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Sunday, March 2
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2:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
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Ohio
Falcons Host Ohio on Senior Day at the Stroh
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SENIOR DAY
Sunday marks 'Senior Day' for the BGSU women's basketball program, as the three seniors on the Falcons' active roster will be recognized in ceremonies prior to tipoff between BG and Ohio. That senior class consists of Jillian Halfhill, Alexis Rogers and Jill Stein.
SENIOR DAY/NIGHT SUCCESS
BGSU is looking to continue a lengthy streak of success on Sunday. The Falcons have won 12 consecutive 'Senior Day/Night' games since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU, and BG is 17-1 in the last 18 such contests. The lone loss in that time came to Miami in February of 2001.
SENIOR PRIDE
The Falcons' seniors have joined a relatively exclusive – and very impressive – group. Jillian Halfhill, Alexis Rogers and Jill Stein have become the ninth class in school history, and the eighth in a row, to be a part of at least 100 career wins at BG. Heading into the Ohio game, the Falcons have a record of 100-26 since they arrived on campus in the fall of 2010 (Rogers sat out that 2010-11 season as a transfer from Duke). The school mark is held by the one-woman class of Lindsey Goldsberry, who ended her career with 114 wins, the most by any player (male or female) in MAC basketball history.
STREAKY FALCONS
BGSU's win over Kent State on Thursday night (Feb. 27) was the Falcons' 10th in a row. BG has had a total of 12 double-digit winning streaks in program history, including eight in the last nine seasons.
LOOKING TO GO 13-AND-OH AT THE STROH
The Falcons enter Sunday's game, the final home regular-season contest of the year, with a perfect 12-0 record at the Stroh Center this season to date. BGSU is looking to finish the regular season with an unblemished home record for the eighth time in program history, and the first time at the Stroh. Seven Falcon teams made it through the regular season unscathed when the team called Anderson Arena home (three of those teams suffered a loss at home during national postseason play).
LAST TIME OUT: STIFLING SECOND-HALF DEFENSE LEADS BG TO WIN
• The Falcons shut down Kent State's offense in the second half, earning a milestone win on Thursday night (Feb. 27) at the Stroh Center. BG downed the Golden Flashes, 82-38.
• The win was the 100th victory in the careers of the three seniors on the active roster. That group includes fourth-year Falcons Jillian Halfhill and Jill Stein, as well as Alexis Rogers. Rogers has played each of the last three seasons in the Brown and Orange after sitting out the 2010-11 season as a transfer.
• The Falcons held Kent State to just four field goals made and 12 total points in the second half. The Flashes shot nearly 71 percent from the field in the first half, and just 15% in the second.
• Meanwhile, BGSU shot over 50% in each half en route to a 29-for-51 night from the floor. The Falcons shot 61.5% in the opening half and an even 52% in the final 20 minutes. BG's 56.9% field-goal percentage for the game was a season high.
• Rogers had 18 points to lead four double-digit scorers for the home team. She made 7-of-8 shots from the field and had a game-high four steals. Halfhill was 6-of-8 from the floor, including a perfect 3-of-3 from three-point land, en route to 15 points. She also led the team with five assists in just 24 minutes of action.
• Junior Jasmine Matthews and redshirt sophomore Erica Donovan rounded out BG's double-figure scorers with 13 and 11 points, respectively. CiCi Shannon led the Golden Flashes with 10 points on the night. Shannon also had game-high totals of seven rebounds and five blocked shots.
• The Falcons never trailed, but the BG lead was just eight points after back-to-back buckets by the Flashes late in the opening half. The Brown and Orange responded with the last seven points of the first period, including five in the final 8.0 seconds of the half.
• A Donovan layup with 50 seconds remaining in the half gave the Falcons a 36-26 lead, and after Stein stole the ball from KSU's Amber Dunlap, Halfhill knocked down a three-pointer with exactly eight seconds left before the intermission.
• The point guard went to the free-throw line, looking to complete a four-point play. Her shot would not drop, but fellow senior Stein grabbed the rebound. Stein's putback try caromed off the rim, but classmate Rogers rose above several KSU players to tip the ball off the glass and into the net with roughly one second left. That shot gave the Falcons a 41-26 lead at the break.
• The Flashes struggled to hold onto the ball in the opening half, but were deadly accurate when they did. KSU committed 13 first-half turnovers, but the Flashes hit 12-of-17 shots from the floor (70.6%). The second half, however, would be a different story.
• Kent State went just 4-of-26 (15.4%) in that second period, and BGSU scored the first 10 points of the half to seize total control. The Flashes committed 22 turnovers for the game, to just eight for the Falcons. BGSU had advantages of 28-11 in points off turnovers, 13-0 in second-chance points, 10-0 in fast-break points and 26-5 in bench scoring.
MULTI-TALENTED
For the second time this season, freshman Abby Siefker sang the National Anthem before a BGSU women's basketball game at the Stroh Center. On Thursday (Feb. 27), after flawlessly performing the Anthem, Siefker went out and tied her career bests in both scoring and rebounding. The Ottoville, Ohio, native had seven points and four rebounds – all at the offensive end – in the win over Kent State.
PLAY THE D
The Falcons continued a recent trend in Thursday's game. The BGSU defense has held Kent State to fewer than 40 points in three-straight meetings, and in four of the five BG-KSU games of the Jennifer Roos Head-Coaching Era. In those five meetings, the Golden Flashes have averaged 37.6 points per game, and KSU has posted point totals of (in order) 33, 43, 35, 39 and 38. At the other end of the court, the Falcons have averaged 67.2 ppg in the last five meetings vs. the Flashes.
PLAY THE D, PART II
• Kent State scored just 12 points and made only four field goals in the second half of Thursday's BGSU win over the Golden Flashes.
• The point total was the lowest allowed in a half by BGSU in over two years, since the Falcons also surrendered just 12 points vs. Northern Illinois in the first half of a 57-47 win over the Huskies (Feb. 1, 2012). Jennifer Roos, the associate head coach on the 2011-12 staff, served as BG's interim head coach in that game.
• BGSU has not allowed fewer than 12 points in a half since giving up just 11 in the first half of a game at Miami on March 4, 2009.
• Believe it or not, Thursday marked the sixth time over the last two seasons that BGSU allowed only four successful field goals in a half. The Falcon defense held Ohio State to just four first-half buckets earlier this season in a BG win in Columbus (Nov. 24, 2013), and the Brown and Orange turned the trick in wins over Colorado State, Northwestern, nationally ranked Dayton and Kent State last year.
• BG has not allowed fewer than four field goals in a half in more than six years since the Falcons forced Cornell to go just 3-of-22 (13.6%) in the second half of a 70-54 BGSU win in Ames, Iowa (Dec. 1, 2007).
THE FALCONS AND THE MAC TOURNAMENT
BGSU has clinched no worse than the third seed for the MAC Tournament. The Falcons will earn at least a 'double-bye' in the tourney, and will advance to at least the third round on Thursday, March 13. The top-two seeds each will earn a 'triple-bye' and will not play until the semifinal round the following afternoon (Friday, March 14).
QUICK HITS
• BGSU is 23-4 overall and 14-1 in MAC play, and the Falcons have won 10 consecutive games heading into the Ohio contest. BG won four-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.
• BG has topped last year's MAC win total by three, with three regular-season games remaining. The 2012-13 club went 11-5 in league play. The conference returned to an 18-game schedule this season after playing 16 league games last year.
• BGSU received 14 votes in Monday's (Feb. 24) Associated Press poll. The Falcons were the fourth team listed under 'others receiving votes.' BG was ranked 27th in the RPI as of Monday, according to the RealTimeRPI.com listings.
• The Falcons have tied the win total for all of last season, with at least four games remaining (three regular-season games and at least one MAC Tournament game). Last year's team finished with a 24-11 record.
• 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.
• Twenty of the Falcons' 24 victories this season – including all 12 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 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 seven wins of 22 points or more, with six of those seven coming at home. BGSU is a perfect 12-0 at the Stroh Center, having won those 12 games by an average of 24.1 points per contest.
• In addition to the 12 wins at the Stroh, the Falcons also have 12 victories away from home, with marks of 9-2 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, EMU and UB, and the Falcons have topped Michigan, Old Dominion and Monmouth at neutral sites. 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 the teams' first 2013-14 meeting.
• In BGSU's 12 home games, the Falcons have averaged 77.2 points. BG has topped the 80-point plateau seven 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 7.9 and 14.5 points per game, and two other players have at least 5.7 ppg to date.
• The Falcons' five starters each have attempted between 168 and 255 shots, meaning that every starter is averaging somewhere between 6.2 and 9.5 field-goal attempts per game.
• BGSU leads the MAC and ranks 10th in the nation in scoring defense, having allowed just 55.9 points per game. The Falcons also lead the MAC in scoring margin (+14.9), rebounding margin (+8.2), three-point field-goal percentage (36.2) and three-point FG pct. defense (25.7), and BG is second in the conference in FG pct. (43.1), FG pct. defense (36.7), free-throw pct. (74.5) and three-pointers made per game (7.7).
• The Falcons are now fifth in the nation in three-point FG pct. defense, and BG ranks 10th in W-L pct. and 16th in scoring margin. In fact, BGSU is ranked among the nation's top-40 teams in 10 of the 18 statistical categories kept by the NCAA.
• BGSU is 23rd in the country in rebounding margin. The Falcons have been out-rebounded in just two games since Nov. 18, as Ball State had a narrow 31-29 edge in that category on Jan. 15, before Buffalo had a slim 34-32 margin on Feb. 22.
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 50 of 62 games, including in 24 of the 31 MAC contests. Three of the other games saw the teams tie in that category.
• This year, the Falcons have out-rebounded the foes in 23 of the first 27 games, with double-digit margins in eight of those matchups. BG owns a MAC-best rebounding margin of +8.2 this year to date. BGSU has out-boarded 13 of 15 MAC opponents so far in '13-14, with a league-best +7.1 rebounding margin in conference play.
THREE-MENDOUS!
In MAC games (as well as in the overall stats), the Falcons lead the league in both three-point field-goal percentage and three-point FG pct. defense. BGSU is shooting 37.8 percent from beyond the arc vs. conference foes, while allowing MAC opponents to shoot just 22.8% from long range. In fact, the Falcons also lead the MAC in overall FG pct. defense, at 36.3% in conference games. 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 15 games.
LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT THE WAY
• Through the first 27 games this season, there have been 10 contests (Michigan, Niagara, Old Dominion, Monmouth, UMass, Saint Francis, Northern Illinois, the first Eastern Michigan meeting and both games vs. Kent State) 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 14th (Milwaukee) that saw BG trail for just over a minute's time.
• This year to date, BGSU has led for 846:34 – 78.0 percent of the time – and trailed for just 178:13 (16.4%). The Falcons and the opponents have been tied for a total of 60:13.
• BGSU has trailed for a total of just 19 minutes and 29 seconds (in 480 minutes of action) in the 12 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 fallen behind later than the 12:40 mark of the first half of a home game until Feb. 5, 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.
THREE FOR ALL
BGSU made nine three-point field goals in the win over KSU on Thursday. The Falcons now have made at least one three-pointer in each of the last 303 games. BG has not been held without a triple 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.
THREE-MARKABLE
• The Falcons have made at least five three-point field goals in each of the 15 MAC games to date, and BG has made at least nine treys on seven occasions in conference play, including in five of the last seven games.
• Over the last six games, BG has made a total of 59 three-pointers and shot 40.1% (59-of-147) 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, six more against CMU, 10 at Buffalo and nine vs. KSU.
FALCONS LIKE THEIR #MACTION
Since Jennifer Roos became head coach prior to the 2012-13 season, the Falcons have a record of 25-6 in MAC regular-season games. BGSU has won those 25 games by an average of 18.1 points per game, and the Falcons' MAC losses have been by 6.2 ppg. Twenty-one of the 25 wins have been by double digits, with just two of the six losses coming by 10 points or more.
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 342-of-438 (78.1%) over the last 20 games.
• On the year, the Falcons are shooting 74.5% from the line (ranking second in the MAC), and a league-leading 77.8% from the stripe in conference games.
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 40-7 in the Stroh Center, including a 23-2 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 12-0 at home heading into Sunday's game vs. Ohio. BG has won those 12 games by an average of 24.1 points.
• The 40-7 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 47 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 25 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 Kent State game, BG has allowed an average of 53.1 ppg in all games at the Stroh, and just 50.4 ppg against MAC opponents.
• BG has held 37 of 47 opponents to fewer than 60 points at the Stroh Center. The Falcons have limited 16 of those foes to less than 50 points, and on four occasions, BGSU has kept the opposition under the 40-point mark.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Ohio game with an overall record of 24-3 and a 14-1 MAC ledger. BGSU currently holds a two-game lead over Akron in the MAC's East Division race, with three regular-season games remaining, and the Falcons are tied with Central Michigan for the best record in the MAC.
• 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 10-straight wins.
• Most recently, the Falcons held Kent State to just 12 second-half points in an 82-38 win over the Flashes on Thursday night (Feb. 27). Last week's BG wins included a 67-55 home victory vs. CMU (Feb. 19) in a battle of division leaders, and a 73-63 win at Buffalo three days later (Feb. 22).
• Twelve of BG's 14 MAC wins 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 14.5 points per game, while Halfhill has 13.5 ppg and Donovan 11.1 ppg this year to date.
• Sophomore Miriam Justinger has 8.1 points per game, and junior Deborah Hoekstra, a strong candidate for the MAC Sixth Man Award, is coming off the bench to score 7.9 ppg. Senior Jill Stein and junior Jasmine Matthews have scored 6.6 and 5.7 points per contest, respectively.
• Stein leads the team and ranks fifth in the MAC in rebounding, with 8.5 boards per game, while Rogers has pulled down 8.3 rpg and Donovan 5.5.
• Halfhill leads the Falcons with 3.1 assists per outing, with Justinger handing out 2.6 apg to date. Stein ranks third on the team in that category, with 2.3 per game.
• Rogers is shooting 54.4 percent from the floor, ranking second in the MAC in that category, while Donovan is shooting 45.7%. From long range, Halfhill has made a team-leading 55 three-point field goals, while Hoekstra has hit 35 shots from beyond the arc. Four other Falcons have made between 21 and 31 treys apiece.
• Halfhill leads the entire MAC – and ranks seventh in the entire nation – in three-point field-goal percentage, having gone 55-of-121 (45.5%) from long distance to date, while Hoekstra is fourth in the league on that list (38.9%). Halfhill hit a career-high six triples in the Western Michigan game, and went 4-for-4 from long range vs. Miami and 3-of-3 against Kent State. She is 20-for-33 (60.6%) from three-point land over the last six games.
• Freshmen Abby Siefker and Rachel Konieczki are averaging 1.9 and 1.7 ppg, respectively. Konieczki has seen action in all 27 games to date, while Siefker has played in 24. Another freshman, Kennedy Kirkpatrick, has seen action in five games off the bench, and classmate Leah Bolton has played in two contests. Kirkpatrick has not seen action since the Ohio State game on Nov. 24, while Bolton's two appearances came on Dec. 1 and Jan. 23.
• Halfhill, Justinger, Rogers and Stein each have started all 27 games this season to date, with Donovan starting 26. Donovan started the first 12 games, but Matthews took her place in the lineup for the first Buffalo game, as Donovan missed tipoff due to a funeral. Donovan was back in the starting five for the Jan. 9 game at Kent State, 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 27 games, the Falcons are shooting 43.1 percent from the field, 36.2% from three-point range and 74.5% from the foul line. Opponents are shooting 36.7% from the floor, 25.7% from the arc and 68.0% from the stripe. The Falcons have a scoring margin of +14.9, a rebounding margin of +8.2 and a turnover margin of +0.7 on the year.
• In MAC games, BGSU is shooting 43.9% from the field, 37.8% from three-point land and 77.8% from the line. Opponents have shot 36.3% overall, 22.8% from long range and 63.2% from the stripe in MAC play.
THE OHIO BOBCATS
Ohio enters Sunday's game with an overall record of 9-17, and the Bobcats are 4-11 in MAC play. After beginning conference action with a 3-1 record, Ohio dropped 10 consecutive games, with two of the last three coming by single digits. But, Ohio snapped that streak with Thursday night's 83-71 win over Buffalo. The 'Cats are 5-5 at home, 3-10 on the road and 1-2 in neutral-site matches this season. In MAC play, Ohio is 3-5 at the Convocation Center and 1-6 in hostile venues. Individually, sophomore guard Kiyanna Black leads the team in scoring, with 13.8 points per game, and she also paces the 'Cats in steals, with 2.0 per game. Freshman guard Quiera Lampkins and junior guard Mariah Byard are averaging 10.7 and 10.2 ppg, respectively, while sophomore forward Lexie Baldwin has 8.3 ppg and a team-leading 6.1 rebounds per outing. First-year Bobcat head coach Bob Boldon has four letterwinners, including two starters, from last year's team. The 2012-13 edition of the Bobcats went 6-23 overall and 1-15 in MAC regular-season play.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Ohio, 54-21, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won the last three meetings. In this year's first game, the Falcons trailed for much of the night, but used a game-ending 27-4 run for a 78-62 victory in Athens (Jan. 30). Alexis Rogers had 20 points to lead five Falcons in double digits, while Jill Stein pulled down a whopping 18 rebounds. Last season, the Falcons swept the two matchups, including a 73-52 win at the Stroh Center on Senior Day (March 3, 2013). The Bobcats' last series win came on Feb. 22, 2012, when Ohio's Tenishia Benson scored eight points in the final 2:08 of the game for a 60-56 win over the Falcons. BGSU is 30-5 in home games, 21-14 on the road and 3-2 in neutral-site contests vs. Ohio through the years. Jennifer Roos is 3-0 against the Bobcats as a collegiate head coach.
FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons continue to own the best record in MAC history. Entering the Ohio game, BGSU has an all-time record of 387-153 (.717) 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 (740) and highest overall winning percentage (.654) of any conference school.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 24-3 this year to date, after posting a 24-11 overall record last season;
• 14-1 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);
• 306-106 since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU in the summer of 2001;
• 160-47 in MAC games in that time:
• 285-71 over the last 10-plus years, with 2013-14 marking BG's MAC-record 11th-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 264-61 in the past nine-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in 10-straight seasons now, and a MAC overall regular-season title in seven of the last nine years (2004-10 and again in '12, after winning an East Division crown in '11);
• an eye-popping 241-53 overall, and 125-18 in the MAC regular season, in the last eight-plus years, with at least 24 wins in each of those nine years;
• a splendiferous 213-50 in the last seven-plus years, including a 109-18 league ledger;
• a/an (insert your own adjective here) 182-46 overall, and 94-17 in MAC regular-season games, in the last six-plus seasons, since Monique Rosati came to the BGSU program;
• 156-38 overall and 81-14 in MAC action over the last five-plus winters;
• 127-33, including a 66-13 MAC ledger, in the last four-plus seasons;
• 100-26 overall and 52-11 in the MAC since seniors Jillian Halfhill and Jill Stein ventured to campus;
• 72-21 overall, and 39-8 in MAC action, since senior Alexis Rogers and juniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews first put on a BGSU uniform;
• 48-14 since senior Katrina Salinas and sophomore Miriam Justinger were added to the Falcons' roster;
• 148-22 in the last 170 games vs. MAC foes (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 66-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field since 2001;
• 245-12 when having a better FG percentage than the opposition in that time, including a 117-2 mark in the last five-plus seasons;
• 233-38 when making more free throws than the opponent in the Roos Assistant-Coach/Associate-Head-Coach/Interim-Head-Coach/Head-Coaching Era;
• 198-24 when outrebounding the opponent in that 12-plus-year span;
• 73-7 in MAC home games in the last nine-plus seasons;
• 59-12 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
• 40-7 in the Stroh Center, with five of the 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 27 games, despite playing a difficult schedule, BGSU has allowed 55.9 points per game and permitted the opponents to shoot just 36.7% from the field to date.
ROGERS REACHES MILLENNIUM MARK
Senior Alexis Rogers blew past her would-be defender for a driving layup with 7:08 left in the Falcons' win over Eastern Michigan on Jan. 23. That layup gave her exactly 1,000 points in her BGSU career. Entering the Ohio game, she has 1,141 points in 92 games at BG, an average of 12.4 points per game at the school. Rogers ranks 21st on the school career scoring list, and her next target is Andrea Nordmann (1,164 points from 1989-93).
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 438 free throws this season to date. That total is 23 more than the opponents have attempted (415). BG has made more tosses than the foes have attempted in three of the last five years. 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, and BG is on track to accomplish that feat yet again this year. The 2002-03 campaign was the last time the opposition made, or attempted, more free throws than BG.
UP NEXT
Following the Ohio game, the Falcons hit the road for the final two games of the regular season. BGSU will head to Oxford for a Wednesday (March 5) afternoon game vs. Miami University, with tipoff set for 12:00 p.m. Then, the Brown and Orange will close the regular-season schedule by taking on the University of Akron in Northeast Ohio on Saturday, March 8. BG has earned a double-bye in the MAC Tournament, and the Falcons will advance to at least the third round, on Thursday, March 13. The semifinals are set for Friday, March 14, with the MAC Tournament's championship game on Saturday, March 15.
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