Women’s basketball coach Curt Miller was blunt about his team’s rebounding after their 70-62 loss at Toledo last night.

“We have to be one of the worst rebounding teams in the country,” Miller said. “It got back and bit us again.”

The Falcons had no offensive rebounds in the second half, and had only four the entire game. The team’s inability to get offensive rebounds caused them to score only three second chance points, while the Rockets had 27.

“It’s not a secret that we don’t have a ton of size,” Miller said. “We essentially played four guards on the floor at once.”

Toledo capitalized on it’s size advantage by grabbing 48 rebounds, out-rebounding BG by 16. The two teams tied in defensive rebounds at 28, with the major difference coming offensively.

Tia Davis led the Rockets with nine rebounds. Davis said the team been working to improve on the boards, especially on the offensive side.

“We know the things that we need to get better at, and offensive rebounding is one of them,” Davis said. “We did that well tonight.”

Toledo head coach Mark Ehlen said that the Rockets focused on controlling the boards.

“I think we did that tonight,” Ehlen said referring to controlling the boards. “I think that might have been one of the differences.”

The Falcons were led in rebounding by guards Kim Griech and Lindsay Austin, who had five rebounds each. Four players had four rebounds each. Miller said that considering the lack of offensive rebounding, BG did a good job of keeping the game close.

“I thought we played with a lot of heart and effort,” Miller said. “The disappointing stat is that we got killed on the boards again.” With Pam Brown out, Miller had said that center Jill Lause would get more playing time. Lause had four points and four rebounds in 25 minutes.

Miller said that Lause is playing well offensively, but needs to become a better rebounder.

“She’s not a leaper, but she’s got to become a physical rebounder,” Miller said. “I am really pleased with her freshmen performance, and look for big things in the future from her from the post.”

Miller also noted that the team has been recruiting big players for the future, in an attempt to help the rebounding. Miller said six of next years eight new players are over 5’11”.

“We’re definitely moving in the right direction,” Miller said. “Maybe the best way to take care of rebounding problems is to recruit, and we’ve done that.”