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Sporting the best non-conference record in the MAC, the women open conference play against Toledo at 7 Wednesday at the M.A.C. Center. Video of the game is being streamed on the KSU website.

The Flashes haven't played since Dec. 11. THeir Dec. 21 game against Florida State was canceled after a COVID-19 outbreak on the team. The team essentially didn't practice between mid-December and Dec. 26, when team members returned from Christmas.

COVID is clobbering the MAC and college basketball in general. Four of six league games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed. 65 Division I women's games scheduled for this week had already been postponed or canceled by Tuesday afternoon.

The Flashes are 8-1. Every other MAC team has lost at least three games.

The team has put up a lot of fancy statistics, but the most impressive is 3-point shooting. The team is shooting 42% from that distance, which is third in Division I and 5 percentage points better than any other MAC team. Casey Santoro is third in Division I at 54.55%. The team is seventh in the country in 3-pointers per game (10.2).

Santoro, Katie Shumate and Hannah Young are 1-2-3 in the MAC in 3-point percentage, all averaging more than 50%.

Toledo is 6-3, but the best team the Rockets have beaten is 4-7. Toledo did play well in close losses to Seton Hall and Dayton. The Rockets lead the MAC in scoring defense, allowing 58.4 points per game. KSU is second at 59.4.

Guard Quinesha Locket averages 18.6 points per game, sixth in the MAC.

The game is the second of a doubleheader with the KSU men, who play Central Michigan at 4:30 p.m. One ticket gets you in both games.

Full game preview is on the blog at HTTP://wbbFlashes.com.