GAME 7: No.1 Bowling Green (20-5, 14-4 MAC) vs. No. 2 Central Michigan (17-8, 13-6 MAC) 11:00 AM I WATCH LIVE ON CBS SPORTS NEWORK I LIVE STATS I Joel Godett (PxP), Kelly Burke (Color)

The Bowling Green State University women's basketball team, after going seven years without playing a Mid-American Conference Tournament game in Cleveland, now has advanced to the championship game for the first time in a decade. Head coach Robyn Fralick and the Falcons, the tourney's top seed, will meet second-seeded Central Michigan in Saturday's (March 13) title tilt, with tipoff at 11:00 a.m. at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.

BGSU has won 12 of the last 14 games, with the only two losses in that time by one point each. After ending the regular season with a 69-68 overtime loss to Buffalo, the Falcons came to Cleveland and topped Eastern Michigan (63-47, Wednesday) before downing the Bulls by an 80-67 count in Friday morning's semifinal round.

The Falcons, after going 10-21 overall and 3-15 in the MAC last year, were picked to finish 11th in the 12-team league in '20-21, according to the preseason coaches' poll. BG is now 20-5 overall, and went 14-4 in the MAC to win the regular-season crown.BG has  advanced to the MAC's championship game for the first time since 2011.

Central Michigan outscored Ohio, 15-7, in overtime on Friday to beat the Bobcats to the finish line and win a Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinal game, 100-92, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
 
The second-seeded Chippewas (17-8) will face top-seed Bowling Green (20-5) on Saturday (11 a.m.) in the title game for a berth in the NCAA Tournament. It is CMU's first trip to the league-championship game since 2018, when it beat Buffalo before going on to the Sweet 16 in the Big Dance.

The Falcons defeated the Chippewas, 76-67, in Mount Pleasant three weeks ago, effectively ending CMU's dreams of a fifth-consecutive MAC regular-season championship.