Falcons Head North to Face Off with the Titans on Sunday Afternoon on ESPN3

Sunday, November 30

Detroit, Mich.

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Falcons Head North to Face Off with the Titans on Sunday Afternoon on ESPN3

November 29, 2014 | Men's Basketball

By: by Kevin Davis, Assistant Director for Athletic Communications

Bowling Green (3-0, 0-0 MAC) vs. Detroit (4-2, 0-0 Horizon)
Sunday, November 30, 2014; 3:00 p.m. ET
Calihan Hall (8,295) / Detroit, Mich.
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2014-15 MAC STANDINGS
EAST TEAMS	MAC	OVERALL
Bowling Green	0-0	3-0
Kent State	0-0	4-1
Buffalo	0-0	3-1
Ohio	0-0	2-1
Akron	0-0	3-2
Miami	0-0	2-3
WEST TEAMS	MAC	OVERALL
Eastern Michigan	0-0	6-0
Central Michigan	0-0	4-0
Western Michigan	0-0	4-2
Northern Illinois	0-0	2-1
Ball State	0-0	2-2
Toledo	0-0	2-3

LAY-UPS
* The Falcons are off to a 3-0 to start the season for the first time since 1999-2000.
* BGSU is 1-0 on the road thus far this season with a win at Drake on Nov. 15.
* BGSU has had at least 9 different players score in each game this season.
* BGSU has outscored their opponents by 61 points in bench points(105-44).
* BGSU has not allowed a team to score 60 points or more so far this season.
* The Falcons have won each of the last three meetings over Detroit.
* BGSU is 1-0 versus the Horizon League thus far this season with a 15-point win over Wright State on Nov. 19.
* Bowling Green is in its 100th season of basketball this year.

SCOUTING THE DETROIT TITANS
Detroit enters the contest on Sunday on a three-game winning streak having posted wins over South Alabama at home on Nov. 22 and back-to-back wins versus Maryland Eastern Shore and Toledo to conclude the Progressive Legends Classic in Toledo, Ohio on Nov. 24 & 25. The Titans are 4-2 overall on the season and 2-0 at home in Calihan Hall. As a team, UDM is shooting 79.6 percent from the free throw line and has posted a turnover margin of +4.5 to start the year. Juwan Howard, Jr., leads the Titans in scoring at 19.7 points per game, while Anton Wilson is averaging 12.3 points and 1.5 steals per game. Paris Bass is leading UDM in rebounding at 5.5 boards per outing, while also averaging 11.0 points per game.

THE SERIES WITH THE TITANS OF DETROIT: UDM LEADS 23-16
Since the first meeting between these two teams back in 1953, the Titans of UDM lead the overall series 23-16. Sunday afternoon's meeting will mark the eighth straight year in which these two teams have met on the hardwood with the Falcons entering this year's meeting on a three-game winning streak over the Titans. However, the last two games in Detroit have gone in favor of the home team, as the Titans posted a win in both 2010 and 2009.

CURRENT FALCONS VERSUS DETROIT
A total of eight current Falcons have suited up and seen time on the floor versus the Titans during their careers at BGSU. Redshirt-senior Anthony Henderson, who led BGSU with 15 points in the win over UDM last season, is averaging 6.0 points per game in three games against Detroit. Both Jehvon Clarke (10.5 points & 5.5 assists versus Detroit) and Richaun Holmes (9.0 points & 2.0 blocks versus Detroit) will be playing the Titans for the third time in their careers as Falcons, while Chauncey Orr, who missed last year's meeting, is averaging 5.5 points per game over two contests versus Detroit. Michigan native's Spencer Parker and JD Tisdale each recorded seven points in last year's home win over the Titans, while both Josh Gomez and Damarkeo Lyshe also played in the 64-62 win a year ago at the Stroh Center.

COACH'S COMMENTS
"Detroit is a very talented basketball team. Their only two losses have been on the road to Michigan and Oregon. They will also be riding the momentum of a big road win in their last outing."

"Detroit has a number of talented players, but it starts with Juwan Howard, Jr. He is a mismatch nightmare for opposing coaches. He can score at all three levels and we will hope to slow him down. It will be another game facing multiple defensive looks so we will have to stay organized on the offensive end. They have not lost at home this season, but we are looking forward to the challenge."

A WIN WOULD ...
* Make BGSU 4-0 to start the season for the first time since opening up the 1999-2000 season with three straight wins. That year the Falcons won the MAC Championship.
* Make first year head coach Chris Jans the first BGSU men's basketball coach since Harold Anderson to win his first four games as the head coach of the Falcons. In his first year as head coach in 1942-43, Anderson won his first 14 games with the Falcons.
* Give BGSU its fourth straight win over the Titans with all four wins coming over each of the last four years.
* Make the Falcons 2-0 in true road games on the season.
* Give the Falcons four wins in November for the first time since the 2011-12 season when BGSU went 4-2 over the month of November.

HOME SWEET STROH
BGSU has called the Stroh Center home since the 2011-12 season and has posted an overall record of 32-17 at the venue. The Falcons have won seven or more games at home every season since the Stroh's opening for the 2011-12 season and are 2-0 at home thus far this year.

THAT 70'S STROH
BGSU is a perfect 17-0 at the Stroh when scoring 70 points or more in a contest. That means the Falcons have scored 70 or more points at home in over half of their wins at home in front of the home crowd in the Stroh Center.

IT'S A BLOCK PARTY
In just three games thus far this season, BGSU is averaging 6.3 blocks per game as a team. BGSU posted 11 blocks in the season opener at Drake and then registered seven blocks in the home opener versus Wright State. Eight different Falcons have recorded at least one block on the year, while Richaun Holmes has already totaled 11 swats for the season.

SUB!!!!!!!!!!!
Coach Jans has proven early that he is not afraid to go to his bench, as 15 different players have already seen time on the floor for the Falcons this season. In fact, the Falcons have outscored their opponents by 61 points (105-44) in bench points this year.

BOWLING GREEN RECEIVES VOTES IN MID-MAJOR TOP-25 POLL - NOV. 24
Bowling Green received 17 votes in this week's CollegeInsider.com Men's Mid-Major Top-25 Poll, which was released on Tuesday, Nov. 24. The Falcons are 3-0 thus far this season with a 77-58 road win at Drake and two home wins versus Wright State, 70-55, and SEMO, 62-54.

CONTROLLING THE PAINT AND GLASS
In BGSU's 62-54 win against Southeast Missouri on Nov. 25, the Falcons controlled the paint and dominated the glass on both ends of the floor. BGSU outscored SEMO 36-20 in points in the paint in the win. The Falcons also outrebounded the Redhawks 38-30 for the game and hauled down a total of 15 offensive rebounds, which led to 17 second chance points.

BEWARE: NO FIELD GOALS ALLOWED
In the Falcons' 70-55 win over Wright State on Nov. 19, the BGSU defense held the Raiders without a made field goal for the final 10:10 of the second half of the game. Wright State scored just nine points during that span, all of which came from the free throw line.

FALCONS STELLAR IN HOME OPENERS
BGSU has been almost unbeatable in their home openers over the program's now 100th season of play. The Falcons have posted an overall record of 87-13 in home openers since tipping-off the inaugural season in 1915-16. The home opening win versus Wright State on Nov. 19, was the 23rd straight home opening win for the Falcons. The last BGSU loss in a home opener was to Findlay back in 1991-92.

HISTORY MADE IN DISMANTLING OF DRAKE
Head Coach Chris Jans recorded his first career win at BGSU in the 77-58 win at Drake on Nov. 15. The win was also Jans' first NCAA Division I career win as a head coach. The season opening road win was also the first season opening true road win for the Falcons since beating James Madison on the road in 1996-97.

FALCONS IN SEASON OPENERS
With the Falcons 77-58 road win over Drake in the 2014-15 season opener, BGSU has an record of 73-27 in their 100 season openers. BGSU has won each of its last four season openers and six of their last seven opening contests.

DEFEATING DRAKE
The Falcons led a total of 39:31 minutes of the 40 minute contest in the 77-58 win over Drake in the season opener on Nov. 15. BGSU hit 11 treys and shot 51.8 percent overall to hold a double digit lead for most of the contest. BGSU posted 11 blocks and 10 steals for the game and held Drake to 37.3 percent shooting overall for the contest. BGSU posted 22 points off 14 Drake turnovers and outscored the Bulldogs 45-13 in bench points.

PRESEASON LOVE FOR MR. HOLMES
Senior Richaun Holmes received a lot of preseason attention this fall, as the forward was named to a number of preseason teams.
   * 2014-15 MAC East Division All-MAC Preseason Team selection
   * Named to the 2014-15 Preseason All-MAC Team by Athlon Sports
   * Named to the 2014-15 Preseason All-MAC Team by Sporting News
   * Named to the 2014-15 Preseason All-MAC Second-Team by Lindy's Sports
   * Named to the 2014-15 Preseason Mid-American All-Conference
       Second-Team by College Sports Madness (www.collegesportsmadness.com)

FAMILIAR FACES FOR THE FALCONS
This season, BGSU returns 11 players from last year's roster including four starters in Richaun Holmes, Jehvon Clarke, Spencer Parker and Anthony Henderson. In fact, those four players all averaged over 32.0 minutes per game last season for the Falcons.

HE'S BACK - BACK AGAIN
Chauncey Orr is back this season and has made a start in all three games thus far this year. Orr, who received a medical redshirt last season, had 14 points in the first half of the 2013-14 season opener before suffering the injury. The redshirt-junior played in all 32 games as a sophomore in 2012-13 where he averaged 7.5 points per game on 45 percent shooting from the field.

RETURN TO SENDER
Falcons' senior Richaun Holmes registered five blocks in both the season opener at Drake on Nov. 15. and in the home opener versus Wright State on Nov. 19, and then followed up with a block last time out versus SEMO to give him 11 swats on the season. Holmes totaled a new BGSU school record for the most blocks in a single season last year with 88. In only two-plus seasons at BGSU, Holmes has already become the Falcons' all-time career blocks leader and now has 172 career swats.

EXPERIENCED GROUP
The 2014-15 Falcons' roster is an experienced group, as the roster has 10 upperclassmen, including seven players that have played at least two years of NCAA Division I basketball. BGSU returned one redshirt senior in Anthony Henderson, three seniors in Richaun Holmes, Jehvon Clarke and Damarkeo Lyshe, as well as redshirt-juniors Chauncey Orr and Josh Gomez. On top of that, junior forward Spencer Parker returns along with three junior college transfers in Delvin Dickerson (Paris JC), Jovan Austin (Paris JC) and David Joseph (Howard College), who all were key parts in winning programs at the JUCO level prior to coming to BGSU.

A HANDFUL OF NEWCOMERS
Coach Chris Jans and his staff brought in a handful of newcomers in 2014-15 - five to be exact. Junior college transfers Delvin Dickerson (Houston, Texas/Paris JC), Jovan Austin (Grand Prairie, Texas/Paris JC) and David Joseph (Queens, N.Y./Howard College (Texas)) all joined the BGSU program over the summer and will have two years of eligibility for the Falcons. Freshmen Rasheed Worrell (Coker, Ala./Sipsey Valley H.S.) and Matt Fox (Maumee, Ohio/Anthony Wayne H.S.) will both have four years of eligibility at BGSU heading into the 2014-15 season.

FALCONS ON ESPN NETWORKS
The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team is slated to play five games on ESPN3 – Nov. 30 at Detroit at 3 p.m., Dec. 28 at South Florida at 3 p.m., Feb. 4 at Central Michigan at 7 p.m., Feb. 7 at Northern Illinois at 8 p.m., and March 6 at Buffalo at 7 p.m. In addition to the five aforementioned contests, three more games could be televised as part of 21-day Wildcard contests that will air on ESPNU. Those possible games are slated for Friday, Jan. 30 (vs. Akron); Friday, Feb. 13 (at Ball State); and on Friday, Feb. 27 (at Miami).

FALCONS SIGN THREE EARLY
On Nov. 12, BGSU head men's basketball coach Chris Jans announced the signing of Jalone Friday (Oklahoma City Storm HomeSchool/Oklahoma City, Oklahoma), Jamir Andrews (Sheridan College/Dublin H.S./Dublin, California) and Malik Hluchoweckyj (Bellevue West H.S./Bellevue, Nebraska) to National Letters of Intent to continue both their athletic and academic careers at Bowling Green beginning in the Fall of 2015.

FALCONS PICKED FIFTH IN MAC PRESEASON POLL
The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the Mid-American Conference East Division in 2014-15, according to the MAC's annual Preseason Media Poll. The Falcons, who will be led by first year head coach Chris Jans in 2014-15, received 52 total points in the preseason poll, which included one first-place vote.

ON TAP FOR THE FALCONS
BGSU will tip-off the month of December in Bowling Green, Kentucky, against the Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at 8 p.m. ET. The game is slated to be broadcast by the American Sports Network.

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