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Monday, March 6
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BGSU Meets Buffalo as MAC Tournament Begins
March 05, 2017 | Women's Basketball
Falcons face the Bulls on Monday night in Western New York
The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team begins postseason play on Monday evening (March 6). Head coach Jennifer Roos and the Falcons head to Western New York to take on the University at Buffalo in Mid-American Conference Tournament first-round action. The Falcons, the number-10 seed for the 12-team tourney, will meet the seventh-seeded Bulls in a 5:30 p.m. start at UB's Alumni Arena.
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BGSU's 2016-17 Notes for All Games
BGSU Women's Basketball Media Guide
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FOLLOW THE FALCONS
>> If you can't make it to the arena on game day, fear not – you can still follow the Falcons via your radio- or computer-like devices.
>> Monday's Buffalo bout will be broadcast by WBGU-FM 88.1, the flagship home of Falcon women's basketball, and will be available over the air or on the web.
>> The UB game is scheduled to be streamed via ESPN3.com. Live stats will also be available, and in-game Twitter updates can be found at @BGSUwbb.
>> To follow the Falcons, simply log on to BGSUFalcons.com and click the 'calendar' link on the day of the game, or navigate your way to the women's basketball page. Any and all available links to ticket information and game coverage will be available there.
THE FALCONS IN THE MAC TOURNAMENT
>> BGSU enters Monday's game with an all-time record of 44-21 in MAC Tournament contests. The Falcons have won 11 league tournament titles, the most of any conference institution, and BG has the highest winning percentage (.677) of any team in league tourney games. BGSU's conference tournament win total places the Falcons second among MAC teams. A complete list of BGSU's game-by-game results in MAC Tournament play can be found on page 22 of the PDF version of these notes.
ALL-TIME MAC TOURNAMENT RECORDS
School        W-L   Pct.  Titles
Bowling Green    44-21  .677   11
Toledo       48-25  .658    7
Kent State     32-26  .552    3
Eastern Michigan  24-21  .533    2
Miami        25-29  .463    2
Central Michigan  26-31  .456    3
Ball State     20-25  .444    1
Western Michigan  21-27  .438    2
Buffalo       12-17  .414    1
Ohio        18-29  .383    2
Akron        12-20  .375    1
Northern Illinois  12-20  .375    0
FALCONS VS. BUFFALO IN THE MAC TOURNAMENT
>> The Falcons and Buffalo have met just once in MAC Tournament play. That meeting came a year ago, in another 5:30 p.m. start on a Monday night in Alumni Arena. The Bulls, seeded eighth for the 2016 MAC Tournament, downed the ninth-seeded Falcons, 60-44, and UB went on to win the conference tourney for the first time in school history. Prior to last year, the Bulls were the only current member of the MAC that BG had never faced in the league tournament. The Falcons' most common MAC Tournament opponent is Toledo, as BG and UT have met 11 times in the postseason. The complete list of BGSU's tournament win-loss records vs. each MAC opponent can be found on page 22 of the PDF version of these notes.
A TRADITION OF SUCCESS
>> Bowling Green has won 14 MAC regular-season championships and 11 league tournament titles, the highest totals among all conference teams. Prior to the injury-plagued season of 2014-15, the Falcons had won at least 20 games in a MAC-record 11 consecutive seasons. BG won at least 24 games in nine-straight seasons during that span, losing just 18 total games in MAC regular-season play during those nine years.
>> The Falcons made 10 consecutive national postseason trips from 2005-14, with five NCAA Championships appearances and five trips to the WNIT during that time. The 2006-07 team was the most successful in MAC history, winning a league-record 31 games en route to an NCAA 'Sweet Sixteen' appearance.
>> Overall, BGSU has won 20 or more games 19 times, the highest total among all Mid-American Conference women's basketball-playing institutions.
THE FALCONS
>> Â The Falcons are 8-22 overall, and BGSU ended the regular season with a record of 4-14 in MAC play. BG finished fifth in the East Division.
>> The Falcons went 3-4 in the month of February, and BG dropped a pair of games to begin March. BG downed Miami, 61-59, in Oxford (Feb. 18), and after falling by a 70-60 score to Kent State at the Stroh Center (Feb. 22), the Falcons bounced back with a 64-62 win at UB (Feb. 25). But, BG began March and ended the regular season with losses at Ohio (79-68; March 1) and at home vs. MU (75-65; March 4).
>> The Falcons went 4-6 vs. East Division foes during the regular season, including a 3-2 mark on the road in intradivisional matchups. One of those two road losses came by two points at KSU, on a jumper with two seconds left, and the other setback, at Ohio on Wednesday, was a two-point game early in the fourth quarter.
>> Sophomore Carly Santoro leads the team in scoring, with 12.1 points per game. Santoro is second on the team in rebounding, with 7.2 boards per contest, and has four 20-point games, including a BG season-high 32 points in the first KSU kerfuffle. She also leads the club with 19 double-digit scoring games and five double-doubles this year to date. Santoro has hit 43 three-pointers to rank second on the club.
>> Fellow sophomore Sydney Lambert has 10.4 ppg to rank second on the team. The point guard leads the Falcons in assists (2.3 apg), steals (1.0 spg) and three-pointers made (69). Lambert has started all 58 of BGSU's games since her arrival on campus.
>> Senior Ashley Tunstall has moved into third on the team in scoring, with 7.2 ppg, and she also ranks third on the Falcons with 5.6 rpg. Tunstall is third on the team with nine double-figure scoring games, including a career-high 20 points on Saturday.
>> Another senior, Abby Siefker, has 6.9 ppg and 7.5 rpg, leading the team in boards and ranking fourth in points. Siefker paces the team in blocked shots (0.7 bpg), and the center is second on the Falcons in assists (1.9 apg). She has scored in double digits seven times this season, and has led the Brown and Orange in assists on 13 occasions.
>> Junior Haley Puk is averaging 6.3 ppg, while freshmen Andrea Cecil and Caterrion Thompson have 4.9 and 4.6 ppg, respectively, and junior Rachel Myers 4.2. Puk is third on the team in three-pointers made (33), while Cecil is second on the club in blocked shots.
>> Lambert, Santoro and Siefker each have started all 30 games this year, while Tunstall has started 29 and Puk 23. Myers started the first seven games of the season, while freshman Clare Glowniak (3.5 ppg, 2.6 rpg) has made one start this year.
SCOUTING BUFFALO
>> Buffalo is 20-9 on the season, and the Bulls finished the regular season with a 10-8 MAC record, good for a third-place finish in the East Division. UB has dropped two of the last three games, including an 80-71 setback at Kent State on Saturday. The Bulls are 12-4 at home, 8-4 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site games this year to date. In MAC action, UB went 5-4, both at home and on the road. JoAnna Smith has 17.1 points per game, and has made a team-leading 83 three-point field goals this year. Stephanie Reid has 11.3 ppg and leads the Bulls with 7.3 assists and 2.0 steals per outing. Head coach Felisha Legette-Jack welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including all five starters, from a year ago. Last year's UB team went 20-14 overall and 8-10 MAC play. The 2015-16 Bulls, seeded eighth for the MAC Tournament, won the tourney title and advanced to the NCAA Championships.
THE SERIES
>> The Falcons lead Buffalo, 25-11, in the all-time series between the teams, and BG captured a win in Western New York just over a week ago (Feb. 25, 2017), with a 64-62 come-from-behind victory at Alumni Arena. That win snapped a six-game winning streak for the Bulls, including a 61-50 UB win at the Stroh Center in this season's first matchup (Jan. 18, 2017). The Falcons had won 20 consecutive games from UB prior to the Bulls' six-game streak. BGSU is 11-5 in home games, 13-6 on the road and 1-0 at neutral sites vs. UB over the years.
UP NEXT
>> The BGSU-Buffalo winner will advance to Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland for quarterfinal-round action in the MAC Tournament. Either the Falcons or the Bulls will face second-seeded Ball State on Wednesday (March 8), in the third game of the day. The MAC Tournament semifinals are scheduled for Friday (March 10) with the championship game set for Saturday (March 11).
FOR MORE INFORMATION...
>> Much, much more information on the Falcons can be found by accessing the PDF version of BGSU's game notes, which can be found near the top of this very page.
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BGSU WOMEN'S BASKETBALL LINKS
GAME NOTES:Â BGSUÂ | Buffalo
BIRD WATCHING: R.Konieczki & S. Lambert
BGSU's 2016-17 Notes for All Games
BGSU Women's Basketball Media Guide
Roos, Falcons Sign Five to National Letters of Intent
BGSUÂ Statistics | Career Stats for Current Falcons
Falcons in Cuba! -- Day One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven
BGSU Women's Basketball on...: YouTube | Twitter
Buy Tickets | Join the Falcon Club Today!
FOLLOW THE FALCONS
>> If you can't make it to the arena on game day, fear not – you can still follow the Falcons via your radio- or computer-like devices.
>> Monday's Buffalo bout will be broadcast by WBGU-FM 88.1, the flagship home of Falcon women's basketball, and will be available over the air or on the web.
>> The UB game is scheduled to be streamed via ESPN3.com. Live stats will also be available, and in-game Twitter updates can be found at @BGSUwbb.
>> To follow the Falcons, simply log on to BGSUFalcons.com and click the 'calendar' link on the day of the game, or navigate your way to the women's basketball page. Any and all available links to ticket information and game coverage will be available there.
THE FALCONS IN THE MAC TOURNAMENT
>> BGSU enters Monday's game with an all-time record of 44-21 in MAC Tournament contests. The Falcons have won 11 league tournament titles, the most of any conference institution, and BG has the highest winning percentage (.677) of any team in league tourney games. BGSU's conference tournament win total places the Falcons second among MAC teams. A complete list of BGSU's game-by-game results in MAC Tournament play can be found on page 22 of the PDF version of these notes.
ALL-TIME MAC TOURNAMENT RECORDS
School        W-L   Pct.  Titles
Bowling Green    44-21  .677   11
Toledo       48-25  .658    7
Kent State     32-26  .552    3
Eastern Michigan  24-21  .533    2
Miami        25-29  .463    2
Central Michigan  26-31  .456    3
Ball State     20-25  .444    1
Western Michigan  21-27  .438    2
Buffalo       12-17  .414    1
Ohio        18-29  .383    2
Akron        12-20  .375    1
Northern Illinois  12-20  .375    0
FALCONS VS. BUFFALO IN THE MAC TOURNAMENT
>> The Falcons and Buffalo have met just once in MAC Tournament play. That meeting came a year ago, in another 5:30 p.m. start on a Monday night in Alumni Arena. The Bulls, seeded eighth for the 2016 MAC Tournament, downed the ninth-seeded Falcons, 60-44, and UB went on to win the conference tourney for the first time in school history. Prior to last year, the Bulls were the only current member of the MAC that BG had never faced in the league tournament. The Falcons' most common MAC Tournament opponent is Toledo, as BG and UT have met 11 times in the postseason. The complete list of BGSU's tournament win-loss records vs. each MAC opponent can be found on page 22 of the PDF version of these notes.
A TRADITION OF SUCCESS
>> Bowling Green has won 14 MAC regular-season championships and 11 league tournament titles, the highest totals among all conference teams. Prior to the injury-plagued season of 2014-15, the Falcons had won at least 20 games in a MAC-record 11 consecutive seasons. BG won at least 24 games in nine-straight seasons during that span, losing just 18 total games in MAC regular-season play during those nine years.
>> The Falcons made 10 consecutive national postseason trips from 2005-14, with five NCAA Championships appearances and five trips to the WNIT during that time. The 2006-07 team was the most successful in MAC history, winning a league-record 31 games en route to an NCAA 'Sweet Sixteen' appearance.
>> Overall, BGSU has won 20 or more games 19 times, the highest total among all Mid-American Conference women's basketball-playing institutions.
THE FALCONS
>> Â The Falcons are 8-22 overall, and BGSU ended the regular season with a record of 4-14 in MAC play. BG finished fifth in the East Division.
>> The Falcons went 3-4 in the month of February, and BG dropped a pair of games to begin March. BG downed Miami, 61-59, in Oxford (Feb. 18), and after falling by a 70-60 score to Kent State at the Stroh Center (Feb. 22), the Falcons bounced back with a 64-62 win at UB (Feb. 25). But, BG began March and ended the regular season with losses at Ohio (79-68; March 1) and at home vs. MU (75-65; March 4).
>> The Falcons went 4-6 vs. East Division foes during the regular season, including a 3-2 mark on the road in intradivisional matchups. One of those two road losses came by two points at KSU, on a jumper with two seconds left, and the other setback, at Ohio on Wednesday, was a two-point game early in the fourth quarter.
>> Sophomore Carly Santoro leads the team in scoring, with 12.1 points per game. Santoro is second on the team in rebounding, with 7.2 boards per contest, and has four 20-point games, including a BG season-high 32 points in the first KSU kerfuffle. She also leads the club with 19 double-digit scoring games and five double-doubles this year to date. Santoro has hit 43 three-pointers to rank second on the club.
>> Fellow sophomore Sydney Lambert has 10.4 ppg to rank second on the team. The point guard leads the Falcons in assists (2.3 apg), steals (1.0 spg) and three-pointers made (69). Lambert has started all 58 of BGSU's games since her arrival on campus.
>> Senior Ashley Tunstall has moved into third on the team in scoring, with 7.2 ppg, and she also ranks third on the Falcons with 5.6 rpg. Tunstall is third on the team with nine double-figure scoring games, including a career-high 20 points on Saturday.
>> Another senior, Abby Siefker, has 6.9 ppg and 7.5 rpg, leading the team in boards and ranking fourth in points. Siefker paces the team in blocked shots (0.7 bpg), and the center is second on the Falcons in assists (1.9 apg). She has scored in double digits seven times this season, and has led the Brown and Orange in assists on 13 occasions.
>> Junior Haley Puk is averaging 6.3 ppg, while freshmen Andrea Cecil and Caterrion Thompson have 4.9 and 4.6 ppg, respectively, and junior Rachel Myers 4.2. Puk is third on the team in three-pointers made (33), while Cecil is second on the club in blocked shots.
>> Lambert, Santoro and Siefker each have started all 30 games this year, while Tunstall has started 29 and Puk 23. Myers started the first seven games of the season, while freshman Clare Glowniak (3.5 ppg, 2.6 rpg) has made one start this year.
SCOUTING BUFFALO
>> Buffalo is 20-9 on the season, and the Bulls finished the regular season with a 10-8 MAC record, good for a third-place finish in the East Division. UB has dropped two of the last three games, including an 80-71 setback at Kent State on Saturday. The Bulls are 12-4 at home, 8-4 on the road and 0-1 in neutral-site games this year to date. In MAC action, UB went 5-4, both at home and on the road. JoAnna Smith has 17.1 points per game, and has made a team-leading 83 three-point field goals this year. Stephanie Reid has 11.3 ppg and leads the Bulls with 7.3 assists and 2.0 steals per outing. Head coach Felisha Legette-Jack welcomed back 10 letterwinners, including all five starters, from a year ago. Last year's UB team went 20-14 overall and 8-10 MAC play. The 2015-16 Bulls, seeded eighth for the MAC Tournament, won the tourney title and advanced to the NCAA Championships.
THE SERIES
>> The Falcons lead Buffalo, 25-11, in the all-time series between the teams, and BG captured a win in Western New York just over a week ago (Feb. 25, 2017), with a 64-62 come-from-behind victory at Alumni Arena. That win snapped a six-game winning streak for the Bulls, including a 61-50 UB win at the Stroh Center in this season's first matchup (Jan. 18, 2017). The Falcons had won 20 consecutive games from UB prior to the Bulls' six-game streak. BGSU is 11-5 in home games, 13-6 on the road and 1-0 at neutral sites vs. UB over the years.
UP NEXT
>> The BGSU-Buffalo winner will advance to Quicken Loans Arena in downtown Cleveland for quarterfinal-round action in the MAC Tournament. Either the Falcons or the Bulls will face second-seeded Ball State on Wednesday (March 8), in the third game of the day. The MAC Tournament semifinals are scheduled for Friday (March 10) with the championship game set for Saturday (March 11).
FOR MORE INFORMATION...
>> Much, much more information on the Falcons can be found by accessing the PDF version of BGSU's game notes, which can be found near the top of this very page.
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