Kent State Men’s basketball coach Rob Senderoff led his team on an improbable run through the MAC tournament last week, earning the Flashes a trip to the NCAA Tournament. Kent State is the 14th seed in the South Region and will travel out to Sacramento, California for a first round match-up with the 3rd seeded UCLA Bruins at the newly constructed Golden One Center. The Flashes started playing their best basketball in the second half of the MAC regular season and earned the sixth seed in the conference tournament. They hosted an extremely dangerous Central Michigan club led by the nation’s leading scorer Marcus Keene and edged out the Chippewas in overtime 116-106, to earn a trip to Quickens Loan Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, where they would be faced with the mental and physical challenge of winning three times in three days against the MAC’s elite.
A look back at Kent State’s memorable run to the Elite Eight in 2002
