Falcons Open 2025-26 Campaign With Statement Win Over Texas State

Monday, November 3

Bowling Green, Ohio

7 p.m.

Bowling Green State University

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Texas State

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Texas St.

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Photo by: Jake Neary, BGSU Athletics

Falcons Open 2025-26 Campaign With Statement Win Over Texas State

November 03, 2025 | Men's Basketball

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Mayar Wol Perfect From The Field, Scores 19 Off The Bench

By: by Kyle Edmond, BGSU Athletics

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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University men's basketball team began the 2025-26 season with an 83-48 victory over the Texas State Bobcats at home Monday night (Nov. 3). The Falcons' effort was ignited by an 18-0 run that spanned across the half, closing out the first half with a 7-0 run and starting the second 11-0. The strong second half start sparked a 43-19 half in favor of the Falcons, recording the win with the 83-48 final. For BGSU, the win begins the year 1-0 while also being 3-0 at home in the MAC-Sun Belt Challenge over the last three seasons.

Mayar Wol led the BGSU effort, scoring 19 points off the bench while being perfect from the field. Javontae Campbell followed by stuffing the stat sheet with 15 points, a team-high seven rebounds, a team-high five assists and a team-high four steals. In total, the Falcons had five double-digit scorers while 14 different players saw the court.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Troy Glover II started the scoring for the season, getting a layup to fall for the Falcons. He later added two at the line for a 4-0 start to the season on his own. Texas State added a layup for a 4-2 score at the first media timeout of the game.
Javontae Campbell matched a Texas State bucket at the timeout, beginning a back-and-forth. Campbell lobbed a layup to Mayar Wol the next time down, making it an 8-8 tie.
Bowling Green began a three-point barrage with Campbell, Josiah Shackelford and Wol hitting triples on consecutive possessions, building a 17-12 lead at the under-12 media timeout.
Out of the break, a 5-0 run for Texas State tied it up at 17-17, but the Falcons answered. Makhi Leach dropped his first collegiate points with a three before another Wol layup, forcing a Bobcat timeout, trailing 22-17.
The 5-0 runs continued, this time for Texas State, tying it up at 22-22. Wol hit another three, giving BGSU the lead back. A Justin Thomas layup followed, but the Bobcats stayed in step for a 27-27 score.
From there, BGSU put together a 6-0 run with two Glover layups separated by a Campbell jumper. Texas State slammed a dunk, but two at the line from Wol answered the tallies. Campbell later added two at the line of his own.
Shackelford closed out the first half scoring, hitting a three with less than a second left in the half for a 40-29 BGSU advantage at the halftime whistle.
The first points of the second half came for BGSU with Campbell swiping a steal and scoring in transition with a layup. Shackelford followed with a jumper before a fastbreak layup from Towns off a Thomas dish made it a 6-0 run to start the half, a 13-0 run across the halftime break and a 46-29 lead to force a timeout from the Bobcats.
The run continued after the timeout with a layup from Shackelford through contact. A free throw from Wol preceded a second-chance layup from Campbell for a 51-29 lead with an 18-0 run before the first Texas State points of the half.
Glover traded points with the Bobcats, including a huge dunk, for a 55-33 score at the under-12 media timeout.
Two at the line for Texas State cut into the score, but a second-chance layup from Towns matched the points. Javon Ruffin followed with back-to-back threes, book-ending a layup for the Bobcats.
The Falcons kept it going from deep with a three from Wol before a layup from Texas State for a 66-39 score at the under-8 media break.
Wol drilled another three after the timeout, his fourth of the night, to push the BGSU lead to 69-41. Ruffin later went to the line, sinking all three attempts for a 72-41 advantage.
Campbell and Ruffin added layups after a Texas State and-one opportunity for a 76-44 score at the final media timeout.
The Falcons and Bobcats traded points in the final few minutes. Ruffin added a breakaway dunk before layups from Leach and Mohamed Maxamud. Alijah Adem closed out the scoring with a made free throw for an 83-48 final.

STAT LEADERS

Mayar Wol: 19 points, 6-of-6 from the field, 4-of-4 from three, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal
Javontae Campbell: 15 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals
Javon Ruffin: 13 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 3 steals
Troy Glover II: 12 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 2 blocks
Josiah Shackelford: 10 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal

FALCON STAT FACTS

With the win, the Falcons start the 2025-26 campaign with a 1-0 record. BGSU is now 3-0 when hosting games as part of the MAC-Sun Belt Challenge.
Bowling Green has now won their home opener in six of the last seven seasons.
Mayar Wol erupted off the bench for the Falcons, scoring a team-high 19 points while shooting a perfect 6-for-6 from the field, including a perfect 4-for-4 from three.
Javontae Campbell picked up where he left off last season in the steals category. After posting a program-record 90 steals last year, Campbell swiped four for the Falcons against the Bobcats. Campbell filled up the stat sheet, finishing with 15 points while leading the team in rebounds (7), assists (5) and steals (4).
Troy Glover II posted a strong night for the Falcons, registering 12 points, four rebounds and the team's two blocks. Glover now has 998 career points at the collegiate level, nearing 1,000.
Javon Ruffin registered 13 points for BGSU, including two threes, while swiping three steals. Josiah Shackelford posted a similar line with 10 points, including a pair of threes, on top of five rebounds.
During the Coach Simon Era of BGSU basketball, the Falcons have now held opponents under 60 points 11 times with an 11-0 record in such games.
The game marked the first time since Nov. 11, 2024 that BGSU held an opponent below 50 points, keeping Taylor to just 43. The Falcons have now held an opponent under 50 points in the season opener in two of Coach Simon's three seasons, holding Chicago State to 41 in 2023-24.
Leading wire-to-wire, the Falcons are now 31-0 under Coach Simon when leading with two minutes to go in the game and 30-1 when leading with five minutes remaining.
The win is the first for BGSU over Texas State in program history, giving the Falcons wins over 268 different opponents in the history of the program.
Makhi Leach, Camden Karel, Christian Dedivanaj and Alijah Adem all made their collegiate debuts in the game. Leach scored five points and Adem scored one. Karel added an assist while Dedivanaj tallied two rebounds.
Mohamed Maxamud also saw action for the Falcons, scoring his first two points in the Orange and Brown.

QUOTE FROM COACH SIMON
"A fun opening night. I thought this group had been practicing for an outing like this. The two exhibitions I thought really played into this. We played some really hard competition, some really physical teams. We know what our calling card is. I thought we were gritty for 40 minutes. I thought guys fought, competed, they were connected. The ball was free flowing. I think the guys really just wanted to compete and win on every possession and it was great. I mean, 11 times we got three stops in a row, five guys in double figures, we were plus-11 on the glass, forced 18 turnovers, seven guys with multiple defensive rebounds. So, a lot of the things that we value this group embodied and it was fun to see it in action. Texas State is very well coached, they do a really good job and they're going to have a really good season. So, I was proud of our guys' effort."

UP NEXT
The Falcons will remain at home for their next two games, hosting both Bethany College and Le Moyne. BGSU and Bethany College will square off on Thursday (Nov. 6) with a 7 p.m. tip. Bowling Green will transition to facing Le Moyne on Sunday (Nov. 9) for a 2 p.m. start inside the Stroh Center.

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