Sunday, December 11
Johnson City, Tenn.
2:00 PM
Bowling Green State University
at
East Tennessee State
Photo by: Luke Allen, BGSU Athletics
Falcons Fly South For Sunday Battle with Bucs
December 10, 2022 | Women's Basketball
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BGSU faces ETSU as five-game road swing rolls on
BOWLING GREEN at EAST TENNESSEE STATE
Sunday, December 11, 2022 • 2:00 p.m.
Brooks Gym • Johnson City, Tenn.
Video: ESPN+ • Audio: BG Falcon Media
Live Stats: ETSUBucs.com • Twitter: @BGSUwbb
• The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team begins a busy stretch of pre-holiday action with a trip to Johnson City, Tenn. Head coach Robyn Fralick and the Falcons face East Tennesee State University on Sunday (Dec. 11), with tipoff set for 2:00 p.m. at Brooks Gym.
FOLLOW THE FALCONS
• There are multiple ways to keep up with the Falcons in 2022-23...
• TV/VIDEO: Sunday's ETSU game will be streamed via ESPN+.
• RADIO/AUDIO: All BGSU home games and selected road games are slated to have an audio stream thanks to BG Falcon Media (the Bowling Green Radio Sports Organization [BGRSO]).
• LIVE STATS: Live stats are scheduled to be available for all BGSU games in 2022-23.
• TWITTER: In-game updates, along with key graphics and information, can be found on the BGSU women's basketball twitter account, @BGSUwbb.
• For all of the pertinent links to any and all ways to follow the Falcons, go to BGSUFalcons.com and navigate your way to the "women's basketball schedule" page on game day.
WINNING THE TURNOVER BATTLE
• Seven games into the 2022-23 season, the Falcons have been proficient at forcing turnovers by the opponents, while keeping their own turnover total to a relative minimum. BGSU has had fewer turnovers than the opponent in every game this season to date.
• BG has turned the ball over 17 times or fewer in each game, while forcing the opposition into at least 18 turnovers in every game. The Falcons have averaged 12.29 turnovers per contest, while the foes have turned the ball over 22.86 times per game.
• BGSU committed just seven turnovers in the home opener against Wright State, tied for the fourth-lowest single-game total in school history, and the Falcons had just 10 turnovers in the win over Detroit Mercy. Through seven games, the Falcons have outscored the opponents, 149-73, in points off turnovers.
THAT '90S SHOW
• After the 92-61 victory at Valparaiso, the Falcons have now reached the 90-point mark three times in this season's first seven games. BGSU scored 90 or more points a total of four times during all of last season.
• In fact, the Falcons have not reached the 90-point plateau more than four times in a season in over a decade, since the 2010-11 team hit that mark five times.
THE FALCONS – A QUICK OVERVIEW
• The Falcons are 6-1 on the season, and BGSU enters Sunday's game at ETSU on a four-game winning streak. BGSU posted double-digit wins over St. Bonaventure and Wright State to begin the season, before falling to then-#9/12 Indiana, 96-61, in Bloomington. The Falcons have bounced back to win the next four games, including a 100-74 victory at Southern Indiana (Nov. 19) and home wins over Northern Kentucky and Detroit Mercy. BG downed the Norse, 76-68, on Thanksgiving Eve (Nov. 23), before toppling the Titans by a 76-29 count five days later.
• Most recently, the Orange and Brown headed back to Indiana and picked up a 92-61 victory over Valparaiso last weekend (Dec. 2).
• Head coach Robyn Fralick and her staff welcomed back a total of 10 student-athletes from a year ago. That group includes four starters from the 2021-22 season, plus a fifth player who started in 2020-21 before missing all of '21-22 due to injury.
• Last season, the Falcons – despite losing nearly 75 player-games to injury – won 17 games and advanced to national postseason play for the second-straight season. BGSU went 17-16 overall and 10-10 in Mid-American Conference play, and the Falcons were selected to participate in the Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI). BG went 2-1 in that tourney, finishing the '21-22 season with a victory.
• Kadie Hempfling returned for her fifth year with the Falcons after starting all 33 games last winter. Nyla Hampton and Amy Velasco made 32 and 30 starts, respectively, while Elissa Brett started 26 contests in 2021-22.
• BGSU's top-five scorers from a year ago – Hempfling (11.7 ppg), Velasco (10.8), Brett (10.7), Morgan Sharps (9.5) and Hampton (8.4) – all returned. Brett paced last year's team in rebounding (6.0 rpg), while Jocelyn Tate (6.3 ppg, 4.9 rpg) was second on the team in that category.
• Other returnees from last year's squad include Sophie Dziekan (2.5 ppg) and Olivia Hill (0.8 ppg). Jasmine Clerkley played in the first three games of 2021-22 before missing the remainder of the season due to injury, while Lexi Fleming was injured prior to the start of the season and missed the entire '21-22 campaign.
• Fleming was a full-time starter in the 2020-21 season, when she was named MAC Freshman of the Year. She made her return to the floor in the '22-23 opener at St. Bonaventure, and has seen action off the bench in all four games this season.
• Five newcomers, including a pair of transfers, joined the 10 returnees. Allison Day played four seasons at Loyola Chicago, where she started 97 games and had totals of 1,139 points and 645 rebounds.
• Payton Moore is also in her first season with the Falcons, but her fifth as a collegian. Moore played in 78 games, starting 60, at Anderson (Ind.) University, where she had 1,111 career points along with 701 rebounds.
• Three freshman joined the Falcons for the 2022-23 campaign. That group includes Jasmine Fearne (Cairns, Australia), Emily Siesel (New Washington, Ohio) and Jaci Tubergen (Hudsonville, Mich.).
• Seven games into the season, Brett leads the Falcons in scoring, with 14.6 points per game, and she is second on the club in rebounding, at 5.4 boards per contest. Hampton and Sharps have 10.3 and 10.0 ppg, respectively, with Hampton also averaging 2.7 assists and a BG-best 3.4 steals per game. Sharps has hit a team-leading 19 three-pointers and is shooting 45.2 percent from the arc.
• Tate has 9.4 ppg and a BGSU-high 5.9 rpg, while Day has 9.1 ppg and 4.1 rpg to date. Brett, Day, Hampton, Sharps and Tate each have started all seven games this season, and all five are averaging between 21.1 and 26.2 minutes per game.
• Fleming and Velasco have 8.7 and 6.9 ppg, respectively, with Dziekan averaging 6.0 points per contest. Fleming has amassed her points in just 15.5 minutes per game, while Velasco leads the Falcons with 3.3 apg. Dzieken is shooting 67% from the field, having gone 18-for-27 this year to date.
• BGSU is +17.6 in scoring margin, +2.0 in rebounding margin and +10.6 in turnover margin this season to date.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE BUCS
• ETSU is off to one of the best starts in program history, at 8-2 on the season. The Buccaneers, like the Falcons, enter Sunday's game riding a four-game winning streak. ETSU is a perfect 4-0 at home, with victories over Jacksonville State, Morehead State, Vanderbilt and Virginia-Lynchburg at Brooks Gym.
• The Bucs have already topped the win total for all of last season.
• Jiselle Thomas leads the team in scoring, with 14.4 points per game, while Nevaeh Brown has 11.8 ppg. Four players are averaging over five rebounds per contest.
• Head coach Brenda Mock Brown, in her first year at ETSU, has five letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team. The Bucs went 6-22 overall and 5-9 in Southern Conference play in 2021-22.
THE SERIES
• The Falcons lead ETSU, 1-0, in the all-time series, with the lone previous meeting coming last season. Kadie Hempfling had 20 points to pace five double-figure scorers as BGSU picked up a 90-58 win over the Bucs at the Stroh Center (Nov. 11, 2021).
DOWN THE ROAD
• Following the ETSU matchup, the Falcons will return to the state of Indiana, facing IUPUI on Thursday (Dec. 15). Tipoff is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. at IUPUI Gymnasium ("The Jungle").
• Then, the Orange and Brown will fly to Texas for the South Padre Island Classic, where the Falcons' opponents will included UTRGV (Dec. 19) and Texas A&M-Commerce (Dec. 20). BGSU's next home game is scheduled for Dec. 30.
Sunday, December 11, 2022 • 2:00 p.m.
Brooks Gym • Johnson City, Tenn.
Video: ESPN+ • Audio: BG Falcon Media
Live Stats: ETSUBucs.com • Twitter: @BGSUwbb
• The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team begins a busy stretch of pre-holiday action with a trip to Johnson City, Tenn. Head coach Robyn Fralick and the Falcons face East Tennesee State University on Sunday (Dec. 11), with tipoff set for 2:00 p.m. at Brooks Gym.
FOLLOW THE FALCONS
• There are multiple ways to keep up with the Falcons in 2022-23...
• TV/VIDEO: Sunday's ETSU game will be streamed via ESPN+.
• RADIO/AUDIO: All BGSU home games and selected road games are slated to have an audio stream thanks to BG Falcon Media (the Bowling Green Radio Sports Organization [BGRSO]).
• LIVE STATS: Live stats are scheduled to be available for all BGSU games in 2022-23.
• TWITTER: In-game updates, along with key graphics and information, can be found on the BGSU women's basketball twitter account, @BGSUwbb.
• For all of the pertinent links to any and all ways to follow the Falcons, go to BGSUFalcons.com and navigate your way to the "women's basketball schedule" page on game day.
WINNING THE TURNOVER BATTLE
• Seven games into the 2022-23 season, the Falcons have been proficient at forcing turnovers by the opponents, while keeping their own turnover total to a relative minimum. BGSU has had fewer turnovers than the opponent in every game this season to date.
• BG has turned the ball over 17 times or fewer in each game, while forcing the opposition into at least 18 turnovers in every game. The Falcons have averaged 12.29 turnovers per contest, while the foes have turned the ball over 22.86 times per game.
• BGSU committed just seven turnovers in the home opener against Wright State, tied for the fourth-lowest single-game total in school history, and the Falcons had just 10 turnovers in the win over Detroit Mercy. Through seven games, the Falcons have outscored the opponents, 149-73, in points off turnovers.
THAT '90S SHOW
• After the 92-61 victory at Valparaiso, the Falcons have now reached the 90-point mark three times in this season's first seven games. BGSU scored 90 or more points a total of four times during all of last season.
• In fact, the Falcons have not reached the 90-point plateau more than four times in a season in over a decade, since the 2010-11 team hit that mark five times.
THE FALCONS – A QUICK OVERVIEW
• The Falcons are 6-1 on the season, and BGSU enters Sunday's game at ETSU on a four-game winning streak. BGSU posted double-digit wins over St. Bonaventure and Wright State to begin the season, before falling to then-#9/12 Indiana, 96-61, in Bloomington. The Falcons have bounced back to win the next four games, including a 100-74 victory at Southern Indiana (Nov. 19) and home wins over Northern Kentucky and Detroit Mercy. BG downed the Norse, 76-68, on Thanksgiving Eve (Nov. 23), before toppling the Titans by a 76-29 count five days later.
• Most recently, the Orange and Brown headed back to Indiana and picked up a 92-61 victory over Valparaiso last weekend (Dec. 2).
• Head coach Robyn Fralick and her staff welcomed back a total of 10 student-athletes from a year ago. That group includes four starters from the 2021-22 season, plus a fifth player who started in 2020-21 before missing all of '21-22 due to injury.
• Last season, the Falcons – despite losing nearly 75 player-games to injury – won 17 games and advanced to national postseason play for the second-straight season. BGSU went 17-16 overall and 10-10 in Mid-American Conference play, and the Falcons were selected to participate in the Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI). BG went 2-1 in that tourney, finishing the '21-22 season with a victory.
• Kadie Hempfling returned for her fifth year with the Falcons after starting all 33 games last winter. Nyla Hampton and Amy Velasco made 32 and 30 starts, respectively, while Elissa Brett started 26 contests in 2021-22.
• BGSU's top-five scorers from a year ago – Hempfling (11.7 ppg), Velasco (10.8), Brett (10.7), Morgan Sharps (9.5) and Hampton (8.4) – all returned. Brett paced last year's team in rebounding (6.0 rpg), while Jocelyn Tate (6.3 ppg, 4.9 rpg) was second on the team in that category.
• Other returnees from last year's squad include Sophie Dziekan (2.5 ppg) and Olivia Hill (0.8 ppg). Jasmine Clerkley played in the first three games of 2021-22 before missing the remainder of the season due to injury, while Lexi Fleming was injured prior to the start of the season and missed the entire '21-22 campaign.
• Fleming was a full-time starter in the 2020-21 season, when she was named MAC Freshman of the Year. She made her return to the floor in the '22-23 opener at St. Bonaventure, and has seen action off the bench in all four games this season.
• Five newcomers, including a pair of transfers, joined the 10 returnees. Allison Day played four seasons at Loyola Chicago, where she started 97 games and had totals of 1,139 points and 645 rebounds.
• Payton Moore is also in her first season with the Falcons, but her fifth as a collegian. Moore played in 78 games, starting 60, at Anderson (Ind.) University, where she had 1,111 career points along with 701 rebounds.
• Three freshman joined the Falcons for the 2022-23 campaign. That group includes Jasmine Fearne (Cairns, Australia), Emily Siesel (New Washington, Ohio) and Jaci Tubergen (Hudsonville, Mich.).
• Seven games into the season, Brett leads the Falcons in scoring, with 14.6 points per game, and she is second on the club in rebounding, at 5.4 boards per contest. Hampton and Sharps have 10.3 and 10.0 ppg, respectively, with Hampton also averaging 2.7 assists and a BG-best 3.4 steals per game. Sharps has hit a team-leading 19 three-pointers and is shooting 45.2 percent from the arc.
• Tate has 9.4 ppg and a BGSU-high 5.9 rpg, while Day has 9.1 ppg and 4.1 rpg to date. Brett, Day, Hampton, Sharps and Tate each have started all seven games this season, and all five are averaging between 21.1 and 26.2 minutes per game.
• Fleming and Velasco have 8.7 and 6.9 ppg, respectively, with Dziekan averaging 6.0 points per contest. Fleming has amassed her points in just 15.5 minutes per game, while Velasco leads the Falcons with 3.3 apg. Dzieken is shooting 67% from the field, having gone 18-for-27 this year to date.
• BGSU is +17.6 in scoring margin, +2.0 in rebounding margin and +10.6 in turnover margin this season to date.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE BUCS
• ETSU is off to one of the best starts in program history, at 8-2 on the season. The Buccaneers, like the Falcons, enter Sunday's game riding a four-game winning streak. ETSU is a perfect 4-0 at home, with victories over Jacksonville State, Morehead State, Vanderbilt and Virginia-Lynchburg at Brooks Gym.
• The Bucs have already topped the win total for all of last season.
• Jiselle Thomas leads the team in scoring, with 14.4 points per game, while Nevaeh Brown has 11.8 ppg. Four players are averaging over five rebounds per contest.
• Head coach Brenda Mock Brown, in her first year at ETSU, has five letterwinners, including three starters, from last year's team. The Bucs went 6-22 overall and 5-9 in Southern Conference play in 2021-22.
THE SERIES
• The Falcons lead ETSU, 1-0, in the all-time series, with the lone previous meeting coming last season. Kadie Hempfling had 20 points to pace five double-figure scorers as BGSU picked up a 90-58 win over the Bucs at the Stroh Center (Nov. 11, 2021).
DOWN THE ROAD
• Following the ETSU matchup, the Falcons will return to the state of Indiana, facing IUPUI on Thursday (Dec. 15). Tipoff is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. at IUPUI Gymnasium ("The Jungle").
• Then, the Orange and Brown will fly to Texas for the South Padre Island Classic, where the Falcons' opponents will included UTRGV (Dec. 19) and Texas A&M-Commerce (Dec. 20). BGSU's next home game is scheduled for Dec. 30.
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