Bowling Green State University Athletics
Thursday, March 20
Bowling Green, OH
7:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
vs
High Point
BGSU Welcomes High Point to Town for WNIT First Round
March 19, 2014 | Women's Basketball
Falcons, Panthers to meet Thursday (March 20) at the Stroh Center
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GAME NOTES: BGSU | High Point | WNIT
WNIT Bracket
Ticket Information for Thursday's game
AUDIO: Tuesday (March 18) interviews - Roos | Halfhill
BGSU Game Notes from 2009-Present
BGSU Media Guide: PDF | Flip Interactive
Career Stats of Current Falcons
BG IN THE WNIT
• The 2013-14 season marks the Falcons' sixth appearance in the WNIT, and the third in as many years. BGSU has an overall record of 4-5 in the tourney to date. The Falcons are 4-4 in home games in the WNIT, with records of 2-2 at both venerable Anderson Arena and the Stroh Center. And, BGSU is 4-4 in the WNIT since Jennifer Roos came to Northwest Ohio.
• Last season, the Falcons won back-to-back WNIT games for the first time in program history. BG topped SMU, 76-70, in the first round, for the program's first national postseason win since 2009. Then, the Brown and Orange rallied for a 61-54 win over Duquesne in second-round action, before falling to eventual tourney champion Drexel, 50-47, in the third round.
• BGSU hosted Butler in WNIT action in 1998, losing a 95-90 decision at Anderson in the team's first appearance in the tourney. That game was the final contest for Jaci Clark as BG's head coach, as she took the Dayton job following the season.
• Six years ago, the Brown and Orange picked up a home win over Dayton, 64-52, before losing at Michigan State by a 74-66 count two days later.
• The following March, the Falcons were awarded a first-round bye in the then 48-team event, and BG played a pair of games at Anderson. The Falcons downed Syracuse by a 72-69 final in second-round action at "The House That Roars," but BGSU fell to visiting Indiana, 75-67, in the third round.
• Two years ago, VCU scored at the buzzer for a 72-71 win over the Falcons at the Stroh. Andrea Barbour went coast-to-coast for the game-winning layup, after BGSU's Jessica Slagle had given her team a 71-70 lead by hitting two free throws with just 5.1 seconds left.
NATIONAL POSTSEASON PLAY FOR THE 10TH-STRAIGHT SEASON
The Falcons are participating in national postseason play for the 10th consecutive season, a school- and MAC-record streak. BGSU has made the WNIT field in five of those seasons, participating in the tourney in 2008 and 2009 as well as each of the last three years. The Falcons also have gone to the NCAA Championships five times in that span, making three-straight trips from 2005-07, then returning to the NCAAs in 2010 and '11. Prior to the current run, the school's previous record for consecutive postseason appearances was four, as Fran Voll guided the Falcons to the NCAAs in each year from 1987 through 1990.
BG'S BEST TOURNAMENT RUNS
• The Falcons have advanced to the third round of a national postseason tournament three times in school history. One of those trips received slightly more attention than the other two, as it came in the NCAA Championships. The 2006-07 Falcons defeated Oklahoma State and Vanderbilt to become the only team in MAC history to advance to the "Sweet Sixteen."
• BGSU has advanced to the third round of the WNIT on two occasions, in 2009 and '13. The 2009 team earned a first-round bye, then downed Syracuse in second-round action to advance to the third round against Indiana.
• Last season, the Falcons topped SMU and Duquesne before losing a three-point decision to Drexel in the third round. All three of BGSU's 2013 games in the WNIT took place at the Stroh Center.
A DREAM SEASON FOR YOU = A TYPICAL YEAR FOR US
• The Falcons enter the High Point game with an overall record of 27-4. At many schools around the nation, 27 wins would be a single-season record (nine of the 12 current MAC institutions have never won 27 games in a season). But, at Bowling Green, such a lofty win total has become a relatively common occurrence.
• A MAC team has won as many as 27 games on a total of 12 occasions. Bowling Green has been that team on eight of those 12 occasions, including six times in the last nine seasons. The 2006-07 "Sweet Sixteen" team won a MAC-record 31 games, while the 2008-09 club posted 29 wins. The '05-06 and '10-11 teams each won 28 games, while four BGSU teams – including this year's edition of the Falcons – have won 27 games apiece.
• A complete list of MAC teams with 27 wins or more can be found on page 10 of the PDF version of these notes.
CHAMPIONS AGAIN
The Falcons won the MAC's regular-season title outright, achieving that feat for the eighth time in the last 10 years. BGSU now has captured a total of 14 regular-season championships. A few more notes about BG's titles ...
• BGSU won league regular-season titles in three consecutive years from 1986-87 to 1988-89 under head coach Fran Voll, and Jaci Clark's teams captured back-to-back crowns in the 1992-93 and '93-94 campaigns. In 2005, the Falcons had the MAC's best overall record at 13-3, and won the West Division. BGSU then won the East Division outright seven years running (2006-12), with MAC marks of 16-0, 15-1, 13-3, 15-1, 14-2, 13-3 and 14-2 in those seven seasons.
• BGSU has won nine division titles in the last 10 years. The lone exception came last season, when the Falcons finished in second place in the East, one game behind Akron, with a league mark of 11-5.
• BGSU's 14 total regular-season titles are the most of any conference institution.
• Thirteen of BGSU's 14 MAC regular-season championships have been outright crowns. In each of the Falcons' first five championship seasons (1987, 1988, 1989, 1993 and 1994), the MAC had just one division, and BGSU had the best overall regular-season record outright.
• In each of the six-straight seasons from 2005 to 2010, head coach Curt Miller's teams not only won a division title, but also had the best overall record among all MAC schools. The 2011-12 campaign was the only year that BG won a title without winning the overall regular-season championship, as the Falcons won the East Division with a 13-3 mark, but West Division-winning Toledo was 14-2 in the league.
HALFHILL, ROGERS AND DONOVAN NAMED TO ALL-MAC TEAM
• BGSU seniors Jillian Halfhill and Alexis Rogers were named to the All-MAC First Team, while redshirt sophomore Erica Donovan earned all-league honorable mention. This season marks the first time in five years that BGSU has had two players named to the first team (Tracy Pontius and Lauren Prochaska in 2009).
• Rogers earned all-league first-team honors for the second time, and she has received conference accolades in each of her three playing seasons at BGSU. Rogers was named to the All-MAC First Team two years ago before earning second-team honors last March. Halfhill and Donovan each earned all-league honors for the first time in their respective careers.
ROOS NAMED MAC COACH OF THE YEAR
BGSU's Jennifer Roos was named the MAC Coach of the Year. Roos, in just her second year as a collegiate head coach, earned the honor for the first time. Roos has an overall record of 51-15 heading into Thursday's High Point game, and she has guided the Falcons to a 28-6 MAC record over her first two seasons. Those marks do not include a 2-0 record as the Falcons' interim head coach during the 2011-12 season.
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 41-7 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.
• 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 have gone a perfect 13-0 at home through the regular season. BG has won those 13 games by an average of 24.1 points.
• The 41-7 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 48 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 26 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]). Entering the High Point game, BG has allowed an average of 52.8 ppg in all games at the Stroh, and just 50.0 ppg against MAC opponents.
• BG has held 38 of 48 opponents to fewer than 60 points at the Stroh Center. The Falcons have limited 17 of those foes to less than 50 points, and on five occasions, BGSU has kept the opposition under the 40-point mark.
HOME COOKIN'
Last winter, once again, the Falcons tied the school record for home wins in a season. BGSU went 14-2 at the Stroh Center, matching the program record for home victories that was set in the 2008-09 season and matched in '10-11. The 2008-09 Falcons went 14-1 at oh-so-venerable Anderson Arena, with the only loss coming to Indiana in the WNIT. Three years ago, BGSU also went 14-1 at 'The House That Roars.'
FALCONS ARE 13-AND-OH AT THE STROH
The Falcons' win over Ohio on March 2 capped a perfect home regular-season schedule. BG has a record of 13-0 at the Stroh Center entering the WNIT. The Falcons completed 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)...
QUICK HITS
• BGSU is 27-4 overall, and the Falcons finished the regular season with a record of 17-1 in MAC play, good for the outright Mid-American Conference title. BGSU won 13 consecutive games before dropping a 73-55 decision to Ball State in the semifinal round of the MAC Tournament.
• The Falcons won the East Division title, obviously, en route to the overall MAC regular-season crown. BGSU now has won a division title in nine of the last 10 seasons, and the Falcons have had the best overall regular-season record in the MAC in eight of those 10 years.
• BGSU has won at least 20 games in each of the last 11 seasons, and the Falcons have posted as many as 23 wins in the last 10 years – both are school and MAC records. BG has amassed 24 or more victories in nine-straight seasons, and 2013-14 marks the sixth time in those nine years that the program has recorded 27 wins.
• BG moved into the national rankings for the first time in five years, as the Falcons were 25th in the March 10 Associated Press poll. The Falcons dropped out of the poll after the loss to Ball State, but BG received votes in both the AP and USA Today polls this week (March 17).
• Also, for what it's worth, the Falcons were ranked 32nd in the NCAA's latest RPI listings, released Monday (March 17).
• BGSU was listed 12th in the nation in the most recent UPS Team Performance Index (March 10). The UPS Team Performance Index is a data index that comprehensively measures offensive and defensive efficiency for all 300-plus NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball teams.
• The Falcons' four losses this season all came to teams that qualified for either the NCAA Championships (Marist, Purdue) or the WNIT (Central Michigan, Ball State). All four games came away from home, with the Purdue and CMU games decided by single digits on the road, and the Marist and BSU contests being held at neutral sites.
• BGSU posted seven wins over teams in the NCAA and WNIT fields. BG went 2-2 vs. NCAA participants, with a pair of wins over Akron. The Falcons were 5-2 against the WNIT field during the regular season, picking up wins over BSU, Butler, CMU, Iona and Michigan. Four of those five wins came away from home.
• BG topped last year's MAC win total by six, albeit in two more games. The 2012-13 Falcons went 11-5 in league play. The conference returned to an 18-game schedule this season after playing 16 league games from 1998-99 through '12-13.
• Twenty-two of the Falcons' 27 victories this season – including all 13 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 and a one-point win at Akron to end the regular season (March 8). 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 eight wins of 22 points or more, with seven of those eight coming at home. BGSU has gone a perfect 13-0 at the Stroh Center, winning those 13 games by an average of 24.1 points per contest.
• In addition to the 13 wins at the Stroh, the Falcons have 14 victories away from home, with marks of 11-2 on the road and 3-2 in neutral-site contests. BG posted road wins over Iona, Butler and Ohio State in non-conference play, and Kent State, Ball State, Ohio, Toledo, EMU, Buffalo, Miami and Akron during the league schedule. And, the Falcons topped Michigan, Old Dominion and Monmouth at neutral sites.
• In BGSU's 13 home games, the Falcons have averaged 76.2 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 7.7 and 14.7 points per game, and two other players have at least 6.1 ppg to date.
• The Falcons' top-seven scorers each have attempted between 164 and 304 shots, and each of the seven are averaging between 5.3 and 9.8 field-goal attempts per game.
• BGSU leads the MAC and ranks 16th in the nation in scoring defense, having allowed just 56.5 points per game. The Falcons also lead the MAC in scoring margin (+13.7), rebounding margin (+7.3), field-goal percentage defense (37.0) and three-point FG pct. defense (25.7), and BG is second in the conference in FG pct. (42.4), free-throw pct. (74.9) and three-pointers made (7.7) and third in three-point FG pct. (35.0).
• The Falcons are third in the nation in three-point FG pct. defense, and BG ranks 12th in W-L pct. and 19th in scoring margin. In fact, BGSU is ranked among the nation's top-50 teams in nine of the 18 statistical categories kept by the NCAA.
• BGSU is 27th in the country in rebounding margin. The Falcons have been out-rebounded in just four games since Nov. 18.
SENIOR PRIDE
The Falcons' seniors recently 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 High Point game, the Falcons have a record of 103-27 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.
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 52 of 66 games, including in 25 of the 34 MAC contests. Three of the other games saw the teams tie in that category.
• This year, the Falcons have out-rebounded the foes in 25 of the first 31 games, with double-digit margins in nine of those matchups. BG owns a MAC-best rebounding margin of +7.3 this year to date. BGSU out-boarded 14 of 18 MAC opponents in the regular season, and had a league-best +5.9 rebounding margin in conference play.
LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT THE WAY
• Through the first 31 games this season, there have been 11 contests in which BG never trailed, three more in which the Falcons were behind for less than a minute, and a 15th that saw BG trail for just over a minute's time.
• This year to date, BGSU has led for 924:45 – 74.2 percent of the time – and trailed for just 249:23 (20.0%). The Falcons and the opponents have been tied for a total of 70:52.
• BGSU trailed for a total of just 19 minutes and 29 seconds (in 520 minutes of action) in the 13 home regular-season games. The Falcons have not trailed 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.
FALCONS LIKE THEIR #MACTION
Since Jennifer Roos became head coach prior to the 2012-13 season, the Falcons have a record of 28-6 in MAC regular-season games. BGSU has won those 28 games by an average of 17.6 points per game, and the Falcons' MAC losses have been by 6.2 ppg. Twenty-three of the 28 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 WNIT with an overall record of 27-4, and BG finished with a 17-1 MAC 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.
• 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 bounced back with 13-straight wins.
• The Falcons ended the regular season with a 77-76 win on the road against Akron (March 8), but BG fell to Ball State, 73-55, in the MAC Tournament's semifinal round (March 14).
• Fourteen of BG's 17 MAC wins this season were 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 14.7 points per game, while Halfhill has 13.3 ppg and Donovan 10.8 ppg this year to date.
• Sophomore Miriam Justinger has 8.0 points per game, and junior Deborah Hoekstra has come off the bench to score 7.7 ppg. Senior Jill Stein and junior Jasmine Matthews have scored 6.7 and 6.1 points per contest, respectively.
• Stein leads the team and ranks sixth in the MAC in rebounding, with 8.4 boards per game, while Rogers has pulled down 8.3 (eighth in the MAC) rpg and Donovan 5.7.
• Halfhill leads the Falcons with 3.3 assists per outing, with Justinger handing out 2.5 apg to date. Stein ranks third on the team in that category, with 2.2 per game.
• Rogers is shooting 52.6 percent from the floor, ranking third in the MAC and 46th in the country in that category, while Donovan is shooting 44.4%. From long range, Halfhill has made a team-leading 64 three-point field goals, while Hoekstra has hit 41 shots from beyond the arc. Four other Falcons have made between 24 and 38 treys apiece.
• Halfhill leads the MAC – and ranks 16th in the entire nation – in three-point field-goal percentage, having gone 64-of-150 (42.7%) from long distance to date, while Hoekstra is seventh in the league on that list (37.3%). Halfhill hit a career-high six triples in the Western Michigan game (Feb. 5), part of a stretch which has seen her go 29-for-62 (46.8%) from three-point land over the last nine games.
• Freshmen Abby Siefker and Rachel Konieczki are averaging 1.9 and 1.8 ppg, respectively. Konieczki has seen action in all 31 games to date, while Siefker has played in 27. Another freshman, Kennedy Kirkpatrick, saw action in five games off the bench, and classmate Leah Bolton 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, Rogers and Stein each have started all 31 games this season to date, with Donovan starting 30 and Justinger 27. Matthews has made five starts, including the first Buffalo game (Jan. 4, in place of Donovan) as well as the last four games. Justinger missed the Ohio and Miami contests in early March, but has come off the bench to play in each of the last two games.
• 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 31 games, the Falcons are shooting 42.4 percent from the field, 34.9% from three-point range and 74.9% from the foul line. Opponents are shooting 37.0% from the floor, 25.7% from the arc and 69.0% from the stripe. The Falcons have a scoring margin of +13.7, a rebounding margin of +7.3 and a turnover margin of +0.9 on the year.
THE HIGH POINT PANTHERS
High Point enters Thursday's game with an overall record of 22-10, the school's highest win total since joining NCAA Division I, and the Panthers went 16-4 in Big South Conference play to win the league's regular-season championship and automatic berth to the WNIT. HPU advanced to the conference tournament's title game before losing to Winthrop. That setback snapped a seven-game losing streak, but the Panthers have won 14 of the last 16 contests heading into the BGSU game. HPU is 11-3 at home, 9-6 on the road and 2-1 in neutral-site games. In Big South play, the Panthers went 8-2 both at home and at hostile venues. The Panthers are scoring 72.9 points per game while allowing 70.1 ppg. Individually, freshman guard Kaylah Keys leads the Panthers – and the league – in scoring, with 17.8 ppg. Redshirt junior forward Stacia Robertson has 12.6 ppg and a team-leading 8.7 rebounds per outing. Keys was named the Big South Freshman of the Year, and she and Robertson both were named to the All-Big South First Team as well as the league's all-tournament team. Head coach DeUnna Hendrix, the BSC Coach of the Year, welcomed back seven letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team. The 2012-13 edition of the Panthers went 17-13 overall and 11-7 in BSC regular-season action.
THE SERIES
The Falcons and High Point are meeting for the first time in women's basketball.
BGSU-HIGH POINT TIES
High Point assistant coach Jenna Burkett is a graduate of Robert Morris University, where she was a four-year member of the women's basketball team. The Colonials played BGSU twice during Burkett's tenure (2003-07), and she scored 11 points off the bench, going 3-of-4 from three-point land, in the latter meeting. That game saw BG post a 92-81 win at Anderson Arena on Dec. 31, 2006. Prior to coming to HPU, Burkett was on the coaching staff at Stetson University, where one of the players on the roster was Victoria McGowan, a transfer from BGSU.
FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons continue to own the best record in MAC history. Through the conclusion of the 2013-14 regular season, BGSU has an all-time record of 390-153 (.718) 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 (743) and highest overall winning percentage (.655) of any conference school.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 27-4 this year to date, after posting a 24-11 overall record last season;
• 17-1 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, but BG has won the East again in 2014);
• 309-107 since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU in the summer of 2001;
• 163-47 in MAC games in that time:
• 288-72 over the last 10-plus years, with 2013-14 marking BG's MAC-record 11th-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 267-62 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 eight of the last 10 years (2004-10, 2012 and again in '14, plus an East Division crown in '11);
• an eye-popping 244-54 overall, and 128-18 in the MAC regular season, in the last eight-plus years, with at least 24 wins in each of those nine years;
• a superb 216-51 in the last seven-plus years, including a 112-18 league ledger;
• a/an (insert your own adjective here) 185-47 overall, and 97-17 in MAC regular-season games, in the last six-plus seasons, since Monique Rosati came to the BGSU program;
• 159-39 overall and 84-14 in MAC action over the last five-plus winters;
• 130-34, including a 69-13 MAC ledger, in the last four-plus seasons;
• 103-27 overall and 55-11 in the MAC since seniors Jillian Halfhill and Jill Stein ventured to campus;
• 75-22 overall, and 42-8 in MAC action, since senior Alexis Rogers and juniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews first put on a BGSU uniform;
• 51-15 since senior Katrina Salinas and sophomore Miriam Justinger were added to the Falcons' roster;
• 151-23 in the last 174 games vs. MAC foes (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 66-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field since 2001;
• 247-12 when having a better FG percentage than the opposition in that time, including a 119-2 mark in the last five-plus seasons;
• 235-38 when making more free throws than the opponent in the Roos Assistant-Coach/Associate-Head-Coach/Interim-Head-Coach/Head-Coaching Era;
• 199-25 when outrebounding the opponent in that 12-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;
• 50-6 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
• 41-7 in the Stroh Center, with five of the losses coming by a combined 11 points.
FALCONS REACH 20-WIN MARK, AGAIN
For the 11th consecutive season, BGSU has reached the 20-win plateau. The 2013-14 Falcons earned win number 20 on Feb. 9, with a 91-45 victory over Miami, extending both the school and MAC records for such sustained success. Prior to BG's epic run, the old conference record of seven-straight 20-win seasons was set by Bob Lindsay's Kent State teams from 1995-96 through 2001-02. Before this current stretch, the longest streak in BG
BGSU IS AT THE TOP OF THIS 20-WIN LIST, TOO
The Falcons have won at least 20 games a total of 19 times in school history, the most of any MAC school. Other than BGSU, only Toledo (17) and Kent State (13) have posted 20 or more wins on more than six occasions.
UP NEXT
The winner of Thursday's BGSU-High Point game will face either St. Bonaventure or Charlotte in the WNIT's second round. The Bonnies host the 49ers on Friday night (March 21). The date and site of the second-round game will be announced following the conclusion of the first-round contests.
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