In a game where each team seemed to mirror one another, giving the ball away was the glaring difference.
The Bowling Green women’s basketball team turned the ball over 13 times in the first half. Miami turned those into 13 points the other way.
The Falcons [9-17, 2-13] cleaned the mistakes up in the second half with just six turnovers resulting in two points for the Redhawks [6-20, 3-12], but the deficit proved too much to overcome en route to a
58-51 loss.
“The story of this game is turnovers, points off turnovers,” said head coach Jennifer Roos. “We had 13 [turnovers] at half and cleaned it up in the second half and had only six. But, 19 turnovers against their pressure we can’t afford to do. Points off turnovers were just the difference in the game.”
With the limited roster that the Falcons have been dealt, their margin of error has almost entirely dissipated.
“Our margin of error is very slim and we had a stretch where we didn’t score and that’s going to be tough to overcome, especially on the road,” Roos said.
The first stretch came after a Rachel Myers layup and foul. Myers knocked down the free throw to cut the early deficit to 10-8.
Myers finished with a team-high 13 points while shooting 5-for-8 from the field.
However, BG went the next 6:46 without scoring. This allowed Miami to stretch its lead to 23-8 and take command of the game.
Outside of a few other two-to-three minute scoring droughts, the Falcons were able to keep scoring. But, with limited periodic scoring, the Falcons were never able to get in an offensive rhythm against the zone.
“We could have attacked their zone a lot better than we did tonight,” Roos said.
While BG was unable to get many looks near the basket against the Redhawks’ defense, it was able to get consistent looks behind the arc.
Six players knocked down at least one 3, while four of those had at least two. This led to 10-for-23 shooting as a team behind the arc.
“We shot the ball well at the arc which we needed to do but we just had way too many turnovers,” Roos said.
Mistakes aside, however, the Falcons were able to get the game within just two points midway through the second half, and as close as five with 6:02 remaining, but they were unable to find a way to jump ahead.
“It’s just disappointing that we couldn’t finish when we had opportunities,” Roos said.
BG stays on the road for the second of back-to-back away games, against Ohio on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m.
