DeKALB | It may be against the 18th-ranked team in the country, but Saturday will be just another game for the Huskies.

That’s what NIU women’s basketball coach Carol Owens is saying heading into tomorrow’s game against No. 18 ranked Bowling Green (21-2, 10-0). NIU (15-7, 6-4) will host the game at the Convocation Center, with tipoff scheduled for 11:30 a.m.

The game will be broadcast on Comcast SportsNet Chicago, FSN Ohio and Comcast Local and Time Warner in New York.

All that aside, this game in the end won’t be much different for the Huskies.

“Every game for us is a big game at this point,” Owens said. “We can’t treat this one any bigger.”

The Falcons have been toying with the MAC all season – the closest a MAC team has come to defeating them was when Miami University lost to them by eight points.

Bowling Green, led by seniors Ali Mann and Liz Honegger, has a strong upper class core of players.

Mann is averaging 16.5 points a game while shooting over 54 percent from the field. Honegger, scoring 11 points a game, possesses the second-best three-point shooting percentage in the MAC at a clip of .429.

“Ali Mann is their emotional leader,” Owens said. “Honegger can step out and shoot the three, and they set a lot of ball screens to get open threes, so we will have to stay up on their perimeter players.”

As a team, Bowling Green is tops in the MAC in offense and defense with the combination producing an 18.8 point average margin of victory. Overall, the Falcons are averaging almost 75 points per game.