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Interesting stuff from the KSU Media Day this week.

KSU lost 65 percent of its scoring from last season, including Jordan Korinek, the fifth leading scorer in school history.

Yet coach Todd Starkey thinks his team can average more than 70 points a game this season. That's nine more than last year's 13-19 team (but about the same as the MAC East champion of two years ago.)

Where are the points coming from? He thinks that with more consistency, redshirt junior guard Megan can make a jump from the 10.2 points she averaged last season.

But he made clear he expects most of the punch to come from his freshman class. Three of them -- all guards -- averaged more than 19 points their senior year in high school. Two were players of the year in their states.

I watched practice one day last week. The first thing I saw was 6-2 freshman forward Lindsey Thall (Strongsville High School) hit two straight 24-foot three-pointers in a scrimmage. She was loosely guarded, didn't hesitate and, bam. Freshman point guard Asiah Dingle, last season's Boston Globe player of the year in high school, looks as good as advertised. She may be the team's best point guard since Malika Willoughby. Maybe better than that.

Starkey said the team should be greatly improved in three-point shooting. (Not hard; they made 27 percent last season.) They'll play more up tempo and take chances on defense to generate offense. "Guard play, talent level and depth is significantly better." The team could go eight or 10 deep. Last year it was six.

There's no inside scoring threat like Korinek. I suspect the team will look more like Ohio U's team has for the last four or five years. I'll take that; OU has averaged 23 wins and won two MAC championships in that time.

The question is, of course, can a freshman-dominated team win? Last time I remember that happening at Kent was Bob Lindsay's second year. That was 1990-91.

Averaging 70 points a game hasn't been seen very often recently at the MACC. It's happened three times since 2001.

Full details on press day is on the blog at http://wbbflashes.com.

(There's also a terrific picture from the video introduction they're working on for the season.)