The BG women’s basketball team will return to the Stroh Center for the first time in nearly a month, taking on University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Sunday, Dec. 8 at 2 p.m.

UW-Milwaukee is 2-5 in the season so far. The Panthers have suffered home losses to Wisconsin, Western Illinois and North Dakota. They have defeated North Dakota State at home. Milwaukee also lost on the road to New Mexico and dropped a game to Lamar in the Aggie Hotel Encanto Thanksgiving Classic. The Panthers defeated host New Mexico State in the same Classic.

The Panthers return 10 letterwinners, including three starters, from the 2012-13 season. Last year’s team finished 9-20 overall and 5-11 in the Horizon League.

Bowling Green head coach Jennifer Roos said that Milwaukee head coach Kyle Rechlicz will be very well prepared for Sunday’s matchup. Rechlicz was on the coaching staff at the University of Dayton from 2007 to 2011 and has gone head-to-head with the Falcons before. Roos said that Rechlicz is therefore very familiar with their system.

Roos added that she is happy with where the Falcons are right now. She said that four of her players are averaging double figures and that the team is ranked 26th in the country right now in scoring defense. However, Roos said she knows non-conference records are just “window dressings” compared to conference play, where the record “counts for real.”

“Overall I’m pleased with where we stand right now at 7-1, and we’ve become as I said some tested road warriors,” Roos said. “We’re just happy to be back at home.”

Following their game with Milwaukee, the Falcons will have an all-Sunday slate throughout the entire month of December. BG will take on the University of Massachusetts next Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Stroh Center before traveling into Big Ten country yet again this season to take on Purdue Dec. 22. The Falcons will then return to the Stroh to face Saint Francis on Dec. 29 in their final matchup before entering Mid-American Conference play.