Falcons Look to Run with the Thorobreds Wednesday Night

Wednesday, December 3

Bowling Green, Ohio

7 p.m.

Bowling Green State University

Kentucky State

Tickets From $8 - $14

Photo by: Drake Harlett, BGSU Athletics

December 02, 2025 | Women's Basketball

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Kentucky State comes to town as season-long homestand continues

By: by Mike Cihon, BGSU Strategic Communications

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2025 | 7:00 P.M. | STROH CENTER | BOWLING GREEN, OHIO

BOWLING GREEN
FALCONS
(3-4, 0-0 MAC)

vs.

KENTUCKY STATE
THOROBREDS
(2-5, 2-3 SIAC)


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WHAT, WHEN & WHERE
• The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team continues a season-long six-game homestand with a midweek matchup at the Stroh Center. Head coach Fred Chmiel and the Falcons face Kentucky State University on Wednesday night (Dec. 3), with tipoff set for 7:00 p.m.

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

WHERE TO WATCH / LISTEN
• Wednesday's Kentucky State contest will be streamed via ESPN+.

• 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 on Wednesday night.

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.

UNPACK THOSE BAGS
• The Falcons definitely racked up the frequent flyer miles during the month of November, as BGSU opened the 2025-26 season with six consecutive games away from home.

• That six-game odyssey included trips to the states of Louisiana, South Carolina (to face the #2/2-ranked Gamecocks), and Wisconsin, before BGSU headed all the way to Alaska for a pair of games in the ASRC/ConocoPhillips Great Alaska Shootout.

• Now, the Falcons play six consecutive home games, the longest regular-season homestand in program history. BGSU defeated Purdue Fort Wayne on Sunday (Nov. 30), and after Wednesday's Kentucky State contest, the Orange and Brown will meet Defiance (Dec. 7), Lourdes (Dec. 14), Le Moyne (Dec. 16) and Kent State (Dec. 20).

• BGSU did play six-straight games at the Stroh during the 2014 calendar year, but the first four came in the WNIT in March of that year, before the Falcons began the 2014-15 regular-season schedule with a pair of November home games.

• Prior to this season, the Falcons' longest-ever regular-season homestand was five games, which occurred on two occasions – Jan. 22 to Feb. 3, 1982; and Dec. 30, 2012, to Jan. 16, 2013.

DONAHUE IS DOMINANT
• Sophomore Johnea Donahue has had several well-rounded games, to say the least, in the early portion of the 2025-26 campaign. Donahue had one of the best games of her young career when the Falcons took on Wisconsin on Nov. 12. The guard set career bests in both points and assists, and stuffed the stat sheet in several other categories as well.

• Donahue led all players in scoring (24), rebounding (six – tied for game honors with Taya Ellis), assists (six) and steals (six). She went 8-for-16 from the field and a perfect 8-for-8 from the free-throw line.

• Two nights later, Donahue again led the Falcons in scoring, with 16 points at Marquette. She added four rebounds and three assists vs. the Golden Eagles.

• Donahue had well-rounded stats lines in each of BGSU's two games in Alaska as well, averaging 12.0 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 4.5 apg and 2.5 spg vs. UC Irvine and Alaska Anchorage.

• And, she scored 12 points and added five boards, five dimes and seven steals against Purdue Fort Wayne on Sunday (Nov. 30). Donahue had a pair of key defensive rebounds as BGSU got back-to-back stops with a one-point lead in the final minute. Then, she made two free throws with 3.5 seconds to go, and deflected a pass to prevent the Mastodons from attempting a game-tying shot.

• Through seven games this season, Donahue is averaging a MAC-leading 3.71 steals per game, and she is ranked among the top-10 players in the conference in scoring, assists, free-throw percentage and assist/turnover ratio as well.

KOHLER NAMED TO PRESEASON ALL-MAC TEAM
• Junior Paige Kohler was named to the 2025-26 Preseason All-Mid-American Conference First Team, which was determined via voting by the league's 13 head coaches.

• Kohler, a native of Olmsted Falls, Ohio (Olmsted Falls), earned All-MAC Honorable mention last season, and also was named to both the Academic All-MAC Team and the Academic All-District® Team, selected by College Sports Communicators. The guard started all 31 games in 2024-25, and averaged 35.0 minutes per contest. She finished second on the Falcons in both scoring and rebounding, with 13.6 points and 4.6 boards per game.

• Kohler made a team-leading 76 three-point field goals last winter, shooting 36.7% from the arc. She averaged 3.58 steals and had a 1.82 assist/turnover ratio, ranking second on the Falcons in both areas. Kohler was second in the entire MAC in both minutes per game and three-pointers made per game (2.5).

• This season, Kohler leads the Falcons in scoring, with 14.6 ppg, and she is second in assists (3.29 apg). Kohler has made a team-leading 14 three-point field goals to date.

• In her first two seasons at BGSU (plus seven games), Kohler has compiled impressive totals of 861 points, 301 rebounds, 246 assists and 130 three-point field goals made. She is currently ranked on the BGSU career lists for points per game (12th, 12.48), assists per game (eighth, 3.57), three-pointers made (18th) and three-pointers made per game (sixth, 1.88).

• Kohler has been in the starting lineup for all 69 of BGSU's games since she arrived on campus.

SPEAKING OF THE STARTING LINEUP
• When BGSU took the court on Nov. 22, a pair of fourth-year Falcons were in the starting lineup for the first time in their respective collegiate careers. Senior Emily Siesel and redshirt junior Jasmine Fearne joined juniors Paige Kohler and Taya Ellis and sophomore Johnea Donahue in the starting five for the Alaska Anchorage game.

• That duo ranked 1-2 on the Falcons in minutes played vs. the Seawolves. Fearne played a total of 34:12, topping her previous career high by nearly eight minutes. Siesel, who had never played more than 21:45 in a game with the Orange and Brown, was on the court for 33:26 at UAA.

• And, the tandem made the most of their time. Siesel scored a career-high eight points, and also set or tied her career bests in rebounds, field goals made and attempted, assists and steals. She had four boards, three dimes and three steals.

• Fearne had nine points for the second-straight night, and tied her career best with four assists vs. UAA.

BLOCK PARTY
• Junior Taya Ellis has blocked seven shots in seven games this season to date. We didn't major in math, but we're pretty sure that works out to roughly 1.00 blocks per game.

• Ellis is rapidly moving up the BGSU career blocks list. She now has 49 rejections in 60 career games, and has moved into a tie for 18th on that BG chart. And, she is seventh in school history with 0.82 blocks per game as a Falcon.

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

PROTECT THE STROH
• The Falcons went 11-2 in home games last winter. BGSU's home winning percentage (.846) in 2024-25 was the third best since the Stroh Center opened 14 years ago.

• The 2013-14 Falcons went 16-1 at home (.941), winning 16-straight games at the Stroh – including three WNIT victories – before losing to Rutgers in a WNIT quarterfinal-round game.

• The 2011-12 club, the first BG team to play at the Stroh, went 14-2 (.875), with the only losses each coming by one point, against #16/20 Purdue in the first women's game in the history of the building, and vs. VCU in the WNIT.

• Over the last five seasons (plus one game), the Falcons have a record of 48-17 (.738) inside the Stroh.

A QUICK LOOK AT THE THOROBREDS
• Kentucky State is 2-5 overall, and the Thorobreds are 2-3 in Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play to date. Wednesday's game at BGSU will count as an exhibition for Kentucky State. Most recently, the Thorobreds suffered a 78-63 home loss vs. Lee on Monday night.

• Individually, Amina Seck and Aaliyah Hayes are averaging 9.9 and 9.7 points per game, respectively. Seck has a team-high 5.9 rebounds per contest as well. A total of 11 different players have started at least one game this season to date.

• Head coach Amani Williams returned six players from a 2024-25 team that went 9-17 overall and 8-11 in SIAC action.

THE SERIES
• The Falcons lead Kentucky State, 1-0, in the all-time series. The lone previous meeting saw BGSU pick up a 74-71 victory over the visiting Thorobreds just over 43 years ago (Nov. 30, 1983) at venerable Anderson Arena. According to the BG News, Cary McGehee led the Falcons with 14 points in the game, while both Sherry Eubanks and Charlene Parrish had 12 points and nine rebounds for coach Kathy Bole's club.

DOWN THE ROAD
• Following the Kentucky State matchup, the Falcons' six-game homestand will continue with a Sunday (Dec. 7) contest vs. Defiance. Tipoff is set for 1:00 p.m. at the Stroh Center.

• Then, the Orange and Brown will play home games against, Lourdes (Dec. 14), Le Moyne (Dec. 16) and Kent State (Dec. 20), with the game vs. the Golden Flashes opening the Mid-American Conference portion of the schedule. BGSU's next road game is Dec. 30 at Eastern Michigan.

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.