Falcons Finish Perfect Home Stand With 14-Point Victory Over Cleveland State

Box Score
Post-Game Audio: Coach Huger With Todd Walker
Post-Game Video: Coach Huger | Plowden
Game Highlights: BGSU vs. Cleveland State
Photo Gallery: BGSU Marketing / Communications (Isaiah Vazquez)

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team wrapped up a perfect three-game home stand with a 72-58 victory over Cleveland State University on Sunday (Dec. 15) evening. The non-conference contest was played at the Stroh Center. With the win, Bowling Green moves to 8-2 in 2019-20.

Junior forward Daeqwon Plowden scored a career-high 23 points for the second-consecutive game. Senior guard Dylan Frye added 11 points, and tied a career high with eight assists. Trey Diggs (10 points) also scored in double figures for the Orange and Brown.

Cleveland State held leads of 2-0 and 4-2, but the Falcons quickly seized control of the game. Bowling Green led by as many as 24 points and in total, led for 35:05 of the game's 40 minutes.

The Falcons are 5-0 at home for just the second time in the history of the Stroh Center. BGSU started last season with a 5-0 mark at home, as well. The Falcons have won 19 of their last 21 games inside the friendly confines of the Stroh Center.

QUOTE OF THE GAME
"We were able to have the first half that we wanted. We had a lot of deflections, and we didn't let them use their ball-screen action … But we have to finish a game, and that's the thing. We have to take care of the ball. We can't get that relaxed, and think that the game is over. The game is not over – it's never over – until the horn sounds." – Head Coach Michael Huger

TODD WALKER RADIO CALLS
• Fields Tough Layup
• Sierra Three-Pointer
• PLOWDEN SLAM!
• Zeigler First-Career Triple
• Frye Steal = Plowden FLUSH!
• #DowntownDiggs
• Frye To Fields In Transition
• #DeepFrye
• #DowntownDiggs
• Plowden Drills The Trey
• Diggs In Transition
• Plowden Ties Career High
• Plowden REJECTION!

FALCON FACTS
• Bowling Green is 8-2 for just the eighth time since 1950 (2019-20; 2004-05; 2001-02; 1999-2000; 1989-90; 1961-62; 1957-58; 1950-51). The Falcons are 8-2 for the first time since 2004-05.
• Under head coach Michael Huger, BGSU is 8-1 in non-conference home games versus Ohio-based schools. The Falcons have won eight-straight such games, defeating teams by an average score of 91-65.
• Michael Huger earned his 75th win as Bowling Green's head coach. The Falcons are now 75-67 in the Huger Era.
• Bowling Green is 5-0 at home for the second time in Stroh Center history. The Falcons started 5-0 at home last season, as well. The 5-0 home start is BGSU's third such start since 2008-09.
• The Falcons are 19-2 inside the Stroh Center over their last 21 home games. That record dates back to the 2018-19 season. In 2018-19, BGSU went 14-2, marking the most home wins for the program since 1947-48.
• Bowling Green improves to 16-9 in the month of December under head coach Michael Huger. The Falcons are 40-22 in non-conference games across the Huger Era.
• BGSU increased its lead over Cleveland State in the all-time series to 11-9. The Falcons are 5-3 versus the Vikings all-time in games played in Bowling Green, Ohio.
• The Falcons scored 25 points off 22 Cleveland State turnovers. CSU scored just 13 points off 16 Bowling Green turnovers.
• Despite matching a season high with 16 turnovers, the Falcons still did not have more turnovers than assists, as the Falcons recorded 16 assists on the evening. BGSU has only had more turnovers than assists in one game in 2019-20 (Tiffin – 14 A / 16 TO).
• The Falcons posted 16 assists, marking the ninth time in 10 games that BGSU has finished a contest with double-digit assists. The 16 assists tied a season high for the Falcons. BGSU also dished out 16 assists in wins over Fairmont State and Jacksonville.
• BGSU surrendered 58 points – the least amount of points that an opponent has scored on the Falcons this season.
• Bowling Green allowed just 24 points in the first half. BGSU allowed 22 points in the first half of its win over Jacksonville on Nov. 11, which marks the fewest points that the Falcons have allowed in a half in 2019-20.

PLAYER NOTES
• Junior forward Daeqwon Plowden entered the Oakland (Dec. 7) game with a career high of 19 points. He's now scored 23 points in back-to-back games. Plowden followed up his Oakland effort (23 points, 10 rebounds) with a final line of 23 points and four rebounds in tonight's win.
• Plowden set a career high in made field goals for the second-straight game. After hitting nine field goals in the win over Oakland, Plowden converted a career-high 11 field goals on the night. Plowden went 11-of-13 from the floor, including a 1-for-2 mark from downtown.
• Over the last two ballgames, Plowden is a combined 20-of-26 (76.9 percent) from the floor. The 23-point games are the first 20-plus point games of his BGSU career.
• Senior guard Dylan Frye tied a career high with eight assists. Frye also had eight assists in a win over N.C. Central on Nov. 15, 2018. Frye scored 11 points in the game, marking the 63rd time in his career that he's scored double-digit points.
• Frye went 2-for-5 from three-point territory, and has now made multiple triples in a single game a total of 59 times in his career. Frye has made 206 three-pointers as a Falcon, and is now just 26 makes shy of breaking John Reimold's (2002-05 | 228) BGSU record.
• Junior forward Trey Diggs scored 10 points on 4-of-8 shooting. Diggs has scored 10-plus points in 6-of-10 games on the season. Diggs went 2-of-5 from deep. He's hit multiple treys in seven games in 2019-20. Additionally, Diggs recorded a career-high two steals.
• Senior forward Marlon Sierra finished with nine points, six rebounds, one assist and one steal. Sierra fell one point shy of scoring in double figures for the third time this season. Sierra went 3-for-4 from the floor, and 1-for-1 from downtown. Sierra has never made multiple triples in a game as a Falcon, but he's now made at least one three-pointer in 13 career games.
• Sophomore guard Caleb Fields had a productive night on the court. Fields scored eight points to go along with a season-high three assists. Fields matched his season high with three rebounds, as well.
• Freshman guard Davin Zeigler set career highs with seven points and four free throws (4-for-4). Zeigler also tied career highs with three rebounds, one steal and one made field goal.
• Senior guard Michael Laster came off the bench and registered four points, two rebounds, one assist and one steal. Laster has scored in eight of the nine games that he's appeared in.

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