Bowling Green at Vanderbilt, 7:00 p.m.
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The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after opening the month of December with a win at home, now embarks upon a season-long five-game road swing ... The Falcons are 4-2 on the young season, and BGSU is riding a three-game winning streak entering the Vanderbilt contest ... Through six games, junior Lauren Prochaska leads a balanced Falcon scoring attack, with 15.8 points per game ... Prochaska, who has had back-to-back 20-point games, also leads BG in rebounding, with 7.0 boards per game ... she had a double-double vs. Saint Francis, with season-best totals of 27 points and 10 rebounds... the Falcons are shooting .441 from the field, .403 from three-point land and .771 from the free-throw line ... BG's opponents are shooting .404 overall, .367 from long range and .733 from the stripe ... the Falcons have 37.5 rebounds per game to the opponents' 35.2... Vanderbilt brings a 7-0 record into Friday's game ... the Commodores are ranked 14th in the nation in the USA Today ESPN poll and 16th by the Associated Press ... VU's most recent game was a 63-46 win at Wright State on Wednesday night (Dec. 2) ... VU is shooting 47.4 percent from the field and holding opponents to just a 34.2% field-goal rate this year to date ... senior guard Merideth Marsh is averaging 13.3 points per game, while junior forward Hannah Tuomi has 13.1 ppg to date.

Northern Illinois at Illinois State, 7:00 p.m.
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The Northern Illinois women's basketball team opens a three game road trip when it ventures to Normal, Ill. to face Illinois State, Friday at 7 p.m. in Redbird Arena... The frontcourt duo of Mauvolyene Adams and Ebony Ellis is the best rebounding pair in the MAC... Ellis leads the league at 11.6 per game, and Adams sits in sixth at 8.9 per contest... Together, their 20.5 rebounds per game is over a rebound per game... Marke Freeman has been on fire the past two games, scoring 53 points on 21-of-44 shooting from the field... She leads the Huskies in scoring (18.0), assists (19) and steals (16.)... Illinois State enters Friday night's game with a 2-2 record... The Redbirds are led by Maggie Krick, who ranks third in the Missouri Valley Conference with 18.8 points per game.