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2021-22 women's basketball
The KSU women open their season at Northern Kentucky at 7 p.m. Wednesday on ESPN+.

The Flashes are loaded. They return all five starters from the team that finished fifth in the MAC last season despite two shutdowns over COVID-19. They also have their next three top scorers, plus two Power 5 transfers.

But Ohio, Bowling Green and Buffalo also have most everybody back and were picked 1-2-3 in the conference in the coaches poll last week. KSU was picked fourth, Eastern Michigan fifth and Central Michigan, which lost three starters to graduation, sixth.

Returning KSU starters are:

• Junior forward Nila Blackford, a second-team all-MAC player last year and a preseason second-team member this season. She was the only post player on the first or second team. Coach Todd Starkey says Blackford has worked hard on her passing to work out of being double-teamed under the basket. She averaged 15.5 points and 10.6 rebounds a game last season.

• Junior guard Katie Shumate, who was all-conference honorable mention last year despite season-long knee problems. She’s been at 100% in practice, Starkey says. Shumate averaged 12.2 points a game last season/

• Senior forward Lindsey Thall, a member of the MAC’s all-defense team the last two years. She started every game for Kent State in her first three years on campus and has led the league in blocked shots every season. She almost certainly will score her 1,000th career point before Christmas (she has 909).

• Senior point guard Mariah Modkins, who started every game last season, led the team in assists and made 37.1% of her 3-point shots.

• Junior guard Clare Kelly, a top 3-point shooter who was fourth on the team in scoring at 8.8 points per game.

Behind them are five experienced players who could give KSU its first 10-player rotation in Starkey’s six years in Kent. They are:

• Sophomore point guard Casey Santoro, a 2,200-point scorer in high school who averaged 21 minutes a game last season.

• Senior guard Hannah Young, a key backup for three seasons who had 15 rebounds in a game last season.

• Junior guard Abby Ogle, a third-team all-American junior college player in 2020. She played five games for West Virginia last season. Starkey calls her the best passer on the team and a good threat to steal the ball on defense.

• Junior center Bexley Wallace, a 6-3 transfer from Penn State who missed last season with an Achilles tendon injury. Starkey says she’ll likely play in short spurts early in the season. She was a top 100 recruit out of Pickerington Central High School.

• Sophomore center Lexi Jackson, the tallest player on the team at 6-4. She was the first post player off the bench at the end of the 2021-22 season.

Starkey said freshmen Bridget Dunn, a 6-3 all-state forward from Indiana, and Jenna Batsch, a 6-1 guard from Loveland, Ohio, had looked good in practice.

Northern Kentucky is picked fourth in the Horizon League this season after an 8-11 record last year (7-5 in conference play). Guard Lindsey Duvall was named to the preseason all-Horizon first team and guard Ivy Turner to the second team. Forward Grayson Rose made the league all-defensive team last season.

Kent State’s home opener is at 2 p.m. Sunday against Saint Francis of Pennsylvania, which beat the Flashes 67-64 last season and went on to a 14-9 record.

There’s more to catch up on the women’s team, but the headlines are:
• Wednesday is early signing day for the 2022 recruiting class. I know of verbal commitments from all-state guards from Pennsylvania and West Virginia and a power forward from Illinois.
• Starkey signed a contract extension through 2025-26.
• The Flashes will play No. 20 UCLA in the first round of the Gulf Coast Classic, one of the nation’s top non-conference tournaments.
• No. 16 Florida State will play Kent State at the M.A.C. Center on Dec. 21 in the first game of a doubleheader with the KSU men, who will play Cleveland State. The women will tip at 4 p.m.

There’s a little more detail on the blog in posts about the opener and the outlook for the season. It’s at HTTP://wbbFlashes.com.
11-09-2021 10:00 PM
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