Lucky? Miracle? Phenomenon?
Call it whatever you want, but after five years of losing, the Kent State women’s basketball team surprised everyone with a 19-13 record to win the Mid-American Conference East title.
Maybe it was a culture change in the making.
Perhaps it was because they had the fourth best scorer in women’s college basketball, Larissa Lurken. Maybe it was the addition of first-year head coach Todd Starkey.
“He came in, and it was like he knew us for years,” senior guard Naddiyah Cross said. “We were like his long-lost daughters. He’s like a dad that yells at you during your game, then has dinner waiting for you when you get home.