You’ll hear narrative after narrative in the coming days as the 2017 NCAA basketball tournament ramps up about David and Goliath. The Mid-American Conference Champion Kent State will be more the former than the latter as they face off against the UCLA Bruins in the South region as a 14th seed on Friday in Sacramento. If Kent State wanted the chance to pull a historic upset, here’s their chance.
To say Kent State was the expected MAC entrant to the tourney would be a somewhat less than correct one, as the Golden Flashes were a 6-seed in the MAC tournament.