As Northern Illinois University looked to inbound the ball, Kent State sophomore guard Katie Shumate bounced up and down, waving her arms and legs to obscure the inbounder’s vision.
Shumate’s hustle paid off as NIU threw the ball out of bounds and Kent State got the ball back with a two-point lead and nine seconds left.
The Kent State women’s basketball team would go on to defeat NIU 69-65 in DeKalb, Illinois, snapping NIU’s five-game win streak and halting a three-game losing skid for KSU.
The effort by Shumate on that inbound displayed the intensity a frustrated Kent State put forward in a game the Flashes needed to win to stay in the running to make the Mid-American Conference tournament.