Curt Miller

Girard native Curt Miller, the women’s basketball coach at the Big Ten Conference’s Indiana University, will be inducted into Girard’s version of the Hall of Fame – the Hive of Fame — Saturday night at the Bel-Aire Clarion Hotel.

Miller will be inducted along with his sister, Lori Miller, who was a multi-sport star for Girard in the 1970s.

Earlier today on his Twitter account (@CurtMillerIUWBB), Curt Miller tweeted: “My sister’s HS honors blow mine away.  The 12 varsity letters will be just the start of her bio. Love my hometown.”

Curt Miller played basketball for Girard High School in the mid-1980s and graduated from Baldwin-Wallace in 1990. He worked his way up through the coaching ranks as an assistant at Kent State, Cleveland State, Syracuse and Colorado State. His big break came when he was hired as the head coach at Bowling Green in 2001.

After the Falcons went a combined 21-35 in his first two seasons, Miller turned the program around. Bowling Green went 237-57 during the next nine years for an average of more than 26 wins per season. The Falcons won eight consecutive Mid-American Conference regular-season titles, and Miller was named MAC Coach of the Year six times.

In his first season with Indiana in 2012-13, the Hoosiers posted an 11-19 record, a dramatic improvement over the team’s 6-24 record of 2011-12.

Here’s a look at some of the recent results of area athletes and coaches connected with women’s basketball programs:

• General McLane graduate Sarah Hansen shot 7-of-9 from the field, including 3-of-4 from 3-point range, on her way to 18 points Saturday in Florida Gulf Coast University’s 89-38 rout of Lipscomb (Tenn.). Hansen, a junior guard, now has 1,325 points and is just 91 from becoming the school’s all-time leading scorer. FGCU now has won 15 games in a row and has won 35 straight Atlantic Sun games.

• Mercyhurst Prep grad Kirsten Olowinski scored 15 points and added eight rebounds, but Miami (Ohio) lost to visiting Central Michigan 72-60 in a Mid-American Conference game Saturday. Olowinski, a 6-foot 1-inch senior forward, also had four steals and three blocked shots. She moved into the No. 15 spot on Miami’s career scoring list with 1,203 points. The Redhawks (14-10) have lost three in a row and four of their past five.

Jessica Zoltowski

• Harbor Creek graduate Jessica Zoltowski scored a career-high 32 points while adding 10 rebounds, four steals and two assists in Elmira (N.Y.) College’s 79-75 win over Utica Saturday. Zoltowski, a junior guard, shot 12-of-24 from the field, including 4-of-10 from 3-point range.

• McDowell graduate Allison Braun had 10 points and six rebounds, but Canisius College lost to Iona 84-79 Saturday. The senior guard is averaging 4.1 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.

• Girard native Curt Miller led the Indiana University basketball team to a strong 10-5 start in his first season with the Big Ten’s Hoosiers. However, Indiana has struggled in Big Ten play. The Hoosiers have lost 10 in a row to drop to 10-15. They are 1-11 in the Big Ten. Indiana will try to end its losing streak Wednesday at home against Purdue.