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February 21, 2019 | Women's Basketball
BGSU battles league-leading Miami at Millett
BGSU at MIAMI
Saturday, February 23, 2019 • 2:00 p.m.
Millett Hall • Oxford, Ohio
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TWITTER: @BGSUwbb
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UP NEXT FOR THE FALCONS...Â
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team closes the regular-season schedule with five consecutive games vs. fellow Mid-American Conference East Division opponents, beginning this weekend. Head coach Robyn Fralick and the Falcons travel to Oxford for a Saturday (Feb. 23) matchup with league-leading Miami University, with tipoff set for 2:00 p.m. at Millett Hall.
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NEED-TO-KNOW INFORMATION
>> Junior Andrea Cecil was named MAC Player of the Week on Tuesday (Feb. 19), then earned MAC Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Week honors a day later. She is averaging 20.3 points and 7.3 over the last four games, while shooting 62.2 percent (28-of-45) from the field, 71.4% (5-for-7) from three-point range and 87.0% (20-of-23) from the free-throw line in that time.
>> Morgan McMillen has made a 78 three-point field goals this season, tying her for the second-highest total in school history. She is 14 successful triples away from tying the BGSU single-season record.
>>Â McMillen has attempted a total of 207 long-range shots this winter, just two shy of matching that BGSU single-season mark.
CLOSE CALLS
A total of 12 of BGSU's 24 games this season have been decided by seven points or fewer. In fact, 10 of BGSU's first 13 MAC games have been within three points with under 12 minutes remaining.
Nine of those 13 contests were within three points at some time in the fourth quarter. And, no fewer than seven MAC matchups – including three of the last four games – have been tied or a one-possession game in the final minute.
TOUGH CROWD
BGSU's remaining opponents have a combined MAC record of 43-22. All five games are against teams with winning overall records – all are 14-10 or better – and only one game comes against a club with a MAC record under .500.
THE FALCONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW
BGSU enters the Miami game with a record of 8-16, and the Falcons are 1-12 in MAC play. BG topped Buffalo – an NCAA "Sweet Sixteen" team a year ago – by a 78-72 score last week (Feb. 13), before dropping a narrow 77-73 decision at Kent State three days later.
As mentioned, seven of BGSU's 12 conference losses have come by seven points or fewer. Ten of the 13 MAC games have been within three points with under 12 minutes remaining; nine were three-point games at some point in the fourth quarter; and no fewer than seven were tied or a one-possession game in the final minute of the fourth quarter.
BGSU's last outing, however, saw Central Michigan take control early, en route to a 92-54 win over the Falcons at the Stroh on Wednesday night (Feb. 20).BGSU is now 6-6 at home, 2-9 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site contests this season.
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.
Four Falcons are scoring in double digits this season. Junior Andrea Cecil leads the way with 15.3 points per contest, and is second on the team with 5.3 rebounds per game. Cecil has had 19 or more points 10 times this year, including an epic 33-point, 10-rebound outing at Eastern Michigan several weeks ago. The junior is shooting 43.2% from three-point land, good for 20th in the country. And, Cecil is 22nd in the nation in free-throw percentage (87.8%).
Freshman Morgan McMillen is scoring 14.3 ppg, and has scored in double digits in 18 of her first 24 career outings. McMillen tied the school single-game record with eight triples vs. Marshall (in her second collegiate game). She is ranked 14th in the nation in three-pointers made per game, and has a total of 78 on the year, tying her for second in school history.
Senior Sydney Lambert is averaging 11.4 ppg, along with 4.3 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game. She is third on the team in boards and three-pointers made (38).
Lambert started every game in her BGSU career prior to missing the Falcons' game at Northern Illinois on Feb. 6. The point guard did not travel to DeKalb due to injury, but she returned to the lineup and played all 40 minutes in the first Miami matchup two weekends ago. Lambert leads the MAC and is 22nd in the nation in minutes per game (36.88).
Sophomore Angela Perry has 11.1 ppg and is shooting 52.3% from the floor. Perry, who has seen action in 20 games, has nearly tripled her point total for all of last season. She has three 20-point games this year to date.
Freshman Kadie Hempfling and sophomore Madisen Parker have 5.4 and 5.3 ppg, respectively. Hempfling averages a BG-best 8.2 rebounds per game, and she has dished out 4.1 assists per game, putting her in a virtual tie for the team lead.
Hempfling has had nine double-digit rebounding totals, including a 16-rebound contest at EMU. In that game, she had 10 offensive boards, becoming only the third Falcon since 1995 to reach that total.
Parker has gone 31-of-83 (37.3%) from three-point land this year, including a perfect 3-for-3 on three occasions this season. She made all three of her long-range attempts en route to a career-high 13 points vs. Miami, then was a perfect 9-for-9 from the free-throw line vs. Buffalo, scoring 12 points in the win over the Bulls.
In MAC games only, three Falcons are scoring in double figures. Cecil leads the team with 15.1 ppg, while McMillen has 12.0 ppg, Lambert 11.8 and Perry 9.8. Senior Maddie Cole has 5.7 ppg in conference contests, and is shooting 54.2% (32-of-59) from the floor in the 13 games. Hempfling and Parker each have 4.8 ppg, and Hempfling has team-best averages of 7.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists.
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 MAC play.
A total of 10 different Falcons have made at least one start this season. Cecil is the only player to have started all 24 games.
MCTHRILLEN: MORGAN'S ON PACE TO SHATTER SEVERAL THREE-POINT MARKS
Freshman Morgan McMillen is ranked among the national leaders in multiple three-point field-goal related categories. And, she has a chance to be ranked atop several school lists by season's end.
McMillen has made 78 long-range shots this year to date, tying her for the second-highest single-season total in BGSU history. McMillen is now just 14 three-pointers away from matching the school record of 92, set by Lauren Prochaska in 2009-10.
McMillen has attempted 207 long-range shots this season, the second-highest total in that category in school history, and only two shy of the BGSU single-season record of 209. That mark is currently held by Tracy Pontius (2010-11).
BGSU RECORD BOOK – THREE-POINT FIELD GOALS MADE, SEASON
1. Lauren Prochaska (2009-10)Â 92
2. Angie Farmer (1999-2000)Â Â Â 78
  MORGAN McMILLEN (2018-19)  78
4. Tracy Pontius (2008-09)Â Â Â 77
5. Tracy Pontius (2010-11)Â Â Â 76
6. Lauren Prochaska (2008-09)Â 75
SEE THE THREE, BE THE THREE
The Falcons are currently ranked 16th in the nation in three-point field goals made per game, having hit 9.1 shots from beyond the arc per contest.
And, BGSU is 24th in the land in total three-pointers made (219), 31st in triples attempted (621) and 47th in long-range accuracy (35.3%).
BGSU has made at least three triples in each of the last 67 games.
Individually, freshman Morgan McMillen is 14th in the country in three-pointers made per game (3.25), and she is 18th nationally in total three-pointers made (78) and 21st in long-range shots attempted (207). McMillen has made at least four treys in a game 13 times this year.Â
Junior Andrea Cecil is 20th in the entire nation – and first in the MAC – in three-point percentage, having made 43.2 percent of her long-range tries.
1) GET A STOP, AND THEN 2) GET THE BALL
BGSU is ranked among the nation's top-15 teams in defensive rebounding. The Falcons are currently 13th in the entire country in that category, with 29.5 boards per game at the defensive end. Freshman Kadie Hempfling, who leads BG and ranks fifth in the MAC with 8.2 total rebounds per game, is fourth in the conference with 5.8 defensive caroms per contest.
THREE-MARKABLE
Through the years, BGSU rosters typically have been stocked with players who can score from three-point range. As a team, BG has hit at least four triples in 23 of 24 games this season, and the Falcons have made at least eight treys in 15 contests, including a school record-tying 16 vs. Marshall, 14 vs. Valparaiso and 13 on four other occasions.
In fact, BG has knocked down four or more three-pointers in 137 of the last 146 games, dating to late in the 2013-14 season.
BGSU will be looking to extend a mucho-impressive streak in the Miami melee. The Falcons have hit at least one three-pointer in each of the last 453 games. BG has not been held without a triple in over 14 years – since Feb. 12, 2005, at Akron, when the Falcons won, 61-52, despite going 0-of-13 from long distance.
EYASSES (IT'S THE PLURAL OF EYAS) (LOOK IT UP)
It's a youthful group that has taken the floor for the Falcons this season. A total of six players have seen action in at least 23 of BGSU's 24 games this year to date. That sextet includes one senior, one junior, one sophomore and three freshmen.
The group that has emerged as the top-nine players in Coach Robyn Fralick's rotation consists of three frosh, three sophomores (including one redshirt soph), one junior and a pair of seniors.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE REDHAWKS
Miami has an overall record of 20-4, and the RedHawks are 11-2 in MAC play and atop the East Division. In fact, MU has the top record in the conference, and would be the number-one seed if the MAC Tournament began today. (Narrator: "It does not.") Miami has won 10 consecutive games since a 1-2 start to the league schedule. Eight of the team's 11 league victories have come by single digits, including a 65-56 win at Toledo on Wednesday evening (Feb. 20). The 'Hawks are 9-1 at home and 11-3 on the road this year to date. Lauren Dickerson has 16.4 points per game to pace four double-digit scorers, and she also leads the RedHawks with 5.4 assists per outing. Savannah Kluesner has 14.3 ppg and a team-leading 8.0 rebounds per game. Second-year head coach Megan Duffy's team went 21-11 overall and 12-6 in the MAC a year ago.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Miami, 51-32, in the all-time series between the teams, and BG has won six of the last 11 meetings, but the RedHawks have captured the last four matchups. MU escaped the Stroh Center with an 82-75 victory in this season's first meeting, just two weeks ago (Feb. 9, 2019). In the teams' last encounter in Oxford, the RedHawks raced past the Falcons by a 92-64 count late late season (Feb. 24, 2018). BGSU is 24-15 in home games, 21-16 in road contests and 6-1 in neutral-site events vs. the Redskins/RedHawks over the years.
IT'S ALL RELATIVE
A pair of Miami assistant coaches have relatives with deep BGSU ties. Frank Goldsberry is the father of former Falcon Lindsey Goldsberry. The younger Goldsberry, who played for her dad at Dayton's Chaminade-Julienne H.S., left BGSU as the winningest player in MAC basketball history. The Falcons won 114 games, an average of 28.5 victories per season, during her four years.
Miami assistant Justine Raterman is the younger sister of Jacki Raterman, who earned four letters for the Falcons in the late 1990s. Jacki, who coached her sister at Versailles H.S., still holds the BGSU single-season scoring record, with 20.8 points per game during her senior season of 1998-99.
DOWN THE ROAD
>> Following the Miami game, the Falcons will close out the home portion of the schedule with a pair of games next week. BGSU will host Akron on Wednesday (Feb. 27), in the team's annual Pink Game in support of breast cancer awareness.
>> Then, the Brown and Orange will host Kent State next Saturday (March 2), on Senior Day at the Stroh Center. The UA game begins at 7:00 p.m., with the KSU kerfuffle set for a 1:00 p.m. start.
>> BG then ends the regular season with road contests vs. Buffalo (March 6) and Ohio (March 9).
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Saturday, February 23, 2019 • 2:00 p.m.
Millett Hall • Oxford, Ohio
TELEVISION / VIDEO: ESPN3.com
LIVE STATS: www.MiamiRedHawks.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 closes the regular-season schedule with five consecutive games vs. fellow Mid-American Conference East Division opponents, beginning this weekend. Head coach Robyn Fralick and the Falcons travel to Oxford for a Saturday (Feb. 23) matchup with league-leading Miami University, with tipoff set for 2:00 p.m. at Millett Hall.
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| REMAINING HOME GAMES |
>> Junior Andrea Cecil was named MAC Player of the Week on Tuesday (Feb. 19), then earned MAC Scholar-Athlete-of-the-Week honors a day later. She is averaging 20.3 points and 7.3 over the last four games, while shooting 62.2 percent (28-of-45) from the field, 71.4% (5-for-7) from three-point range and 87.0% (20-of-23) from the free-throw line in that time.
>> Morgan McMillen has made a 78 three-point field goals this season, tying her for the second-highest total in school history. She is 14 successful triples away from tying the BGSU single-season record.
>>Â McMillen has attempted a total of 207 long-range shots this winter, just two shy of matching that BGSU single-season mark.
CLOSE CALLS
A total of 12 of BGSU's 24 games this season have been decided by seven points or fewer. In fact, 10 of BGSU's first 13 MAC games have been within three points with under 12 minutes remaining.
Nine of those 13 contests were within three points at some time in the fourth quarter. And, no fewer than seven MAC matchups – including three of the last four games – have been tied or a one-possession game in the final minute.
TOUGH CROWD
BGSU's remaining opponents have a combined MAC record of 43-22. All five games are against teams with winning overall records – all are 14-10 or better – and only one game comes against a club with a MAC record under .500.
THE FALCONS: A QUICK OVERVIEW
BGSU enters the Miami game with a record of 8-16, and the Falcons are 1-12 in MAC play. BG topped Buffalo – an NCAA "Sweet Sixteen" team a year ago – by a 78-72 score last week (Feb. 13), before dropping a narrow 77-73 decision at Kent State three days later.
As mentioned, seven of BGSU's 12 conference losses have come by seven points or fewer. Ten of the 13 MAC games have been within three points with under 12 minutes remaining; nine were three-point games at some point in the fourth quarter; and no fewer than seven were tied or a one-possession game in the final minute of the fourth quarter.
BGSU's last outing, however, saw Central Michigan take control early, en route to a 92-54 win over the Falcons at the Stroh on Wednesday night (Feb. 20).BGSU is now 6-6 at home, 2-9 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site contests this season.
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.
Four Falcons are scoring in double digits this season. Junior Andrea Cecil leads the way with 15.3 points per contest, and is second on the team with 5.3 rebounds per game. Cecil has had 19 or more points 10 times this year, including an epic 33-point, 10-rebound outing at Eastern Michigan several weeks ago. The junior is shooting 43.2% from three-point land, good for 20th in the country. And, Cecil is 22nd in the nation in free-throw percentage (87.8%).
Freshman Morgan McMillen is scoring 14.3 ppg, and has scored in double digits in 18 of her first 24 career outings. McMillen tied the school single-game record with eight triples vs. Marshall (in her second collegiate game). She is ranked 14th in the nation in three-pointers made per game, and has a total of 78 on the year, tying her for second in school history.
Senior Sydney Lambert is averaging 11.4 ppg, along with 4.3 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game. She is third on the team in boards and three-pointers made (38).
Lambert started every game in her BGSU career prior to missing the Falcons' game at Northern Illinois on Feb. 6. The point guard did not travel to DeKalb due to injury, but she returned to the lineup and played all 40 minutes in the first Miami matchup two weekends ago. Lambert leads the MAC and is 22nd in the nation in minutes per game (36.88).
Sophomore Angela Perry has 11.1 ppg and is shooting 52.3% from the floor. Perry, who has seen action in 20 games, has nearly tripled her point total for all of last season. She has three 20-point games this year to date.
Freshman Kadie Hempfling and sophomore Madisen Parker have 5.4 and 5.3 ppg, respectively. Hempfling averages a BG-best 8.2 rebounds per game, and she has dished out 4.1 assists per game, putting her in a virtual tie for the team lead.
Hempfling has had nine double-digit rebounding totals, including a 16-rebound contest at EMU. In that game, she had 10 offensive boards, becoming only the third Falcon since 1995 to reach that total.
Parker has gone 31-of-83 (37.3%) from three-point land this year, including a perfect 3-for-3 on three occasions this season. She made all three of her long-range attempts en route to a career-high 13 points vs. Miami, then was a perfect 9-for-9 from the free-throw line vs. Buffalo, scoring 12 points in the win over the Bulls.
In MAC games only, three Falcons are scoring in double figures. Cecil leads the team with 15.1 ppg, while McMillen has 12.0 ppg, Lambert 11.8 and Perry 9.8. Senior Maddie Cole has 5.7 ppg in conference contests, and is shooting 54.2% (32-of-59) from the floor in the 13 games. Hempfling and Parker each have 4.8 ppg, and Hempfling has team-best averages of 7.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists.
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 MAC play.
A total of 10 different Falcons have made at least one start this season. Cecil is the only player to have started all 24 games.
MCTHRILLEN: MORGAN'S ON PACE TO SHATTER SEVERAL THREE-POINT MARKS
Freshman Morgan McMillen is ranked among the national leaders in multiple three-point field-goal related categories. And, she has a chance to be ranked atop several school lists by season's end.
McMillen has made 78 long-range shots this year to date, tying her for the second-highest single-season total in BGSU history. McMillen is now just 14 three-pointers away from matching the school record of 92, set by Lauren Prochaska in 2009-10.
McMillen has attempted 207 long-range shots this season, the second-highest total in that category in school history, and only two shy of the BGSU single-season record of 209. That mark is currently held by Tracy Pontius (2010-11).
BGSU RECORD BOOK – THREE-POINT FIELD GOALS MADE, SEASON
1. Lauren Prochaska (2009-10)Â 92
2. Angie Farmer (1999-2000)Â Â Â 78
  MORGAN McMILLEN (2018-19)  78
4. Tracy Pontius (2008-09)Â Â Â 77
5. Tracy Pontius (2010-11)Â Â Â 76
6. Lauren Prochaska (2008-09)Â 75
SEE THE THREE, BE THE THREE
The Falcons are currently ranked 16th in the nation in three-point field goals made per game, having hit 9.1 shots from beyond the arc per contest.
And, BGSU is 24th in the land in total three-pointers made (219), 31st in triples attempted (621) and 47th in long-range accuracy (35.3%).
BGSU has made at least three triples in each of the last 67 games.
Individually, freshman Morgan McMillen is 14th in the country in three-pointers made per game (3.25), and she is 18th nationally in total three-pointers made (78) and 21st in long-range shots attempted (207). McMillen has made at least four treys in a game 13 times this year.Â
Junior Andrea Cecil is 20th in the entire nation – and first in the MAC – in three-point percentage, having made 43.2 percent of her long-range tries.
1) GET A STOP, AND THEN 2) GET THE BALL
BGSU is ranked among the nation's top-15 teams in defensive rebounding. The Falcons are currently 13th in the entire country in that category, with 29.5 boards per game at the defensive end. Freshman Kadie Hempfling, who leads BG and ranks fifth in the MAC with 8.2 total rebounds per game, is fourth in the conference with 5.8 defensive caroms per contest.
THREE-MARKABLE
Through the years, BGSU rosters typically have been stocked with players who can score from three-point range. As a team, BG has hit at least four triples in 23 of 24 games this season, and the Falcons have made at least eight treys in 15 contests, including a school record-tying 16 vs. Marshall, 14 vs. Valparaiso and 13 on four other occasions.
In fact, BG has knocked down four or more three-pointers in 137 of the last 146 games, dating to late in the 2013-14 season.
BGSU will be looking to extend a mucho-impressive streak in the Miami melee. The Falcons have hit at least one three-pointer in each of the last 453 games. BG has not been held without a triple in over 14 years – since Feb. 12, 2005, at Akron, when the Falcons won, 61-52, despite going 0-of-13 from long distance.
EYASSES (IT'S THE PLURAL OF EYAS) (LOOK IT UP)
It's a youthful group that has taken the floor for the Falcons this season. A total of six players have seen action in at least 23 of BGSU's 24 games this year to date. That sextet includes one senior, one junior, one sophomore and three freshmen.
The group that has emerged as the top-nine players in Coach Robyn Fralick's rotation consists of three frosh, three sophomores (including one redshirt soph), one junior and a pair of seniors.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE REDHAWKS
Miami has an overall record of 20-4, and the RedHawks are 11-2 in MAC play and atop the East Division. In fact, MU has the top record in the conference, and would be the number-one seed if the MAC Tournament began today. (Narrator: "It does not.") Miami has won 10 consecutive games since a 1-2 start to the league schedule. Eight of the team's 11 league victories have come by single digits, including a 65-56 win at Toledo on Wednesday evening (Feb. 20). The 'Hawks are 9-1 at home and 11-3 on the road this year to date. Lauren Dickerson has 16.4 points per game to pace four double-digit scorers, and she also leads the RedHawks with 5.4 assists per outing. Savannah Kluesner has 14.3 ppg and a team-leading 8.0 rebounds per game. Second-year head coach Megan Duffy's team went 21-11 overall and 12-6 in the MAC a year ago.
THE SERIES
The Falcons lead Miami, 51-32, in the all-time series between the teams, and BG has won six of the last 11 meetings, but the RedHawks have captured the last four matchups. MU escaped the Stroh Center with an 82-75 victory in this season's first meeting, just two weeks ago (Feb. 9, 2019). In the teams' last encounter in Oxford, the RedHawks raced past the Falcons by a 92-64 count late late season (Feb. 24, 2018). BGSU is 24-15 in home games, 21-16 in road contests and 6-1 in neutral-site events vs. the Redskins/RedHawks over the years.
IT'S ALL RELATIVE
A pair of Miami assistant coaches have relatives with deep BGSU ties. Frank Goldsberry is the father of former Falcon Lindsey Goldsberry. The younger Goldsberry, who played for her dad at Dayton's Chaminade-Julienne H.S., left BGSU as the winningest player in MAC basketball history. The Falcons won 114 games, an average of 28.5 victories per season, during her four years.
Miami assistant Justine Raterman is the younger sister of Jacki Raterman, who earned four letters for the Falcons in the late 1990s. Jacki, who coached her sister at Versailles H.S., still holds the BGSU single-season scoring record, with 20.8 points per game during her senior season of 1998-99.
DOWN THE ROAD
>> Following the Miami game, the Falcons will close out the home portion of the schedule with a pair of games next week. BGSU will host Akron on Wednesday (Feb. 27), in the team's annual Pink Game in support of breast cancer awareness.
>> Then, the Brown and Orange will host Kent State next Saturday (March 2), on Senior Day at the Stroh Center. The UA game begins at 7:00 p.m., with the KSU kerfuffle set for a 1:00 p.m. start.
>> BG then ends the regular season with road contests vs. Buffalo (March 6) and Ohio (March 9).
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