KALAMAZOO, Mich. – The Western Michigan women's basketball team returns to Cleveland for the Mid-American Conference Championship quarterfinals. The fifth-seeded Broncos face fourth-seeded Ohio on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. inside Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.

Wednesday, March 11 • 2:30 p.m. • Cleveland, Ohio • Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse (20,562)
No. 5 Seed Western Michigan Broncos (18-12) vs. No. 4 Seed Ohio Bobcats (18-11)

Series Record: Ohio leads 31-28
MAC Championship Series Record: Ohio leads 2-1
Last Meeting:  January 15, 2020 - Kalamazoo, Mich. - WMU 73, Ohio 72

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HOW WE GOT HERE
Western Michigan concluded the regular season with an 18-12 overall record and 10-8 mark in Mid-American Conference play, finishing third in the MAC West and earning the No. 5 seed to the MAC Championship. The Broncos advanced to Cleveland after defeating No. 12 seed Bowling Green, 84-67, in Kalamazoo on Monday. WMU heads to Cleveland with a 7-3 record over its last 10 games.

MAC CHAMPIONSHIP RECORDS
Western Michigan is 24-31 all-time in the MAC Championship tournament with championship titles in 1985 and 2003. Under head coach Shane Clipfell, the Broncos are 10-7 in the MAC Championship. They head to the quarterfinal round in Cleveland to take on No. 4 Ohio after defeating No. 12 Bowling Green at home on March 9, their seventh First Round win in eight years.

BRONCOS AND BOBCATS IN THE POSTSEASON
Ohio leads the MAC Championship series with a 2-1 advantage. The two teams have not faced each other at the league's postseason event since the Bobcats recorded a 68-57 victory in the opening round of the 2009 tournament. WMU earned a 76-61 victory against Ohio in the 1994 quarterfinals with the OU securing a 73-70 triumph in the semifinals of the 1986 event.
 
LAST TIME OUT
The Broncos had a season-best performance in Monday's 84-67 first round win over Bowling Green, with all five starters scoring in double-digits and three registering double-doubles. Jordan Walker led the pack with 21 points and 10 rebounds. Leighah-Amori Wool had 14 points with 10 rebounds and Breanna Mobley tallied 10 points with 13 rebounds. Graduate transfer Chelayne Bailey had 17 points with a team-high six assists and three steals. Kamrin Reed recorded 12 points, shooting three-for-six from three-point range.

The Broncos converted a season-high 15-of-34 three-point field goals and shot 42.6 percent (29-of-68) from the field. Western Michigan's biggest lead came in the third quarter with a 32-point advantage over the Falcons.

LOTS OF 3S
Western Michigan's 15 three-pointers made against Bowling Green in the opening round are the second most by any team in MAC Championship history.

A PAIR OF ALL-MAC SELECTIONS
The Mid-American Conference released the 2019-20 women's basketball postseason awards with redshirt senior forward Breanna Mobley earning a spot on the All-MAC Second Team and redshirt sophomore Jordan Walker earning Third Team honors, as voted by the league's 12 head coaches.

SCOUTING THE BOBCATS
Ohio has been led by junior guard Cece Hooks, who was named the Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year for the second-straight season on Tuesday. A trio of Bobcats were named to the all-league teams with Hooks joining redshirt sophomore guard Erica Johnson on the first team, while senior guard Amani Burke was Honorable Mention All-MAC. Johnson (18.6) and Hooks (18.3) pace the squad in scoring with Burke not far behind with 13.4 points per game. OU finished the regular season with an 18-11 record and 11-7 MAC mark and received the No. 4 seed to the league championship.

LAST TIME VERSUS OHIO
The two teams met just once in the 2019-20 regular season, with the Broncos coming away with a 73-72 victory on January 18 inside University Arena.
With the Bobcats up 72-71 with 12 seconds remaining, the Broncos brought the ball in to Leighah-Amori Wool, who hooked a layup in the paint through traffic to give the Broncos the victory.

Wool led WMU with 17 points on the night with Breanna Mobley pouring in 14 to go along with 11 rebounds. Chelayne Bailey played all 40 minutes, dishing out five assists and pulling down seven rebounds. For Ohio, Cierra Hooks led the way with 28 points with Erica Johnson contributing 18 and nine rebounds. Hooks finished with six steals as the Bobcats forced 19 Bronco turnovers.
 
RECORD-BREAKING BRONCO                                                                      
Redshirt senior Breanna Mobley is dominating the rebounding category this season, breaking multiple records in her final campaign. At Ball State on February 1, Mobley surpassed 1,000 rebounds to become the second Bronco to have scored 1,000 points and collect 1,000 rebounds in her career, joining former WMU legend and coach Pat Charity, who hit the milestone in the 1977-78 season.

On February 3 against Miami (Ohio), Mobley moved up to 1,028 rebounds to tie the all-time rebounding record, also earned by Charity, and broke the record on February 8 against Eastern Michigan to move to 1,038 rebounds in her career.

Mobley now holds the rebounding record for all of Bronco basketball and is the fifth-highest scorer in women's basketball history. This season, Mobley also broke her previous single-season rebounding record of 307, the most in women's basketball history, with 325 in 2019-20.