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Home: Kent State Golden Flashes - 7-3, 0-0 MAC
Visitor: Wright State - 7-4, 0-0 Horizon League
Tip: Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016 at 4 p.m.
Venue: Memorial Athletic & Convocation Center, capacity - 6,327
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- The Kent State men's basketball team will wrap up its longest homestand of the season Sunday, facing Wright State in its fourth straight game in the M.A.C. Center.
- The Golden Flashes will be looking to end the homestand with a 4-0 record. On Dec. 2, Kent State defeated Grambling State, 86-57. Niagara came to the M.A.C. Center on Dec. 7 fresh off a road win over Iona, but fell to Kent State, 100-72.
- In the most recent result last Saturday, the Flashes defeated NJIT, 87-71. Jaylin Walker scored 29 points, while Jimmy Hall chipped in 26.
- After Sunday, the Flashes will travel to Oregon State for the first of the team's last two nonconference games. Kent State faces the Beavers on Dec. 21 and will play at Texas on Dec. 27.
- The Kent State ticket office is running a promotion on Sunday in which any fan wearing a Santa cap will be able to purchase a $6 general admission ticket.
- This will be just the fourth matchup, all-time, between Kent State and Wright State.
- The Flashes are 2-1 all-time against the Raiders, having defeated them twice in Kent, first in 1974 (87-78) and again in 1990 (108-95). The last game between the two schools was played on Feb. 2, 1991 in Dayton, Ohio, with Wright State taking a 62-61 victory. Tony Banks scored 14 points to lead Kent State. The game took place during the first season of Wright State's current home, the Nutter Center.
- Wright State enters Sunday's game at 7-4, with their most recent game coming in a win over Urbana at home, 85-34. The Raiders started the season 6-1, with wins over CSU-Bakersfield, North Dakota and Southern Illinois.
- Scott Nagy is in his first season with Wright State after 21 seasons with South Dakota State.
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