Traveling to Sacramento to face UCLA in round one of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament whet the appetites of Kent State's returning players, setting the stage for an important offseason of work.
"We got a taste of how good life can be," said first-year forward Danny Pippen. "It makes us want to come back and grind even harder during the spring and summer. For freshmen like me, we've seen what it takes to get to the tournament and win the MAC championship in our first year. Now we don't want to accomplish anything less. We want the highest reward.