The year was 1978 the last time a Power 5 men’s basketball team visited Kent State.
The Bee Gees had the most popular song in America, Johnny Carson ruled the late night airwaves and the Flashes lost at home to No. 18 Illinois, 82-44.
Fast forward nearly 40 years, and coach Rob Senderoff’s Flashes (6-6) played to a much different result, beating visiting Oregon State, 79-78, at the M.A.C. Center in what he described as a landmark win for the mid-major program.
The win comes one year after Kent State shot a woeful 27.6 percent in a loss to the Beavers in Corvallis.