Falcons, Huskies Meet in DeKalb & on ESPN3 Wednesday

Wednesday, January 28

DeKalb, IL

8:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

Northern Illinois

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Rachel Konieczki vs NIU - Jan 28 2015 - Garza photo

Rockford, Ill., native Rachel Konieczki & the Falcons prepare to face NIU for the second time in two weeks

Photo by: Bianca Garza, BGSU Marketing and Communications

January 27, 2015 | Women's Basketball

BGSU travels to the next time zone for second matchup with NIU in a two-week span

By: BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSU Athletic Communications)

The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team returns to the road, heading to the Mid-American Conference's 'West Coast' for a midweek matchup. The Falcons of head coach Jennifer Roos travel to DeKalb, Ill., to face Northern Illinois University on Wednesday evening (Jan. 28), with tipoff set for 7:00 p.m. locally (8:00 p.m. ET) at the Convocation Center.

GAME NOTES
BGSU | Northern Illinois

FOLLOW THE FALCONS
If you can't make it to DeKalb on Wednesday, you can still follow the Falcons via your radio or computer machine. The game 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.

Additionally, Wednesday's game will be broadcast on ESPN3, and live stats will be available via NIUHuskies.com. And, in-game twitter updates can be found at @BGSUwbb. To access any and all of these links, log on to BGSUFalcons.com and click the 'calendar' link on the day or the game, or navigate your way to the women's basketball schedule page and bask in the veritable plethora of links.

LAST TIME OUT: KIRKPATRICK, FALCONS GROUND REDHAWKS, 66-53
• Redshirt freshman Kennedy Kirkpatrick more than doubled her previous career-best scoring effort, outscoring Miami by herself in the first half, as the Falcons downed the RedHawks, 66-53, Saturday afternoon (Jan. 24) at the Stroh Center.

• Kirkpatrick scored 18 points to pace four double-digit scorers for the Falcons (9-9, 2-5 MAC). Senior Deborah Hoekstra had a double-double, with 13 points and a career-high 14 rebounds as the Falcons had a 39-32 advantage on the glass, while sophomore Rachel Konieczki and freshman Rachel Myers each chipped in with 10 points.

• Hannah McCue was the lone double-digit scorer for the RedHawks (3-15, 0-7 MAC), leading the visitors with 18 points.

• The Falcons built a 31-9 halftime lead, largely due to an epic stretch of dominant defense. BGSU held Miami scoreless for a span of over 11 minutes in the first half. MU missed 17-straight shots, and BG scored 17-straight points during that time.

• BGSU allowed the RedHawks to shoot just 14.3 percent from the field in that first half, as Miami made only four shots in 28 attempts in the opening 20 minutes.

• The home team built a game-high 24-point lead early in the second period, before the RedHawks began to close the gap. Miami rallied to get as close as eight points midway through the period, and a McCue three-pointer made it a nine-point game with four-and-a-half minutes on the clock, but BG would build the lead back out as high as 16 points, largely by hitting shots from the free-throw line down the stretch.

• The Falcons posted season-high totals for free throws made and attempted, going 27-of-33 (81.8%). BG made 17-of-20 shots from the line in the second half, including 11-of-14 in the game's final three-plus minutes.

• Kirkpatrick's career day saw her go 6-of-8 from the field, including a perfect 2-for-2 from three-point range. She also hit 4-of-5 shots from the free-throw line.

A SCHOOL RECORD (WE THINK)
The Falcons, as mentioned, allowed Miami to score just nine points in the first half of Saturday's game. That total is believed to be the lowest first-half scoring output by a BGSU opponent in the modern era. Please elaborate, you say? Very well...

• A search of all readily available box scores, dating to the start of the 1994-95 season, failed to reveal any other games where BGSU held the opponent to a single-digit scoring output in a half.

• Additionally, a scan of available NCAA records books showed that, as of 2004, the lowest point total by a Division-I team in a half was eight (by Liberty, vs. Radford, in January of 2001).

• So, while it's possible that BG held a non-Division I team to eight points or fewer, and while it's also possible the Falcons limited a D-I foe to exactly nine points on some occasion prior to 1994, we're calling Saturday's performance a school record until proven otherwise.

EVEN IF IT'S NOT A SCHOOL RECORD, NINE POINTS IS IMPRESSIVE
Prior to Saturday, the lowest point total surrendered by the Falcons in a half this season was 16, in BG's game at Milwaukee back on Nov. 22. Believe it or not, the Brown and Orange actually trailed, 16-13, at the half, before rallying to beat the Panthers, 60-50.

KIRKPATRICK KONNECTS
Redshirt freshman Kennedy Kirkpatrick had the best game of her young career to date in Saturday's win over Miami. Kirkpatrick scored 18 points, more than double her previous career best, on 6-of-8 shooting from the field. The Lawrence, Kansas, native was a perfect 2-for-2 from three-point range, and also had four rebounds and three assists. Some of Kirkpatrick's career-best totals on Saturday...
Category     vs. MU   Previous Career Best
Points         18     8 at Illinois State
Rebounds        4     2, on three occasions
FG Made         6     3, on three occasions
FG Attempted    8     7, on two occasions
3-Pt. FG Made   2 *   2 at Illinois State
Minutes        26 *   26 at Eastern Michigan
* tied career best

FRESHMEN STEP UP
Redshirt freshman Kennedy Kirkpatrick, as mentioned above, had a career-best 18 points in the Falcons' win over Miami. Kirkpatrick's performance came one game after true freshman Rachel Myers exploded for 21 points, the highest total of her young career, at Western Michigan.

HALFTIME SCORE: KP 13, MU 9
Redshirt freshman Kennedy Kirkpatrick outscored the RedHawks by herself in the first half, coming off the bench to score 13 points as BG built a 31-9 lead at the intermission. Kirkpatrick's previous career best was eight points in a game, but she had scored nine points within seven minutes of checking into Saturday's game for the first time. Her first two points came exactly eight seconds after she entered the game, and she then scored the game's next two points to give BG the lead for good.

DEFENSIVE DOMINANCE
• The Falcons built that 31-9 halftime lead vs. Miami largely on the strength of a dominant defensive performance. BGSU held MU scoreless for a span of over 11 minutes in the first half. The RedHawks missed 17-straight shots, and BG scored 17-straight points during that time.

• Miami went scoreless on 16 consecutive possessions during that 17-0 BG run. The Falcon defense held the RedHawks to a 'one-and-done' on 14 of those 16 trips down the floor, forcing a missed shot and getting a defensive rebound in each case. Miami got a total of two offensive boards during that time, but missed a second shot attempt on one possession and committed an offensive foul on the other.

• BG allowed the RedHawks to shoot just 14.3 percent from the field in the opening half, as MU made only four shots in 28 attempts in the opening 20 minutes.

YOUNGSTERS FUEL THE RUN...
Freshmen and sophomores combined to score all 17 points during BGSU's first-half run on Saturday vs. Miami. Redshirt freshman Kennedy Kirkpatrick led the way with nine points during that span – as many points as MU scored during the entire half – while sophomore Rachel Konieczki and freshman Sarah Baer scored three points apiece and freshman Haley Puk two during that time.

...AND KIRKPATRICK PLAYS A BIG ROLE
With 13:10 remaining in the first half of Saturday's Miami contest, redshirt freshman Kennedy Kirkpatrick checked into the game for the first time. Just eight seconds later, Kirkpatrick scored on a pull-up jumper, beginning BG's 17-0 run. After entering the game, Kirkpatrick was directly involved in the scoring of the game's next 14 points, scoring nine points herself and assisting teammates for two other buckets, including a three-pointer.

D IS FOR DEBORAH, AND FOR DOUBLE-DOUBLE
Senior Deborah Hoekstra scored 13 points and pulled down a game- and career-high 14 rebounds in BGSU's win over Miami Saturday (Jan. 24). Hoekstra now has four career double-doubles, with all four coming this season. In fact, all of them have been in the month of January, as Hoekstra has had four double-doubles in the last six games.

DOUBLE(-DOUBLE) TROUBLE
BGSU players have had eight double-doubles this season, including five in the first seven MAC games. Senior Deborah Hoekstra has four career double-doubles, all coming in a six-game span. That came after junior Miriam Justinger recorded the first double-double of her career in the MAC opener vs. Ball State. Redshirt junior Erica Donovan is the only other member of the 2014-15 roster to have recorded a double-double in college. Donovan's six career double-doubles included three in this season's first eight games.
BGSU DOUBLE-DOUBLES IN 2014-15
• Erica Donovan vs. UC Irvine – Nov. 28 – 13p, 12r
• Donovan vs. Cincinnati – Dec. 7 – 17p, 10r
• Donovan at Illinois State – Dec. 19 – 20p, 15r
• Miriam Justinger vs. Ball State – Jan. 3 – 16p, 10r
• Deborah Hoekstra at Akron – Jan. 7 – 12p, 12r
• Hoekstra vs. Northern Illinois – Jan. 14 – 14p, 10r
• Hoekstra at Eastern Michigan – Jan. 17 – 14p, 10r
• Hoekstra vs. Miami – Jan. 24 – 13 p, 14r

HOEKSTRA'S A REBOUNDING MACHINE
• Less than a month ago, senior Deborah Hoekstra had never had more than six rebounds in a game. Over the last eight games, however, the guard has had at least eight rebounds seven times, and has AVERAGED 9.4 boards in that time. Hoekstra has set or matched her career rebounding best four times in that eight-game span, including three times in as many games. She had a then career-high nine rebounds at FIU in the final non-conference game, then pulled down nine more boards vs. Ball State in the MAC opener, and set a new career best with 12 boards at Akron. Hoekstra also had eight caroms at Kent State, 10 against both Northern Illinois and Eastern Michigan and a career-high 14 boards on Saturday vs. Miami.

• Hoekstra is averaging 6.0 rebounds on the year. In MAC play, Hoekstra is nearly averaging a double-double, with 11.6 points and a team-high 9.4 rebounds per game through six contests. Hoekstra – again, a guard – is tied for fourth in the MAC in rebounding in conference games.

TAKE SOME, THEY'RE FREE: BGSU IS SECOND THE NATION IN FT PCT.
• As of Monday night (Jan. 26), the Falcons were ranked second in the entire nation in free-throw percentage. Heading into Wednesday's NIU game, BGSU is shooting 78.6% (254-of-323) from the charity stripe. Iowa State leads the nation with a 78.7% success rate. The BGSU single-season record for FT percentage is 79.9% by the 2010-11 team.

• The Falcons' 78.6% free-throw rate is impressive, to be sure, but BG is shooting an eye-popping 82.9% as a team in MAC games. Through the first seven conference contests, BGSU has made 92-of-111 shots from the stripe.

• BG set a Stroh Center record for free-throw percentage by shooting 92.3% in the Ball State game, and the Falcons were an identical 12-of-13 at Akron as well. After going 7-for-9 at Kent State, BGSU hit 19-of-23 (82.6%) shots from the line against Northern Illinois and 9-of-10 tosses at Eastern Michigan. BG hit only 6-of-10 tosses at WMU, but rebounded with a 27-of-33 (81.8%) performance vs. Miami. The Falcons have made at least 70% of their free throws in 16 of this year's 18 games, including 10 of the last 11 contests.

• Individually, senior Deborah Hoekstra is second in the MAC and 12th in the entire nation in free-throw percentage. Hoekstra has gone 49-of-55 at the stripe this season, good for a success rate of 89.1%.

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the NIU game with an overall record of 9-9, and BGSU is 2-5 in Mid-American Conference play after a 66-53 win over Miami at the Stroh Center on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 24).

• After winning four-straight games prior to Christmas, BGSU then dropped five consecutive contests, the program's longest slide since the 2000-01 season. The Falcons snapped that streak with a 65-59 win over NIU at the Stroh on Jan. 14, but then lost at Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan before downing MU.

• After opening the season with a one-point loss to Bucknell, BGSU bounced back with three-straight wins, beginning with a convincing 80-59 home victory over Iona. The Falcons went on the road and downed Milwaukee, then headed to the left coast and topped UC Irvine before suffering a narrow loss to Loyola Marymount. The latter two games came at the DoubleTree LA Westside Thanksgiving Classic, hosted by LMU.

• The Falcons returned home and posted a 66-55 win over Cincinnati, the team's lone home game in a month-and-a-half span, to begin a four-game winning streak. Road wins over Saint Francis (Pa.), Illinois State and Bradley followed, but two players suffered season-ending injuries in the ISU game.

• The Brown and Orange dropped a pair of games just after the Christmas holiday in Miami, Fla., against Hampton and the host school at the FIU Sun & Fun Classic. BG opened MAC play with a 62-50 loss to Ball State at the Stroh Center, then – with just seven players in uniform – fell by a 67-59 score at Akron, before suffering a 55-48 setback at Kent State.

• Redshirt junior Erica Donovan and freshman Lauren Webb were injured in that Illinois State game. Both are expected to miss the remainder of the 2014-15 season. Donovan was the Falcons' leading scorer and rebounder at the time of her injury, with 15.3 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. She had 20 points in each of her last two games, vs. SFU and ISU, with a career-high 15 boards in the latter contest.

• Sophomore Abby Siefker and redshirt freshman Leah Bolton are expected to miss the rest of the season as well. Bolton saw action in the Falcons' exhibition game on Nov. 7, but did not play in a regular-season game in 2014-15.

• Siefker started the first 12 games of the season, and averaged 5.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. She was second on the team in rebounding behind Donovan, and led the Falcons in blocked shots, with 1.0 rejections per game.

• Two Falcons – junior Miriam Justinger and sophomore Rachel Konieczki – have started all 18 games this season to date. Senior Deborah Hoekstra, after coming off the bench for the first 83 games of her BGSU career, has started the last 12 games, while freshman Haley Puk has made nine starts and classmate Rachel Myers and senior Jasmine Matthews six apiece. Freshman Sarah Baer made her first collegiate start in the Miami game.

• Hoekstra leads the active Falcons in scoring, with 10.9 points per game, while Justinger and Myers have scored 9.5 and 8.3 ppg, respectively. Myers scored a career-high 21 points at Western Michigan last Wednesday. Konieczki has 6.7 points per contest, with Puk averaging 5.3 ppg to date.

• Hoekstra is averaging 6.0 rebounds per game, tops among the members of the active roster, and she has 9.4 rpg in MAC play. Justinger has 5.4 rpg this season to date. Hoekstra has posted double-doubles in four of BG's last six games, after Justinger had her first career double-double in the MAC opener vs. Ball State.

• Justinger has 2.3 assists per game to pace the Falcons in that category, while Konieczki has 1.6 assists and Hoekstra 1.3 helpers per contest. Redshirt freshman Kennedy Kirkpatrick also has 1.3 assists per game. Kirkpatrick scored a career-high 18 points in Saturday's win over Miami.

• Hoekstra has 1.3 steals per game, leading BGSU in that category, while Koneczki and Justinger have 1.1 and 1.0 spg, respectively. None of the active Falcons have blocked more than five shots this season.

• BGSU is shooting 36.6 percent from the field, 31.1% from three-point range and 78.6% from the free-throw line through 18 games. The Falcons' opponents have shot 39.5% from the floor, 26.8% from the arc and 64.7% from the stripe.

• The Falcons have averaged 6.5 three-pointers made this year, including a season-high 11 at EMU. Hoekstra has hit 29 triples to lead the way, while Myers has knocked down 27 long-range attempts, including a career-high four treys against both Akron and WMU. Puk has connected 16 times from beyond the arc, Justinger 14 and Konieczki 13.

• Hoekstra, Justinger, Konieczki, Myers and Puk each have seen action in all 18 games, while Kirkpatrick has played in 17 games and Baer 14. Matthews has played in 11 games this season, but has missed seven of the last 12 contests due to injury.

• Senior Erica Fullenkamp joined the team on Jan. 8, and made her BGSU women's basketball debut six days later vs. Northern Illinois. She has played in each of the last four games, averaging 1.3 rebounds in 5.5 minutes per outing. Fullenkamp earned four letters on the Falcon volleyball team at BG.

• In MAC games, Myers leads the team with 12.0 ppg, with Hoekstra and Justinger averaging 11.6 and 10.4 ppg, respectively. Hoekstra, as mentioned, also has 9.4 rpg to lead the Falcons in that category, and she also leads BG in steals and blocked shots in MAC games. Justinger has 5.7 rpg and 2.0 apg in conference contests, and Myers has hit a team-leading 15 three-point field goals vs. MAC foes. BGSU is shooting 82.9% from the free-throw line in MAC games, having made 92-of-111 shots from the stripe.

• The Falcons returned six letterwinners, including two starters (Donovan and Justinger), from a 2013-14 team that won 30 overall games and captured a MAC regular-season title with a 17-1 league ledger. BGSU won the East Division crown, and the Falcons had the best overall record in MAC play for the eighth time in the last 10 seasons. The division title was the program's ninth in that 10-year span.

• Last year's edition of the Brown and Orange advanced to national postseason play for the 10th consecutive March, winning three games in the WNIT before falling in the quarterfinal round to eventual tourney champion Rutgers. BGSU won more than 20 games for the 11th consecutive year.

• In addition to the six returnees, head coach Jennifer Roos and her staff – assistant coaches Jesse Fleming, Jacey Brooks and Sahar Nusseibeh and director of operations Monique Rosati – also added six players with freshman status on the roster. The 12-player active roster at the start of the 2014-15 season included two seniors, two juniors, two sophomores, two redshirt freshmen and the four true frosh.

THE STARTING FIVE
Last season, head coach Jennifer Roos used a total of three different starting lineups over the 35-game schedule. But, this year's version of the Falcons now has utilized five different lineups, as freshman Sarah Baer made her first collegiate start against Miami. Junior Miriam Justinger and sophomore Rachel Konieczki are the only two players to have started all 18 contests for the Brown and Orange this year to date. Nine different Falcons now have started at least one game this season.

THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS HUSKIES
Northern Illinois enters Wednesday's game with an overall record of 6-10 on the season, and the Huskies are 2-4 in MAC play. NIU is looking to snap a two-game losing streak, including a narrow 47-43 loss at Buffalo on Saturday. The Huskies are a perfect 2-0 at home in conference play this year to date, with wins over Eastern Michigan and Kent State in DeKalb. Overall, NIU is 4-1 at home, 1-8 on the road and 1-1 in neutral-site games. Individually, senior guard Amanda Corral leads the team in scoring, with 14.2 points per game, and she also has 5.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game to rank second on the Huskies in both categories. Sophomore guard Ally Lehman has 9.1 ppg and a team-leading 8.1 rpg, and she also paces the team in assists (3.6 apg). Freshman forward Kelly Smith and senior forward Jenna Thorp have 7.4 and 6.8 ppg, respectively, with senior guard Danny Pulliam averaging 5.9 ppg to date. Last year, head coach Kathi Bennett's team went 11-19 overall and 6-12 in the MAC. Bennett welcomed back eight letterwinners, including all five starters, from the 2013-14 club.

THE SERIES
• The Falcons lead Northern Illinois, 23-12, in the all-time series between the teams, and BGSU has won the last 13 meetings. Just two weeks ago (Jan. 14, 2015), the Brown and Orange downed the Huskies, 65-59, at the Stroh Center, as Deborah Hoekstra had a double-double to lead three Falcons in double figures in the scoring column.

• BGSU is 14-5 in home games (including 3-0 at the Stroh Center), 8-7 on the road and 1-0 in neutral-site contests vs. the Huskies through the years.

• In last season's lone matchup, BG used a late first-half run to take a 15-point halftime lead en route to a 57-44 win at the Stroh (Jan. 26, 2014).

• BGSU's last trip to DeKalb saw the Falcons hit five-straight three-point tries to begin the game, a 60-49 win over the Huskies two years ago (Feb. 16, 2013).

• NIU's last win over the Falcons was an epic, four-overtime affair at Anderson Arena nearly 11 years ago. The Huskies pulled out a 102-97 decision after 60 minutes of action at "The House That Roars" on Feb. 18, 2004.

• Jennifer Roos is 3-0 against NIU as a collegiate head coach. That record does not include a 2012 win over the Huskies, when she was serving as interim head coach of the Falcons.

FALCONS LIKE THEIR #MACTION
Since Jennifer Roos became head coach prior to the 2012-13 season, the Falcons have a record of 30-11 in MAC regular-season games. BGSU has won those 30 games by an average of 17.1 points per game, and the Falcons' MAC losses have been by 9.6 ppg. Twenty-four of the 30 wins have been by double digits, with just five of the 11 losses coming by 10 points or more.

FALCONS VS. THE MAC
The Falcons continue to own the best record in MAC history. Entering the NIU game, BGSU has an all-time record of 392-158 (.713) in MAC regular-season contests, for the most wins and highest winning pct. of all league institutions. And, BG leads the series with all 11 MAC foes, making the Falcons the only team in the league, obviously, with a winning series record against every other school. BG also has the most overall victories (755) and highest overall winning percentage (.653) of any conference school.

THE FALCONS ARE/WERE ...
• 9-9 this season, after posting a 30-5 overall record last winter;
• 2-5 in MAC play. BG was 17-1 in the MAC in 2013-14, winning a division title for the ninth time in a 10-season span;
• 321-117 since Jennifer Roos came to BGSU in the summer of 2001;
• 166-52 in MAC games in that time:
• 300-82 over the last 11-plus years, with 2013-14 marking BG's MAC-record 11th-straight season of at least 20 wins;
• a staggering 279-72 in the past 10-plus years, with no fewer than 23 wins in each of the 10 seasons and eight MAC overall regular-season titles (2004-10, 2012 and again in '14, plus an East Division crown in '11);
• an eye-popping 256-64 overall, and 130-23 in the MAC regular season, in the last nine-plus years, with at least 24 wins in each of those nine seasons;
• a superb 228-61 in the last eight-plus years, including a 114-23 league ledger;
• a/an (insert your own adjective here) 197-57 overall, and 99-22 in MAC regular-season games, in the last seven-plus seasons, since Monique Rosati came to the BGSU program;
• 171-49 overall and 86-19 in MAC action over the last six-plus winters;
• 142-44, including a 71-18 MAC ledger, in the last five-plus seasons;
• 115-37 overall and 57-16 in the MAC in the last four-plus years;
• 87-32 overall, and 44-13 in MAC action, since seniors Deborah Hoekstra and Jasmine Matthews first put on a BGSU uniform;
• 63-25 overall and 30-11 in league play since Jennifer Roos became head coach, junior Miriam Justinger joined the Falcons' roster, and redshirt junior Erica Donovan transferred to BG;
• 39-14 since Donovan and sophomores Rachel Konieczki and Abby Siefker began their BGSU playing careers, and redshirt freshmen Leah Bolton and Kennedy Kirkpatrick came to campus;
• 153-28 in the last 181 games vs. MAC foes (regular-season and tournament);
• A perfect 67-0 when shooting 50 percent or better from the field since 2001;
• 256-13 when having a better FG percentage than the opposition in that time, including a 128-3 mark in the last six-plus seasons;
• 245-44 when making more free throws than the opponent in the Roos Assistant-Coach/Associate-Head-Coach/Interim-Head-Coach/Head-Coaching Era;
• 208-26 when outrebounding the opponent in that 13-plus-year span;
• 76-8 in MAC home games in the last 10-plus seasons;
• 61-16 in MAC road games over the last nine-plus years;
• 20-5 in the MAC Tournament in the last 10 years, with five titles (2005, '06, '07, '10 and '11), an additional championship-game appearance (2009), and trips to the semis in 2008, 2012 and 2014;
• 44-19 overall in the MAC Tournament since it was instituted in 1982;
• 21-7 at Gund/Quicken Loans Arena, the site of the MAC Tournament;
• 52-7 in all non-conference home games since the start of the 2003-04 season;
• 10-17 in 17 national postseason appearances (including a 3-11 record in the NCAA Championships and a 7-6 mark in WNIT trips);
• 9-10 in national postseason action since Roos arrived at BG (including a 2-5 mark in the NCAAs and a 7-5 record in the WNIT); and
• 47-10 in the Stroh Center, with seven losses coming by a total of 17 points.

THREE FOR ALL
• The Falcons have made 6.5 three-point field goals per game this year to date, ranking second in the MAC. In conference play, the Falcons have hit 7.4 treys per contest. BGSU has made at least four three-pointers in each of this season's 18 games.

• In fact, the Falcons have hit at least four triples in 29-straight games against MAC foes. The last time BG failed to make four three-pointers against a conference opponent came on March 6, 2013, when the Falcons went 2-of-18 from long distance in a road win over Kent State.

THREE-MARKABLE
BGSU made five three-point field goals in the Miami game. The Falcons now have hit at least one three-pointer in each of the last 329 games. BG has not been held without a triple in nearly 10 years – since Feb. 12, 2005, at Akron, when the Falcons won, 61-52, despite going 0-of-13 from long distance.

UP NEXT
• Following the NIU game, the Falcons will play back-to-back games at the Stroh Center for the first time since mid-November. BGSU will host Toledo on Saturday (Jan. 31), with tipoff at 4:00 p.m. Then, the Brown and Orange will host preseason MAC favorite Central Michigan on Wednesday, Feb. 4.