Falcons Face Miami in Wednesday Afternoon Matchup

Jasmine Matthews v Ohio - Bianca Garza photo

The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, riding an 11-game winning streak, hits the road for two games to close the regular-season schedule. The Falcons of head coach Jennifer Roos travel to Oxford to face Miami University on Wednesday afternoon (March 5), with tipoff scheduled for 12:00 p.m. at Millett Hall (6,400).

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AUDIO: Coach Roos previews the Miami game

WHAT'S AT STAKE
The Falcons have clinched no worse than a tie for the Mid-American Conference's East Division title, and a win over Miami on Wednesday would give the Brown and Orange an outright division crown. BGSU is two games ahead of second-place Akron with two games to play.

WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED
• Regardless of Wednesday's outcome, the Falcons will own at least a share of the division title for the ninth time in the last 10 years. BGSU won eight-straight divisional crowns, capturing the West Division title in 2005 and East Division championships from 2006-12. The Falcons won the MAC regular-season title outright in seven of those seasons.

• 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 posted 24 or more victories in nine-straight seasons, and 2013-14 marks the seventh time in those nine years that the program has recorded 25 wins.

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 Miami game, the Falcons have a record of 101-26 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. The entire list of 100-win senior classes can be found in the PDF version of these notes, which is just a click away near the top of the page.

SENIOR DAY/NIGHT SUCCESS
The Falcons picked up a 63-39 win over Ohio on 'Senior Day' at the Stroh Center Sunday afternoon (March 2). BGSU's three seniors – Jillian Halfhill, Alexis Rogers and Jill Stein – were recognized in pregame ceremonies. The Falcons now have won 13 consecutive 'Senior Day/Night' games since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU, and BG is 18-1 in the last 19 such contests. The lone loss in that time came to Miami in February of 2001, the season before Roos arrived in Northwest Ohio.

STREAKY FALCONS
BGSU's win over Ohio on Sunday (March 2) was the Falcons' 11th in a row. BG has had a total of 12 double-digit winning streaks in program history, including eight in the last nine seasons.

A LITTLE MORE INFO ABOUT THOSE DOUBLE-DIGIT STREAKS
As mentioned, the Falcons are currently riding a 11-game winning streak, the 12th double-digit streak in program history. Eight of those streaks have come over the last nine seasons. Since 2005, there have been only two seasons in which BG did not have a double-digit winning streak. In 2009-10, BGSU did not have a streak reach double figures, but the Falcons had a pair of eight-game win streaks. And, last season, the Brown and Orange had separate streaks of six and five wins, but no streak that reached twin figures.
BGSU'S LONGEST WINNING STREAKS
Streak Season   Notes
25     2008-09 BG lost first 2 games of season, didn't lose again until March
21     1986-87 Falcons, at 6-2, did not lose again until NCAA Tournament
20     1988-89 Final win of streak came vs. Cincinnati in NCAA first round
20     1993-94 Falcons lost MAC opener, then won out until NCAAs
19     2005-06 Included 16-0 league record and three MAC tourney wins
18     2006-07 Part of 24-1 run that took BG all the way to 'Sweet Sixteen'
17     1992-93 BGSU, 8-4, won 14-straight MAC games, 3 more in MAC Ty.
15     2010-11 Bookended by 1-pt. losses on Nov. 12 and Jan. 15
13     2011-12 Between 2-pt. losses at Creighton (Dec. 18) & Toledo (Feb. 11)
11     2010-11 Came after BG lost 3 of 5 games midway through MAC slate
11     2013-14 Current streak heading into Wednesday's Miami game
10     2007-08 Streak spanned all of February and half of March

FALCONS GO 13-AND-OH AT THE STROH
The Falcons' win over Ohio capped a perfect home regular-season schedule. BG has a record of 13-0 at the Stroh Center this winter. The Falcons have 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)...
UNDEFEATED REGULAR-SEASON HOME RECORDS
Record Year     Notes
7-0    1974-75 Coach Sue Hager's team finished 15-5 overall
6-0    1975-76 Hager & the Falcons went 11-4 on the year
13-0^   1992-93 Lone home loss came to Florida in NCAA Tournament play
12-0^   1993-94 Only home setback came vs. Creighton in the NCAA Tourney
11-0    2005-06 Part of a 29-game winning streak in reg.-season home games
13-0^   2008-09 BG then split two WNIT games to finish 14-1 at home
13-0    2009-10 Part of a 40-game winning streak in reg.-season home games
13-0    2013-14 Falcons won those 13 games by an average of 24.1 points
^ suffered a home loss in national postseason play

LAST TIME OUT: SENIORS LEAD THE WAY IN 63-39 WIN OVER OHIO
• On 'Senior Day' at the Stroh Center, BGSU's three women's basketball seniors made their final home regular-season game a memorable one. All three players hit double digits in the scoring column as the Falcons downed Ohio, 63-39, Sunday afternoon (March 2).

• Senior Jillian Halfhill led the Falcons with 12 points in Sunday's win, while classmates Alexis Rogers and Jill Stein had 11 points apiece. Stein had a double-double, with a game-high 13 rebounds on the afternoon.

• The Falcons held the opponent to fewer than 40 points for the second consecutive game. BG topped Kent State, 82-38, Thursday night (Feb. 27) before downing the Bobcats on Sunday.

• BGSU had a fast start to the second half, also for the second-straight game. The Falcons burst out to a 19-3 lead, only to see the Bobcats pull within nine points, at 25-16, late in the first half. The Brown and Orange scored the final three points of the half, then opened the second period with 10 consecutive points to take a 38-16 lead with 17:41 left. The lead never dropped below 18 points the rest of the day.

• Junior Jasmine Matthews and redshirt sophomore Erica Donovan chipped in with nine points apiece for the Falcons, with Donovan adding nine rebounds as the Falcons enjoyed a 45-31 advantage on the boards.

• All eight players in uniform scored at least two points, with junior Deborah Hoekstra scoring five, and freshmen Abby Siefker and Rachel Konieczki four and two, respectively. All eight Falcons had at least one assist, led by Rogers' four.

• Yamonie Jenkins paced the Bobcats with 12 points on the afternoon, with Mariah Byard scoring eight and Kat Yelle seven.

• After holding Kent State to just four second-half field goals on Thursday, the Falcons allowed Ohio to make only five first-half shots on Sunday. The Bobcats shot 19.2 percent (5-of-26) from the floor in that opening period.

• BG started the second half quickly, making 7-of-8 shots – including 3-of-3 three-point tries – to extend the lead. Rogers got the fun started with a layup just 14 seconds into the period.

• Eight minutes into the second half, the Falcons were 8-of-11 from the field for the period. Meanwhile, Ohio had made eight total field goals for the game.

• Coach Jennifer Roos took her seniors out of the game one at a time, and the home crowd roared its appreciation for each of the three. Stein checked out of the game with 3:03 remaining, while Halfhill left the game after hitting a layup with just over two minutes to go. Rogers came out of the contest with 1:28 on the clock, just before Siefker fed Donovan for a layup and the game's final points.

• The Falcons shot 46.3% for the game, including a 14-of-25 (56.0%) effort in the second half. Meanwhile, the BG defense limited the Bobcats to just a 22.4% success rate on the day.

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).

PLAY THE D, PART III
• BGSU has held each of the last two opponents to fewer than 40 points. Kent State scored just 38 points in a 44-point Falcon win on Thursday (Feb. 27), before the Falcons limited Ohio to 39 points in a 24-point BG victory on Sunday (March 2).

• The Falcons allowed the opponents to make just nine field goals over a 40-minute span last week. After KSU went 4-of-26 in the second half of Thursday's game, Ohio made just 5-of-26 shots in the first half on Sunday. The BG defense allowed the Flashes and Bobcats to shoot just 17.3 percent over that 40-minute span.

QUICK HITS
• BGSU is 25-3 overall and 15-1 in MAC play, and the Falcons have won 11 consecutive games heading into the Miami 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 four, with two 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 from 1998-99 through '12-13.

• BGSU received 30 votes in Monday's (March 3) Associated Press poll, up from 14 votes last week. The Falcons were the third team listed under 'others receiving votes' this week. BG was ranked 30th in the RPI as of Monday, according to both the NCAA and the RealTimeRPI.com listings.

• The Falcons have surpassed the win total for all of last season, with at least three games remaining (two 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 11-game winning streak, BGSU has won five games in a row on two occasions and four-straight games once this year.

• Twenty-one of the Falcons' 25 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. 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 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 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 7.8 and 14.4 points per game, and two other players have at least 5.8 ppg to date.

• The Falcons' five starters each have attempted between 168 and 266 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 eighth in the nation in scoring defense, having allowed just 55.2 points per game. The Falcons also lead the MAC in scoring margin (+15.2), rebounding margin (+8.4), field-goal percentage defense (36.2), three-point FG pct. (35.9) and three-point FG pct. defense (25.1), and BG is second in the conference in FG pct. (43.2) and three-pointers made (7.6) and third in the league in free-throw pct. (74.2).

• The Falcons are now third in the nation in three-point FG pct. defense, and BG ranks eighth in W-L pct. and 16th in scoring margin. In fact, BGSU is ranked among the nation's top-40 teams in nine of the 18 statistical categories kept by the NCAA.

• BGSU is 21st 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 51 of 63 games, including in 25 of the 32 MAC contests. Three of the other games saw the teams tie in that category.

• This year, the Falcons have out-rebounded the foes in 24 of the first 28 games, with double-digit margins in nine of those matchups. BG owns a MAC-best rebounding margin of +8.4 this year to date. BGSU has out-boarded 14 of 16 MAC opponents so far in '13-14, with a league-best +7.5 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 37.2 percent from beyond the arc vs. conference foes, while allowing MAC opponents to shoot just 22.0% from long range. In fact, the Falcons also lead the MAC in overall FG pct. defense, at 35.6% 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 16 games.

LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT THE WAY
• Through the first 28 games this season, there have been 11 contests (Michigan, Niagara, Old Dominion, Monmouth, UMass, Saint Francis, Northern Illinois, the first Eastern Michigan meeting, the second Ohio matchup 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 15th (Milwaukee) that saw BG trail for just over a minute's time.

• This year to date, BGSU has led for 866:22 – 78.8 percent of the time – and trailed for just 178:13 (15.8%). The Falcons and the opponents have been tied for a total of 60:25.

• BGSU has trailed for a total of just 19 minutes and 29 seconds (in 520 minutes of action) in the 13 home games. The Falcons never 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.

THREE FOR ALL
BGSU made six three-point field goals in the win over Ohio on Sunday. The Falcons now have made at least one three-pointer in each of the last 304 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 16 MAC games to date, and BG has made at least nine treys on seven occasions in conference play, including in five of the last eight games.

• Over the last six games, BG has made a total of 65 three-pointers. That six-game span includes games in which the Falcons hit 12 (vs. Western Michigan, tying a then-season high), 15 (in the home game vs. Miami, just one shy of the school record), 10 (at Buffalo) and nine (vs. Kent State) triples.

FALCONS LIKE THEIR #MACTION
Since Jennifer Roos became head coach prior to the 2012-13 season, the Falcons have a record of 26-6 in MAC regular-season games. BGSU has won those 26 games by an average of 18.3 points per game, and the Falcons' MAC losses have been by 6.2 ppg. Twenty-two of the 26 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 349-of-450 (77.6%) over the last 21 games.

• On the year, the Falcons are shooting 74.2% from the line (ranking third in the MAC), and 77.1% from the stripe (second in the MAC) 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 41-7 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 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 in 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]). Through the conclusion of the 2013-14 home regular-season schedule, 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.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Miami game with an overall record of 25-3 and a 15-1 MAC ledger. BGSU has clinched no worse than a tie for the East Division title, holding a two-game lead over Akron with two 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 11-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), then kept a second-straight opponent under 40 points in Sunday's (March 2) 63-39 win over Ohio. Those two games came after a week in which BG posted a 67-55 home victory vs. CMU (Feb. 19) along with a 73-63 win at Buffalo three days later (Feb. 22).

• Thirteen of BG's 15 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 7.8 ppg. Senior Jill Stein and junior Jasmine Matthews have scored 6.7 and 5.8 points per contest, respectively.

• Stein leads the team and ranks fourth in the MAC in rebounding, with 8.6 boards per game, while Rogers has pulled down 8.1 rpg and Donovan 5.6.

• 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 54.6 percent from the floor, leading the MAC – and ranking 35th in the country – in that category, while Donovan is shooting 45.2%. From long range, Halfhill has made a team-leading 57 three-point field goals, while Hoekstra has hit 36 shots from beyond the arc. Four other Falcons have made between 21 and 32 treys apiece.

• Halfhill leads the MAC – and ranks seventh in the entire nation – in three-point field-goal percentage, having gone 57-of-126 (45.2%) from long distance to date, while Hoekstra is fourth in the league on that list (38.7%). 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 22-for-38 (57.9%) from three-point land over the last seven games.

• For her part, Matthews has gone 7-for-10 from long range over the last two games. She hit 4-of-5 three-point tries vs. Kent State, then went 3-for-5 vs. Ohio.

• Freshmen Abby Siefker and Rachel Konieczki are averaging 2.0 and 1.7 ppg, respectively. Konieczki has seen action in all 28 games to date, while Siefker has played in 25. 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, Rogers and Stein each have started all 28 games this season to date, with Donovan and Justinger starting 27 apiece. Matthews has made two starts, including the first Buffalo game (Jan. 4; in place of Donovan) and the second Ohio meeting (March 2; in place of Justinger).

• 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 28 games, the Falcons are shooting 43.2 percent from the field, 35.9% from three-point range and 74.2% from the foul line. Opponents are shooting 36.2% from the floor, 25.1% from the arc and 68.0% from the stripe. The Falcons have a scoring margin of +15.2, a rebounding margin of +8.4 and a turnover margin of +0.6 on the year.

• In MAC games, BGSU is shooting 44.1% from the field, 37.2% from three-point land and 77.1% from the line. Opponents have shot 35.6% overall, 22.0% from long range and 63.6% from the stripe in MAC play.

THE MIAMI REDHAWKS
Miami enters Wednesday's game with an overall record of 7-20, and the RedHawks are 3-13 in MAC play. MU is looking to reverse a seven-game losing streak, including a 74-61 home loss to Buffalo in the team's most recent game. MU's MAC wins have included home victories over Akron and Kent State and a road win against Eastern Michigan. The RedHawks are 4-8 at home and 3-12 on the road this season. In MAC play, Miami is 2-5 at Millett Hall and 1-8 in hostile venues. Individually, senior guard Hannah Robertson leads the team in scoring, with 12.2 points per game, and she also paces the 'Hawks in steals, with 1.1 per game, and three-point field goals made, with 43. Freshmen Jillian Spurlock and Nichole Anderson are averaging 9.6 and 7.9 ppg, respectively, and Anderson leads the team with 5.7 rebounds per contest. Spurlock had 19 points in just 24 minutes in the Buffalo game. Four other players average from 5.5 to 7.1 points per outing for the RedHawks. First-year MU head coach Cleve Wright has nine letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team. The 2012-13 edition of the RedHawks went 19-13 overall and 10-6 in MAC regular-season play.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Miami, 46-27, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU won the most recent meeting. That matchup came just under a month ago, when the Falcons put together one of the most complete games of the season in a 91-45 win over the RedHawks at the Stroh Center (Feb. 9, 2014). In the Falcons' last trip to Millett Hall, the home team picked up a 76-61 win over the Brown and Orange late last season (Feb. 23, 2013). Miami won both meetings with BG last year, becoming the first team to defeat the Falcons twice in the same season since 2004-05. BGSU is 22-12 in home games, 18-14 on the road and 6-1 in neutral-site contests vs. the Redskins/RedHawks through the years. Jennifer Roos is 1-2 against Miami as a collegiate head coach.

FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons continue to own the best record in MAC history. Entering the Miami game, BGSU has an all-time record of 388-153 (.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 (741) and highest overall winning percentage (.655) of any conference school.

THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 25-3 this year to date, after posting a 24-11 overall record last season;
• 15-1 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);
• 307-106 since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU in the summer of 2001;
• 161-47 in MAC games in that time:
• 286-71 over the last 10-plus years, with 2013-14 marking BG's MAC-record 11th-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 265-61 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 242-53 overall, and 126-18 in the MAC regular season, in the last eight-plus years, with at least 24 wins in each of those nine years;
• a splendiferous 214-50 in the last seven-plus years, including a 110-18 league ledger;
• a/an (insert your own adjective here) 183-46 overall, and 95-17 in MAC regular-season games, in the last six-plus seasons, since Monique Rosati came to the BGSU program;
• 157-38 overall and 82-14 in MAC action over the last five-plus winters;
• 128-33, including a 67-13 MAC ledger, in the last four-plus seasons;
• 101-26 overall and 53-11 in the MAC since seniors Jillian Halfhill and Jill Stein ventured to campus;
• 73-21 overall, and 40-8 in MAC action, since senior Alexis Rogers and juniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews first put on a BGSU uniform;
• 49-14 since senior Katrina Salinas and sophomore Miriam Justinger were added to the Falcons' roster;
• 149-22 in the last 171 games vs. MAC foes (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 66-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field since 2001;
• 246-12 when having a better FG percentage than the opposition in that time, including a 118-2 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;
• 199-24 when outrebounding the opponent in that 12-plus-year span;
• 74-7 in MAC home games in the last 10 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
• 41-7 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 28 games, despite playing a difficult schedule, BGSU has allowed 55.2 points per game and permitted the opponents to shoot just 36.2% 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 Miami game, she has 1,152 points in 93 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).

ROGERS IS QUICK TO REACH 1,000
Senior Alexis Rogers reached the 1,000-point mark for her career in just her third playing season at BGSU. The millennium milestone came in her 83rd game at BG, making her the 10th-fastest player to score 1,000 points as a Falcon.

DOUBLE TROUBLE
Senior Jill Stein had a double-double in the win over Ohio Sunday (March 2), with 11 points and 13 rebounds. BGSU has a total of 17 double-doubles this season after recording nine during all of last year. Senior Alexis Rogers has seven this winter (and 22 in her career), while Stein has five, redshirt sophomore Erica Donovan three and senior Jillian Halfhill two.

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 445 free throws this season to date. That total is 11 more than the opponents have attempted (434). 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 Miami game, the Falcons hit the road again this weekend, for the final game of the regular season. BGSU will venture to Northeast Ohio to take on the University of Akron on Saturday afternoon (March 8). Tipoff is set for 2:00 p.m. at James A. Rhodes Arena (5,500). Then, the Falcons will prepare for next week's MAC Tournament. BG has earned a double-bye for the tourney, 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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