Bowling Green State University Athletics
Wednesday, February 20
Bowling Green, OH
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Akron
Falcons Face Akron in Pivotal MAC East Division Matchup
February 19, 2013 | Women's Basketball
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Jennifer Roos Press Conf. (Feb. 18)
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 remainder of the season.
QUICK HITS
• For the Falcons, Wednesday's game begins the first of five-straight intra-divisional contests to end the regular season ... BGSU faces the Zips Wednesday, and after a Saturday (Feb. 23) game at Miami, the Falcons close the home portion of the regular-season schedule with games vs. Buffalo (Feb. 28) and Ohio (March 3).
• Something's got to give when the Zips come to town on Wednesday ... Akron ranks 11th in the entire nation in scoring offense, averaging 75.7 points per game ... UA is 27th in the country in field-goal percentage, 25th in three-point field goals made per game and 57th in three-point FG pct. ... the Falcons are 26th in the nation in scoring defense, though, allowing only 53.5 ppg ... BGSU is 48th in the country in three-point FG defense.
• The Falcons are coming off a 60-49 win at Northern Illinois on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 16) ... BGSU scored on seven-straight possessions in the early going, hitting five consecutive three-point tries to begin the game ... the Falcons went 8-of-15 from long distance in the opening half and made 10 treys on the day.
• A pair of seniors and Carmel, Ind., natives led the way for the Falcons at NIU ... Chrissy Steffen and Danielle Havel scored 14 points apiece in the win, combining to make seven of BG's 10 three-pointers.
• Steffen made a season-high four treys vs. the Huskies ... she has hit 15 three-pointers over her last five games, and has moved into a tied for seventh place on the BGSU career list for three-point FG made.
• Havel's total of 14 points tied her career high, and she set a new career standard for three-pointers made ... Havel also had 14 points in the Falcons' win at UNLV earlier this season, before matching that total against NIU ... she was a perfect 3-for-3 from long range vs. the Huskies on Saturday.
• The Falcons hold a commanding 48-3 lead in the all-time series with Akron, but the Zips captured this season's first meeting ... UA picked up a 68-63 win at Rhodes Arena on the last day of January ... Akron has never won in Bowling Green, as the Falcons are a perfect 25-0 in home games vs. the Zips, including 1-0 at the Stroh.
• Through 24 games this season, the Falcons have held the opponent to fewer than 50 points on 10 occasions, setting a 'modern-day' record ... the school record is 12 such games, amassed by the 1973-74 team ... the '74-75 club kept 11 opponents under the 50-point mark ... the 2006-07 BG team held nine opponents to fewer than 50 points, en route to an appearance in the Sweet Sixteen.
• Akron is the lone MAC team to score over 60 points vs. the Falcons this season to date ... the Zips, as mentioned, scored 68 in the teams' first meeting ... BGSU has held MAC foes to fewer than 50 points six times in the first 11 league games.
• In 28 games at the Stroh Center, the Falcons have allowed the opponent to reach 70 points just twice ... no MAC team has scored more than 59 points vs. the Brown and Orange in 13 games vs. conference foes in the building ... BG has allowed an average of 53.3 ppg in all games at the Stroh, and just 51.3 ppg in MAC games.
• At the offensive end, the 60-point mark has been a pretty good barometer in determining BGSU's success this season ... the Falcons have a record of 16-1 when scoring 60 or more points this year ... BG is 0-7 when the offense is held under the 60-point plateau.
• Steffen is in the top-20 on the BGSU career scoring list ... she now has 1,135 career points at BG ... Steffen moved past Stefanie Wenzel (1,099 points from 2000-04) in the Buffalo game ... her next target is 19th-place Andrea Nordmann, who scored 1,164 points at BGSU from 1989-93.
• After connecting on four three-point field goals at NIU, Steffen now has made 168 in her career ... that total ties her for seventh in BGSU history ... Steffen has matched Kim Griech's total (168 from 1999-2003), and she is just five successful three-pointers away from fourth place.
• Northern Illinois held a 34-30 rebounding advantage on Saturday ... the Huskies became just the third team in the last 18 games, and only the fifth this season, to outrebound the Falcons.
• The 2012-13 Falcons have displayed impressive balance during the conference portion of the schedule ... this balance is evident in a glance at the MAC-only statistics ... only two players are averaging more than eight points per game in league games (Steffen and redshirt junior Alexis Rogers, at 10.7 and 10.1 ppg, respectively), but six BG players are averaging at least 6.4 ppg ... and, each of the other five Falcons who have seen action this season have scored between 3.0 and 3.8 ppg in conference play.
• The Falcons' conference opponents have averaged just 50.5 points per game over the first 11 league games.
• All 11 Falcons who have seen action this season have scored in double figures at least once ... nine of those 11 players have hit double digits more than once ... and, no fewer than 10 different players have led BGSU in scoring in at least one game this season.
FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons, entering the Akron game, continue to own the best record in MAC history ... BGSU has an all-time record of 369-151 (.710) in MAC regular-season contests, for the most wins and highest winning pct. of all league institutions ... and, BGSU leads the series with all 11 MAC foes, making the Falcons the only team in the league, obviously, with a winning series record against every other school ... BG also has the most overall wins (708) and highest overall winning percentage (.648) of any conference women's basketball-playing institution.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Akron game with an overall record of 16-8 on the season ... BGSU is 7-4 in the MAC, good for second place in the East Division ... the Falcons are a game behind division-leading UA ... BG has won three of the last four games ... after seeing a two-game winning streak come to an end with a 55-54 loss at Western Michigan (Feb. 10), the Brown and Orange went to the MAC's "West Coast" and came away with a 60-49 win at Northern Illinois on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 16) ... prior to the WMU game, the Falcons had picked up wins at home against then MAC-leading Central Michigan (84-59, Feb. 3) and on the road vs. Buffalo (61-56, Feb. 7).
• BG's seven MAC wins have come by a total of 148 points, an average of 21.4 points per game ... only two wins (UB and NIU) have been by fewer than 14 points ... the team's four league losses have been by a combined total of 19 points (4.8 ppg), with three of those setbacks coming by five points or fewer.
• The Falcons are 8-4 at home, 8-3 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site games this season to date ... BGSU has a scoring margin of +9.0 and a rebounding margin of +4.3 ... in league play, BG is 3-2 at home and 4-2 in hostile venues.
• Individually, senior Chrissy Steffen and redshirt junior Alexis Rogers pace a balanced Falcon scoring attack ... Steffen is averaging 11.8 points per game, with Rogers scoring at a 10.7 ppg clip.
• Rogers has a team-leading 6.2 rebounds per game, and also tops the Falcons in steals, with 2.2 spg ... Steffen averages 4.0 rpg along with 1.5 assists per contest, and she leads the Brown and Orange with 42 successful three-point field goals this season ... Steffen is shooting a team-best 84.2 percent from the free-throw line, and also leads the MAC in that category ... she has gone 48-of-57 from the stripe.
• Junior Jillian Halfhill has 8.5 ppg along with a team-leading 3.2 assists per contest ... the 5-6 point guard also has 4.8 rebounds per game, good for third on the team ... Halfhill is third in the MAC in assist/turnover ratio (1.5).
• Fifth-year senior Danielle Havel has 7.1 ppg, and is near the top of the team lists in numerous categories ... Havel is second on the Falcons in both rebounds (5.5 rpg) and assists (2.1 apg), and she is second on the team in blocked shots ... Havel has a BG-best four games with 10 or more rebounds this season to date ... she is shooting a team-best 48.0% from the field.
• Freshman Miriam Justinger and sophomore Jasmine Matthews each have 5.5 ppg ... Justinger is 34-of-43 (79.1%) from the free-throw line this year to date ... Matthews has missed 10 of the 11 MAC games, but has hit 17 three-point field goals in the 13 games in which she has seen action.
• Freshman Bailey Cairnduff has 4.7 points per game and has knocked down 19 three-pointers ... BGSU's two post players off the bench, junior Jill Stein and senior Allison Papenfuss, have 3.9 and 3.8 ppg, respectively.
• Stein has 4.3 rebounds per contest, while Papenfuss has 3.6 rpg ... Stein leads the Falcons with a total of 14 blocked shots, while Havel has 13 and Papenfuss 12.
• Junior Katrina Salinas is averaging 2.8 ppg this season, while sophomore Deborah Hoekstra has 2.6 ppg ... Salinas has made 11 triples and Hoekstra eight this season.
• Each of the aforementioned 11 players has scored in double digits at least once this season, and 10 of the 11 have led BGSU in the scoring column in at least one game in 2012-13.
A QUICK LOOK AT AKRON
Akron has a record of 17-7 on the season, and the Zips are 8-3 in MAC action ... UA leads the East Division, with the Falcons one game back ... Akron is 11th in the nation in scoring offense, averaging 75.7 points per game ... the Zips shoot the ball well from everywhere on the court, as UA is 27th in the country in field-goal percentage, 57th nationally in three-point FG pct. and 15th in free-throw accuracy ... UA began MAC play with three consecutive wins, then lost the next three games ... but, beginning with a win over BGSU on Jan. 31, the Zips have won five in a row ... UA is 9-3 at home and 8-4 on the road ... in MAC play, the Zips are 5-1 at Rhodes Arena and 3-2 away from home ... individually, redshirt junior forward Rachel Tecca leads the MAC in scoring, with 19.0 points per game ... two other juniors, guard Hanna Luburgh and G/F Sina King, have 15.7 and 14.6 ppg, respectively ... King is averaging 8.4 rebounds per contest, with Tecca pulling down 7.7 rpg and Luburgh 6.3 ... senior guard Taylor Ruper is scoring 9.2 ppg and leads the team with 63 three-point field goals made ... junior guard Kacie Cassell has 4.7 ppg and leads the entire nation in assists, with 7.8 apg ... in MAC games, Tecca, Luburgh and King all are among the top-five in the league in scoring as well as in the top-12 in the conference in rebounding ... Cassell's average of 7.9 apg in MAC action is a full three assists per game ahead of any other player in the league ... Cassell, King, Luburgh, Ruper and Tecca each have started all 24 games this season for head coach Jodi Kest ... Kest's club went 14-18 overall and 7-9 in the MAC a year ago.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Akron, 48-3, in the all-time series between the teams, but Akron captured the last meeting ... three weeks ago (Jan. 31, 2013), the host Zips pulled out a 68-63 decision at Rhodes Arena, snapping a 19-game BGSU series winning streak ... BG had won the previous three games by a combined total of just 11 points ... last season's matchups saw the Falcons hold off the Zips, 62-58, at the Stroh Center (Jan. 7, 2012) before heading to Northeast Ohio and escaping with a 60-55 win the following month (Feb. 18, 2012) ... the Falcons are 25-0 in home games, 21-3 on the road and 2-0 in neutral-site contests vs. the Zips over the years ... all three of Akron's wins have come at the JAR, including a 74-56 win in the 1999 MAC Tournament quarterfinals, an 88-63 blowout in February of 2001, and last month's game ... Jennifer Roos has a record of 0-1 against Akron as a collegiate head coach.
UP NEXT
The Akron game begins a stretch of five intra-divisional games to end the regular season ... following Wednesday's matchup, the Falcons will take to the road to face Miami on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 23), with tipoff at 2:00 p.m. at Millett Hall in Oxford ... then, the Brown and Orange will return home to face Buffalo (Feb. 28) and Ohio (March 3), before closing the regular-season schedule with a March 6 matchup at Kent State ... the MAC Tournament begins with first-round games at campus sites on Saturday, March 9.
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