Memorable 2020-21 Season Comes to an End

Monday, March 22

Rockford, Ill.

4:00 PM CT (5:00 PM ET)

Bowling Green State University

21-8,14-4MAC

Drake

18-12,13-5MVC

Bowling Green

Drake

Clare Glowniak Kenzie Lewis v EMU - March 10 2021

Photo by: Scott W. Grau

March 22, 2021 | Women's Basketball

Box Score BGSU-Drake Stats Coach Fralick Postgame Interview

Falcons fall, 78-68, to Drake in the WNIT

By: by Mike Cihon, BGSU Athletics

ROCKFORD, Ill. – The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team saw the 2020-21 season come to an end on Monday (March 22), as Drake University downed the Falcons, 78-68. The game, BGSU's third contest in the 2021 Postseason WNIT, was held at the UW Health Sports Factory

Madisen Parker had 14 points to pace four double-digit scorers for the Falcons (21-8 [14-4 MAC]), with Elissa Brett and Nyla Hampton adding 12 and 11, respectively. Clare Glowniak converted a three-point play in the final minute to give her 10 points vs. the Bulldogs.

Drake (18-12 [13-5 MVC]) got 17 points and 12 rebounds from Grace Berg, while Maggie Bair had 16 points and Maddie Monahan 10.

The Bulldogs had a 43-33 rebounding advantage, and had 44 points in the paint to the Falcons' 24.

NOTE OF THE DAY
• Coming off of a 10-win season, the Falcons were picked to finish 11th in the 12-team Mid-American Conference race in 2020-21. BGSU proceeded to win 21 games and a MAC regular-season title, and the Falcons advanced to national postseason play for the first time in seven years.

FIRST QUARTER
• The Bulldogs took the lead with a layup right off of the opening tip, but Olivia Trice, making her first collegiate start, hit a three-pointer, and a Kenzie Lewis free throw gave the Brown and Orange a 4-2 lead.
• Elissa Brett's nifty pass resulted in a Kadie Hempfling layup, but a trailing three-pointer was followed by a transition layup to give the Bulldogs a 9-6 advantage.
• Hampton pulled up for a jumper in the paint, but a pair of buckets inside gave DU a 14-8 advantage. When Maggie Bair hit a layup moments later, the Bulldogs had a 9-0 run and an 18-8 lead.
• After a nifty move, Clare Glowniak scored inside to end the run. Then, after a a Hampton free throw, Glowniak took a Trice pass and knocked down a jumper. Then, Brett's 'extra pass' resulted in a corner three by Madisen Parker, and the Falcons were back within two points after a quick 8-0 run.
• But, a putback by Monica Burich ended that run, and Grace Berg then made a three-pointer for a 23-16 Drake lead. Lewis, however, hit a shot at the stripe, and Hempfling stole the ball, drove downcourt and made an acrobatic spin-a-rama banker as the horn sounded, cutting BG's deficit to 23-19.

SECOND QUARTER
• Parker scored five-straight points for the Falcons, with a jumper followed by a three-pointer, and when Lewis made a Euro-step layup, BG had a 26-24 lead.
• A Hampton floater restored the Falcons' two-point lead moments later, but the Bulldogs scored the next five points, and after Hempfling found a cutting Macy Spielman for a layup, Sarah Beth Gueldner's second three-pointer in as many possessions gave DU a 34-30 lead.
• Parker answered with another triple, but a Berg layup began a 6-0 Drake run to end the half, and a pair of Berg charity tosses gave DU a 40-33 lead at the half.
• Parker scored 11 points in the opening half, going 4-for-4 from the field, including three shots from the arc.

THIRD QUARTER
• Drake hit a three-ball on the first possession, but Lewis grabbed a rebound and found Hampton for a contested layup in transition, and Hampton then knocked down a pair of free throws. A three-point play gave the Bulldogs a nine-point lead, before a Hampton steal resulted in a Hempfling runout that that made it a 46-39 game.
• Hampton hit a floater, and when Parker faked a three to get her defender in the air, then made a triple, BG was within five at 50-45. Brett drilled a short-corner jumper moments later, but a steal and layup by Maddie Monahan and a pair of Bair free throws made it a nine-point game once again.
• When Maggie Negaard hit a layup, the Bulldogs led by 10, before Glowniak's bucket in the waning seconds of the quarter cut BG's deficit to 58-50.

FOURTH QUARTER
• A Drake layup opened the fourth-period scoring, but Trice's three-point play got the Falcons within seven. But, after a few minutes of back-and-forth play, a Taylor McAulay layup restored DU's 10-point lead, and Courtney Becker then hit a corner three. BG trailed, 66-53, and the Falcons used a timeout with 6:09 to go.
• Out of that timeout, Hempfling drove and kicked the ball to Brett for a three-pointer, and after a Drake layup, Lewis made a pair of charity tosses. But, back-to-back layups gave the Bulldogs a 72-58 lead with four minutes to go.
• Brett hit a corner three, and the Australia native grabbed an offensive board and hit a reverse layup, but the Falcons could not cut into the DU lead.
• With 20.2 seconds to go, Glowniak made an and-one turnaround floater, and her free throw gave her 10 points on the afternoon/evening and capped the game's scoring.

STATS, NOTES & NUMBERS
• Sophomore Olivia Trice made the first start of her collegiate career on Monday evening.
• Drake had a slim edge in field-goal percentage, shooting 44.8% from the floor to BGSU's 41.7%. BG went 7-for-18 from the arc (38.9%) while DU was 6-of-18 (33.3%).
• Free-throw numbers were also similar, as BG was 11-of-16 and Drake 12-for-17
• In addition to her 11 points, Nyla Hampton had four assists, three steals and a career-high three blocked shots.
• Kenzie Lewis had seven points and a BG-best nine rebounds vs. the Bulldogs.
• Kadie Hempfling and Trice each had six points. Hempfling added four boards, four assists and a steal, while Tries had five rebounds, one assist and a pair of steals.
• Clare Glowniak was 4-for-5 from the floor en route to her 10-point performance, and had a rebound and a block in just over 10 minutes of action.
• Mari Hill played just over three minutes and had a +4 plus/minus rating.

UP NEXT
• Monday's contest was the final game of the 2020-21 season for both the Falcons and the Bulldogs.
• For BGSU, four of the 15 student-athletes on the roster participated in Senior Day festivities this year. But, it is quite possible that a non-zero number of those players will take advantage of the extra year of eligibility available to them due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Check BGSUFalcons.com for all of the latest news and updates re: the 2020-21 Falcons.

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