BGSU Host Senators to Wrap Up Pre-MAC Schedule

Sunday, December 30

Bowling Green, OH

5:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

Davis & Elkins

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December 28, 2018 | Women's Basketball

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Davis & Elkins comes to the Stroh for Sunday evening matchup

By: BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

BGSU vs. DAVIS & ELKINS
Sunday, December 30, 2018 • 5:00 p.m.
Stroh Center • Bowling Green, Ohio

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UP NEXT FOR THE FALCONS...
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team begins the post-holiday schedule, and closes the non-conference slate, with a Sunday (Dec. 30) game at the Stroh Center. Head coach Robyn Fralick and the Falcons will face Davis & Elkins College, with tipoff scheduled for 5:00 p.m. The game will be the second half of a BGSU basketball doubleheader at the Stroh.

NEED-TO-KNOW INFORMATION
>> If senior Sydney Lambert is in the starting lineup on Sunday, it would be the 100th start of her BGSU career. Only 12 other players in school history have made 100 or more career starts.

>> Lambert needs just 17 points to become the 28th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point mark for her career.

>> Junior Andrea Cecil and freshman Morgan McMillen each are ranked in the top 10 in the country in a three-point field goal-related category, and as a team, the Falcons rank fifth in the nation in three-pointers made per game.

CECIL NAMED MAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Junior Andrea Cecil has been named MAC Player of the Week, the league office announced Wednesday morning (Dec. 26). Cecil averaged 25.0 points and 8.5 rebounds per game as the Falcons went 2-0 last week. She shot 53.3 percent from the floor and was 8-for-16 from three-point range in the two wins. She also went 10-of-11 (90.9%) from the free-throw line.

Cecil exploded for 30 points and 11 rebounds in the Falcons' 79-73 win over Detroit Mercy (Dec. 17). The point total was a career best, and the rebound total tied her career standard. Then, she tied for game honors with 20 points in the Falcons' 79-72 road win over Valparaiso (Dec. 21). Cecil hit four three-pointers in each of the two games.

ANDREA THREE-CIL
Junior Andrea Cecil has been on fire from beyond the arc this season to date. Cecil has hit 51.0 percent of her three-point attempts, ranking her fifth in the entire nation in three-point field-goal percentage.

Through 10 games this season, Cecil has made 25 three-pointers, topping her total (24) for all of last year.

FROM WAAAAAAAY DOWNTOWN .... BANG!
Andrea Cecil is not the only Falcon currently ranked among the nation's top 10 in a three-point shooting-related category. Morgan McMillen is eighth in the country – and second among all freshmen – in three-pointers made per game.

McMillen has hit 38 triples through her first 10 collegiate contests, an average of 3.80 long-distance makes per game. She has made at least three triples in eight of the 10 games, including four contests with five or more successful treys.

LAMBERT'S LEAVING A LEGACY...
One anagram for "Sydney Lambert" is "merely stand by", but that phrase could not be less accurate when describing the senior guard. Lambert has been an important part of the Falcons' lineup since the day she arrived on campus, and is adding her name to numerous BGSU career charts. For instance...

LAMBERT'S LEGACY II: START ME UP
Lambert has started every game since coming to BG, and has made 99 career starts entering the Davis & Elkins game. If she is in the lineup on Sunday, she would tie Alexis Rogers (100 starts from 2011-14) for 12th on the school career list.

BG has at least 20 games left on the 2018-19 schedule, meaning Lambert has a realistic chance to finish her career as high as fifth in school history in games started. BGSU Hall-of-Famers Kate Achter (124 from 2004-08) and Jackie Motycka (115 from 1985-89) rank fourth and fifth, respectively, on the BG list for career starts.

LAMBERT'S LEGACY III: THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT
Lambert enters the D&E game with a career total of 983 points. She has averaged between 9.4 and 10.4 points per game in every season at BG, and is averaging 10.4 ppg this season and 9.9 ppg in her career.

With 15 points in the win over Detroit Mercy, Lambert moved past Rhonda Moore (966 points from 1982-86) on the BGSU career scoring list. She scored 14 points at Valparaiso, and is now just 17 points away from becoming the 28th BGSU player to reach the 1,000-point mark.

LAMBERT'S LEGACY IV: SYD-THREE LAMBERT
Lambert's first successful three-point field goal in the Falcons' win at Canisius was the 200th of her BGSU career. She became just the fourth Falcon to make 200 career three-pointers, and now has 206 long-range makes. Lambert is averaging just over two treys per game in her career, and if she keeps up that pace, she will move past both Liz Honegger (216 three-pointers from 2003-07) and Tracy Pontius (235 from 2007-11) to finish her career in second place on the BGSU list.

THREE-MARKABLE
As the month of December winds down, the Falcons are ranked fifth in the entire nation in three-point field goals made per game. BGSU has hit 106 triples in 10 games, for an average of 10.6 per game. The Falcons trail only DePaul, Florida Gulf Coast, Saint Francis (Pa.) and Creighton in that category.

Additionally, the Falcons currently rank 18th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage and 21st in total three-pointers made.

WHEN HEMPFLING REBOUNDS, THE FALCONS WIN
Freshman Kadie Hempfling leads the Falcons in rebounding, with 9.3 boards per game. Hempfling has pulled down 10 or more rebounds in six of her first 10 games as a Falcon.

In fact, when Hempfling has 10 or more rebounds in a game, the Falcons are a perfect 6-0. The Ottawa, Ohio, native has 12.2 rpg in BG's six wins.

FOUR HOME GAMES, FIVE THREE-POINT RECORDS
Long-standing long-distance records have been falling in BGSU home games like prices at a Christmas tree lot on Dec. 26. No fewer than five three-point records have been tied or broken in this season's first four games at the Stroh Center.

Freshman Morgan McMillen, in her first-ever home game as a Falcon, tied the school single-game record by making eight three-point field goals in the win over Marshall. That same night, the Thundering Herd attempted 38 long-distance shots to set a new Stroh Center record (since broken – more on that in a minute).

BGSU tied the school single-game record for three-point field goals made, hitting 16 long-range shots vs. the Thundering Herd.

Then, against Detroit Mercy, McMillen and her teammates shattered the school records for three-point field goals attempted. McMillen took 18 shots from outside the arc, and the Falcons fired 40 triple tries as a team.

THE FALCONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW
BGSU enters the Davis & Elkins game with a record of 6-4 on the season, and the Falcons have won the last three games. BGSU picked up a 74-53 win at Canisius (Dec. 8), then returned home and topped Detroit Mercy, 79-73. (Dec. 17). Most recently, the Brown and Orange won a 79-72 decision at Valparaiso (Dec. 21).

BG fell at Michigan State in the season opener, but the Falcons then won three-straight games, topping Marshall, Robert Morris and Loyola Chicago, 88-74, at the Stroh Center. The Falcons dropped the next three games before putting together the current three-game win streak.

BG's four losses have come against teams (MSU, Coastal Carolina, Mercer and Xavier) who are a combined 33-11. The Spartans (#21/22) are ranked in both polls.

The Falcons are 4-0 at home, 2-3 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site contests this season to date.

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.

Ten games into the schedule, four players are scoring in double digits. Freshman Morgan McMillen has 17.6 points per game, and has scored in double digits in nine of her first 10 career games. McMillen tied the school single-game record with eight triples vs. Marshall (in her second collegiate game), and she is shooting 40.0% from the arc, having gone 38-for-95 from long range.

Junior Andrea Cecil has 16.1 ppg to date, and has scored 50 points in the last two games, including a career-high 30 vs. UDM. Cecil, who also had 11 rebounds vs. the Titans, is second on the Falcons in that category, with 5.3 boards per game. She has had 19 or more points six times in 10 games this season, and is shooting 51.0% from three-point land, good for fifth in the entire nation.

Sophomore Angela Perry has 14.6 points per game and is shooting 64.1% from the floor. Perry obliterated her previous career scoring high in the Marshall game, with 25 points, and had 24 vs. Loyola and 19 at Xavier. Perry, who has seen action in seven games, has already topped her point total for all of last season.

Senior Sydney Lambert is averaging 10.4 ppg and leads the team with 4.7 assists per contest. Lambert has 29 points, 14 boards and 14 assists over the last two games. She has hit 19 three-pointers, good for third on the team, and is also third on the Falcons with 4.4 boards per outing.

Freshman Kadie Hempfling and sophomore Madisen Parker have 6.6 and 5.7 ppg, respectively. Hempfling has a BG-best 9.3 rebounds per game, and she is also averaging 4.2 assists per game to rank second on the Falcons in that category. She has had six double-digit rebounding totals in her first 10 games. Parker has gone 14-of-34 (41.2%) from three-point range this year, including a perfect 3-for-3 in the win at Valparaiso.

The 2018-19 roster includes two seniors, three juniors, two redshirt sophomores, four true sophs and four frosh. Lambert and Maddie Cole comprise the senior class.

Cecil, Caterrion Thompson and Jane Uecker each are in their junior season, while Alyssa Dean and Clare Glowniak are the redshirt sophs. Dean, a transfer from Memphis, will be eligible following the conclusion of the fall semester.

The sophomore class includes Parker, Perry, Terri Battle and Sierra Thompson, while Hempfling, McMillen, Molly Dever and Sydney Palermo make up the freshman class.

Cecil, Lambert and McMillen have started all 10 games, while Glowniak and Hempfling each have made nine starts and Perry and Uecker one apiece.

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.

THREE-MENDOUS, THREE-LIGHTFUL, THREE-POSTEROUS, ETC.
Through the years, BGSU rosters typically have been stocked with players who can score from three-point range. Last year, for the third-straight season, a total of 12 different Falcons hit at least one three-pointer.

Three years ago, the Falcons made at least four three-point field goals in all 28 contests. Two seasons ago, BGSU connected at least four times in 27 of the 31 games. Last year, the Falcons made four or more treys in 27 of the 30 games.

And, this season, BG has hit at least five triples in every game, and the Falcons have made at least eight treys in eight contests, including a school record-tying 16 vs. Marshall, 14 vs. Valpo and 13 on three other occasions.

In fact, BG has knocked down four or more three-pointers in 124 of the last 132 games, dating to late in the 2013-14 season.

BGSU will be looking to extend a mucho-impressive streak in the Davis & Elkins game. The Falcons have hit at least one three-pointer in each of the last 440 games. BG has not been held without a triple in close to 14 years – since Feb. 12, 2005, at Akron, when the Falcons won, 61-52, despite going 0-of-13 from long distance.

A QUICK LOOK AT DAVIS & ELKINS
Davis & Elkins is 3-7 on the season, and the Senators are coming off of a 66-60 loss to Concord in the team's last game before the holiday break. D&E is 2-1 at home, 1-5 on the road and 0-1 at neutral sites. Kali Wilburn has a team-high 13.9 points per game, while Colleena Burdock has 9.5 ppg and a team-high 3.5 assists per outing. Last year, head coach Jason Asbell's club went 11-17 overall and 7-15 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.

THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Davis & Elkins, 1-0, in the all-time series between the teams. The only previous meeting saw BGSU pick up a 73-46 win at the Stroh Center just over two years ago (Nov. 30, 2016). In that game, all 12 Falcons on the active roster scored at least two points, and 11 of the 12 had at least one rebound as well.

DOWN THE ROAD
Following the Davis & Elkins game, the Falcons will begin the Mid-American Conference portion of the schedule, as Western Michigan will come to town for a Saturday (Jan. 5) matchup. The WMU game will mark the team's annual Alumnae Day, and tipoff is set for 2:00 p.m. at the Stroh Center.

Then, BGSU hits the road for back-to-back games, taking on Ball State (Jan. 9) and Akron (Jan. 12). The BSU game will begin at 11:00 a.m., while the UA contest is set for a 2:00 p.m. start.

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