DEKALB, Ill. – The Northern Illinois University women's basketball team returns to the Convocation Center Wednesday night to face the Bowling Green Falcons at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.
 
Game Show Wednesday continues this week with "The Price Is Right". Tickets for the game, as well as all remaining Huskie home games, are available through the NIU Convocation Center Box Office, by calling 815-753-PACK (7225) or by visiting NIUHuskies.com/tickets. Students are encouraged to wear black as the Huskies attempt to "Blackout The Convo".
 
NIU (12-8, 4-4 MAC) tied a season-low for points allowed on Jan. 16 when it won at Bowling Green 66-52. The Huskies held the Falcons to 29 percent shooting from the field, and 1-for-12 from the three-point line, in the second half to erase a five-point halftime deficit. Ally May (Hartland, Wis./Arrowhead) led NIU with a career-high 18 points and five steals, while also grabbing a game-high 15 rebounds for her third double-double of the season.
 
The Huskies came back from 13 points down in the third quarter on Feb. 2 to defeat Eastern Michigan in overtime 68-65. May tied the game at 56 with 0:36 left, finishing the game with eight points and 10 rebounds. She has had double-digit rebounds in each of the last five games. Mikayla Voigt (Slinger, Wis./Kettle Moraine Lutheran) led NIU with 20 points, scoring 16 in the second half and overtime. With the Huskies down by four in the final minute of overtime, Voigt scored five straight points to highlight a 7-0 NIU run to close the game. Voigt has scored at least 20 points in each of the last four games.
 
Bowling Green (7-12, 0-8 MAC) leads the all-time series with NIU 24-16. NIU has won each of the last three meetings, and four of the last five. The Huskies last beat Bowling Green twice in one season in the 2002-03 campaign. The Falcons have yet to win a Mid-American Conference game, losing at Toledo 76-56 on Feb. 2. Sydney Lambert led the Falcons with 10 points. Morgan McMillen, Bowling Green's leading scorer at 15.1 points per game, was held to seven points last Saturday. As a team, Bowling Green averages 71.2 points per game and allows 72.4 points per game. The Falcons are second in the MAC with 9.7 three-pointers made per game, and third in three-point field goal percentage at 35 percent.
 
After Wednesday's game, NIU will play back-to-back road games at Ball State on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 3:30 p.m. and at Miami on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m.
 
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