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Saturday, March 8
Akron, OH
2:00 PM
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Falcons Head to Akron for Final Regular-Season Test
March 07, 2014 | Women's Basketball
BGSU enters Saturday's game looking to earn the top seed for next week's MAC Tournament
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HOT IN (WELL, NEAR) CLEVELAND
Has there ever been a MAC women's basketball game in which both teams had a double-digit winning streak? Someone should look that up. The Falcons, as mentioned, have won 12 consecutive games entering Saturday's contest. Akron, meanwhile, is riding a school-record 13-game win streak heading into the BGSU game.
WHAT'S AT STAKE
• Entering the final day of the regular season, the Falcons are in the hunt for the number-one seed for next week's MAC Tournament. BGSU and Central Michigan have identical 16-1 league records heading into the weekend (CMU plays at EMU on Saturday afternoon). The Falcons and Chippewas each have clinched no worse than the number-two seed for the tournament.
• If both BGSU and CMU win, the Falcons and Chippewas each would be 17-1 in MAC play, with the teams having split their two head-to-head meetings. In such a situation, the MAC office would conduct a coin flip at approximately 5:00 p.m. Saturday to determine the number-one and number-two seeds.
• If BGSU wins and CMU loses on Saturday, the Falcons claim the number-one seed for the MAC Tournament.
• Should BGSU lose to Akron, the Falcons would be the number-two seed regardless of CMU's Saturday outcome. A Central win at Eastern, coupled with a BG loss, would make CMU 17-1 and BGSU 16-2. Should CMU and BGSU both lose, CMU would claim the top seed by virtue of a better winning percentage against third-seeded Akron (CMU 1-0 vs. UA; BGSU would be 1-1 vs. UA with a Saturday loss).
WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED
• Regardless of Saturday's outcome, the Falcons already have clinched the MAC's East Division championship outright. BGSU is two games ahead of second-place Akron in the divisional race, with just one game to play.
• Additionally, the Falcons will be no worse than the number-two seed for the MAC Tournament, giving BGSU a 'triple bye' and advancing the Brown and Orange to the semifinal round. BG's first league tourney game will be Friday afternoon, March 14, at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland.
• BGSU has won a division title for the ninth time in the last 10 years. BG earned 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 amassed 24 or more victories in nine-straight seasons, and 2013-14 marks the seventh time in those nine years that the program has recorded 26 wins.
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 Akron game, the Falcons have a record of 102-26 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 Miami on Wednesday (March 5) was the Falcons' 12th in a row. BG has had a total of 12 double-digit winning streaks in program history, including eight in the last nine seasons.
LAST TIME OUT: FALCONS DOWN MIAMI TO CLINCH DIVISION CROWN
• The Falcons overcame a frigid start, rallying for a 73-56 win over Miami on Wednesday afternoon (March 5) at Millett Hall. With the win, BGSU clinched the MAC's East Division title outright. The division crown is BG's ninth in the last 10 years.
• Senior Alexis Rogers scored a game-high 21 points and played a key role in the Falcons' rally. Rogers also had six steals to lead all players. Senior Jillian Halfhill and junior Deborah Hoekstra had 15 points apiece, and Halfhill added six assists without committing a turnover.
• Hannah Robertson was the lone RedHawk to reach double figures, scoring 19 points before fouling out late in the contest.
• With nearly 10 minutes gone, the Falcons had scored just three points, and BG trailed by nine before a Hoekstra three-pointer doubled her team's scoring output and cut the deficit to six.
• Miami led by eight points, 16-8, when junior Jasmine Matthews hit two free throws with just over eight minutes left in the half. Those charity tosses began an 8-0 run that was part of a larger 22-8 run to end the period.
• Rogers scored 11-straight points around the intermission, with the final eight points of the first half and the first three points of the second. That run took BGSU from a two-point deficit to a 33-24 lead.
• MU cut the Falcons' lead to four points early in the second half, but another Hoekstra triple began a 7-0 run that gave the visitors a 45-34 advantage with 13:00 to go. Miami got within seven points a few minutes later, but senior Jill Stein's layup started a 6-0 run that put BG's lead into double figures for the rest of the afternoon.
• Matthews and freshman Rachel Konieczki had seven points apiece, while Stein scored five and redshirt sophomore Erica Donovan three. Matthews had four assists, while Stein blocked three Miami shots.
• The Falcons shot 35.6 percent from the field, including a 44.4% rate in the second period, while holding Miami to a 34.4% field-goal percentage.
• BGSU shot 27% from three-point range, hitting 10 long-range shots as a team. Both Halfhill and Hoekstra made three shots from beyond the arc, while Rogers knocked down a pair of long-distance tries.
• BG's total of 37 three-point field goals attempted fell just one shy of the school single-game record, set on Jan. 26, 2000, vs. Akron.
• The Falcons went 21-of-24 from the free-throw line, with Rogers going 5-for-5 from the stripe and Hoekstra and Konieczki both making 4-of-4 shots. Miami was 5-for-29 from the three-point line and 7-of-10 at the charity stripe.
• The Falcons had a 24-7 advantage in points off turnovers, and BG had 11 steals on 17 Miami turnovers on the day. BG turned the ball over just nine times, and the Brown and Orange had 14 assists on 21 buckets. Miami had a 47-35 rebounding advantage.
QUICK HITS
• BGSU is 26-3 overall and 16-1 in MAC play, and the Falcons have won 12 consecutive games heading into the Akron 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 five, with one regular-season game 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 by two, with at least two games remaining (one regular-season game and at least one MAC Tournament game). Last year's team finished with a 24-11 record.
• In addition to the current 12-game winning streak, BGSU has won five games in a row on two occasions and four-straight games once this year.
• Twenty-two of the Falcons' 26 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 13 victories away from home, with marks of 10-2 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, Buffalo and Miami, 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 8.0 and 14.6 points per game, and two other players have at least 5.9 ppg to date.
• The Falcons' five starters each have attempted between 168 and 278 shots, meaning that every starter is averaging somewhere between 6.2 and 9.6 field-goal attempts per game.
• BGSU leads the MAC and ranks eighth in the nation in scoring defense, having allowed just 55.3 points per game. The Falcons also lead the MAC in scoring margin (+15.2), rebounding margin (+7.7), field-goal percentage defense (36.1) and three-point FG pct. defense (24.7), and BG is second in the conference in FG pct. (42.9), free-throw pct. (74.7), three-point FG pct. (35.4) and three-pointers made (7.7).
• The Falcons are 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 three games since Nov. 18, against Ball State (29-31; Jan. 15), Buffalo (32-34; Feb. 22) and Miami (35-47; March 5).
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 64 games, including in 25 of the 33 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 29 games, with double-digit margins in nine of those matchups. BG owns a MAC-best rebounding margin of +7.7 this year to date. BGSU has out-boarded 14 of 17 MAC opponents so far in '13-14, with a league-best +6.4 rebounding margin in conference play.
THREE-MENDOUS!
In MAC games, the Falcons lead the league in both three-point field-goal percentage defense, and BG is second in three-point FG pct. BGSU is shooting 36.2 percent from beyond the arc vs. conference foes, while allowing MAC opponents to shoot just 21.6% from long range. In fact, the Falcons also lead the MAC in overall FG pct. defense, at 35.5% 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 17 games.
LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY
• Through the first 29 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 the first Miami game) 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 908:07 – 77.9 percent of the time – and trailed for just 193:04 (16.6%). The Falcons and the opponents have been tied for a total of 63:49.
• 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 10 three-point field goals in the win at Miami on Wednesday. The Falcons now have made at least one three-pointer in each of the last 305 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 17 MAC games to date, and BG has made at least nine treys on eight occasions in conference play, including in six of the last nine games.
• Over the last seven games – all wins – BG has made a total of 75 three-pointers, an average of over 10 per game. That seven-game span includes games in which the Falcons hit 15 (in the home game vs. Miami), 12 (vs. Western Michigan), 10 (at both Buffalo and MU) 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 27-6 in MAC regular-season games. BGSU has won those 27 games by an average of 18.3 points per game, and the Falcons' MAC losses have been by 6.2 ppg. Twenty-three of the 27 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 quickly improved in that area. 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 370-of-474 (78.1%) over the last 22 games.
• On the year, the Falcons are shooting 74.7% from the line (ranking second in the MAC), and 77.8% from the stripe (also second in the MAC) in conference games.
ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Akron game with an overall record of 26-3 and a 16-1 MAC ledger. BGSU has clinched the MAC's East Division title, and the Falcons are tied with Central Michigan for the best record in the league.
• 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 12-straight wins.
• Most recently, the Falcons picked up a 73-56 road win over Miami on Wednesday (March 5). That came after BG held Kent State to just 12 second-half points in an 82-38 win over the Flashes (Feb. 27), then kept a second-straight opponent under 40 points in Sunday's (March 2) 63-39 win over Ohio.
• Fourteen of BG's 16 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 14.6 points per game, while Halfhill has 13.5 ppg and Donovan 10.8 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 8.0 ppg. Senior Jill Stein and junior Jasmine Matthews have scored 6.7 and 5.9 points per contest, respectively.
• Stein leads the team and ranks sixth in the MAC in rebounding, with 8.6 boards per game, while Rogers has pulled down 8.0 rpg and Donovan 5.7.
• Halfhill leads the Falcons with 3.2 assists per outing, with Justinger handing out 2.6 apg to date. Stein ranks third on the team in that category, with 2.2 per game.
• Rogers is shooting 55.0 percent from the floor, leading the MAC – and ranking 35th in the country – in that category, while Donovan is shooting 44.7%. From long range, Halfhill has made a team-leading 60 three-point field goals, while Hoekstra has hit 39 shots from beyond the arc. Four other Falcons have made between 23 and 33 treys apiece.
• Halfhill leads the MAC – and ranks seventh in the entire nation – in three-point field-goal percentage, having gone 60-of-135 (44.4%) from long distance to date, while Hoekstra is fifth in the league on that list (37.9%). Halfhill hit a career-high six triples in the Western Michigan game (Feb. 5), and went 4-for-4 from long range in the first Miami game and 3-of-3 against Kent State last week. She is 25-for-47 (53.2%) from three-point land over the last seven games.
• For her part, Matthews has gone 8-for-19 from long range over the last three games. She hit four treys vs. Kent State and three more against Ohio.
• Freshmen Abby Siefker and Rachel Konieczki are averaging 1.9 ppg apiece. Konieczki has seen action in all 29 games to date, while Siefker has played in 26. 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 29 games this season to date, with Donovan starting 28 and Justinger 27. Matthews has made three starts, including the first Buffalo game (Jan. 4, in place of Donovan) as well as the last two games (vs. Ohio and at Miami, 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 29 games, the Falcons are shooting 42.9 percent from the field, 35.4% from three-point range and 74.7% from the foul line. Opponents are shooting 36.1% from the floor, 24.7% from the arc and 68.0% from the stripe. The Falcons have a scoring margin of +15.2, a rebounding margin of +7.7 and a turnover margin of +0.9 on the year.
• In MAC games, BGSU is shooting 43.5% from the field, 36.2% from three-point land and 77.8% from the line. Opponents have shot 35.5% overall, 21.6% from long range and 63.8% from the stripe in MAC play.
THE AKRON ZIPS
Akron enters Saturday's game with an overall record of 20-8, and the Zips are 14-3 in MAC play. UA won the league opener, dropped three-straight games (vs. Central Michigan, BGSU and Miami), and bounced back with a school-record 13-game winning streak. Most recently, the Zips picked up a 79-71 road win over Buffalo on Wednesday (March 5). That snapped a five-game streak in which UA scored 80 or more points. Akron has been held under 70 points just once in MAC play, against the Falcons in the teams' first meeting this year. UA is 12-1 at home, 8-6 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site contests this season. In MAC play, Akron is 7-1 at home and 7-2 in hostile venues. Individually, seniors Rachel Tecca and Hanna Luburgh rank 1-2 in the MAC in scoring. Tecca has 23.5 points per game, and is third in the league in rebounding, with 10.0 boards per contest. Luburgh has 23.0 ppg and leads the Zips with 56 three-point field goals made. She also has 6.8 rpg. Senior guard Kacie Cassell leads the MAC in assists, with 6.3 per game. Head coach Jodi Kest welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including four starters, from last year's team. The 2012-13 edition of the Zips went 23-10 overall and 12-4 in MAC regular-season play, winning the East Division and advancing to the championship game of the MAC Tournament.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Akron, 50-3, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won the last two meetings. The Falcons captured this year's first matchup, an 81-65 decision at the Stroh Center nearly two months ago (Jan. 12, 2014). In BG's last visit to Rhodes Arena, host UA pulled out a 68-63 decision (Jan. 31, 2013), snapping a 19-game BGSU series winning streak. BG had won the previous three games by a combined total of just 11 points. The Falcons are a perfect 27-0 in home games, 21-3 on the road and 2-0 in neutral-site contests vs. the Zips over the years. All three of Akron's wins came at the JAR, including a 74-56 win in the 1999 MAC Tournament quarterfinals, an 88-63 blowout in February of 2001, and last year's aforementioned game. Jennifer Roos is 2-1 against Akron as a collegiate head coach.
FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons continue to own the best record in MAC history. Entering the Akron game, BGSU has an all-time record of 389-153 (.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 (742) and highest overall winning percentage (.655) of any conference school.
THE FALCONS ARE ...
• 26-3 this year to date, after posting a 24-11 overall record last season;
• 16-1 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);
• 308-106 since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU in the summer of 2001;
• 162-47 in MAC games in that time:
• 287-71 over the last 10-plus years, with 2013-14 marking BG's MAC-record 11th-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 266-61 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 243-53 overall, and 127-18 in the MAC regular season, in the last eight-plus years, with at least 24 wins in each of those nine years;
• a splendiferous 215-50 in the last seven-plus years, including a 111-18 league ledger;
• a/an (insert your own adjective here) 184-46 overall, and 96-17 in MAC regular-season games, in the last six-plus seasons, since Monique Rosati came to the BGSU program;
• 158-38 overall and 83-14 in MAC action over the last five-plus winters;
• 129-33, including a 68-13 MAC ledger, in the last four-plus seasons;
• 102-26 overall and 54-11 in the MAC since seniors Jillian Halfhill and Jill Stein ventured to campus;
• 74-21 overall, and 41-8 in MAC action, since senior Alexis Rogers and juniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews first put on a BGSU uniform;
• 50-14 since senior Katrina Salinas and sophomore Miriam Justinger were added to the Falcons' roster;
• 150-22 in the last 172 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;
• 234-38 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;
• 60-12 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.
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 Akron game, she has 1,173 points in 94 games at BG, an average of 12.5 points per game at the school. Rogers has moved into 20th place on the school career scoring list, and her next target is Jacki Raterman (1,213 points from 1995-99).
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 466 free throws this season to date. That total is 22 more than the opponents have attempted (444). 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 Akron game, the Falcons will be idle until Friday afternoon (March 14), when BGSU will take on an opponent to be determined in MAC Tournament semifinal-round action at Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland. BG has earned a top-two seed and a triple-bye for the tourney, and the Falcons will not know their semifinal-round opponent until the conclusion of third-round games at the Q on Thursday (March 13). Friday's semifinal games are set to start at noon and 2:30 p.m., with the winners advancing to the MAC Tournament's championship game on Saturday, March 15 at 1:00 p.m.
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