The University of Massachusetts may have been a football-only member of the Mid-American Conference, but the school’s decision to leave the league after the 2015 season will have an impact on Kent State’s men’s basketball team next season.
Under the agreement between UMass and the MAC, the Minutemen were required to schedule MAC teams in men’s and women’s basketball. With that requirement now lifted, Kent State’s men’s basketball game at UMass early in the 2014-15 season was removed from the schedule on Wednesday.
Rob Senderoff and his staff have already started to look for another opponent to fill that open date.
The Golden Flashes men’s basketball schedule already includes road games at Kansas and Kennesaw State. The Golden Flashes may also play in a tournament at UTEP. It also looks like a season-opening game at Youngstown State as part of the newly created Coaches vs. Cancer of Northeast Ohio Tip-Off Doubleheader will happen.
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Kent State will host in 2015 when the Flashes will play Cleveland State while Youngstown State plays against Akron at the M.A.C. Center.
The 2016 games are scheduled to be played at Cleveland State with the 2017 games set for the University of Akron.
The men’s basketball home schedule for 2014-15 will also include the return of former Akron head coach Dan Hipsher to northeast Ohio. Hipsher, who led the Zips from 1995-2004, is now at Texas-Pan America, and his Broncos are slated for a late-December trip to play at the M.A.C. Center.
Other games at the M.A.C. Center will feature Loyola Chicago in a return of the 2013 BracketBuster game and a visit from North Carolina A&T.
Yale, Southern Illinois and Illinois-Chicago will all play at Kent State as part of the Men Against Breast Cancer Classic in November. Yale is currently in the CIT’s Final Four.
MORE ON UMASS ... Kent State's football team will play UMass in its final two seasons in the MAC. The Minutemen are scheduled to visit Dix Stadium on Oct. 11.
The Golden Flashes will play at UMass in 2015, and of course there is a one-in-six chance that game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough will be the Minutemen's final game as a member of the MAC.
MORE ON UMASS ... Kent State's football team will play UMass in its final two seasons in the MAC. The Minutemen are scheduled to visit Dix Stadium on Oct. 11.
The Golden Flashes will play at UMass in 2015, and of course there is a one-in-six chance that game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough will be the Minutemen's final game as a member of the MAC.
AN IMPRESSIVE ALL-OHIO CLASS … Women’s basketball coach Danielle O’Banion is getting some impressive early reviews for her third recruiting class at Kent State.
The Collegiate Girls Scouting Report ranks the incoming class at Kent State No. 3 in the MAC.
All six players in this new class are Ohio natives from winning programs. Add up the records of the high schools where the six played last season and you get a combined mark of 108-17.
Two of the six are McDonalds All-American nominees. Four were All-Ohio selections and three of the six were 1,000-point scorers in their high school careers.
SCHEDULE ROUNDING OUT … The Kent State Women’s Basketball schedule for 2015-16 should be completed in the next week with open dates on Nov. 14 and Dec. 21 expected to be filled.
The schedule tentatively includes home games vs. Youngstown State, Belmont, Arkansas State and Wright State. Road games would include trips to Northwestern, Duquesne, Cleveland State and a tournament at Cal Poly that would feature games with Dartmouth and Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
SPRING FOOTBALL … Paul Haynes will put the Golden Flashes to work in his second spring as head football coach at Kent State beginning April 1 at Dix Stadium.
Mark your calendars to attend this year’s Spring Game on April 26.
NCAA TUNEUP FOR MEN’S GOLF TEAM IN KANSAS… After finishing up spring break in Florida, head coach Herb
Page will take several of the players on his men’s golf roster to Hutchinson, Kan. for a round of golf at famed Prairie Dunes Country Club.
The NCAA Division I Men’s Championships will be held May 23-28 at Prairie Dunes, and Page wants his players to get a chance to become familiar with the course.
This will be the first time Prairie Dunes has hosted the NCAA Division I Men’s Championships. It has played host to the United States Senior Open in 2006, the United States Women’s Open in 2002, the U.S. Senior Amateur in 1995, the U.S. Mid-Amateur in 1988, three United States Women’s Amateurs and a Curtis Cup match in 1986.
Golf Digest rated Prairie Dunes No. 30 on its list of America’s Greatest Golf Courses in 2007-08 while Golf Digest rated it No. 16 in the United States and No. 25 in the world in 2007.
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