BGSU with 102 career blocked shots. He is three from climbing another spot.
* Beginning his senior year, Cam Black has 77 career games started.
* No current player has ever scored 20 points in a game at Bowling Green.
* The Falcons beat Malone 87-60 in their exhibition game a week ago. Anthony Henderson led with 17 points.
* BGSU next hosts South Florida in a game on ESPN3 Friday night at 8:30 pm as part of a home doubleheader.

FALCONS HOST EARLHAM IN SEASON OPENER
Bowling Green will look for its 22nd consecutive win in a home opener Saturday as the Falcons host NCAA Division III Earlham College at 2 pm. The Falcons return two starters from a team that went 13-19 a year ago, but have two seniors and five juniors with experience who are ready to take on expanded roles.

THE SERIES
Bowling Green and Earlham are meeting for the first time in program history. However, BGSU is 7-0 under head coach Louis Orr in games against non-Division I schools. Bowling Green does have an extensive history against two of Earlham's conference mates. The Falcons are 24-8 all-time against Bluffton and 30-21 all-time against Defiance, but BGSU has not played either of those programs since 2001.

LAST GAME: FALCONS BEAT MALONE IN EXHIBITION
Bowling Green used a 17-1 run early in the first half and held a 47-23 lead before cruising through the second half for an 87-60 exhibition win over Malone Saturday. Five Falcons scored in double-figures and new starting point guard Jehvon Clarke had nine points and 10 assists. Anthony Henderson led the way with 17 points, while Richaun Holmes and Chauncey Orr added 16 each. Cam Black had 12 points and nine rebounds and Spencer Parker came off the bench for 11 points. The Falcons had assists on 23-of-34 baskets and held Malone to 28 percent shooting.

500 WINS
BGSU Head Coach Louis Orr is just one win shy of 500 for his career as a player, assistant and head coach at the college level. Orr won 100 games in four years as a player at Syracuse, added 210 wins as an assistant coach at Xavier, Providence and Syracuse, and has 189 wins as a college head coach at Siena, Seton Hall and BGSU.

BLOCK PARTY
Few teams in the MAC, or even the country, has a duo that can block or alter shots like Bowling Green does in senior Cam Black and junior Richaun Holmes. Black ranks sixth all-time at Bowling Green with 102 career blocked shots and Holmes blocked a school-record 73 a year ago in his first season with the Orange and Brown.

10 ORR MORE
Junior Chauncey Orr, son of head coach Louis Orr, closed out his sophomore season in strong fashion, scoring at least 10 points in half of the final 16 games. With the graduation of the team's top two scorers, Orr should be expected to do even more this year. He scored a career-high 18 points in a win over Kent State and shot 40 percent from three-point range over those final 16 games of the season.

THE SPLITS
Bowling Green's home and away free-throw shooting numbers were eye-popping a year ago. On the road, the Falcons attempted 35 fewer free-throws than opponents made and BGSU shot just 68.1 percent. At home, Bowling Green attempted 24 more free-throws than opponents and shot 72.7 percent at the stripe.

67 OR FEWER
Bowling Green was 0-13 a year ago when opponents scored at least 68 points and 13-6 when holding those teams to 67 or less.

HOME COURT ADVANTAGE
In two years, the Stroh Center has proven to be a difficult place for opponents to play. The Falcons went 23-9 at home over the past two years and went 3-0 in 2011-12 in the Stroh Center against teams that eventually went to the NCAA Tournament. The 23-9 record in the Stroh Center comes out to a .719 winning percentage, which is higher than the program's .709 winning percentage in Anderson Arena, the home for the Falcons from 1960-2011.

STROH IN THE 70'S
BGSU is 11-0 all-time when scoring at least 70 points in the Stroh Center. The Falcons reached 70 points six times a year ago after doing so five times in 2011-12.

DOUBLE-DIGIT HOME WINS
Bowling Green has won at least 10 home games in each of the past three years.

50% IS GREATER THAN 80%
Under Head Coach Louis Orr, Bowling Green has won more than 80 percent of its games when its shoots at least 50 percent from the floor. Last year, the Falcons reached that number three times, defeating Ball State and Western Michigan after losing to Miami on the road.

EXPECTING TO START
During the preseason, Head Coach Louis Orr seems to have settled on a starting five. Throughout exhibition and scrimmage play, Orr used guards Jehvon Clarke and Anthony Henderson, forwards Chauncey Orr and Richaun Holmes, and center Cam Black to start games. Clarke has never started a game, but the other four have combined for 118 career starts.

THE POST GAME
Head coach Louis Orr's philosophy is always to play inside-out and the Falcons have done that well during his tenure. In the past four seasons, BGSU has scored 20 or more points in the paint in 112-of-124 games. The high-water mark came when Bowling Green scored 58 points in the paint against Malone during the 2011-12 season.

FRESH FACES
BGSU head coach Louis Orr has four new players on the 2013-14 squad. J.D. Tisdale (Flint, Mich./Swartz Creek High School), Zach Denny (Germantown, Ohio/Valley View High School) and Garret Mayleben (Milford, Ohio/Milford High School) will join transfer Josh Gomez (Brooklyn, N.Y./Rice High School/Iona) among next year's incoming class.

FALCONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
BGSU will play a minimum of two games this year on Time Warner Cable Sports, per the Mid-American Conference regional television package, and another as an ESPN3 exclusive broadcast. The Falcons will host South Florida on Nov. 15 exclusively on ESPN 3. BGSU will also play at Western Michigan Jan. 19 and then at home against Akron Feb. 9 on TWC Sports.

MEDIA PICKS BOWLING GREEN SIXTH
After graduating their top two scorers, as well as three starters, Bowling Green was selected to finish sixth in the Mid-American Conference East Division by vote of the league's MAC News Media. Akron was selected to win the East, followed by Buffalo, Ohio, Kent State and Miami.

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