KENT STATE GAME NOTES
KENT, Ohio - The Kent State University men's basketball team (6-3) will seek a 5-0 home record Saturday when the Golden Flashes face NJIT (5-5) in the second game of a basketball doubleheader, tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m.
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Home:Â Kent State Golden Flashes - 6-3, 0-0 MAC
Visitor: NJIT Highlanders - 5-5, 0-0 ASun
Tip:Â Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 at 7 p.m.
Venue: Memorial Athletic & Convocation Center, capacity - 6,327
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-Â Â Â Â The Kent State Golden Flashes will face NJIT to start the back half of a four-game homestand. The current homestand is the team's longest of the season. The team returned from its last road trip on the evening of Nov. 27 and will not play another road game until they face Oregon State on Dec. 21.Â
-Â Â Â Â In the first two games of the homestand, the Flashes have approached 30 point wins twice. Last Friday, Kent State defeated Grambling State, 86-57. Niagara came to the M.A.C. Center Friday fresh off a road win over Iona, but fell to Kent State, 100-72.Â
-Â Â Â Â On Saturday, the first 500 students who come to the game will receive the dabbing Flash T-shirt.
-Â Â Â Â After Saturday, the Flashes will take their final exams and face Wright State a week from this Sunday. The Flashes will end nonconference play at the end of the month on the road against Oregon State and Texas.Â
-Â Â Â Â This will be the second game in the all-time series against NJIT, which started last season with the beginning of a home-and-home series.Â
-Â Â Â Â On Dec. 7, 2015, Kellon Thomas capped a career-best 22-point night by drilling the go-ahead basket from long distance with 1:11 to play, as Kent State claimed an 80-75 road victory. The win ended NJIT's 10-game winning streak at the Fleisher Center entering that game.
-    NJIT enters this game having won two of their last three games over St. Francis and UMass-Lowell. The team's lone losses over the last two and a half weeks have come at Purdue (79-69) and at Minnesota (74-68).
-Â Â Â Â Brian Kennedy is in his first year as head coach at NJIT, having been promoted prior to the season after serving as an assistant coach with the program.Â
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