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Bowling Green State University

Northern Illinois

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BGSU faces NIU in a rare mid-February home game

By: by Mike Cihon, BGSU Strategic Communications

BOWLING GREEN VS. NORTHERN ILLINOIS
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 • 7:00 p.m.
Stroh Center • Bowling Green, Ohio
Video: ESPN+ • Audio: BG Falcon Media
Live Stats: BGSUFalcons.com • Twitter: @BGSUwbb

• The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, currently tied for first place in the Mid-American Conference standings, plays just one home game in a 20-day span. That game takes place on Wednesday (Feb. 15), as head coach Robyn Fralick and the Falcons face Northern Illinois University, with tipoff set for 7:00 p.m. at the Stroh Center.

FOLLOW THE FALCONS
• There are multiple ways to keep up with the Falcons in 2022-23...

• TV/VIDEO: Wednesday's NIU matchup will be streamed via ESPN+.
• RADIO/AUDIO: All of BGSU's remaining 2022-23 games, both home and away, are slated to have an audio stream thanks to BG Falcon Media (the Bowling Green Radio Sports Organization [BGRSO]).
• LIVE STATS: Live stats are scheduled to be available for all BGSU games in 2022-23.
• TWITTER: In-game updates, along with key graphics and information, can be found on the BGSU women's basketball twitter account, @BGSUwbb.

• For all of the pertinent links to any and all ways to follow the Falcons, go to BGSUFalcons.com and navigate your way to the "women's basketball schedule" page on game day.

EVENTS, PROMOTIONS AND HAPPENINGS
• Wednesday night's game is Faculty/Staff Appreciation Night at the Stroh. It is also the Falcons' annual Play 4Kay game in support of breast cancer awareness, with fans encouraged to wear pink to the game.

THIS ONE GOES TO 11
• BGSU will put an 11-game winning streak on the line Wednesday night. The Falcons' 75-69 victory at Kent State on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 11) extended the current win streak to 11 games, tied for the 11th-longest streak in school history.

• BG has put together a total of 13 double-digit winning streaks in program history. The complete list follows...
BGSU RECORD BOOK – LONGEST WINNING STREAKS IN PROGRAM HISTORY
Streak Season Notes
25    2008-09   BG lost first 2 games of season, didn't lose again until March
21 1986-87   Falcons, at 6-2, did not lose again until NCAA Tournament
20 1988-89   Final win of streak came vs. Cincinnati in NCAA first round
20 1993-94   Falcons lost MAC opener, then won out until NCAAs
19 2005-06   Included 16-0 league record and three MAC tourney wins
18 2006-07   Part of 24-1 run that took BG all the way to 'Sweet Sixteen'
17 1992-93   BGSU, 8-4, won 14-straight MAC games, 3 more in MAC Ty.
15 2010-11   Bookended by 1-pt. losses on Nov. 12 and Jan. 15
13 2013-14   Streak extended from late January through end of regular season
13 2011-12   Between 2-pt. losses at Creighton (Dec. 18) & Toledo (Feb. 11)
11 2022-23   Current win streak began on Jan. 7
11 2010-11   Came after BG lost 3 of 5 games midway through MAC slate
10 2007-08   Streak spanned all of February and half of March
9 1975-76, 1987-88 and 2022-23 (BGSU has won 20 of the last 21 games)

A B!G WIN AT KSU
• The Falcons' win streak reached 11 games as BGSU picked up a 75-69 victory at Kent State on Saturday (Feb. 11). Elissa Brett scored a game-high 20 points, going a perfect 5-for-5 at the line, and Allison Day and Nyla Hampton joined her in double digits with 17 and 16 points, respectively.

• Day was 7-for-11 from the field, while Hampton went 8-of-10 from the line, including a 4-for-4 performance in the game's final 90 seconds.

• BGSU got key performances from multiple players. Amy Velasco hit a driving layup with 4:01 to go, breaking a Falcon scoring drought. Lexi Fleming had a career-high six steals, including thefts on back-to-back KSU possessions after that Velasco hoop, and after the second, she dished the ball to the onrushing Brett for a three-point play and a 68-61 lead.

• Then, in the final minute of the game, BG used nearly all of the shot clock, and Jocelyn Tate's entry pass found Day for a shot off glass and a 72-66 advantage.

BRETT'S MOVING UP MULTIPLE LISTS
• Fourth-year Falcon Elissa Brett had a game-high 20 points at Kent State on Saturday. She now has a total of 1,137 points in her career, and currently sits in 24th place in BGSU history on the career scoring chart.

• Brett now has 670 rebounds to rank 14th on that career list, and is also 14th in school history with 142 career three-pointers made.

SPEAKING OF LISTS ... THE DOMINANT DOZEN
• There are only 12 players in school history who have scored over 1,000 points AND pulled down more than 650 rebounds in their BGSU careers, and two of those 12 are members of the current team. Elissa Brett and Kadie Hempfling each are part of that exclusive group.

• In addition to Hempfling, that dozen-player list includes BGSU Hall-of-Famers Lori Albers, Angie Bonner, Liz Honegger, Jackie Motycka, Lauren Prochaska and Chris Tuttle, as well as Falcon greats Charlotta Jones, Ali Mann, Andrea Nordmann and Alexis Rogers.

CLEVELAND ROCKS!
• For the Falcons, Saturday's win over Kent State clinched a trip to Cleveland next month. With six games left in the regular season, BGSU can finish no lower than seventh in the MAC standings. The top-eight teams will qualify for the MAC Tournament, which begins on Wednesday, March 8, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

• The Falcons are one win away from clinching a top-four seed for the tournament.

A QUICK LOOK AT THE HUSKIES
• Northern Illinois is 12-11 on the season, and the Huskies are 4-8 in the MAC. NIU won two consecutive games, including an 88-63 drubbing of Akron last Wednesday, before falling by a narrow 72-71 final at Ohio on Saturday.

• Individually, Chelby Koker and A'Jah Davis lead the offense with 15.9 and 15.6 ppg, respectively. Koker also has 3.7 apg, while Davis is averaging a double-double with a MAC-leading 12.3 rpg. Janae Poisson has 10.8 ppg, and Poisson (57) and Koker (49) have combined to make 106 three-pointers this season.

• Head coach Lisa Carlsen's club is 6-4 at home, 5-7 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site games this season. NIU is 3-3 at home and 1-5 on the road in MAC games. Carlsen welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from a 2021-22 team that went 14-15 overall and 11-9 in MAC regular-season play.

THE SERIES
• The Falcons lead NIU, 27-20, in the all-time series, and BGSU has won the last three meetings. Last season, the Falcons picked up a 64-54 win in DeKalb (Feb. 2, 2022) and an 81-52 outcome one week later at the Stroh (Feb. 9, 2022). BG captured this year's first matchup, 66-50, just over two weeks ago (Jan. 28, 2023). Prior to the Falcons' current three-game streak, the Huskies had won six-straight meetings with BG, including a 79-78 thriller at the Convocation Center on Feb. 3, 2021.

• The Falcons are 15-9 at home, 11-11 on the road and 1-0 at neutral sites vs. NIU through the years.

DOWN THE ROAD
• Following Wednesday's NIU matchup, the Falcons will return to the road for the next two games. BGSU will meet Western Michigan on Saturday (Feb. 18), with tipoff set for 12:00 p.m. in Kalamazoo.

• Then, the Orange and Brown will meet Central Michigan in Mount Pleasant next Wednesday evening (Feb. 22), before returning home for a Senior Day matchup vs. Buffalo three days later (Sat., Feb. 25).