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DeKALB - Bowling Green coach Curt Miller had high praise for Northern Illinois point guard Stephanie Raymond following his team's 85-76 victory at the Convocation Center on Saturday. Miller said outside of one of his players, Raymond would be his choice as the Mid-American Conference Player of the Year. Raymond scored 23 points on 9-of-22 shooting (40.9 percent), grabbed six rebounds and dished out five assists in the Huskies' failed upset bid. “I have no idea how to guard her, we just tried to make things as hard as possible and make her earn everything,” Miller said.
“She's without question, if no one was from our team, the player of the year in this conference.” Miller didn't stop at that. The sixth-year BGSU coach said Raymond's impact will be felt beyond this season as NIU coach Carol Owens continues to build the program. “She's the engine for this program, she has this program going on high cylinder,” Miller said.
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“Her contribution will help Carol Owens be a champion in the future. People will want to come here because of the legacy Stephanie Raymond will leave here.” Check mate Miller called Saturday's game a chess match between himself and Owens as each coach made adjustments throughout the contest. Owens opted for a smaller line-up, playing four guards - Raymond (5-foot-5), Mary Basic (5-10), Jessie Wilcox (5-7) and Kylie York (5-8) - with post Kristin Wiener for the majority of the second half. Miller countered with more size with Carin Horne (5-10), Ali Mann (6-1), Liz Honegger (5-11) and Amber Flynn (6-0). While the Huskies lost, the line-up helped them score 20 points more than BGSU opponents average (55.5 ppg). “Today was another chess match, which was fun,” Miller said. “Carol went small and we went big.
There were stretches where they hurt us with the small lineup and stretches we were hurting them trying to guard our big kids with guards. She's a phenomenal coach. It's a great learning experience for both of us when our teams play. Good adjustments were made both ways.” Miller also joked that he wished Owens was still an assistant at Notre Dame instead of coaching in the same conference as him. “I wish sometimes that she was still at Notre Dame,” Miller said with a smile. “But it's certainly great for our conference. She is going to do great things here.” Owens had some praise for Miller as well when discussing how hard it was to defend Mann (23 points, 16 rebounds).
“She had a height advantage over our guards so she posted up quite a bit, especially in the second half,” Owens said. “They isolated her on the block and when they spread you out like they do and they shoot so well, it's hard to get help on her.
Curt Miller does a great job. The way they play, how smart they are and how well they score are the reasons they are ranked as one of the top teams in the nation.”. No freebies Northern Illinois remains the top free throw shooting team in the nation, connecting on 79.8 percent of its free throw attempts.
Saturday was no different as the Huskies hit on 90 percent of their free throws, but they only had 10 attempts. The Huskies were limited to just seven free throw attempts until York was awarded three with 18 seconds left in the game.
“We didn't want to put them on the foul line and until York got the last three foul shots of the game, we only put them on the line seven times, that was such a critical part of this game,” Miller said. Turnover woes Entering Saturday's game, the Huskies ranked 10th in the nation in turnovers, averaging 13.9 per game, but they have struggled with giveaways in each of the last two games, which turned into their only losing streak of the season. The Huskies committed a season-high 26 turnovers in a 78-71 loss at Kent State on Wednesday and had 17 miscues, including 14 in the first half, in the loss to Bowling Green. The Falcons converted the turnovers into 26 points.
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“They were pressuring our guards and they really forced us out,” Owens said. “We didn't come to the ball like we should have and like we needed to and because of that they got points off of our turnovers.” Kevin Chlum can be reached at.