Thursday, November 29
Cincinnati, OH
11:30 AM
Bowling Green State University
at
Xavier
Photo by: Brad Phalin, BGSU Marketing and Communications
BGSU Heads to Xavier for Thursday Morning Matchup
November 28, 2018 | Women's Basketball
Falcons meet Musketeers in 11:30 a.m. tip in Cincinnati
BGSU at XAVIER
Thursday, November 29, 2018 • 11:30 a.m.
Cintas Center • Cincinnati, Ohio
TELEVISION / VIDEO: Xavier All-Access (free)
RADIO: None
LIVE STATS: www.GoXavier.com
TWITTER: @BGSUwbb
all audio, stats & video links can be found at BGSUFalcons.com on game day
UP NEXT FOR THE FALCONS...Â
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team heads down Interstate 75 for a Thursday morning (Nov. 29) matchup in Cincinnati. Head coach Robyn Fralick and the Falcons will face Xavier University in an 11:30 a.m. start at the Cintas Center.
MY BABY TAKES THE MORNING TRAIN
For the Falcons, Thursday's game is the third of four morning tipoffs this season, and wraps up a four-game stretch which sees BG take the court for an a.m. start three times. BGSU downed Loyola Chicago in the Falcons' annual School Day game last Tuesday (Nov. 20), then faced Mercer in an 11:30 a.m. start on Sunday (Nov. 25).
In addition to the Xavier game, the Falcons' Jan. 9 contest at Ball State has a morning start, as that game has been moved to an 11:00 a.m. tipoff.
SETTING THE SCENE...
The Falcons are 3-3 on the young season. After dropping the opener at Michigan State, BGSU then won three-straight games, all at home. The Falcons averaged 82.7 points per game in those three wins.
BG scored 80 points in Friday's (Nov. 23) game vs. the host school at the Coastal Carolina Tournament, but the Falcons lost by a point on a pair of free throws with 5.9 seconds left. Two days later, a fourth-quarter run lifted Mercer to a 76-63 victory over the Brown and Orange.
Xavier is 4-1 on the year, and the Musketeers' only loss came at the hands of then-No. 25 Minnesota. Each of the four wins have been by 10 points or more, including a 62-50 victory at Wake Forest in the team's most recent game.
NEED-TO-KNOW INFORMATION
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>> Freshman Morgan McMillen has scored in double digits in each of the first six games of her collegiate career. She is the first Falcon to do so in eight years, and is the first BGSU freshman to score in double digits in her first six games in at least a quarter of a century.
>> Senior Sydney Lambert is moving ever closer to a pair of milestones. Lambert – who will be playing in her hometown on Thursday – is 59 points away from reaching the 1,000-point mark for her career. And, the point guard needs to make just two more three-point field goals to become the fourth player in BGSU history to hit 200 long-range shots.
>> Sophomore Angela Perry scored a total of 75 points in 18 games last season, an average of 4.2 points per outing. This season, after missing the opener due to injury, Perry has 72 points – 14.4 ppg – in just five games.
>> BGSU scored over 80 points four times in 30 games last year. This season, the Falcons reached the 80-point mark three times in the first five contests.
>> In the 2017-18 campaign, the Falcons averaged 9.2 assists per game. This season, BGSU has dished out at least 12 assists in five of the six games, and the Falcons have 16.2 apg.
MORGAN McMAKIN'
Freshman Morgan McMillen is off to a tremendous start to her collegiate career, to say the least. McMillen enters the Xavier game with a BG-best average of 20.7 points per contest. She has made at least three three-point field goals five times in those six games, with at least five triples in three contests.
McMillen, as mentioned earlier, is the first BGSU player to score in double digits in each of the first six games of the season in eight years. That feat has been achieved only six other times over the last 25 years. In that quarter century, McMillen is the only BG freshman to hit double figures in each of the first six games.
FALCON-FAST STARTS
(Streaks of six or more games with double-digit scoring totals – since 1993-94)
Player      Season  Cl. Games Notes                     Â
Charlotta Jones 1997-98 Sr.  29   Scored in double digits in every game of season
Ali Mann     2006-07 Sr.  24   Hit double digits 33 times in 35 games for Sweet 16 team
Sara Puthoff   1997-98 Sr.  11   Held to 3 points in game 10, then started a 10-game streak
Sara Puthoff   1995-96 So.   9   Hit double figures in 16 of first 17 games of season
Tracy Pontius   2010-11 Sr.   6   Held to 3 points in game 7
Lauren Prochaska 2010-11 Sr.   6   Scored 9 points in game 7
MORGAN McMILLEN 2018-19 Fr.   6  Currently averaging 20.7 ppg
LAMBERT LIGHTING IT UP
Senior Sydney Lambert had her first 20-point game of the young season on Friday (Nov. 23), scoring a team-high 21 points against Coastal Carolina. Lambert enters the Xavier game with a total of 941 points in 95 career games, an average of 9.9 per contest.
Lambert currently ranks 29th in school history in points scored, and is 59 points away from becoming the 28th BGSU player to reach the 1,000-point mark for her career.
The Cincinnati native has a career total of 198 three-point field goals made, and is two successful triples from becoming the fourth Falcon to reach that milestone. Lambert has made just over two treys per game in her career, and if she keeps up that pace, she will move past Liz Honegger (216 three-pointers from 2003-07) and Tracy Pontius (235 from 2007-11) to finish her career in second place.
EYASSES (IT'S THE PLURAL OF EYAS) (LOOK IT UP)
A total of seven players have seen action in all six games this season to date. That group includes one senior, one junior, two sophomores (including one redshirt soph) and three freshmen.
Three additional Falcons have seen action in five of the six games. That trio consists of two sophomores and the remaining freshman.
In Sunday's game vs. Mercer, two freshmen and a sophomore were in the starting lineup, and all five of BGSU's players who saw action off the bench are either freshmen or sophomores.
THE FALCONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW
BGSU enters the Xavier game with a record of 3-3 on the young season. After winning three-straight games at the Stroh Center, the Falcons dropped a pair of contests in Conway, S.C., over the Thanksgiving holiday.Â
BG, after falling, 99-69, at Michigan State in the season opener, picked up a 99-76 win over Marshall in the home opener, then captured a 61-60 last-second victory against Robert Morris before downing Loyola Chicago, 88-74.
Then, the Falcons lost a narrow 81-80 decision at Coastal Carolina (Nov. 23), before falling to Mercer by a 76-63 score on Sunday (Nov. 25). Both of those games were part of the Coastal Carolina Tournament.
The Falcons are 3-0 at home, 0-2 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site contests this season to date.
BGSU returned a total of 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that finished with an 11-19 overall record and a 3-15 mark in Mid-American Conference play. The Falcons went 6-8 at the Stroh Center, 4-11 in road games and 1-0 in neutral-site contests a year ago.
Head coach Robyn Fralick is in her first season on the BGSU bench. Her staff includes associate head coach Kim Cameron, assistant coach/recruiting coordinator Karmen Graham, assistant coach Joel Whymer, director of operations Monique Rosati and video coordinator Amanda Cutcher.
Six games into the schedule, four Falcons are scoring in double digits. Freshman Morgan McMillen has 20.7 points per game, and is shooting 49.4 percent from the field. McMillen tied the school single-game record with eight triples vs. Marshall (in her second collegiate game), and she is shooting 43.9% from the arc, having gone 25-for-57 from long range.
Sophomore Angela Perry, who missed the MSU game due to injury, has 14.4 points per game and is shooting 64.4% from the floor. Perry obliterated her previous career scoring high in the Marshall game, with 25 points, then scored 24 vs. Loyola. She is three points away from matching her total for all of last season.
Junior Andrea Cecil has 13.3 ppg to date, and she is second on the Falcons in rebounding, with 4.8 boards per game. Cecil, who had game-high totals of 19 points at Michigan State and 20 vs. Marshall, scored 21 vs. Mercer, and is shooting 52.2% from three-point land, having hit 12-of-23 long-distance attempts.
Senior Sydney Lambert is averaging 10.3 ppg and leads the team with 4.3 assists per contest. Lambert, who had a career-high 10 rebounds vs. Loyola, had 21 points against Coastal Carolina. She has hit 11 three-pointers, and is fourth on the Falcons with 3.5 boards per outing.
Freshman Kadie Hempfling and sophomore Madisen Parker have 7.0 and 4.8 ppg, respectively. Hempfling has a BG-best 9.0 rebounds per game, and she is also averaging 2.8 assists per game to rank second on the Falcons in that category. Parker has hit 6-of-17 shots from three-point range.
Cecil, Lambert and McMillen have started all six games this year, while Glowniak and Hempfling each have made five starts and Perry and Uecker one apiece.
A QUICK LOOK AT XAVIER
Xavier is 4-1 on the season, and the Musketeers' last game was a 62-50 win at Wake Forest. The team's other four games all have been played at home, including wins over Chicago State, Tennessee Tech and Fairfield. A'riana Gray has team-leading averages of 15.0 points and 9.0 rebounds, while three of her teammates have at least 8.0 points per game.
A year ago, head coach Brian Neal's team went 10-20 overall and 3-15 in the Big East Conference. XU returned seven players, including one starter, from that club.
THE SERIES
The Falcons and Xavier are tied, 3-3, in the all-time series. BGSU won a 63-53 decision in a School Day game at the Stroh Center last December, the teams' first meeting in over 18 years. BGSU is 3-1 at home and 0-2 on the road vs. XU. The list of game-by-game series results can be found in the PDF version of these notes.
BGSU-XAVIER TIES
One of the previous meetings between the teams, a 92-75 XU win in December of 1998, saw Netta Smith score five points off the bench for the Falcons. Smith, now Netta Floyd, is in her fifth season as Xavier's Director of Basketball Operations.
Greg Christopher, Xavier's Director of Athletics since May of 2013, took that job after spending six-and-a-half years as BGSU's AD. And, Greg Lautzenheiser, XU's women's basketball SID, earned his undergraduate degree from BGSU in 2009. He served as a student manager for the BGSU men's basketball team under coach Dan Dakich, and most importantly, completed a practicum in the BGSU athletic communications office in 2007-08.
UP NEXT
Following the Xavier game, the Falcons will face Canisius in Buffalo on Saturday, Dec. 8. Then, BGSU will return home to prepare for a contest vs. Detroit Mercy on Monday, Dec. 17, at the Stroh Center.
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Thursday, November 29, 2018 • 11:30 a.m.
Cintas Center • Cincinnati, Ohio
TELEVISION / VIDEO: Xavier All-Access (free)
RADIO: None
LIVE STATS: www.GoXavier.com
TWITTER: @BGSUwbb
all audio, stats & video links can be found at BGSUFalcons.com on game day
UP NEXT FOR THE FALCONS...Â
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team heads down Interstate 75 for a Thursday morning (Nov. 29) matchup in Cincinnati. Head coach Robyn Fralick and the Falcons will face Xavier University in an 11:30 a.m. start at the Cintas Center.
MY BABY TAKES THE MORNING TRAIN
For the Falcons, Thursday's game is the third of four morning tipoffs this season, and wraps up a four-game stretch which sees BG take the court for an a.m. start three times. BGSU downed Loyola Chicago in the Falcons' annual School Day game last Tuesday (Nov. 20), then faced Mercer in an 11:30 a.m. start on Sunday (Nov. 25).
In addition to the Xavier game, the Falcons' Jan. 9 contest at Ball State has a morning start, as that game has been moved to an 11:00 a.m. tipoff.
SETTING THE SCENE...
The Falcons are 3-3 on the young season. After dropping the opener at Michigan State, BGSU then won three-straight games, all at home. The Falcons averaged 82.7 points per game in those three wins.
BG scored 80 points in Friday's (Nov. 23) game vs. the host school at the Coastal Carolina Tournament, but the Falcons lost by a point on a pair of free throws with 5.9 seconds left. Two days later, a fourth-quarter run lifted Mercer to a 76-63 victory over the Brown and Orange.
Xavier is 4-1 on the year, and the Musketeers' only loss came at the hands of then-No. 25 Minnesota. Each of the four wins have been by 10 points or more, including a 62-50 victory at Wake Forest in the team's most recent game.
NEED-TO-KNOW INFORMATION
(Tweet this information, or recite these facts to your friends, and watch them marvel at your incredible BGSU women's basketball-related knowledge)
>> Freshman Morgan McMillen has scored in double digits in each of the first six games of her collegiate career. She is the first Falcon to do so in eight years, and is the first BGSU freshman to score in double digits in her first six games in at least a quarter of a century.
>> Senior Sydney Lambert is moving ever closer to a pair of milestones. Lambert – who will be playing in her hometown on Thursday – is 59 points away from reaching the 1,000-point mark for her career. And, the point guard needs to make just two more three-point field goals to become the fourth player in BGSU history to hit 200 long-range shots.
>> Sophomore Angela Perry scored a total of 75 points in 18 games last season, an average of 4.2 points per outing. This season, after missing the opener due to injury, Perry has 72 points – 14.4 ppg – in just five games.
>> BGSU scored over 80 points four times in 30 games last year. This season, the Falcons reached the 80-point mark three times in the first five contests.
>> In the 2017-18 campaign, the Falcons averaged 9.2 assists per game. This season, BGSU has dished out at least 12 assists in five of the six games, and the Falcons have 16.2 apg.
MORGAN McMAKIN'
Freshman Morgan McMillen is off to a tremendous start to her collegiate career, to say the least. McMillen enters the Xavier game with a BG-best average of 20.7 points per contest. She has made at least three three-point field goals five times in those six games, with at least five triples in three contests.
McMillen, as mentioned earlier, is the first BGSU player to score in double digits in each of the first six games of the season in eight years. That feat has been achieved only six other times over the last 25 years. In that quarter century, McMillen is the only BG freshman to hit double figures in each of the first six games.
FALCON-FAST STARTS
(Streaks of six or more games with double-digit scoring totals – since 1993-94)
Player      Season  Cl. Games Notes                     Â
Charlotta Jones 1997-98 Sr.  29   Scored in double digits in every game of season
Ali Mann     2006-07 Sr.  24   Hit double digits 33 times in 35 games for Sweet 16 team
Sara Puthoff   1997-98 Sr.  11   Held to 3 points in game 10, then started a 10-game streak
Sara Puthoff   1995-96 So.   9   Hit double figures in 16 of first 17 games of season
Tracy Pontius   2010-11 Sr.   6   Held to 3 points in game 7
Lauren Prochaska 2010-11 Sr.   6   Scored 9 points in game 7
MORGAN McMILLEN 2018-19 Fr.   6  Currently averaging 20.7 ppg
LAMBERT LIGHTING IT UP
Senior Sydney Lambert had her first 20-point game of the young season on Friday (Nov. 23), scoring a team-high 21 points against Coastal Carolina. Lambert enters the Xavier game with a total of 941 points in 95 career games, an average of 9.9 per contest.
Lambert currently ranks 29th in school history in points scored, and is 59 points away from becoming the 28th BGSU player to reach the 1,000-point mark for her career.
The Cincinnati native has a career total of 198 three-point field goals made, and is two successful triples from becoming the fourth Falcon to reach that milestone. Lambert has made just over two treys per game in her career, and if she keeps up that pace, she will move past Liz Honegger (216 three-pointers from 2003-07) and Tracy Pontius (235 from 2007-11) to finish her career in second place.
EYASSES (IT'S THE PLURAL OF EYAS) (LOOK IT UP)
A total of seven players have seen action in all six games this season to date. That group includes one senior, one junior, two sophomores (including one redshirt soph) and three freshmen.
Three additional Falcons have seen action in five of the six games. That trio consists of two sophomores and the remaining freshman.
In Sunday's game vs. Mercer, two freshmen and a sophomore were in the starting lineup, and all five of BGSU's players who saw action off the bench are either freshmen or sophomores.
THE FALCONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW
BGSU enters the Xavier game with a record of 3-3 on the young season. After winning three-straight games at the Stroh Center, the Falcons dropped a pair of contests in Conway, S.C., over the Thanksgiving holiday.Â
BG, after falling, 99-69, at Michigan State in the season opener, picked up a 99-76 win over Marshall in the home opener, then captured a 61-60 last-second victory against Robert Morris before downing Loyola Chicago, 88-74.
Then, the Falcons lost a narrow 81-80 decision at Coastal Carolina (Nov. 23), before falling to Mercer by a 76-63 score on Sunday (Nov. 25). Both of those games were part of the Coastal Carolina Tournament.
The Falcons are 3-0 at home, 0-2 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site contests this season to date.
BGSU returned a total of 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team that finished with an 11-19 overall record and a 3-15 mark in Mid-American Conference play. The Falcons went 6-8 at the Stroh Center, 4-11 in road games and 1-0 in neutral-site contests a year ago.
Head coach Robyn Fralick is in her first season on the BGSU bench. Her staff includes associate head coach Kim Cameron, assistant coach/recruiting coordinator Karmen Graham, assistant coach Joel Whymer, director of operations Monique Rosati and video coordinator Amanda Cutcher.
Six games into the schedule, four Falcons are scoring in double digits. Freshman Morgan McMillen has 20.7 points per game, and is shooting 49.4 percent from the field. McMillen tied the school single-game record with eight triples vs. Marshall (in her second collegiate game), and she is shooting 43.9% from the arc, having gone 25-for-57 from long range.
Sophomore Angela Perry, who missed the MSU game due to injury, has 14.4 points per game and is shooting 64.4% from the floor. Perry obliterated her previous career scoring high in the Marshall game, with 25 points, then scored 24 vs. Loyola. She is three points away from matching her total for all of last season.
Junior Andrea Cecil has 13.3 ppg to date, and she is second on the Falcons in rebounding, with 4.8 boards per game. Cecil, who had game-high totals of 19 points at Michigan State and 20 vs. Marshall, scored 21 vs. Mercer, and is shooting 52.2% from three-point land, having hit 12-of-23 long-distance attempts.
Senior Sydney Lambert is averaging 10.3 ppg and leads the team with 4.3 assists per contest. Lambert, who had a career-high 10 rebounds vs. Loyola, had 21 points against Coastal Carolina. She has hit 11 three-pointers, and is fourth on the Falcons with 3.5 boards per outing.
Freshman Kadie Hempfling and sophomore Madisen Parker have 7.0 and 4.8 ppg, respectively. Hempfling has a BG-best 9.0 rebounds per game, and she is also averaging 2.8 assists per game to rank second on the Falcons in that category. Parker has hit 6-of-17 shots from three-point range.
Cecil, Lambert and McMillen have started all six games this year, while Glowniak and Hempfling each have made five starts and Perry and Uecker one apiece.
A QUICK LOOK AT XAVIER
Xavier is 4-1 on the season, and the Musketeers' last game was a 62-50 win at Wake Forest. The team's other four games all have been played at home, including wins over Chicago State, Tennessee Tech and Fairfield. A'riana Gray has team-leading averages of 15.0 points and 9.0 rebounds, while three of her teammates have at least 8.0 points per game.
A year ago, head coach Brian Neal's team went 10-20 overall and 3-15 in the Big East Conference. XU returned seven players, including one starter, from that club.
THE SERIES
The Falcons and Xavier are tied, 3-3, in the all-time series. BGSU won a 63-53 decision in a School Day game at the Stroh Center last December, the teams' first meeting in over 18 years. BGSU is 3-1 at home and 0-2 on the road vs. XU. The list of game-by-game series results can be found in the PDF version of these notes.
BGSU-XAVIER TIES
One of the previous meetings between the teams, a 92-75 XU win in December of 1998, saw Netta Smith score five points off the bench for the Falcons. Smith, now Netta Floyd, is in her fifth season as Xavier's Director of Basketball Operations.
Greg Christopher, Xavier's Director of Athletics since May of 2013, took that job after spending six-and-a-half years as BGSU's AD. And, Greg Lautzenheiser, XU's women's basketball SID, earned his undergraduate degree from BGSU in 2009. He served as a student manager for the BGSU men's basketball team under coach Dan Dakich, and most importantly, completed a practicum in the BGSU athletic communications office in 2007-08.
UP NEXT
Following the Xavier game, the Falcons will face Canisius in Buffalo on Saturday, Dec. 8. Then, BGSU will return home to prepare for a contest vs. Detroit Mercy on Monday, Dec. 17, at the Stroh Center.
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