Bowling Green State University Athletics
Tuesday, November 18
Bowling Green, OH
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
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Iona
Freshman Lauren Webb & the Falcons face Iona on Tuesday night
Photo by: Bianca Garza, BGSU Marketing and Communications
Falcons Face Iona in Tuesday Night Hoops at the Stroh
November 17, 2014 | Women's Basketball
The two teams combined to win 56 games a year ago
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team concludes a brief two-game homestand on Tuesday night (Nov. 18), hosting the Gaels of Iona College. Tipoff is set for 7:00 p.m. at the Stroh Center (4,347). Following the Iona game, head coach Jennifer Roos and the Falcons will play eight of the next nine contests away from home, with just one more game at the Stroh in the 2014 calendar year.
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STUDENT APPRECIATION NIGHT
Tuesday night's game is Student Appreciation Night at the Stroh, where BGSU students will have the opportunity to win various prizes including a basketball autographed by the team, gift cards from Meijer and the BGSU Bookstore, and the chance to win a behind-the-scenes gameday experience at a Falcon men's or women's basketball game. Tuesday's game also is a Ziggy Points event.
LAST TIME OUT: BUCKNELL ESCAPES THE STROH WITH A 53-52 WIN
• Visiting Bucknell spoiled the Falcons' regular-season opener, escaping the Stroh Center with a 53-52 win Friday night (Nov. 14).
• Senior Deborah Hoekstra had 17 points to lead three double-digit scorers for the Falcons. Junior Miriam Justinger scored 12 points, while sophomore Rachel Konieczki had 11. Another sophomore, Abby Siefker, scored nine points and grabbed a team-high six rebounds for the Brown and Orange.
• The game featured 13 lead changes. After a Siefker layup with 9:31 to go in the second half, the final lead change came when the Bison went on a 6-0 run. Bucknell went ahead by six points with four minutes to go, but the home team got within a single point on Hoekstra's free throws with 1:34 remaining. Her final toss, however, would prove to be the last point of the evening.
• The Falcons forced BU into 18 turnovers, and BGSU had a 23-7 advnatage in points off turnovers. But, BG shot just 29.6 percent from the field, including only 7-of-30 (23.3%) in the second half. The home team was 6-of-26 (23.1%) from three-point range on the night.
• Claire Maree O'Bryan led the visitors with 16 points, while Carly Richardson had 10 off the bench.
SIX OF ONE, HALF DOZEN OF THE OTHER
Coach Jennifer Roos and the Falcons return six letterwinners from a year ago. Each of those returnees played in 31 or more games last winter, with three of the six playing in all 35 contests. BGSU's other six players on the 2014-15 roster have combined to play a total of 24 minutes in their collegiate careers. The latter half-dozen players include a pair of redshirt freshmen as well as four true frosh.
FALCON FIRSTS
BGSU sophomores Rachel Konieczki and Abby Siefker each were in the starting lineup vs. Bucknell, making the first starts of their respective careers. Freshmen Rachel Myers, Haley Puk and Lauren Webb each saw action off the bench for their first collegiate appearances. Myers played 16 minutes, and scored her first career points on a layup at the 13:19 mark of the first half. Approximately four-and-a-half minutes later, Puk's first collegiate point came on a free throw that gave the Brown and Orange a 17-15 lead.
THIRTY WINS
BGSU finished with a 30-5 record last winter. The 2013-14 Falcons are only the second team in MAC history to reach the 30-victory mark for a season. The first? The 2006-07 BGSU club, which became the first (and still the only) team in MAC women's basketball history to advance to the Round of 16 in the NCAA Championships.
RECENT SUCCESS
The NCAA has compiled its annual lists of the winningest Division-I teams over the last five years, and Bowling Green ranks in the top 15 on both lists. BGSU has won a total of 133 over the last five years (from the start of the 2009-10 season through the end of 2013-14), and the Falcons have won more than 79 percent of the time during that span. BGSU's winning percentage is the 11th-highest among all NCAA Division-I programs over the last half decade, while the team's win total is the 13th-best in the nation in that time.
LONG-TERM SUCCESS
The Falcons have enjoyed success not only recently, but over the long term. BGSU ranks 30th in NCAA Division-I history in winning percentage, and the Falcons are 39th among all such schools in total wins. BGSU has an all-time record of 746-393, good for a winning pct. of 65.5%. No other Mid-American Conference program is listed among the top 50 on either chart.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Iona game with an 0-1 record, after Friday's 53-52 loss to Bucknell. BGSU is now 3-4 in the last seven regular-season openers. Falcon teams have gone on to win an average of 27.0 games per season over the past six years.
• The Falcons return six letterwinners, including two starters, from a 2013-14 team that won 30 overall games and captured a MAC regular-season title with a 17-1 league ledger. BGSU won the East Division title, and the Falcons had the best overall record in MAC play for the eighth time in the last 10 seasons. The division title was the program's ninth in that 10-year span.
• Last year's edition of the Brown and Orange advanced to national postseason play for the 10th consecutive March, winning three games in the WNIT before falling in the quarterfinal round to eventual tourney champion Rutgers. BGSU won more than 20 games for the 11th consecutive year.
• In addition to the six returnees, head coach Jennifer Roos and her staff – assistant coaches Jesse Fleming, Jacey Brooks and Sahar Nusseibeh and director of operations Monique Rosati – also have six players with freshman status on the roster. That 12-player roster includes two seniors, two juniors, two sophomores, two redshirt freshmen and the four true frosh.
• Redshirt junior Erica Donovan is the top returning scorer and rebounder. She averaged 10.9 points and 5.6 rebounds per game a year ago, ranking third on the team in both categories.
• Donovan played in all 35 games, starting 34, last season. The Falcons' other returning starter is junior Miriam Justinger, who made 27 starts last season and avearged 8.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per outing. Justinger also averaged 2.4 assists per contest last winter, good for second on the Falcons and tops among returnees.
• Seniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews scored 6.9 and 6.4 ppg, respectively, last year. Both players saw action off the bench. Hoekstra, one of the league's top sixth players, came off the bench in all 35, while Matthews made nine starts.
• Matthews made 45 three-point field goals last season, while Hoekstra hit 41 long-range shots and made 36.3% of her attempts from beyond the arc. Donovan and Justinger made 36 and 28 treys, respectively.
• Sophomores Rachel Konieczki and Abby Siefker averaged 1.8 and 1.7 ppg, respectively. Konieczki saw action in 34 games last year, while Siefker played in 31. Redshirt freshmen Kennedy Kirkpatrick and Leah Bolton played a combined 24 minutes a year ago, with Kirkpatrick seeing action in five games before Thanksgiving, and Bolton making two appearances for a total of eight minutes.
• The 2013-14 Falcons shot 42.3 percent from the field, 35.2% from three-point range and 74.6% from the foul line. Opponents shooting 37.4% from the floor, 25.7% from the arc and 69.0% from the stripe. The Falcons had a scoring margin of +12.9, a rebounding margin of +6.5 and a turnover margin of +1.1 on the year.
• In MAC games, BGSU shot 43.0% from the field, 36.1% from three-point land and 78.5% from the line. Opponents shot 36.4% overall, 22.0% from long range and 64.8% from the stripe in MAC play.
THE IONA GAELS
Iona will take the Stroh Center floor on Tuesday night with a 1-1 record on the young season. The Gaels opened with a 72-51 road win over Fordham, before suffering a narrow 82-80 loss to Sacred Heart in the home opener. The latter game saw senior guard Damika Martinez break the school career scoring record. Martinez had 37 points on Sunday afternoon, and now has 1,930 career points. Not surprisingly, she leads the Gaels in scoring this year, averaging 32.0 points per game, and also has 6.5 rebounds per contest. She has gone 24-of-49 from the field in the first two games, including a 7-for-16 performance from three-point range. Junior forward Joy Adams is averaging a double-double, with 19.5 ppg and 12.0 rpg, while sophomore guard Marina Lizarazu, a transfer from Texas Tech, has 9.5 points and a team-leading 7.5 assists per outing. Iona was picked to finish third in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, and Martinez was named the MAAC's Preseason Player of the Year. She was the league's P-O-Y in each of the last two seasons. Head coach Billi Godsey guided the Gaels to a 26-6 overall mark and a program-best 18-2 MAAC record a year ago.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Iona, 3-0, in the all-time series between the teams. BGSU has won one home, one road and one neutral-site meeting against the Gaels. Last year, Jillian Halfhill hit a layup with 16.8 seconds to go, giving BGSU a 51-50 victory in the championship game of the Iona Tip-Off Tournament (Nov. 9, 2013). The Brown and Orange picked up an 81-62 win over the Gaels at venerable Anderson Arena 12 years ago in the teams' first meeting (Nov. 24, 2002). Three years later, the teams met in Philadelphia, in the consolation game of the Hawk Classic, and the Falcons came away with a 62-45 victory (Dec. 29, 2005).
STROH'ME-COURT ADVANTAGE
• The Falcons have enjoyed a long-standing tradition of success at home. Most of that success came at venerable Anderson Arena, where the Brown and Orange had an outstanding home-court advantage over the years. But, the BG women's basketball program has begun a new tradition of excellence at a new building. The Falcons now own an overall record of 44-9 in the Stroh Center, including a 23-2 ledger vs. MAC opponents in regular-season games.
• After losing by just one point to nationally-ranked Purdue in the first-ever women's basketball game in the building in November of 2011, the Falcons reeled off 14-straight wins at the Stroh, before losing another one-point game to VCU in the WNIT to end that 2011-12 campaign with a 14-2 mark at home.
• Two years ago, the Falcons again won 14 games at home, including 25-point wins over both nationally-ranked Dayton (the Flyers' only regular-season loss all year) and Central Michigan (the Chippewas entered the game with a 7-0 MAC record).
• Last year, the Falcons won 16-straight games at home – by an average of 21.5 points – before losing to Rutgers in the WNIT quarterfinals.
• The 44-9 mark at the Stroh comes after the Falcons went 333-116 (74.2%) in Anderson Arena during the team's tenure there. The record was even better during MAC play, as the Falcons had a league mark of 192-54 (78.0%) at "The House That Roars" through the years.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 0-1 this season, after posting a 30-5 overall record last winter;
• 17-1 in MAC play in 2013-14, winning a division title for the ninth time in a 10-season span;
• 312-109 since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU in the summer of 2001;
• 163-47 in MAC games in that time:
• 291-74 over the last 11-plus years, with 2013-14 marking BG's MAC-record 11th-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 270-64 in the past 10-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in each of the 10 seasons and eight MAC overall regular-season titles (2004-10, 2012 and again in '14, plus an East Division crown in '11);
• an eye-popping 247-56 overall, and 128-18 in the MAC regular season, in the last nine-plus years, with at least 24 wins in each of those nine seasons;
• a superb 219-53 in the last eight-plus years, including a 112-18 league ledger;
• a/an (insert your own adjective here) 188-49 overall, and 97-17 in MAC regular-season games, in the last seven-plus seasons, since Monique Rosati came to the BGSU program;
• 162-41 overall and 84-14 in MAC action over the last six-plus winters;
• 133-36, including a 69-13 MAC ledger, in the last five-plus seasons;
• 106-29 overall and 55-11 in the MAC in the last four-plus years;
• 78-24 overall, and 42-8 in MAC action, since seniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews first put on a BGSU uniform;
• 54-17 overall and 28-6 in league play since Jennifer Roos became head coach, junior Miriam Justinger joined the Falcons' roster, and redshirt junior Erica Donovan transferred to BG;
• 30-6 since Donovan and sophomores Rachel Konieczki and Abby Siefker began their BGSU playing careers, and redshirt freshmen Leah Bolton and Kennedy Kirkpatrick came to campus;
• 151-23 in the last 174 games vs. MAC foes (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 67-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field since 2001;
• 249-12 when having a better FG percentage than the opposition in that time, including a 121-2 mark in the last six-plus seasons;
• 238-40 when making more free throws than the opponent in the Roos Assistant-Coach/Associate-Head-Coach/Interim-Head-Coach/Head-Coaching Era;
• 201-25 when outrebounding the opponent in that 13-plus-year span;
• 74-7 in MAC home games in the last 10 seasons;
• 61-12 in MAC road games over the last nine years;
• 20-5 in the MAC Tournament in the last 10 years, with five titles (2005, '06, '07, '10 and '11), an additional championship-game appearance (2009), and trips to the semis in 2008, 2012 and 2014;
• 44-19 overall in the MAC Tournament since it was instituted in 1982;
• 21-7 at Gund/Quicken Loans Arena, the site of the MAC Tournament;
• 50-7 in all non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 10-17 in 17 national postseason appearances (including a 3-11 record in the NCAA Championships and a 7-6 mark in WNIT trips);
• 9-10 in national postseason action since Roos arrived at BG (including a 2-5 mark in the NCAAs and a 7-5 record in the WNIT); and
• 44-9 in the Stroh Center, with seven of the losses coming by a combined 17 points.
UP NEXT
Following the Iona game, the Falcons will hit the road for eight of the next nine games, beginning with a trip to Milwaukee for a Saturday (Nov. 22) contest. That game will begin at 11:00 a.m. local time (noon Eastern) at the Klotsche Center (3,500). In addition to Wisconsin, the Falcons will also venture to the states of California, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Florida before the end of December.
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BGSU NOTES | IONA NOTES - PDF
STUDENT APPRECIATION NIGHT
Tuesday night's game is Student Appreciation Night at the Stroh, where BGSU students will have the opportunity to win various prizes including a basketball autographed by the team, gift cards from Meijer and the BGSU Bookstore, and the chance to win a behind-the-scenes gameday experience at a Falcon men's or women's basketball game. Tuesday's game also is a Ziggy Points event.
LAST TIME OUT: BUCKNELL ESCAPES THE STROH WITH A 53-52 WIN
• Visiting Bucknell spoiled the Falcons' regular-season opener, escaping the Stroh Center with a 53-52 win Friday night (Nov. 14).
• Senior Deborah Hoekstra had 17 points to lead three double-digit scorers for the Falcons. Junior Miriam Justinger scored 12 points, while sophomore Rachel Konieczki had 11. Another sophomore, Abby Siefker, scored nine points and grabbed a team-high six rebounds for the Brown and Orange.
• The game featured 13 lead changes. After a Siefker layup with 9:31 to go in the second half, the final lead change came when the Bison went on a 6-0 run. Bucknell went ahead by six points with four minutes to go, but the home team got within a single point on Hoekstra's free throws with 1:34 remaining. Her final toss, however, would prove to be the last point of the evening.
• The Falcons forced BU into 18 turnovers, and BGSU had a 23-7 advnatage in points off turnovers. But, BG shot just 29.6 percent from the field, including only 7-of-30 (23.3%) in the second half. The home team was 6-of-26 (23.1%) from three-point range on the night.
• Claire Maree O'Bryan led the visitors with 16 points, while Carly Richardson had 10 off the bench.
SIX OF ONE, HALF DOZEN OF THE OTHER
Coach Jennifer Roos and the Falcons return six letterwinners from a year ago. Each of those returnees played in 31 or more games last winter, with three of the six playing in all 35 contests. BGSU's other six players on the 2014-15 roster have combined to play a total of 24 minutes in their collegiate careers. The latter half-dozen players include a pair of redshirt freshmen as well as four true frosh.
FALCON FIRSTS
BGSU sophomores Rachel Konieczki and Abby Siefker each were in the starting lineup vs. Bucknell, making the first starts of their respective careers. Freshmen Rachel Myers, Haley Puk and Lauren Webb each saw action off the bench for their first collegiate appearances. Myers played 16 minutes, and scored her first career points on a layup at the 13:19 mark of the first half. Approximately four-and-a-half minutes later, Puk's first collegiate point came on a free throw that gave the Brown and Orange a 17-15 lead.
THIRTY WINS
BGSU finished with a 30-5 record last winter. The 2013-14 Falcons are only the second team in MAC history to reach the 30-victory mark for a season. The first? The 2006-07 BGSU club, which became the first (and still the only) team in MAC women's basketball history to advance to the Round of 16 in the NCAA Championships.
RECENT SUCCESS
The NCAA has compiled its annual lists of the winningest Division-I teams over the last five years, and Bowling Green ranks in the top 15 on both lists. BGSU has won a total of 133 over the last five years (from the start of the 2009-10 season through the end of 2013-14), and the Falcons have won more than 79 percent of the time during that span. BGSU's winning percentage is the 11th-highest among all NCAA Division-I programs over the last half decade, while the team's win total is the 13th-best in the nation in that time.
LONG-TERM SUCCESS
The Falcons have enjoyed success not only recently, but over the long term. BGSU ranks 30th in NCAA Division-I history in winning percentage, and the Falcons are 39th among all such schools in total wins. BGSU has an all-time record of 746-393, good for a winning pct. of 65.5%. No other Mid-American Conference program is listed among the top 50 on either chart.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Iona game with an 0-1 record, after Friday's 53-52 loss to Bucknell. BGSU is now 3-4 in the last seven regular-season openers. Falcon teams have gone on to win an average of 27.0 games per season over the past six years.
• The Falcons return six letterwinners, including two starters, from a 2013-14 team that won 30 overall games and captured a MAC regular-season title with a 17-1 league ledger. BGSU won the East Division title, and the Falcons had the best overall record in MAC play for the eighth time in the last 10 seasons. The division title was the program's ninth in that 10-year span.
• Last year's edition of the Brown and Orange advanced to national postseason play for the 10th consecutive March, winning three games in the WNIT before falling in the quarterfinal round to eventual tourney champion Rutgers. BGSU won more than 20 games for the 11th consecutive year.
• In addition to the six returnees, head coach Jennifer Roos and her staff – assistant coaches Jesse Fleming, Jacey Brooks and Sahar Nusseibeh and director of operations Monique Rosati – also have six players with freshman status on the roster. That 12-player roster includes two seniors, two juniors, two sophomores, two redshirt freshmen and the four true frosh.
• Redshirt junior Erica Donovan is the top returning scorer and rebounder. She averaged 10.9 points and 5.6 rebounds per game a year ago, ranking third on the team in both categories.
• Donovan played in all 35 games, starting 34, last season. The Falcons' other returning starter is junior Miriam Justinger, who made 27 starts last season and avearged 8.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per outing. Justinger also averaged 2.4 assists per contest last winter, good for second on the Falcons and tops among returnees.
• Seniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews scored 6.9 and 6.4 ppg, respectively, last year. Both players saw action off the bench. Hoekstra, one of the league's top sixth players, came off the bench in all 35, while Matthews made nine starts.
• Matthews made 45 three-point field goals last season, while Hoekstra hit 41 long-range shots and made 36.3% of her attempts from beyond the arc. Donovan and Justinger made 36 and 28 treys, respectively.
• Sophomores Rachel Konieczki and Abby Siefker averaged 1.8 and 1.7 ppg, respectively. Konieczki saw action in 34 games last year, while Siefker played in 31. Redshirt freshmen Kennedy Kirkpatrick and Leah Bolton played a combined 24 minutes a year ago, with Kirkpatrick seeing action in five games before Thanksgiving, and Bolton making two appearances for a total of eight minutes.
• The 2013-14 Falcons shot 42.3 percent from the field, 35.2% from three-point range and 74.6% from the foul line. Opponents shooting 37.4% from the floor, 25.7% from the arc and 69.0% from the stripe. The Falcons had a scoring margin of +12.9, a rebounding margin of +6.5 and a turnover margin of +1.1 on the year.
• In MAC games, BGSU shot 43.0% from the field, 36.1% from three-point land and 78.5% from the line. Opponents shot 36.4% overall, 22.0% from long range and 64.8% from the stripe in MAC play.
THE IONA GAELS
Iona will take the Stroh Center floor on Tuesday night with a 1-1 record on the young season. The Gaels opened with a 72-51 road win over Fordham, before suffering a narrow 82-80 loss to Sacred Heart in the home opener. The latter game saw senior guard Damika Martinez break the school career scoring record. Martinez had 37 points on Sunday afternoon, and now has 1,930 career points. Not surprisingly, she leads the Gaels in scoring this year, averaging 32.0 points per game, and also has 6.5 rebounds per contest. She has gone 24-of-49 from the field in the first two games, including a 7-for-16 performance from three-point range. Junior forward Joy Adams is averaging a double-double, with 19.5 ppg and 12.0 rpg, while sophomore guard Marina Lizarazu, a transfer from Texas Tech, has 9.5 points and a team-leading 7.5 assists per outing. Iona was picked to finish third in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, and Martinez was named the MAAC's Preseason Player of the Year. She was the league's P-O-Y in each of the last two seasons. Head coach Billi Godsey guided the Gaels to a 26-6 overall mark and a program-best 18-2 MAAC record a year ago.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Iona, 3-0, in the all-time series between the teams. BGSU has won one home, one road and one neutral-site meeting against the Gaels. Last year, Jillian Halfhill hit a layup with 16.8 seconds to go, giving BGSU a 51-50 victory in the championship game of the Iona Tip-Off Tournament (Nov. 9, 2013). The Brown and Orange picked up an 81-62 win over the Gaels at venerable Anderson Arena 12 years ago in the teams' first meeting (Nov. 24, 2002). Three years later, the teams met in Philadelphia, in the consolation game of the Hawk Classic, and the Falcons came away with a 62-45 victory (Dec. 29, 2005).
STROH'ME-COURT ADVANTAGE
• The Falcons have enjoyed a long-standing tradition of success at home. Most of that success came at venerable Anderson Arena, where the Brown and Orange had an outstanding home-court advantage over the years. But, the BG women's basketball program has begun a new tradition of excellence at a new building. The Falcons now own an overall record of 44-9 in the Stroh Center, including a 23-2 ledger vs. MAC opponents in regular-season games.
• After losing by just one point to nationally-ranked Purdue in the first-ever women's basketball game in the building in November of 2011, the Falcons reeled off 14-straight wins at the Stroh, before losing another one-point game to VCU in the WNIT to end that 2011-12 campaign with a 14-2 mark at home.
• Two years ago, the Falcons again won 14 games at home, including 25-point wins over both nationally-ranked Dayton (the Flyers' only regular-season loss all year) and Central Michigan (the Chippewas entered the game with a 7-0 MAC record).
• Last year, the Falcons won 16-straight games at home – by an average of 21.5 points – before losing to Rutgers in the WNIT quarterfinals.
• The 44-9 mark at the Stroh comes after the Falcons went 333-116 (74.2%) in Anderson Arena during the team's tenure there. The record was even better during MAC play, as the Falcons had a league mark of 192-54 (78.0%) at "The House That Roars" through the years.
THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 0-1 this season, after posting a 30-5 overall record last winter;
• 17-1 in MAC play in 2013-14, winning a division title for the ninth time in a 10-season span;
• 312-109 since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU in the summer of 2001;
• 163-47 in MAC games in that time:
• 291-74 over the last 11-plus years, with 2013-14 marking BG's MAC-record 11th-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 270-64 in the past 10-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in each of the 10 seasons and eight MAC overall regular-season titles (2004-10, 2012 and again in '14, plus an East Division crown in '11);
• an eye-popping 247-56 overall, and 128-18 in the MAC regular season, in the last nine-plus years, with at least 24 wins in each of those nine seasons;
• a superb 219-53 in the last eight-plus years, including a 112-18 league ledger;
• a/an (insert your own adjective here) 188-49 overall, and 97-17 in MAC regular-season games, in the last seven-plus seasons, since Monique Rosati came to the BGSU program;
• 162-41 overall and 84-14 in MAC action over the last six-plus winters;
• 133-36, including a 69-13 MAC ledger, in the last five-plus seasons;
• 106-29 overall and 55-11 in the MAC in the last four-plus years;
• 78-24 overall, and 42-8 in MAC action, since seniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews first put on a BGSU uniform;
• 54-17 overall and 28-6 in league play since Jennifer Roos became head coach, junior Miriam Justinger joined the Falcons' roster, and redshirt junior Erica Donovan transferred to BG;
• 30-6 since Donovan and sophomores Rachel Konieczki and Abby Siefker began their BGSU playing careers, and redshirt freshmen Leah Bolton and Kennedy Kirkpatrick came to campus;
• 151-23 in the last 174 games vs. MAC foes (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 67-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field since 2001;
• 249-12 when having a better FG percentage than the opposition in that time, including a 121-2 mark in the last six-plus seasons;
• 238-40 when making more free throws than the opponent in the Roos Assistant-Coach/Associate-Head-Coach/Interim-Head-Coach/Head-Coaching Era;
• 201-25 when outrebounding the opponent in that 13-plus-year span;
• 74-7 in MAC home games in the last 10 seasons;
• 61-12 in MAC road games over the last nine years;
• 20-5 in the MAC Tournament in the last 10 years, with five titles (2005, '06, '07, '10 and '11), an additional championship-game appearance (2009), and trips to the semis in 2008, 2012 and 2014;
• 44-19 overall in the MAC Tournament since it was instituted in 1982;
• 21-7 at Gund/Quicken Loans Arena, the site of the MAC Tournament;
• 50-7 in all non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 10-17 in 17 national postseason appearances (including a 3-11 record in the NCAA Championships and a 7-6 mark in WNIT trips);
• 9-10 in national postseason action since Roos arrived at BG (including a 2-5 mark in the NCAAs and a 7-5 record in the WNIT); and
• 44-9 in the Stroh Center, with seven of the losses coming by a combined 17 points.
UP NEXT
Following the Iona game, the Falcons will hit the road for eight of the next nine games, beginning with a trip to Milwaukee for a Saturday (Nov. 22) contest. That game will begin at 11:00 a.m. local time (noon Eastern) at the Klotsche Center (3,500). In addition to Wisconsin, the Falcons will also venture to the states of California, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Florida before the end of December.
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