In his six years as head basketball coach, Rob Senderoff has never led a team to a .500 mark midseason. The 43-year-old has been a part of teams at Kent State that have finished a season .500, but he has never had the same number of wins and losses this late in a season.
However, after a performance Tuesday at the M.A.C. Center, which he said his team didn’t “play hard enough,” resulting in a 82-69 loss to the State University of New York at Buffalo – the reigning Mid-American Conference champions – Senderoff is faced with the reality of having to strengthen his players, both mentally and physically, despite having 13 regular season games remaining.