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1 Falcons at Marshall Wed., Feb. 25, BOWLING GREEN Women s Basketball BGSU (15-9, 8-5) AT MARSHALL (14-10, 6-7) GAME #25 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, :00 PM HENDERSON CENTER (9,043) HUNTINGTON, W.VA. RADIO: WBGU-FM (88.1) SERIES: BGSU LEADS, 8-3 LAST MEETING: MARSHALL 69, AT BGSU 50 (FEB. 26, 2003) FALCON SCHEDULE NOVEMBER 22 at Youngstown State + L, DETROIT (DH) W, Flint Hills Resources Islander Classic 28 vs. SE Missouri State W, at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi L, DECEMBER 3 at Bucknell + W, IPFW (DH) + W, OAKLAND + L, at IUPUI + L, EKU Comfort Suites Classic 29 at Eastern Kentucky + W, vs. Morehead State + W, JANUARY 3 CLEVELAND STATE (DH) + W, BALL STATE *+ L, at Northern Illinois *+ W, AKRON *+ W, CENTRAL MICHIGAN *+ W, at Toledo *+ W, at Eastern Michigan *+ L, BUFFALO (DH) *+ W, FEBRUARY 3 at Miami *+ L, WESTERN MICHIGAN *+ W, at Ohio *+ W, at Central Michigan *+ W, NORTHERN ILLINOIS *+ L, (4-OT) 21 KENT STATE (DH) *+ L, at Marshall *+ 7:00 29 at Ball State *+@ Noon MARCH 2 TOLEDO *+ 7:00 6 MAC Tournament First Round &+ 10 MAC Tournament Quarterfinals $ 12 MAC Tournament Semifinals $ 13 MAC Tournament Championship $ * Mid-American Conference game (DH) part of doubleheader with BGSU men s team & at campus sites + live broadcast on WBGU-FM MAC TV Game of the Week $ at Gund Arena; Cleveland, Ohio All HOME contests played at Anderson Arena FALCON PROBABLE STARTERS * F 14 Carin Horne (5-10 Fr. Lima, Ohio) 7.7 ppg, 3.5 rpg F 22 Ali Mann (6-1 Fr. Chelsea, Mich.) 11.8 ppg, 7.9 rpg C 13 Liz Honegger (5-11 Fr. Lafayette, Ind.) 10.8 ppg, 7.5 rpg G 10 Stefanie Wenzel (6-0 Sr. Sussex, Wis.) 14.9 ppg, 4.8 rpg G 12 Lindsay Austin (5-7 Sr. Cincinnati, Ohio) 10.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 5.4 apg OFF THE BENCH G 3 Marisa Smith (5-10 So. Arnold, Pa.) 0.9 ppg, 0.2 rpg G 4 Julie Gompers (5-6 Fr. Wheeling, W. Va.) 0.8 ppg, 0.8 apg G 21 Casey McDowell (5-7 R-So. Hudson, Ohio) 2.6 ppg, 1.4 apg G 24 Tene Lewis (5-8 Jr. Southfield, Mich.) 1.2 ppg, 1.0 rpg F 25 Kelly Kapferer (6-2 R-Jr. Jefferson, Ohio) 4.1 ppg, 2.5 rpg F 42 Sakima Smith (6-0 Jr. Detroit, Mich.) 0.4 ppg, 1.0 rpg F 44 Megan Thorburn (6-1 Fr. Mason, Mich.) 7.2 ppg, 3.2 rpg C 55 Jill Lause (6-2 So. Dublin, Ohio) 1.5 ppg, 1.1 rpg * Based on last game s starters The Bowling Green State University women s basketball team, after a pair of narrow home Mid-American Conference losses, now must hit the road for the next two games, beginning Wednesday (Feb. 25)... the Falcons of third-year head coach Curt Miller head to the state of West Virginia to face Marshall University... the game, which will be broadcast on student station WBGU-FM (88.1), will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Cam Henderson Center (9,043). Following the MU game, the Falcons will return to intra-divisional competition, facing Ball State University in a Sunday (Feb. 29) game at Worthen Arena (11,500)... the Falcons and Cardinals will meet in a noon start, and the game will be televised on Fox Sports Net Ohio as part of the MAC TV package... BGSU then returns home to close the regular season with a contest vs. the arch-rival University of Toledo on Tuesday, March 2, at venerable Anderson Arena (4,700)... tipoff for the Senior Night game is at 7:00 p.m.... BGSU has clinched at least a home game for the first round of the MAC Tournament, and the Falcons are still in contention for a first-round bye. WENZEL REACHES 1,000-POINT PLATEAU On Saturday (Feb. 21), Falcon senior Stefanie Wenzel became the 17th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point plateau for her career... Wenzel hit the millennium mark by converting a three-point play with 11:09 left in the second half of the Kent State game... she now has a career total of 1,001 points, ranking her 17th on the BGSU career scoring list of those points have come since her freshman year, an average of 12.1 points per game over the last two-plus seasons... the lone returnee to have averaged double digits in scoring in each of the last two years, Wenzel had 15 games of 10 or more points last year, the most among returning Falcons... she has topped that total this season, with double-digit efforts in a team-high 21 of BGSU s 24 games, including in each of the last seven contests... over the last month, Wenzel has upped her career scoring average into double figures, and she now averages 10.4 ppg through 96 career games.

2 2 BGSU Falcon Women s Basketball Notes THE BGSU-MU SERIES GAME-BY-GAME RESULTS BGSU 68, Marshall 50 & 2/12/76 at BGSU 72, Marshall 71 2/18/77 BGSU 60, at Marshall 57 1/24/98 BGSU 86, at Marshall 81 2/18/98 at BGSU 86, Marshall 69 1/30/99 at BGSU 70, Marshall 57 2/2/00 at Marshall 69, BGSU 59 2/17/01 at BGSU 90, Marshall 73 1/26/02 at BGSU 76, Marshall 52 2/16/02 at Marshall 56, BGSU 43 2/26/03 Marshall 69, at BGSU 50 & Midwest Regional (Normal, Ill.) DOUBLE-DOUBLES, SEASON Season (# of gms.) # Leader (23) 20 7-Mann; 5-Austin (28) 4 2-Francine Miller (28) 6 2-Kelly Kapferer, 2-Stefanie Wenzel (29) 5 2-Pam Brown (28) 11 9-Francine Miller (27) Jacki Raterman (29) Charlotta Jones (28) Charlotta Jones (27) 9 6-Charlotta Jones (27) 14 4-Charlotta Jones, 4-Michelle Shade (30) 12 6-Lori Albers, 6-Talita Scott (30) 13 5-Lori Albers, 5-Andrea Nordmann (28) 15 7-Andrea Nordmann (29) 8 6-Andrea Nordmann (31) 14 8-Angie Bonner (31) 13 6-Angie Bonner ABOUT THE FALCONS BGSU enters Wednesday s Marshall game with an overall record of 15-9, and the Falcons are 8-5 in MAC play... BG, having surpassed last year s win totals by three games, has clinched a winning regular-season record for the first time in six years... the Falcons, after beginning the month of February with a two-game stretch against the league s divisional leaders, then returned from a two-game road swing with a pair of wins... after a loss at East-leading Miami (Feb. 3), the Falcons rebounded for a win over the other divisional leader, Western Michigan (Feb. 7)... then, the Brown and Orange picked up victories at Ohio (76-55; Feb. 11) and Central Michigan (69-51; Feb. 14)... most recently, however, the Falcons dropped a pair of home games a four-ot game to Northern Illinois, (Feb. 18) and Saturday s (Feb. 21) loss to Kent State... despite the losses, BG has won eight of the last 12 games, all in MAC play... since Christmas, the Falcons have captured 11 of 16 contests... the Falcons total of eight league wins includes four road victories, at NIU (66-58; Jan. 10), Toledo (57-54; Jan. 21), Ohio and Central. Senior Stefanie Wenzel leads the Falcons with 14.9 points per game, and is averaging 4.8 rebounds per contest... four freshmen are ranked among the top-six in the Falcons balanced scoring attack... one of those freshmen, Ali Mann, has 11.8 points and 7.9 rebounds, leading BG in rebounding and ranking second in scoring... Mann has a BGSUhigh seven double-doubles on the year... another frosh, Liz Honegger, has 10.8 points and is second on the Falcons in rebounding, with 7.5 boards per game... Honegger also leads the Brown and Orange with 1.6 blocked shots per outing. Senior Lindsay Austin has 10.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and team-leading totals of 5.4 assists and 2.6 steals... Austin, who had a school-record 10 steals at Miami, has five doubledoubles this year (three points-rebounds, one pts.-assists and one pts.-steals)... freshman Carin Horne has 7.7 points and 3.5 caroms on the year, while classmate Megan Thorburn is averaging 7.2 points... junior Kelly Kapferer and sophomore Casey McDowell average 4.1 and 2.6 points, respectively, off the bench. BGSU ended the season with a record of 12-16, and the Falcons finished the MAC campaign with a 5-11 league record... the Falcons tied for sixth in the MAC s West Division last year... in , head coach Curt Miller s Falcons returned six letterwinners from that team, including a pair of senior co-captains in starters Austin and Wenzel... in addition, the Falcons also welcomed back two juniors, Tene Lewis and Sakima Smith, along with a pair of sophomores in Jill Lause and Marisa Smith. The Falcons also had nine newcomers when practice commenced in October, including Kapferer and McDowell... Kapferer earned two letters at BGSU before sitting out last season, while McDowell sat out last year at BG after transferring from Indiana State... the freshman class consists of Amber Flynn (Cincinnati, Ohio), Julie Gompers (Wheeling, W.Va.), Honegger (Lafayette, Ind.), Horne (Lima, Ohio), Mann (Chelsea, Mich.), Kim Nowakowski (Butler, Pa.) and Thorburn (Mason, Mich.)... Nowakowski has been sidelined due to injury, and will redshirt the season. On the sidelines, Miller is joined by third-year assistants Jennifer Roos and Brandi Poole... Kevin Eckert is in his second season on the Falcon staff. Austin and Wenzel each have started all 24 games, while frosh Honegger and Mann have started 23 and Thorburn Horne has started the last seven contests, while Kapferer has made a pair of starts this winter. The Falcons are shooting.408 from the field this season, including a.324 rate from threepoint land, and.749 from the free-throw line... the opponents have shot.389 from the floor,.340 from the arc and.697 from the line to date. BGSU is 7-4 at home, 6-5 in road games and 2-0 in neutral-site contests this year... in league play, the Falcons are 4-3 at Anderson Arena and 4-2 away from home... last season, BG went 6-6 at home, 5-9 on the road and 1-1 on neutral courts... in MAC contests, the Falcons finished 4-4 at home and 1-7 away from Anderson in BGSU Falcon Women s Basketball Notes

3 Falcons at Marshall Wed., Feb. 25, SCOUTING MARSHALL Marshall enters Wednesday s game with an overall record of and a MAC mark of the Thundering Herd has won two of the last three games, including a win over visiting Northern Illinois Sunday (Feb. 22)... Marshall is now 7-4 at the Henderson Center this year, including 2-3 in MAC action... the NIU game snapped a three-game home losing streak for the Herd... individually, sophomore guard Sikeetha Shepard-Hall leads the team with 10.4 points per game, while senior F/C Catie Knable has 9.8 points and a team-high 9.5 rebounds... sophomore guard Mary Pat Statler has 7.4 points, while freshman guard Teyonka Hodge has 6.5 points and team-leading averages of 3.2 assists and 2.0 steals... junior guard Kim Griffin has 6.3 points per game... no fewer than 13 different players have started at least one game this season... Griffin, Knable, Shepard-Hall, senior forward Nadia Swanigan (4.1 ppg) and junior guard L erin Scott (1.6 ppg) comprised the starting lineup on Sunday for coach Royce Chadwick... Chadwick welcomed back six letterwinners, including two starters, from last year s team that went overall and 7-9 in MAC action... Chadwick has a record of in his third season in Huntington... he is in his 20th season as a collegiate head coach... the school s athletics web site is THE BGSU-MARSHALL SERIES The Falcons lead Marshall, 8-3, in the all-time series between the teams, but the Thundering Herd has won the last two meetings and three of the last five contests... BGSU holds a 5-3 lead since the Herd returned to the MAC prior to the season... the Falcons and Marshall are 2-2 in games in Huntington, with MU holding a two-game home winning streak... last year, the Herd came to Bowling Green and gave the Falcons their worst home loss of the season, (Feb. 26, 2003)... in the last matchup at the Henderson Center, MU posted a win over the Brown and Orange (Feb. 16, 2002)... after three of the first four series meetings were decided by five points or fewer, none of the last seven have been closer than 10 points. MAC SERIES INFORMATION The Falcons lead the all-time series with 10 of the 12 MAC opponents, and one other series is tied... BG s win over Buffalo (Jan. 31) evened that series at the Falcons trail only one MAC school, as Northern Illinois holds a series lead over BGSU. MAC TOURNAMENT PICTURE If the regular season ended today, the Falcons would be the fifth seed for the MAC Tournament, and would open tourney play with a first-round home game vs. #12 Akron... according to the MAC s weekly release, BGSU has clinched at least a topeight seed and a home berth for the first round... the Falcons are still in the race for a bye... the top-three seeds in the conference tourney will earn first-round byes, with the division winners earning the first and second seeds... the team with the best record among the remaining 11 schools will earn the third seed and the final firstround bye... the fourth through eighth seeds for the tournament will host first-round contests on Saturday, March 6... following the first-round contests, the five winners will join the top-three seeds at Cleveland s Gund Arena for the quarterfinals on Wednesday, March the semifinals and championship are scheduled for March 12 and 13, respectively... to follow is a look at the conference record of each school, along with their remaining regular-season games... School W-L Remaining Games Miami 12-1 vs. Ball State, vs. Buffalo, vs. Kent State Eastern Michigan Kent State 9-4 Western Michigan 9-5 vs. Central Michigan (Tuesday), vs. Toledo Bowling State, vs. Toledo Toledo 7-6 Ball State vs. Illinois Marshall 6-7 vs. BGSU, vs. Ohio, vs. Akron Ohio 5-8 vs. Northern Illinois 5-9 vs. Central Michigan, vs. Ball State Buffalo vs. Ohio Akron 2-11 vs. Kent Central Michigan vs. EMU MAC STANDINGS (as of Tuesday, Feb a.m.) WEST DIVISION MAC OVERALL--- STANDINGS W-L Pct. W-L Pct. Eastern Michigan Western Michigan Bowling Green Toledo Ball State Northern Illinois Central Michigan EAST DIVISION MAC OVERALL--- STANDINGS W-L Pct. W-L Pct. Miami Kent State Marshall Ohio Buffalo Akron MAC RESULTS & SCHEDULE Sat., Feb. 21 Kent State 71, at Bowling Green 62 Buffalo 61, at Akron 54 Ohio 74, at Western Michigan 72 Miami 81, at Central Michigan 77 (OT) at Eastern Michigan 84, Ball State 74 Sun., Feb. 22 at Marshall 58, Northern Illinois 55 Tue., Feb. 24 Central Michigan at Western Michigan, 7:00 Wed., Feb. 25 Bowling Green at Marshall, 7:00 Akron at Toledo, 7:00 Ball State at Miami, 7:00 Buffalo at Kent State, 7:00 Eastern Michigan at Ohio, 7:00 Sat., Feb. 28 Kent State at Akron, 7:00 Central Michigan at Northern Illinois, 2:05 CT Buffalo at Miami, 2:00 Ohio at Marshall, 1:00 Toledo at Western Michigan, 2:00 Sun., Feb. 29 Bowling Green at Ball State, Noon (MAC TV)

4 4 BGSU Falcon Women s Basketball Notes HEAD COACH CURT MILLER Curt Miller is in his third season at the helm of the Falcons, looking more and more like a candidate for Coach-of-the-Year honors with every passing week. Miller, named the seventh head coach in the program s history on May 8, 2001, came to BGSU from Colorado State University, where he spent the previous three years as associate head coach. Last season, the Brown and Orange went overall. After posting the most successful nonconference season in over a decade, the Falcons in BGSU s first season in the MAC s West Division amassed a 5-11 league ledger that included a win over the division s co-champion. The Falcons posted a 9-19 overall record in Miller s first season at the helm. Despite the loss of Preseason All-MAC Team member Francine Miller for all but four games, BGSU went 6-10 in league action and featured a much-improved defense from recent years. Miller s Falcons had a field-goal pct. defense of.400, the lowest in a decade and the fourth-lowest in school history. BGSU s preparation was evident in the Falcons quick starts, particularly in conference contests. BG led at halftime in all eight MAC home contests in , and in six of the eight games last year, a statistic which can be attributed in no small part to Miller s coaching preparations and game plans. During the season, Miller was listed as one of the top 10 assistant coaches in the country in an article in the Women s Basketball Journal, as voted by his peers. Miller, a native of Girard, Pa., had ties to Ohio and the MAC as well, prior to his appointment at BGSU. He graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, and spent a year as a graduate assistant at Kent State University, where he was a volunteer coach on Bob Lindsay s women s basketball staff. Miller helped Colorado State to an overall record of over his three seasons there. The Rams, guided by head coach Tom Collen, a 1977 BGSU graduate, finished with a 25-7 record in CSU won the Mountain West Conference Tournament and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Prior to Colorado State, Miller spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Syracuse University ( ). The Orangewomen shared the Big East Conference championship during the season. Miller was an assistant coach at Cleveland State University, and was the youngest top assistant in the country upon his hiring in As mentioned, Miller began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Kent State in , helping the Flashes to a record and the second-best turnaround in the nation, with a 12-game improvement over the previous year. Miller received his Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education and business administration from Baldwin- Wallace in He has taken courses toward his Master of Arts degree in sports administration at KSU. LAST TIME OUT Visiting Kent State used a game-ending 14-2 run to post a road win over the Falcons Saturday afternoon (Feb. 21) at Anderson Arena... BG has lost back-toback games for the first time since December... La Kia Stewart led the Flashes with a double-double off the bench, scoring 15 points and grabbing 10 rebounds... three other KSU players joined her in double digits, as Lindsay Shearer had 12 points and Malika Willoughby and Melissa DeGrate 10 apiece... for the Falcons, freshmen Carin Horne and Ali Mann each had double-doubles for the second consecutive game... both players had 15 points, with Mann grabbing a game- and career-high 16 rebounds and Horne corralling eight of Mann s boards came at the offensive end of the floor... senior Stefanie Wenzel had 10 points, and became the 17th player in school history to reach the 1,000-point career plateau... the Falcons struggled offensively, shooting just.258 from the floor in the first half and.300 for the game... BGSU made only four three-point field goals in 29 attempts on the day... by contrast, KSU s.410 field-goal percentage included a 6- for-12 performance from three-point land... the Brown and Orange fell behind by eight points, 14-6, with five minutes gone, but slowly battled back... BGSU used a 7-0 run, with a Liz Honegger triple bringing the Falcons within a point and two Megan Thorburn free throws putting the Falcons up, 20-19, with 7:33 left... the lead changed hands several times before a Willoughby trey with 53 seconds on the clock gave the Flashes a halftime lead... in the second half, the Falcons did not lead in the first eight minutes... but, a pair of free throws by junior Kelly Kapferer tied the score with 11:58 left, and a Horne layup gave the Falcons a lead just 23 seconds later... an Andrea Csaszar three-point play gave KSU the lead again, but Wenzel duplicated that feat at the other end.... the free throw to cap that play was her 1,000th career point, and put the Falcons up by a count... a Horne trey put the Brown and Orange ahead by five, and her layup with 8:52 left gave the hosts a lead... the teams traded points over the next few minutes, with a Honegger layup restoring BG s seven-point edge, 59-52, with 7:18 remaining... that, however, would be the Falcons' final field goal of the afternoon... KSU scored the next five points before a Wenzel free throw gave BG a lead with 6:15 left... a Csaszar free throw was the only scoring over the next two-plus minutes, before two Shearer tosses tied the score at heading into the final media timeout... after that break, BG was called for an offensive foul, Shearer hit a jumper, and Stewart got a steal and layup to put KSU up by four with three minutes left... Mann made the second of two freethrow tries with 2:53 left, but the Falcons could not score again until only 17 seconds remained... KSU made 5-of-7 free throws, one of which capped a Stewart three-point play with 43 seconds left. THE FALCONS have clinched at least a top-eight seed for the MAC Tournament, and a home game for the first round... the Falcons remain mathematically alive for a top-three spot and a first-round bye... BGSU has not hosted a first-round contest since 2000, and the Falcons have not earned a bye since the tournament went to the current format prior to that campaign.... have clinched a winning overall record for the first time in six years... with three regular-season games left, BGSU is six games above.500, at the last Falcon team to have a winning record was the squad that went 21-8 and earned a WNIT berth in head coach Jaci Clark s final season in Bowling Green.... have surpassed the team s victory totals for all of last season, by three games... the version of the Brown and Orange finished with an overall record of and a MAC mark of last year, the Falcons tied for sixth in the West Division... the Falcons, 8-5 in the MAC, have not finished league play on the positive side of.500 since (9-7).... have posted the best start to a season since that campaign... that team was 19-5 after 24 games... the squad got off to an 18-4 start before going 3-4 to end the year.... last had an 8-5 MAC record or better in that season... that team went 5-0 to start league play... after a three-point loss at eventual league champion Kent, that Falcon team won the next eight games on the way to a 15-3 league record.... last went as many six games over the.500 mark (prior to ) at the end of that campaign... that team was 15 games above.500 before losing the last two games (MAC Tournament Semifinal and WNIT opener) to finish BGSU Falcon Women s Basketball Notes

5 Falcons at Marshall Wed., Feb. 25, FOUR OVERTIMES FOR THE FALCONS AND HUSKIES Fans at Anderson Arena for last Wednesday s (Feb. 18) game certainly got more than they bargained for... they saw a game-and-a-half, as the Falcons and Northern Illinois battled through 40 minutes of regulation, plus four overtime periods... NIU came out on top, , as the teams tied the NCAA Division I record for most overtime periods in a game... the NCAA Record Book lists eight OT games prior to , and a totally random check of Xavier s media guide turned up another... so, the game was only the 11th in NCAA Division I history to require as many as four overtimes... the Falcons are one of only two schools (joining TCU) to have played in two of those four-ot games... BGSU also went to four OTs on a snowy night in Muncie, Ind.... on that evening (Jan. 6, 1999), the Falcons picked up a victory over Ball State... the complete list of four-ot games in NCAA Division I annals follows... NCAA RECORD BOOK Most Overtime Periods 4 - Texas A&M (101) vs. St. Mary s (Tex.) (95); Dec. 17, 1984 Creighton (117) vs. Loyola (Ill.) (108); Jan. 12, 1986 Columbia (114) vs. Pennsylvania (111); March 5, 1988 Indiana State (107) vs. SW Missouri State (101); Jan. 28, 1989 Drake (112) vs. Northern Iowa (106); Jan. 23, 1993 Alabama (121) vs. Duke (120); March 18, 1995 SMU (127) vs. TCU (125); Jan. 25, 1997 Bowling Green (106) vs. Ball State (105); Jan. 6, 1999 Xavier (94) vs. George Washington (92); Feb. 9, 2003 TCU (125) vs. East Carolina (119); Feb. 13, 2004 Northern Illinois (102) vs. Bowling Green (97); Feb. 18, 2004 HOME, AND LOOKING TO STAY THERE Since the beginning of the season, Falcon head coach Curt Miller has stated that a primary goal of his team is to finish among the top-eight teams in the MAC, thereby earning a home game for the first round of the league tournament... with three games remaining in the regular season, Miller and the Falcons have earned at least that home berth, on March 6... BGSU currently holds down the fifth spot in the seedings, and one more victory would clinch a winning record in MAC play... additionally, the Falcons still are in the hunt for a first-round bye... BG was picked to finish sixth in the West in the MAC News Media Association s preseason poll. HOME COOKIN : TRYING TO HOLD SERVE AT HOME... Despite two losses last week, the Falcons have a record of 7-4 at home, including a MAC mark of 4-3 at Anderson Arena this year... BGSU s home win total is the highest since the season, when the Falcons went the Falcons are looking for the first winning MAC home record in three years... BG s home records from the last few seasons... Falcons at Home Year Overall MAC AND LOOKING TO STEAL SOME ON THE ROAD After just two games, the Falcons had surpassed last season s total of MAC road victories... BGSU is currently 4-2 in conference road games this season... last winter, the Brown and Orange went 1-7 in MAC games away from home, with only a three-point win at Akron (65-62) going in the plus column for the Falcons... overall, the Falcons are 6-5 in road games this year, and BG is 8-5 in all games played away from home... BGSU s breakdown of games away from home the last few years... BGSU-MARSHALL LAST MTG. OFFICIAL BASKETBALL BOX SCORE -- G A M E T O T A L S Marshall vs Bowling Green 2/26/03 7:00 p.m. at Anderson Arena; Bowling Green, Ohio VISITORS: Marshall (10-15, 6-8 MAC) TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS ## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 24 KNABLE, Catie... f REED, Amy... c SHEPARD-HALL, Sikeet g HARBIN, Christina... g DOTSON, Ida... g SMITH, Amy KELLERMAN, Jamie SHIFLETT, Jennifer FRY, Leighann HACKWORTH, Cassie SWANIGAN, Nadia TEAM Totals TOTAL FG% 1st Half: % 2nd Half: % Game: 44.4% DEADB 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: % 2nd Half: % Game: 14.3% REBS F Throw % 1st Half: % 2nd Half: % Game: 85.7% HOME TEAM: Bowling Green (11-14, 4-10 MAC) TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS ## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN 10 WENZEL, Stefanie... f MILLER, Francine... f STOCZ, Karen... c AUSTIN, Lindsay... g GRIECH, Kim... g ANDERSON, Britt SMITH, Marisa JEROME, Megan LEWIS, Tene SMITH, Sakima LAUSE, Jill TEAM Totals TOTAL FG% 1st Half: % 2nd Half: % Game: 35.0% DEADB 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: % 2nd Half: % Game: 18.8% REBS F Throw % 1st Half: % 2nd Half: % Game: 41.7% OFFICIALS: Chuck Adya, Dennis Mayer, Ron Dressander TECHNICAL FOULS - None ATTENDANCE: 312 SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st 2nd OT1 OT2 OT3 OT4 TOTAL Marshall Bowling Green Falcons on the Road Year Road Road & Neutral MAC Road Gms TENE STANDS FOR TENACIOUS Junior Tene Lewis provided a spark off the bench in the Kent State game... Lewis had four points, two rebounds and a game-high four steals in just nine minutes of action... additionally, she had an assist and took a charge... Lewis point total tied a season high, while her steals total matches her career best. SMART... VERY SMART The Falcons two senior co-captains received more honors last week... on Thursday (Feb. 19), Stefanie Wenzel and Lindsay Austin were named to the Academic All-District IV Teams presented by CoSIDA... Wenzel was named to the first team, while Austin was chosen to the third team... for Wenzel, the honor marked the second-straight season she has been named to the all-district team, after earning second-team honors last year... she is the first Falcon to earn first-team accolades since Jacki Raterman in as a first-team selection, Wenzel will have her name placed on the Academic All-America ballot... Austin earns Academic All-District

6 6 BGSU Falcon Women s Basketball Notes FALCON CAREER FACTS GAMES STARTED Lindsay Austin 103 Stefanie Wenzel 68 Kelly Kapferer 26 Liz Honegger 23 Ali Mann 23 Megan Thorburn 17 Carin Horne 7 Tene Lewis 5 Jill Lause 2 DOUBLE-DIGIT SCORING Stefanie Wenzel 52 Lindsay Austin 45 Kelly Kapferer 14 Ali Mann 13 Liz Honegger 11 Megan Thorburn 8 Carin Horne 6 Jill Lause 2 Marisa Smith 2 Sakima Smith 2 Tene Lewis, Casey McDowell 1 20-POINT GAMES Stefanie Wenzel 14 Ali Mann 3 Lindsay Austin 2 Liz Honegger 2 Carin Horne 2 Kelly Kapferer 1 Marisa Smith, Megan Thorburn 1 30-POINT GAMES Carin Horne 1 Stefanie Wenzel 1 DOUBLE-DIGIT REBOUNDS Ali Mann 7 Liz Honegger 6 Stefanie Wenzel 4 Kelly Kapferer 3 Lindsay Austin, Carin Horne 2 Megan Thorburn 1 DOUBLE-DIGIT ASSISTS Lindsay Austin 3 DOUBLE-DIGIT STEALS Lindsay Austin 1 DOUBLE-DOUBLES Ali Mann 7 Lindsay Austin 6 Liz Honegger 4 Stefanie Wenzel 4 Carin Horne, Kelly Kapferer 2 Megan Thorburn 1 honors for the first time in her Falcon career... the team is made up of student-athletes from Division I schools in the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee... to be nominated, student-athletes must be at least a sophomore, a starter or important reserve, and must carry a cumulative GPA of 3.20 or higher... Wenzel was one of four MAC student-athletes named to the five-member first team... at the time of nomination, she maintained a 3.97 cumulative GPA as an integrated language arts major... Austin carried a 3.57 cumulative GPA as a visual communication technology (VCT) major... BG was one of just three schools (along with Cleveland State and Kent State) to have two student-athletes named to the team. DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE... A trio of freshmen Liz Honegger, Carin Horne and Ali Mann had double-doubles in the Northern Illinois game... the last time three Falcon players had double-doubles in the same game was Jan. 25, the NIU game is believed to be the first time three freshmen have had double-doubles in the same game... Horne s double-double was her first of the year, making a total of six different BGSU players that have had at least one doubledouble this year to date... through the KSU contest, Mann now has seven, while senior Lindsay Austin has five... Honegger now has four double-doubles, while Horne has two and freshman Megan Thorburn and senior Stefanie Wenzel each have one in DOUBLE YOUR FUN Falcon freshmen Carin Horne and Ali Mann each had double-doubles in the Kent State game, marking the second consecutive game each had turned the trick... Mann had a career-high 16 rebounds vs. the Flashes, and averaged 14.0 points and 14.0 boards on the week (NIU and KSU games)... Horne averaged 21.5 points and 10.5 rebounds in the two games. DOUBLY GOOD As mentioned, Ali Mann has seven double-doubles on the year to date... that total is the highest for a BGSU player in a season in four years, since Francine Miller had nine in as a team, the Falcons have a whopping 20 double-doubles, after totalling four during all of last season... the team total is BGSU s highest since at least the season (see list on page 2). A FEW MORE NOTES FROM THE NIU GAME The Falcons struggled from three-point land in the early going, missing the first 11 longrange attempts of the night and going 1-for-13 in the first half... BGSU was just 4-of-22 over the first 43-plus minutes, before hitting back-to-back triples in a minute s time in the first OT period... BG ended the night with nine treys in 32 attempts. The game marked the first time three different Falcon players had double-doubles since Jan. 25, in fact, the NIU contest was the first time three BG players had hit double digits in rebounding in the same game since that 1995 game, a double-ot win at Ball State. The teams combined for 118 points in regulation... little did anyone know that 20 minutes of basketball remained, and that the Falcons and Huskies would combine for 81 more points in the overtimes, an NCAA record. Three BGSU players fouled out of the same game for the first time in over three years, since a loss at Akron on Feb. 10, The Falcons shot.545 (12-of-22) in the overtime periods, while holding Northern to a.324 success rate in the extra 20 minutes... NIU, however, outrebounded the home team by a count in the OT sessions. START ME UP (THE CAREER STARTS LIST) Senior Lindsay Austin s starting assignment vs. NIU was the 103rd of her career, ranking her fourth on that Falcon career list... with at least four games remaining (three regularseason games plus the MAC Tournament s first round), Austin has a chance to move into second place on the all-time list, currently held by Susie Cassell (106 games)... the legendary Jackie Motycka holds the BGSU record with 115 games started. AUSTIN HIGH ON OTHER BGSU CAREER LISTS AS WELL Senior Lindsay Austin is on a number of other BGSU career lists, and has a chance to go where no Falcon has gone before... she surpassed the 900-point mark at CMU (Feb. 14), and enters the Marshall game with career totals of 928 points, 466 assists and 220 steals... Austin became just the fourth player in school history to reach the 400 career assists barrier, and in the Kent State game (Feb. 21), she moved past Dee Knoblauch (218 from ) BGSU Falcon Women s Basketball Notes

7 Falcons at Marshall Wed., Feb. 25, into second place on the steals list... Austin is 21 away from school record-holder Lori Albers (241 from )... she also has an outside chance to crack the 1,000-point plateau... no Falcon ever has totalled 1,000 points and 400 assists in a career, much less 200 steals as well... only one BGSU player, Judit Lendvay ( ), had 1,000 points (1,078) and as many as 300 assists (304)... Austin is one of only two players (joining Susie Cassell) to be ranked among the top-five on the career games started, assists and steals charts at BG. BGSU S BOARDWORK PAYING OFF Last year, the Falcons held a rebounding advantage just four times in 28 games... in , BG has BEEN outrebounded only seven times in 24 contests... the Falcons have outboarded the opponent 15 times, battling to a draw in two other games... BG has a +2.6 rebounding margin this season to date (+2.2 in MAC games). BOARDWORK PAYING OFF, PART II BGSU, as mentioned, has had more rebounds than the opposition 15 times in 24 games in , and the Falcons are 11-4 in such contests... the Brown and Orange had held the rebounding advantage only nine times (in 56 games) over the previous two years, going 7-2 in such games (4-0 in , 3-2 in ). IT S A SEASON-LONG BLOCK PARTY FOR HONEGGER Freshman Liz Honegger had four blocked shots in the Northern Illinois game, and is rapidly moving up that BGSU single-season list... with another block vs. KSU, Honegger now has 39 to tie Megan McGuire ( ) for fourth place on that chart... Angie Bonner holds the topthree spots on the list, including a school-record 50 in Honegger has 20 blocks in MAC games, six shy of that school record (26 by Bonner in ). FALCON PLAYER NOTES LINDSAY AUSTIN Senior co-captain from Cincinnati, Ohio... has started all 24 games, and is averaging 10.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.4 assists... leads the team in both assists and steals (2.6 spg)... has an assist-to-turnover ratio of recently named to the Academic All-District Third Team... has scored in double digits 12 times, and has five double-doubles on the year to rank second on the team... is second at BGSU in career steals and fourth in career assists... had seven points and seven boards in 42 minutes vs. NIU... scored a game-high 17 points at Central Michigan... also had game-best totals of four assists and three steals vs. CMU, and fueled a 7-0 run to start the second half... scored five points and assisted on the other hoop during that run, which put the Falcons ahead by was named both the MAC Player of the Week (Feb. 9) and the MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week (Feb. 11) in the same week... after missing much of the second half due to foul trouble, hit the game-winning shot at the buzzer in BG s win over Western Michigan... had seven points and six assists in that game... her latest double-double came in the Miami game, with 13 points and a school-record 10 steals, including SR-tying nine in the first half... also had seven rebounds and six assists (without a turnover) vs. the RedHawks... had 14 points, including a 2-for-3 effort from three-point land, at Eastern Michigan... had seven points in the win at Toledo... scored 14 points and added five assists (no turnovers) in win over CMU... seven points and a game-high eight assists against Akron... scored 12 points and added six rebounds and a then career-high six steals in win at NIU... nine points, eight assists and six rebounds vs. Ball State... scored 14 points and added 12 assists (with just one TO) vs. Cleveland State... went 5-of-9 from the field in that game... had 10 points, 11 boards and seven assists at Eastern Kentucky... scored 15 points and added eight rebounds (seven offensive) at IUPUI... had career-high totals of 21 points and 15 assists (with only one TO) at Bucknell... had matched her previous career best with 10 assists by halftime... had 10 points, 10 rebounds and six assists vs. Detroit points, six boards and seven assists at Youngstown... had a 14-point, fiveassist performance vs. Oakland... the MAC s active career assist leader FALCON NUMERICAL ROSTER & PRONUNCIATION GUIDE NO. NAME (*-LETTERS) POS. HT. CL./EL. HOMETOWN (PREVIOUS SCHOOL) 3 Marisa Smith * G 5-10 So./So. Arnold, Pa. (Valley) 4 Julie Gompers G 5-6 Fr./Fr. Wheeling, W. Va. (Wheeling Park) 10 Stefanie Wenzel (WHEN-zull) *** G 6-0 Sr./Sr. Sussex, Wis. (Hartland Arrowhead) 12 Lindsay Austin *** G 5-7 Sr./Sr. Cincinnati, Ohio (Sycamore) 13 Liz Honegger F 5-11 Fr./Fr. Lafayette, Ind. (Jefferson) 14 Carin Horne (CARR-in) F 5-10 Fr./Fr. Lima, Ohio (Lima Senior) 21 Casey McDowell G 5-7 Jr./So. Hudson, Ohio (Hudson) (Indiana St. Univ.) 22 Ali Mann F 6-1 Fr./Fr. Chelsea, Mich. (Chelsea) 24 Tene (tuh-nay) Lewis ** G 5-8 Jr./Jr. Southfield, Mich. (Detroit CMA) 25 Kelly Kapferer (CAP-fur) ** C 6-2 Sr./Jr. Jefferson, Ohio (Jefferson Area) 32 Kim Nowakowski (no-uh-kow-skee) F/C 6-1 Fr./Fr. Butler, Pa. (Butler) 42 Sakima (suh-kee-muh) Smith ** F 6-0 Jr./Jr. Detroit, Mich. (CMA) 44 Megan Thorburn F 6-1 Fr./Fr. Mason, Mich. (Mason) 50 Amber Flynn F/C 6-0 Fr./Fr. Cincinnati, Ohio (North College Hill) 55 Jill Lause (LAW-zee) * C 6-2 So./So. Dublin, Ohio (Coffman) Head Coach: Assistant Coaches: Team Captains: Curt Miller (Baldwin-Wallace, 90) third season Jennifer Roos (Davidson, 93) third season Brandi Poole (Univ. of the South, 97) third season Kevin Eckert (Ohio, 96) second season Lindsay Austin, Stefanie Wenzel

8 8 BGSU Falcon Women s Basketball Notes TEAM INFORMATION Records 15-9 (8-5 MAC) Records (5-11 MAC) MAC Finish T-6th, West Division COACHING STAFF Head Coach Curt Miller Alma Mater Baldwin-Wallace, 90 Record at BGSU (third year) MAC Record Career Record (third year) Assistant Coach Jennifer Roos Assistant Coach Brandi Poole Assistant Coach Kevin Eckert Basketball Office (419) ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Asst. AD/Director J.D. Campbell Asst./W. Basketball Mike Cihon Office Phone (419) Office Fax (419) mjcihon@bgnet.bgsu.edu Assistant Director Kris Kamann Graduate Assistant Dave Meyer Address 201 Perry Stadium East Bowling Green, Ohio Website BGSU HONORS A listing of the Falcons honors and awards earned in the season thus far... ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM Stefanie Wenzel First Team Lindsay Austin Third Team MAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK Liz Honegger (Dec. 15) Liz Honegger (Jan. 5) Lindsay Austin (Feb. 9) MAC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Stefanie Wenzel (Dec. 2) Stefanie Wenzel (Dec. 16) Lindsay Austin (Feb. 11) ISLANDER CLASSIC ALL- TOURNAMENT TEAM Ali Mann Stefanie Wenzel AMBER FLYNN Freshman from Cincinnati, Ohio... has seen action in 11 games off the bench... has averages of 1.8 points and 1.7 rebounds... is academically ineligible for the spring semester... in the EKU Classic, had a total of seven rebounds in just six minutes in the two games, including a season-high four boards vs. Morehead State... three points and two rebounds at IUPUI... had a season-high eight points in her collegiate debut, at YSU... had three assists in that game, as well as vs. SE Missouri State. JULIE GOMPERS Freshman from Wheeling, W.Va.... has played in 13 games off the bench, and is averaging 0.8 points and 0.8 assists... matched her season bests with two points and four assists in eight minutes vs. Akron... grabbed a rebound in two minutes of action in the win at NIU... hit a pair of free throws in the Cleveland State game... had her first collegiate point vs. Detroit... scored two points vs. both Bucknell and IPFW, adding a season-high four assists in the latter game... hit two free throws at IUPUI. LIZ HONEGGER Freshman from Lafayette, Ind.... has seen action in all 24 games, starting the last averaging 10.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game, leading the team in the latter category... is second in both rebounds and steals (1.4 spg)... is shooting a team-high.521 from the field... a two-time MAC Player of the Week... has scored in double digits 11 times... had 13 points, 12 boards, four blocks and three steals in a whopping 56 minutes vs. NIU... double-double was her fourth of the year... six points and a team-high six rebounds at CMU... had 16 points and a game-high 14 boards at OU... scored 13 points and added six boards and a game-high four steals vs. WMU... had a team-high 19 points, along with seven boards and three assists, at Miami... went 8-of-13 from the floor... nine points and seven rebounds vs. UB... had 15 points and a game-high 13 boards vs. Akron... also had four blcoks and a season-high four steals vs. the Zips... nine points and a BGSU season-high 17 rebounds at NIU... rebound total was the highest for a BG player in nearly eight years... earned MAC P-O-W honors on Jan. 5 after helping BGSU to a 3-0 record the previous week... had 22 points and nine boards, going 7-of-12 from the field, vs. CSU... after flirting with a double-double several times, had 24 points and 10 rebounds vs. EKU... fell just three blocks shy of a triple-double in that game, rejecting a school-record seven shots... had nine points and seven boards vs. Morehead State the next day... named MAC P-O-W on Dec. 16 after scoring 16 points vs. Oakland... also had nine rebounds and three blocks en route to that award points, nine boards, three assists, two steals and two blocks at Bucknell points in back-to-back wins vs. Detroit and SE Mo.... nine points, 10 boards and three assists vs. IPFW... eight points in her debut, at YSU. CARIN HORNE Freshman from Lima, Ohio... has seen action in 23 games, starting the last seven... averaging 7.7 points and 3.5 rebounds per game... has 11.2 points and 5.1 boards in MAC games... had her second consecutive double-double, with 15 points and 10 rebounds in only 22 minutes vs. KSU... exploded for a game-high 28 points, including 18 in the overtime periods, vs. NIU... made a BGSU season-high five three-pointers, in 10 attempts... also had 11 rebounds for her first collegiate double-double... went 11-for-22 from the field vs. the Huskies... tied for game honors with 19 points at Ohio... had 16 points, six rebounds and three steals at Miami... made her first collegiate start vs. UB, and had nine points, six boards and a season-high three assists... nine points in 13 minutes in the win over Akron... had a monster game vs. Ball State, exploding for 34 points, with seven rebounds, four steals and two blocks... made 11-of-19 shots in that contest, and scored 22 consecutive BG points in the second half... was 4-of-8 from three-point land and 8-for-8 from the free-throw line in 24 minutes... prior to the BSU game, had scored a total of 31 points on the season... scored six points at IUPUI, going 2-of-2 from three-point land... had 10 points in the win over Detroit... scored five points vs. SE Missouri State. KELLY KAPFERER Redshirt junior from Jefferson, Ohio... has played in all 24 games, starting two... is averaging 4.1 points and 2.5 rebounds... had four points and five boards vs. KSU... scored five points and added three rebounds at CMU... started the UB game, and had her third double-digit contest of the season with 11 points... went 4-for-5 from the field, and scored BG s first seven second-half points... had five points in nine minutes at EMU... scored four points and added two rebounds at UT... had four points and a season-high seven rebounds vs. Ball State... eight points, six rebounds, two steals and two blocks at EKU... had five points at IUPUI... had back-to-back double-digit scoring games, including a BGSU Falcon Women s Basketball Notes

9 Falcons at Marshall Wed., Feb. 25, season-high 17 points in 17 minutes vs. IPFW... also had five rebounds and three assists vs. the Mastodons points in win at Bucknell, including 10 points in a span of 3:36 (the last three hoops came in a 53-second stretch)... in the Bucknell and IPFW games, shot a combined.786 (11-of-14)... earned two letters for the Falcons before sitting out last season. JILL LAUSE Sophomore from Dublin, Ohio... has played in 15 games off the bench... averaging 1.5 points and 1.1 rebounds... had eight points on 4-of-6 shooting at CMU, adding five rebounds in 13 minutes... set season bests in scoring, rebounding, FGM, FGA and minutes in that game, tying her career marks in rebounds and FGA... had two points, two rebounds and an assist in just four minutes at EMU... had a solid game vs. Akron, with seven points in 11 minutes... had three rebounds, and went 3-for- 4 from the field vs. the Zips, connecting on her lone three-point attempt... scored three points and grabbed three rebounds in 10 minutes of action vs. CSU... had two points and an assist at YSU... two rebounds at Bucknell. TENE LEWIS Junior from Southfield, Mich.... has come off the bench to play in 22 games... averaging 1.2 points, 1.0 rebounds and 0.8 assists... provided a spark off the bench vs. KSU, with four points, two boards and a game-high four steals in only nine minutes of action... point total matched a season high, while steals total tied a career best... scored four points and had a steal in just six minutes at CMU... had a pair of steals in eight minutes in the WMU game... had two points vs. both EMU and CMU... three rebounds vs. Akron... had three assists and four steals in a combined eight minutes in the two games at the EKU Classic... had three points and a season-high six rebounds in 14 minutes at IUPUI... four points and three assists vs. SE Missouri State... two points and an assist vs. both YSU and Oakland. ALI MANN Freshman from Chelsea, Mich.... has played in all 24 games, making 22 starts... averaging 11.8 points and 7.9 rebounds per game to rank second on the team in the former category and first in the latter... is scoring 13.4 points in MAC games, and also has 7.9 boards... is shooting a team-high.455 from three-point land in league play... has a team-high seven double-doubles... averaging 14.0 points and 14.0 rebounds over the last two games... scored 15 points and grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds, including eight offensive boards, vs. KSU... had 13 points and 12 boards vs. NIU... had 18 points and a game-high 12 rebounds in the win over WMU... scored 12 points at Miami... came off the bench for the UB game, after missing several days of practice for a family funeral... in that game, had seven points and seven boards, and hit the tying and winning free throws with 23.3 seconds left... had game-high totals of 22 points and 10 rebounds at EMU... her 7-for-10 effort from the field included a 2-for-2 performance from three-point land... scored 13 points, including 10 in the second half, and had eight boards in the win at Toledo... 6-for-9 shooting effort included a 5-for-7 performance after the intermission... had a season-high three steals vs. UT, and tied her high with 38 minutes, including all 20 in the second half... had a career-high 24 points vs. CMU, going 7-of-10 from the field and 9-of-10 from the line... also had seven boards, two blocks and 38 minutes, setting career bests in the latter two categories... had 15 points to tie for game honors vs. Akron, going 2-for-2 from three-point land... led BG with 18 points and added six rebounds in win at NIU... hit a pair of three-pointers in that game... despite suffering a sprained ankle the day before, had eight rebounds vs. BSU... seven points and seven boards vs. CSU... had eight rebounds and a season-high four assists vs. Morehead State... scored a game-high 16 points at IUPUI, adding nine rebounds... made 10 free throws in that game, hitting double digits in that category for the second time this season... had 20 points vs. IPFW, with 11 rebounds and three assists... in only her second game, had 13 points and 11 boards vs. Detroit... scored 19 points vs. SE Missouri State, adding 10 rebounds and three assists... nine points and eight boards vs. TAMU- Corpus Christi... was named to the alltournament team at the Islander Classic (SE Mo. and TAMU-CC games)... eight points and eight rebounds vs. Oakland. CASEY McDOWELL Redshirt sophomore from Hudson, Ohio... has played in all 24 games off the bench... averaging 2.6 points, 1.0 rebounds and 1.4 assists, ranking third on the team in the latter category... had a point, two assists and two rebounds vs. NIU... blocked the first shot of her BGSU career in the CMU game... was a perfect 3-for-3 from the field en route to eight points at OU... also had three rebounds vs. the Bobcats... had two assists and played a key role in the win over WMU... saw some time at point guard, and gave BG some valuable minutes with Lindsay Austin on the bench in foul trouble... two points vs. UB... had nine points vs. Morehead State... tied her career high (set while at Indiana State) with seven assists vs. EKU, committing no turnovers in that game... exploded for 19 points, including four three-point field goals, at Bucknell... also had three steals in that game... scored five points vs. both SE Missouri State and IPFW... four assists against both IPFW and Detroit. KIM NOWAKOWSKI Freshman from Butler, Pa.... has yet to see action, and will redshirt the season... broke her foot over the summer, and reaggravated the injury in individual workouts in September. MARISA SMITH Sophomore from Arnold, Pa.... has played in nine games... averaging 0.9 points and 0.2 rebounds per contest... has played in two of the last three games, seeing time vs. CMU and KSU... had a season-high four points vs. Akron, going 2-for-3 from the field... played a season-high seven minutes in that game... had two points on a pair of free throws at IUPUI, also grabbing a rebound in her only minute of action... two points vs. IPFW. SAKIMA SMITH Junior from Detroit, Mich.... has come off the bench in eight games... averaging 0.4 points and 1.0 rebounds... had a rebound and an assist in five minutes vs. Akron... three points and three boards vs. Detroit...had three rebounds vs. IUPUI as well. MEGAN THORBURN Freshman from Mason, Mich.... has played in all 24 games, starting the first averaging 7.2 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.0 assists... had 15 points off the bench, on 5-of-7 shooting, vs. NIU... four points on 2-for-3 shooting at CMU... came off the bench in the UB game, for the first time in her career... had suffered from food poisoning prior to that game... scored six points and tied for team honors with eight rebounds at UT... had her first collegiate double-double, with 14 points and a seasonhigh 10 rebounds in just 18 minutes vs. Akron... had 10 points in the win at NIU... had 13 points in 21 minutes vs. CSU... scored 10 points vs. EKU... exploded for 22 points in her collegiate debut, at Youngstown State... had 11 points vs. SE Missouri State... six rebounds in that game and vs. Detroit... had 10 points and nine rebounds at IUPUI... scored nine points vs. Bucknell and eight vs. both UDM and Oakland. STEFANIE WENZEL Senior co-captain from Sussex, Wis.... already a two-time MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week (Dec. 2 and Dec. 16) this season, and recently was named to the Academic All-District First Team... her name will now be placed on the national ballot... has started all 24 games... surpassed the 1,000-point mark for her career in the KSU game (Feb. 21)... is averaging a team-high 14.9 points (third in the MAC) and 4.8 rebounds... second on the team with 1.8 assists per game... has scored in double digits 21 times in 24 games, including five 20-point efforts... is shooting.383 from three-point