The Bowling Green women's basketball team opens its Mid-American Conference tournament Wednesday morning.
The Falcons, MAC regular-season champions after being picked 11th in the preseason poll, are the favorite to win the tournament title and the conference's automatic qualifier in the NCAA tournament.
The go-to projection for women's basketball has BGSU (18-4 overall) in the NCAA field at this point.
ESPN bracketologist Charlie Creme pegs the Falcons as a No. 12 seed facing No. 5 seed Kentucky and Southeastern Conference player of the year Rhyne Howard in the first round. The winner in this scenario would move to on face the winner of No.