Nine years ago, Kent State’s men’s basketball team went 28-7 and to the NCAA tournament with 11 four-year players and two transfers. Current head coach Rob Senderoff was an assistant on that team.
This season just four players joined the Flashes straight out of high school.
Eight are transfers — three from junior colleges, five from four-year schools — including redshirt-senior leading scorer Jimmy Hall and redshirt-senior returning starter Deon Edwin. Two other players spent a year at prep school before entering college. Only six came out of high school.
Senderoff went to the University of Indiana as an assistant after his initial stint with Kent State, but later became the Flashes’ head coach in 2011.