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KENT, Ohio - The Kent State University men's basketball team hosts Northern Illinois on Monday, March 4th at 7 p.m. at the M.A.C. Center in the first round of the MAC Tournament. The Golden Flashes are looking to repeat as tournament champions and earn the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year. Kent State is the five seed in this year's tournament and will host the 12th-seeded Huskies. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3 and the Kent Stats IMG Sports Network.
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Home: #5 Kent State Golden Flashes - 15-16, 9-9 MAC
Visitor: #12 Northern Illinois Huskies - 13-18, 6-12 MAC
Tip: Monday, Mar. 4, 2018 at 7 p.m.
Venue: M.A.C. Center, capacity - 6,327
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- The Kent State men's basketball team embarks in postseason play on Tuesday, March 6th when it hosts Northern Illinois in the first round of the MAC Tournament at 7 p.m. at the M.AC. Center.
- Kent State is the #5 seed in this year's tournament a year after winning the tournament as the #6 seed.
- The Flashes had a chance at a MAC Tournament bye since Northern Illinois beat Ball State and Eastern Michigan defeated Toledo, but KSU fell on the road to Akron on Friday, 67-65.
- This is only the second meeting in the MAC Tournament between the two programs. Kent State won a first round game, 64-61, in 2009 in Cleveland. Kent State is 3-2 in first round games.
- The Golden Flashes have a 38-39 all-time record in the MAC Tournament.
- Kent State is 36-19 all time against Northern Illinois and 20-6 at home.
- Head coach Rob Senderoff is 6-3 against the Huskies since taking over the program in 2011-12.
- Kent State is 12-3 at home this season, a 13th home win would be the most since 2015-16.
- Northern Illinois won the only prior meeting this season, 75-61, in DeKalb on January 2nd.
- The Flashes are coming off a road setback, 67-65, against Akron. Kent State finished the regular season just 2-11 on the road, the fewest road wins in a season since 1995-96.
- Senior guard Kevin Zabo led Kent State in all three major offensive statististical categories with 16 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Zabo was a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line.
- Kent State was called for 25 fouls against the Zips, the most in conference play. The Flashes led by four with six minutes left, but came back without making a field goal the rest of the way and attempted 25 second half three throws to 20 field goals.
- Jaylin Walker leads the team in scoring (17.0 ppg) and scored in double-digits for the 15th consecutive game, dropping 15 against Akron. He has 1,182 career points which is 19th in program history. He also ranks sixth in threes (195) in school history.
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