KENT STATE GAME NOTES
KENT, Ohio - The Kent State University men's basketball team hosts Miami on Tuesday, February 27th at 7 p.m. at the M.A.C. Center for the final regular season home game. The Golden Flashes are coming off a program-record 11 block performance in a 64-63 defeat over Bowling Green on Saturday. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3 and the Kent Stats IMG Sports Network.
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Home: Kent State Golden Flashes - 14-15, 8-8 MAC
Visitor: Bowling Green Falcons - 15-14, 8-8 MAC
Tip: Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018 at 7 p.m.
Venue: M.A.C. Center, capacity - 6,327
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- The Kent State men's basketball team squares off against Miami on Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m.at the M.A.C. Center in the Flashes' last regular season home game of the year.
- Kent State is 51-91 all-time against the RedHawks and is 31-36 at home.
- Head coach Rob Senderoff is 8-6 against Miami since taking over the program in 2011-12.
- This is the second meeting against the RedHawks this season, with Miami winning in Oxford, 80-69, in just the third conference game of the season. Kent State was down 23 points at halftime and came back to make it an 11-point game, outscoring Miami, 44-32 in the second half.
- Kent State won its last game, 64-63 at home against Bowling Green on Saturday night. The Golden Flashes improved to 11-3 at home and will at least host a MAC Tournament first round game.
- Kent State still has an outside shot at a first round bye to Cleveland, if the Flashes win both of their remaining games and Eastern Michigan drops its last two.
- Kent State's defense was sensational against Bowling Green, holding the Falcons to 33.8% (23-of-68) from the field. It was the lowest opposition shooting percentage allowed this season against a Division I opponent (Ohio Christian 31.5%). It was the first time Kent State held an opponent under 65 points since falling to Wright State, 63-54, on December 9.
- The Golden Flashes set a new program record with 11 blocks against the Falcons. The previous record was 10 last season against Hiram.
- Sophomore forward Danny Pippen had a monster game with 11 points, eight rebounds and seven blocks. Pippen tied with Khaliq Spicer's seven-block night at Ball State in 2016 as the most blocks by a player in a gram in school history.
- Jaylin Walker leads the team in scoring (17.1 ppg) and scored in double-digits for the 13th consecutive game dropping 10 against Bowling Green. He has 1,152 career points which is 20th in program history. He also ranks sixth in threes (191) in school history.
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