Bowling Green State University Athletics
Wednesday, February 19
Bowling Green, OH
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
Central Michigan
MAC's Division Leaders Collide as Falcons Host CMU
February 18, 2014 | Women's Basketball
BGSU meets the Chippewas Wednesday night at the Stroh
Following Wednesday's game, the Falcons' final five regular-season contests will be against fellow East Division members.
GAME NOTES
Bowling Green | Central Michigan
RECENT BGSU STORIES, RECAPS, STATS, INTERVIEWS, ETC.
Feb. 17: Halfhill Named MAC Player of the Week
Feb. 17: Audio - Coach Roos Previews the CMU Game
Feb. 17: Join Us for 48 Hours of Orange & Social Media
Feb. 17: College Sports Madness Players of the Week
Feb. 15: Halfhill, Rogers Key 61-56 Win at Eastern
PROMOTIONS, GIVEAWAYS AND SUCH
There are a number of promotions and giveaways surrounding Wednesday night's game, as well as the BGSU men's basketball game vs. Toledo on Thursday. The Athletics Department is encouraging Falcon fans to wear orange to both games as part of 48 Hours of Orange.
Additionally, Wednesday's game will be the department's first-ever Social Media Night. Fans will want to be at the Stroh not just to enjoy the game, but also for the opportunity to win numerous prizes, some of which are listed here.
Also, the first fans through the Stroh Center doors will receive a number of free items, and the first 100 fans to show the BGSU Marketing staff that they follow @BGAthletics on Twitter will receive a "Go BG or Go Home" T-shirt.
DIVISION LEADERS COLLIDE
The Falcons enter Wednesday's game with a MAC record of 11-1, and BGSU leads second-place Akron by two games in the East Division race. Central Michigan is a perfect 12-0 in conference games, and the Chippewas are five games ahead of second place Toledo in the league's West Division. BGSU and CMU are a combined 22-0 against the rest of the MAC this season to date, as the Falcons' only conference loss came in overtime in the first meeting with the Chippewas.
LAST TIME OUT: HALFHILL, ROGERS KEY 61-56 WIN AT EASTERN
• Seniors Jillian Halfhill and Alexis Rogers posted double-doubles as the Falcons picked up a 61-56 win at Eastern Michigan Saturday afternoon (Feb. 15).
• Halfhill had a game-high 21 points along with 10 rebounds, as the Falcons had a 51-34 advantage on the glass. Rogers scored 13 points and also had game-high totals of 13 boards and seven assists. The assist total set a new career best for the senior.
• Olivia Fouty led the Eagles with 15 points and nine rebounds, while EMU freshmen Janay Morton and Cha Sweeney had 10 points apiece.
• The Eagles led by a 21-8 score nearly halfway through the opening period, but the Falcons battled back to take a five-point lead at the intermission. Eastern retook the lead with just under 14 minutes left in the game, but Halfhill responded with one of her game-high four three-point field goals, and BG never trailed again.
• BG's lead stayed between four and seven points for the bulk of the half, but the Eagles got as close as two points with just under two minutes left. EMU got the ball back, but Sweeney's potential game-tying layup would not drop, and Rogers corralled the rebound. The ensuing possession saw Rogers take a pass from fellow senior Jill Stein and hit a layup for a four-point lead with 43.4 seconds left.
• Rogers then stole the ball from Fouty in the frontcourt. Halfhill was fouled and hit two shots for a 60-54 lead with 32.1 seconds remaining. But, the Eagles were not finished.
• Desyree Thomas was fouled, went to the line with 26.3 seconds left and hit both free throws. Then, as BG prepared to inbound the ball, a foul was called on the Falcons, giving possession back to Eastern. A Sweeney layup try, though, was unsuccessful, and Hoekstra rebounded that miss.
• The BG defense got stops on five of the Eagles' final six possessions of the game, and Eastern went 0-for-7 from the field to end the contest.
• The Falcons shot 36.5 percent from the field, and BG was 7-of-28 from three-point range. EMU shot 33.9% from the floor, including an 8-of-27 effort (29.6%) in the second period, and the Eagles hit five long-range shots in 21 attempts.
• BG had a total of 21 offensive rebounds, with Rogers (seven) and redshirt soph Erica Donovan accounting for 11. Despite combining for 33 offensive rebounds in the game, the Falcons and Eagles scored a total of just 17 second-chance points.
• Halfhill, after scoring 10 points in the first half, played all 20 minutes of the second. She had 11 points and three steals after halftime, and pulled down five rebounds in each half.
BATTLE OF THE BOARDS
• The Falcons have enjoyed more than their fair share of success on the glass in the Jennifer Roos head-coaching era. Since the start of the 2012-13 season, BGSU has won the rebounding battle in 48 of 59 games, including in 22 of the 28 MAC contests. Three of the other games saw the teams tie in that category.
• This year, the Falcons have out-rebounded the foes in 21 of the first 24 games, with double-digit margins in eight of those matchups. BG owns a MAC-best rebounding margin of +8.8 this year to date. BGSU has out-boarded 11 of 12 MAC opponents so far in '13-14, with a league-best +7.9 rebounding margin in conference play.
QUICK HITS
• BGSU is 21-3 overall and 11-1 in MAC play, and BGSU has won seven consecutive games heading into the CMU contest. The Falcons had won five-straight games to open the conference schedule, before suffering an 82-79 overtime loss on the road against preseason MAC favorite Central Michigan on Jan. 18.
• The current seven-game win streak includes home wins over Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois, Western Michigan and Miami, and road victories against Ohio, Toledo and EMU. In addition to the current winning streak, BGSU has won five games in a row on two occasions and four-straight games once this year.
• Seventeen of the Falcons' 21 victories this season – including all 10 home games – have come by double figures. The Falcons' 66-59 win at Toledo on Feb. 2 marked BGSU's first single-digit win since Nov. 18, and BG picked up a five-point victory over Eastern Michigan on Saturday (Feb. 15). The Brown and Orange posted a one-point win at Iona (Nov. 9) in the second game of the year, and downed Butler by four just over a week later (Nov. 18).
• The Falcons have recorded six wins of 22 points or more, with five of those six coming at home. BGSU is a perfect 10-0 at the Stroh Center, having won those 10 games by an average of 23.3 points per contest.
• In addition to the 10 wins at the Stroh, the Falcons have 11 victories away from home, with marks of 8-2 on the road and 3-1 in neutral-site contests. BG has road wins over Iona, Butler, Ohio State, Kent State, Ball State, Ohio, Toledo and Eastern Michigan, and the Falcons have topped Michigan, Old Dominion and Monmouth in neutral-site action. The team's losses have come to then #18/21-ranked Purdue on the road, to Marist on a neutral court, and at CMU.
• In BGSU's 10 home games, the Falcons have averaged 77.8 points per game. BG has topped the 80-point plateau six times this season, with all of those totals coming in home contests.
• BGSU has had a balanced scoring attack this season. Five Falcons are averaging between 8.4 and 14.1 points per game, and two other players have at least 5.5 ppg to date.
• The Falcons' five starters each have attempted between 154 and 232 shots, meaning that every starter is averaging somewhere between 6.4 and 9.7 field-goal attempts per game.
• BGSU leads the MAC and ranks 13th in the nation in scoring defense, having allowed just 56.3 points per game. The Falcons also lead the MAC in scoring margin (+14.0), rebounding margin (+8.8) and three-point field-goal percentage defense (26.7), and BG is second in the conference in three-point field-goal percentage (35.7), FG pct. defense (36.7) and free-throw pct. (74.9), as well as three-pointers made per game (7.6).
• BGSU is 19th in the country in rebounding margin in the most recent NCAA statistics. The Falcons have been out-rebounded in just one game since Nov. 18, as Ball State had a narrow 31-29 edge in that category on Jan. 15.
• In addition to scoring defense and rebounding margin, the Falcons also rank among the top 50 schools in the nation in win-loss percentage (T-12th), three-point FG pct. defense (14th), scoring margin (20th), free-throw pct. (28th), FG pct. defense (38th), three-point FG pct. (40th) and three-point FG made per game (40th)
THREE-MENDOUS!
In MAC games, the Falcons lead the league in both three-point field-goal percentage and three-point FG pct. defense. BGSU is shooting 37.2 percent from beyond the arc, while allowing opponents to shoot just 24.2% from long range. In fact, the Falcons are second in the MAC in overall FG pct. defense, at 36.2%. So, to summarize, BGSU has a higher success rate from behind the three-point line than the opponents do from anywhere on the court over the last 12 games.
LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY
• Through the first 24 games this season, there have been nine contests (Michigan, Niagara, Old Dominion, Monmouth, UMass, Saint Francis, Kent State, Northern Illinois and the first Eastern Michigan meeting) in which BG never trailed, three more (Ohio State, Akron and Miami) in which the Falcons were behind for less than a minute, and a 13th (Milwaukee) that saw BG trail for just over a minute's time.
• This year to date, BGSU has led for 750:38 – 77.8 percent of the time – and trailed for just 163:42 (17.0%). The Falcons and the opponents have been tied for a total of 50:40.
• BGSU has trailed for a total of just 11 minutes and 17 seconds (in 400 minutes of action) in the 10 home games. The Falcons have yet to trail in the second half of any game at the Stroh Center this season. In fact, BG had not trailed later than the 12:40 mark of the first half until the Feb. 5 game, when Western Michigan took the lead in the final minute of the opening half. BG, however, retook the lead for good just 19 seconds later.
THAT'S NOT HALF BAD
Senior Jillian Halfhill has led the Falcons' three-point barrage all year long, but especially in the last few games. Halfhill hit a career-high six treys vs. Western Michigan game, going 6-of-9 from beyond the arc. Then, against Miami, she was a perfect 4-of-4 from long distance. On Saturday at Eastern Michigan, Halfhill again hit four triples. In that three-game span, Halfhill has shot 60.9% from long range. In fact, she has made 18-of-31 triple tries – a 58.0% success rate – over the last six games, all wins.
• Halfhill has led the Falcons in scoring in each of the last three games, and has averaged exactly 20.0 points per game during that stretch. She has shot 64.5% from the field (20-of-31), including a 14-for-23 (60.9%) effort from three-point range, in those three contests.
THREE-MARKABLE
• The Falcons have made at least five three-point field goals in each of the 12 MAC games to date, and BG has made at least nine treys on five occasions in conference play, including in three of the last four games.
• BGSU has made seven or more triples in each of the last six contests – all wins – and the Falcons have shot better than 40 percent from long range in four of those six games.
• Over the last three games, BG has made a total of 34 three-pointers and shot 40.0% (34-of-85) from long range during that time. The Falcons hit 12 treys, tying a then-season high, vs Western Michigan, then made 15 triples – just one shy of the school record – in the win over Miami before knocking down seven long-distance shots at EMU.
THREE FOR ALL
BGSU made 15 three-point field goals in the Miami game, and hit seven more at EMU. The Falcons now have hit at least one three-pointer in each of the last 300 games. BG has not been held without a trey in over nine years – since Feb. 12, 2005, at Akron, when the Falcons downed the Zips, 61-52, despite going 0-of-13 from long distance.
TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE
• BGSU struggled at the free-throw line early in the season, but the Falcons' fortunes have improved as of late. BG made fewer than 60 percent of its tosses three times in the first five games of the year, and the Falcons were shooting just 64.0% (96 of 150) through the end of November.
• Since that time, however, BGSU has shot nearly 80% from the line, having gone 297-of-375 (79.2%) over the last 17 games.
• On the year, the Falcons are shooting 74.9% from the line (ranking second in the MAC), and a league-leading 79.3% (211-of-266) from the stripe in conference games.
FALCONS LIKE THEIR #MACTION
Since Jennifer Roos became head coach prior to the 2012-13 season, the Falcons have a record of 22-6 in MAC regular-season games. BGSU has won those 22 games by an average of 17.5 points per game, and the Falcons' MAC losses have been by 6.2 ppg. Eighteen of the 22 wins have been by double digits, with just two of the six losses coming by 10 points or more.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Central Michigan game with an overall record of 21-3 and an 11-1 MAC ledger. BGSU currently holds a two-game lead over Akron and a four-game edge on Buffalo in the MAC's East Division race.
• BGSU's non-conference wins included home games vs. Niagara, Milwaukee, Massachusetts and Saint Francis; road games vs. Iona, Butler and Ohio State; and neutral-site matchups against Michigan, Old Dominion and Monmouth. The Falcons' non-league losses came at the hands of Marist (Nov. 22) in the Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge, and at Purdue on the road (Dec. 22).
• BGSU opened MAC play with four consecutive double-digit wins, downing Buffalo and preseason East Division favorite UA at home, and Kent State and Ball State on the road. In a battle of the last two remaining MAC unbeatens, host Central Michigan picked up an 82-79 overtime decision over the Falcons on Jan. 18, but the Brown and Orange have bounced back with seven-straight wins.
• That seven-game win streak has included home games vs. Eastern Michigan and Northern Illinois, road contests vs. Ohio and Toledo, then two more home matches vs. Western Michigan and Miami. On Saturday (Feb. 15), the Falcons picked up a 61-56 win at EMU. Nine of BG's 11 MAC wins – all except the Toledo game and the second win over Eastern – have been by double figures.
• Fifth-year senior Alexis Rogers, fourth-year Falcon Jillian Halfhill and redshirt sophomore Erica Donovan lead a balanced scoring attack. Rogers is averaging 14.1 points per game, while Halfhill has 13.3 ppg and Donovan 10.7 ppg this year to date.
• Sophomore Miriam Justinger has 8.4 points per game, and junior Deborah Hoekstra, a strong candidate for the MAC Sixth Man Award, is coming off the bench to score 8.4 ppg as well. Senior Jill Stein and junior Jasmine Matthews have scored 6.5 and 5.5 points per contest, respectively.
• Stein leads the team and ranks seventh in the MAC in rebounding, with 8.6 boards per game, while Rogers has pulled down 8.5 rpg (eighth in the league) and Donovan 5.4. BGSU has had at least one player with 10 rebounds in 19 of this season's first 24 games.
• Halfhill leads the Falcons with 3.0 assists per outing, with Justinger handing out 2.6 apg to date. Stein tied her career best with five assists vs. Miami, and she ranks third on the team in that category, with 2.3 per game.
• Rogers is shooting 52.5 percent from the floor, ranking second in the MAC in that category, while Donovan is shooting 44.1%. From long range, Halfhill has made a team-leading 49 three-point field goals, while Hoekstra has hit 34 shots from beyond the arc. Four other Falcons have made between 16 and 26 treys apiece.
• Halfhill ranks second in the entire MAC in three-point field-goal percentage, having gone 49-of-111 (44.1%) from long distance to date, while Hoekstra is third in the league on that list (41.0%). Halfhill hit a career-high six triples in the Western Michigan game, and went 4-for-4 from long range vs. Miami before hitting four more treys at EMU.
• Freshmen Rachel Konieczki and Abby Siefker are averaging 1.9 and 1.8 ppg, respectively. Konieczki has seen action in all 24 games to date, while Siefker has played in 22. Another freshman, Kennedy Kirkpatrick, has seen action in five games off the bench, and classmate Leah Bolton has played in two contests, including the first EMU match on Jan. 23. Bolton made her BGSU debut in the Monmouth game back on Dec. 1. Kirkpatrick has not seen action since the Ohio State game the previous week (Nov. 24).
• Halfhill, Justinger, Rogers and Stein each have started all 24 games this season to date, with Donovan starting 23. Donovan started the first 12 games, but Matthews took her place in the lineup for the Buffalo game, as Donovan missed tipoff due to a funeral. Donovan was back in the starting five for the Kent State game, and has started each game since that time.
• Head coach Jennifer Roos and her staff welcomed back seven letterwinners from a year ago, and the program also has added seven newcomers – five to the roster and two to the coaching staff.
• Through 24 games, the Falcons are shooting 42.3 percent from the field, 35.7% from three-point range and 74.9% from the foul line. Opponents are shooting 36.7% from the floor, 26.9% from the arc and 68.7% from the stripe. The Falcons have a scoring margin of +14.0, a rebounding margin of +8.8 and a turnover margin of +0.5 on the year.
• In MAC games, BGSU is shooting 42.5% from the field, 37.2% from three-point land and 79.3% from the line. Opponents have shot 36.2% overall, 24.2% from long range and 63.7% from the stripe in MAC play.
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Seniors Alexis Rogers and Jillian Halfhill each had a double-double at Eastern Michigan, as Halfhill had 21 points and 10 rebounds, while Rogers scored 13 points and pulled down 13 boards. BGSU now has a total of 15 double-doubles this season after recording nine during all of last year. Rogers has seven this winter (and 22 in her career), while senior Jill Stein and redshirt sophomore Erica Donovan have three apiece and Halfhill two.
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 enjoyed 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 38-7 in the Stroh Center, including a 21-2 ledger vs. MAC opponents.
• 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.
• Last season, 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).
• This year, the Falcons are 10-0 at home heading into Wednesday's CMU game. BG has won those 10 games by an average of 23.3 points.
• The 38-7 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.
TOUGH TO SCORE AT THE STROH
• In 45 games at the Stroh Center, the Falcons have allowed the opponent to reach 70 points just three times. Akron is the only MAC foe to surpass the 60-point mark against the Brown and Orange in 23 trips to the building by conference foes, and the Zips have done so twice (61 points in a BG win last Feb. 20; 65 points in another Falcon victory this season [Jan. 12]). Through the Miami game, BG has allowed an average of 53.4 ppg in all games at the Stroh, and just 50.8 ppg against MAC opponents.
• BG has held 35 of 45 opponents to fewer than 60 points at the Stroh Center. The Falcons have limited 15 of those foes to less than 50 points, and on three occasions, BGSU has kept the opposition under the 40-point mark.
THE CENTRAL MICHIGAN CHIPPEWAS
Central Michigan enters Wednesday's game with an overall record of 16-8, and the Chippewas are a perfect 12-0 in MAC play. CMU has won 12-straight games, including nine by double digits, since dropping three consecutive contests to close the non-conference schedule. CMU is 9-0 at home, 6-6 on the road and 1-2 in neutral-site matches this season. Individually, junior guard Crystal Bradford leads the team in a veritable plethora of categories, including scoring. Bradford has 19.5 points per game and 11.8 rebounds per contest, along with team-best averages of 4.3 assists, 2.9 steals and 1.3 blocked shots per game. Senior guard Niki DiGuilio has 13.8 ppg and has hit a team-leading 82 three-point field goals, while juniors Jessica Green and Jas'Mine Bracey have 11.7 and 11.5 ppg, respectively. Green is second on the team with 4.1 assists per contest, while Bracey, like Bradford, is averaging a double-double, with 10.2 rpg. Bradford and Bracey rank 1-2 in the MAC in rebounding. While DiGuilio leads the MAC in three-point field goals made, junior guard Kerby Tamm tops the league in long-range accuracy (44.2%, just ahead of BG's Jillian Halfhill at 44.1%). Head coach Sue Guevara welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team. The 2012-13 edition of the Chippewas went 21-12 overall and 12-4 in MAC play, tying for second in the West Division and going on to win the league tourney championship.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Central Michigan, 46-16, in the all-time series between the teams, but CMU has captured the last two meetings. The teams split a pair of lopsided decisions last season, with the Falcons winning an 84-59 outcome in the teams' regular-season meeting at the Stroh Center (Feb. 3, 2013). Then, however, Central bounced the Falcons from the MAC Tournament with an 81-48 win in the tourney's third round in Cleveland (March 14, 2013). Last month, in the first 2013-14 meeting, CMU mounted a comeback late in regulation, and went on to down the Falcons in overtime, 82-79, in Mount Pleasant (Jan. 18, 2014). BGSU is 24-4 in home games, 18-8 on the road and 4-4 in neutral-site contests vs. the Chippewas over the years. Jennifer Roos is 1-2 against the Chippewas as a collegiate head coach, although she also served as interim head coach of the Falcons for a win over the Chippewas in the 2011-12 season.
FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons continue to own the best record in MAC history. Entering the CMU game, BGSU has an all-time record of 384-153 (.715) in MAC regular-season contests, for the most wins and highest winning pct. of all league institutions. And, BG 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 victories (737) and highest overall winning percentage (.653) of any conference school.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 21-3 this year to date, after posting a 24-11 overall record last season;
• 11-1 in MAC play in 2013-14, after going 11-5 in MAC action in '12-13 (last year's team finished in second place in the East Division by a game, snapping a streak of eight-straight division titles);
• 303-106 since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU in the summer of 2001;
• 157-47 in MAC games in that time:
• 282-71 over the last 10-plus years, with 2013-14 marking BG's MAC-record 11th-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 261-61 in the past nine-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in nine-straight seasons and a MAC overall regular-season title in seven of those nine years (2004-10 and again in '12, after winning an East Division crown in '11);
• an eye-popping 238-53 overall, and 122-18 in the MAC regular season, in the last eight-plus years, with at least 24 wins in each of the last eight seasons;
• a splendiferous 210-50 in the last seven-plus years, including a 106-18 league ledger;
• a/an (insert your own adjective here) 179-46 overall, and 91-17 in MAC regular-season games, in the last six-plus seasons, since Monique Rosati came to the BGSU program;
• 153-38 overall and 78-14 in MAC action over the last five-plus winters;
• 124-33, including a 63-13 MAC ledger, in the last four-plus seasons;
• 97-26 overall and 49-11 in the MAC since seniors Jillian Halfhill and Jill Stein ventured to campus;
• 69-21 overall, and 36-8 in MAC action, since senior Alexis Rogers and juniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews first put on a BGSU uniform;
• 45-14 since senior Katrina Salinas and sophomore Miriam Justinger were added to the Falcons' roster;
• 145-22 in the last 167 games vs. MAC foes (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 65-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field since 2001;
• 242-12 when having a better FG percentage than the opposition in that time, including a 114-2 mark in the last five-plus seasons;
• 230-38 when making more free throws than the opponent in the Roos Assistant-Coach/Associate-Head-Coach/Interim-Head-Coach/Head-Coaching Era;
• 196-24 when outrebounding the opponent in that 12-plus-year span;
• 71-7 in MAC home games in the last nine-plus seasons;
• 58-12 in MAC road games over the last eight-plus years;
• 20-4 in the MAC Tournament in the last nine years, with five titles (2005, '06, '07, '10 and '11), an additional championship-game appearance (2009), and trips to the semis in 2008 and 2012;
• 44-18 overall in the MAC Tournament since it was instituted in 1982;
• 21-6 at Gund/Quicken Loans Arena, the site of the MAC Tournament;
• 50-6 in all non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 7-16 in 16 national postseason appearances (including a 3-11 record in the NCAA Championships and a 4-5 mark in WNIT trips);
• 6-9 in national postseason action since Roos arrived at BG (including a 2-5 mark in the NCAAs and a 4-4 record in the WNIT); and
• 38-7 in the Stroh Center, with five of the seven losses coming by a combined 11 points.
DEFENSE!
• During her time as an assistant coach at BGSU, Jennifer Roos served as the team's defensive coordinator. The team enjoyed great success at the defensive end of the floor, and that success continued in her first season as head coach. In 2012-13, Roos and assistant Jesse Fleming helped the Falcons set a school record for fewest points allowed per game – 54.3 – breaking the record set the previous year.
• Last year's team also set new school records for fewest points allowed and lowest opponent field-goal percentage allowed in MAC games. In the 16 conference contests, league foes averaged just 51.9 points and shot only 36.1% from the floor.
• Those trends have continued in the 2013-14 season. In the first 24 games, despite playing a difficult schedule, BGSU has allowed 56.3 points per game and permitted the opponents to shoot just 36.7% from the field to date.
TRY TO MAKE MORE THAN THEY TAKE
The 2013-14 Falcons appear to be continuing an impressive trend of getting to the foul line much more often than the other team. BGSU has made a total of 393 free throws this season to date. That total is 16 more than the opponents have attempted (377). BG has made more tosses than the foes have attempted in three of the last five years. And, the Falcons' total of free throws made has been at least 100 higher than the opponents' FTM total in each of the last eight seasons. The 2002-03 campaign was the last time the opposition made, or attempted, more free throws than BG.
UP NEXT
Following the CMU game, the Falcons' final five games of the regular season will come against fellow East Division foes, beginning with a weekend trip to Western New York. BGSU faces Buffalo on Saturday (Feb. 22), with tipoff set for 2:00 p.m. at Alumni Arena.
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