Falcons Welcome Lourdes to the Stroh on Sunday Afternoon

Sunday, December 14

Bowling Green, Ohio

2 p.m.

Bowling Green State University

Lourdes

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December 13, 2025 | Women's Basketball

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By: by Mike Cihon, BGSU Strategic Communications

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2025 | 2:00 P.M. | STROH CENTER | BOWLING GREEN, OHIO

BOWLING GREEN
FALCONS
(5-4, 0-0 MAC)

vs.

LOURDES
GRAY WOLVES
(8-0, 5-0 WHAC*)
(* as of Saturday morning)


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WHAT, WHEN & WHERE
• The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after posting record-breaking results in each of the last two games, continues a season-long six-game homestand with a weekend matchup at the Stroh Center. Head coach Fred Chmiel and the Falcons face Lourdes University on Sunday afternoon (Dec. 14), with tipoff set for 2:00 p.m.

• BGSU's current six-game stretch is the longest regular-season homestand in program history.

WHERE TO WATCH / LISTEN
• Sunday's Lourdes game will be streamed via ESPN+, with Brad Woznicki and Samantha Momeyer handling play-by-play and analyst duties. Additionally, all 2025-26 games will have an audio stream as well, thanks to Falcon Media Sports Network. Adam Duffin and Trey Kennedy are scheduled to be on the call Sunday.

STATS & SOCIAL MEDIA
• Links to audio, video and live stats for all 2025-26 games can always be found on the web at BGSUFalcons.com – both on the women's basketball schedule page and in the right column on the main page – on game day.

B!G WINS
• The Falcons have posted record-setting victories in each of the last two games. BGSU picked up a 103-32 win over Kentucky State last Wednesday night (Dec. 3). The 71-point margin of victory was the largest in school history, by 13 points. The previous record was a 58-point win over Taylor, just under 44 years prior to Wednesday's game.

• Then, the Falcons broke that four-day-old record with an 83-point win, topping Defiance by a 118-35 final last Sunday (Dec. 7). The list of largest margins of victory in school history...
B!G WINS: BGSU'S LARGEST MARGINS OF VICTORY
Date Opponent (Site) Margin   Result
Dec. 7, 2025   Defiance (H)    83   W 118-35
Dec. 3, 2025   Kentucky State (H)   71   W 103-32
Dec. 5, 1981   Taylor (N) 58   W 94-36
Feb. 11, 1975 Ohio Northern (H) 52   W 77-25
Dec. 12, 2021 Notre Dame Coll. (H) 52   W 100-48
1973-74 Wayne State (Unknown) 51   W 77-26
Nov. 16, 2024 St. Bonaventure (H) 51   W 92-41
On Four Occasions... 50

CENTURY MARK(S) (AND A STROH RECORD[S])
• In the win over Kentucky State, BGSU reached the 100-point mark for the first time since January of 2023, and the 29th time in school history. Then, of course, the Falcons made it 30 such games with the victory against Defiance.

• BGSU's 103 points vs. the Thorobreds marked the Falcons' highest-ever point total at the Stroh Center, and the highest total in any game in over two decades (since a 115-84 win at then-IPFW in November of 2004). BG had not scored as many as 103 points in a home game in more than 30 years (since a 108-91 win over Kent State in January of 1994 at venerable Anderson Arena).

• Then, BGSU amassed a total of 118 points vs. Defiance, setting a Stroh Center record for the second time in under a week. The 118-point total is the third-highest in school history.

• The school record for points in a game is 127, vs. Valparaiso in January of 1992 at "The House That Roars," and BGSU had a 121-point output in a win over Kent (Feb. 23, 1991) at Anderson.

• The complete list of BG's 100-point games can be found on page 15 of these notes (the PDF version, obviously).

LAST TIME OUT: FALCONS SET MORE RECORDS IN WIN OVER DEFIANCE
• The Falcons broke two Stroh Center records as well as a school record – for the second time in under a week – as BGSU topped Defiance College, 118-35, Sunday afternoon (Dec. 7).

• The Falcons (5-4) broke the Stroh Center record for points in a game, which had been set four days earlier. And, the Orange and Brown set arena and school records for margin of victory – records which had also stood since the previous Wednesday evening.

• All 13 Falcons made at least one field goal and grabbed at least one rebound in the win. Junior Jaedyn Cook had 18 points, more than doubling her previous season-high total. Cook went 6-for-8 from the field and a perfect 6-for-6 from the line. She also had two rebounds, two steals and a block, amassing all of those stats in under 10 minutes of action.

• Both junior Paige Kohler and redshirt junior Jasmine Fearne scored 16 points, with Fearne's total representing a career high. Fearne hit four of the Falcons' 10 three-point field goals in the win.

• Junior Taya Ellis had a double-double, tying her career best with 14 points and setting a new career standard with a game-high 13 rebounds.

• Senior Emily Siesel had a career-high nine points, while freshman Ky'Aira Miller and sophomore Johnea Donahue each scored nine points as well. Miller's total tied her career best, while Donahue also had seven rebounds, four assists and three blocked shots.

• The Falcons took a 33-10 lead after the first quarter, and BGSU was never headed. The lead was 62-21 at the half, and 95-28 after three quarters, and the margin grew to a school-record 83 points in the final minute of the game.

RUNNING WITH THE FALCONS
• In the win over Defiance, the Falcons had a 27-0 run for the second-straight game. Against Kentucky State (Dec. 3), BGSU scored the first 27 points of the game, posting a first-quarter shutout before the Thorobreds got on the scoreboard early in the second period.

• On Sunday, after a pair of Defiance free throws made the score 56-21 with just over a minute remaining in the first half, the Falcons scored the next 27 points, capped by a Jaedyn Cook layup with 3:29 left in the third period. That gave the Falcons an 83-21 advantage before DC's Taylor Haynes hit a jumper with 3:17 remaining in the quarter.

A FEW MORE NOTES FROM THE DEFIANCE GAME
• The Falcons shot 50.6 percent from the field, going 42-of-83. BGSU was 10-of-34 from the arc and 24-of-29 (82.8%) from the stripe.

• BG had a 61-40 rebounding advantage on Sunday, setting a new Stroh Center record for rebounds in a game.

• The Falcons' total of 42 field goals made is tied for seventh in school history, and BG's 61 rebounds is deadlocked for fifth on that school single-game list.

• BGSU blocked nine shots for the second-straight game, which is tied for third on that Falcons single-game chart.

• The Falcons' total of 62 points in the opening half is tied for third on that list. The only higher-scoring halves in program history came against Kent State (66 points on Jan. 11, 1989) and Valparaiso (66 points as well, on Jan. 5, 1992).

• In last Sunday's second game at the Stroh, the BGSU men's basketball team posted a 131-50 win over Aquinas, resulting in the following fun Falcon facts... The BG women had the third-highest point total in program history, but did not score the most points by a BG basketball team on Sunday. And, the Falcon men won by 81 points, but did not post the largest margin of victory by a BG basketball team on Sunday.

BLOCK PARTY
• Junior Taya Ellis has blocked 14 shots in nine games this season to date, and currently leads the MAC in blocks per game (1.56).

• Ellis is rapidly moving up the BGSU career blocks list. She now has 56 rejections in 62 career games, and has moved into a tie for 13th on that BG chart. And, she is currently fourth in school history with 0.90 blocks per game as a Falcon.

• Many BGSU career lists can be found on pages 18-19 of these very notes.

A QUICK LOOK AT THE GRAY WOLVES
• Lourdes is off to an 8-0 start, and the Gray Wolves are 5-0 in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference, heading into a Saturday (Dec. 13) matchup with Aquinas.

• The team's eight wins have been by an average of 30.0 points per game. Kaylona Butler (25.3) and Emma Pedroza (20.8) each are averaging over 20 points per game, and Pedroza also has a team-best 6.8 rebounds per outing.

• Head coach Tandy Bradford and the 2024-25 version of the Gray Wolves went 22-11 overall and 12-8 in WHAC action, winning the first WHAC Tournament title in program history and advancing to the NAIA National Tournament.

THE SERIES
• The Falcons and Lourdes have never met in women's basketball.

DOWN THE ROAD
• Following the Lourdes matchup, the Falcons' six-game homestand will continue with Tuesday's (Dec. 16) meeting with Le Moyne. That game, the Falcons' "School Day" contest, will begin at 11:00 a.m. at the Stroh Center.

• Then, the Orange and Brown will conclude the homestand with the Mid-American Conference opener vs. Kent State on Saturday (Dec. 20). That game is set for a 2:00 p.m. start at the Stroh.

STORIES & LINKS
Nov. 25 - Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum - Walk-on to Captain: Siesel's Patience Pays Off at Bowling Green

FOR MORE INFORMATION...
For more information on BGSU women's hoops, be sure to follow the Falcons on Facebook (@BGWBB), Twitter/X (@BGSU_Athletics and @BGSUWBB) and Instagram (@bgsuwbb), as well as on the web at BGSUFalcons.com.