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(12-28-2020 04:56 PM)cschierh Wrote:  Early-season RPI rankings are always sort of weird, but this year's is weird in a nice way for KSU fans.

Kent State is rated 17th in the nation in one service and 21st in another.

Details are on the blog at https://wbbFlashes.com.

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12-28-2020 10:18 PM
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The women play at Eastern Michigan at noon Saturday in their first game of 2021. The game is on ESPN+.

The teams were last supposed to play in the MAC semifinals last March, but the season was canceled the day before the game.

Kent State is 3-2 on the season and tied for first place in the MAC with Bowling Green, Buffalo and Central Michigan at 2-0. Eastern is 4-3 and 1-1 in the league.

Eastern guard Areanna Combs averages 18.1 points a game. Post player Ce'Nara Skanes, a 6-foot transfer from Florida International, averages 17.6 points and 10 rebounds. She had a school-record 23 rebounds against Tarleton in the Las Vegas Holiday Hoops Classic.

6-2 sophomore forward Nila Blackford leads Kent State in scoring (14.6 points per game) and rebounding (9.4). Her rebounding average is second to Skanes in the MAC.

Full preview is on the blog at https://wbbFlashes.com.
01-01-2021 10:25 PM
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The women stayed undefeated and in a first-place tie the MAC with a 67-61 win at Eastern Michigan.

The Flashes are 3-0 in the league and 4-2 overall. All three of their MAC wins have come against teams with a good chance to finish in the league's first division. Wins against Toledo and Eastern (1-2, 4-4) came on the road.

Nila Blackford had her third double-double in three MAC games with 14 points and 13 rebounds. She's now averaging a double-double on the season.

KSU made eight of 15 3-point attempts, the third time in four games the team has shot above 50% from behind the arc. The Flashes held Eastern to 32% shooting, their best defensive performance of the season.

Mariah Modkins had a career-high 16 points. Clare Kelly, making her first start of the season, had 12, and Linsey Marchese had a career-high 10 points.

Full story is on the blog at https://wbbFlashes.com.
01-02-2021 08:23 PM
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Coach Todd Starkey has tested positive for COVID-19, which led to the postponement of Kent State's Wednesday game against Northern Illinois.

The MAC announced the postponement of the game about noon; Allen Moff of the Record-Courier reported Starkey's illness Tuesday evening.

Moff's story said no other coach or player had tested positive.

KSU's game with Ball State at noon Saturday is still on. Associate head coach Fran Recchia will run the team.

Story is on the blog at https://wbbFlashes.com.
01-05-2021 11:40 PM
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The women are back in action at noon Saturday against Ball State. The game is at the M.A.C. Center, though no fans are allowed. It's on ESPN+.

Ball State, picked third in the MAC this season, is 4-4 and 2-2 in the conference. A week ago, the Cardinals lost to Bowling Green by 34 points in Muncie. On Wednesday they beat Toledo, which had lost only to Kent State, by 17.

Oshlynn Brown, Ball State's all-conference forward, missed the first four games of the season but has had double-doubles in the last three games.

Kent State is 4-2 and 3-0 in the MAC. That puts the Flashes in fourth place. BG, Central Michigan and Buffalo are at 4-0. Kent State has played on fewer conference game; Wednesday's game against Northern Illinois was postponed after KSU coach Todd Starkey tested positive for COVID-19.

Associate head coach Fran Recchia will run the team on Saturday.

Full preview is on the blog at https://wbbFlashes.com. It includes a statistical comparison between the two teams, in case you're a numbers junkie like me.
01-08-2021 09:29 PM
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The women went to 4-0 in the MAC and won their fifth straight game, 70-61 over Ball State (2-3 MAC, 4-5 overall).

The victory leaves Kent State alone in second place in the MAC, a half game behind Central Michigan (5-0, 7-2), which beat Buffalo (4-1, 7-3) 79-63 in Buffalo. Bowling Green (4-1, 8-2) lost at home to to Northern Illinois (2-2, 4-5).

The Flashes are 5-2 overall.

Nila Blackford had her fourth double-double in four MAC games with 20 points and 11 rebounds.

Junior Hannah Young and freshman Casey Santoro each had 12 off the bench. Young also had seven rebounds as the Flashes beat Ball State on the boards 43-33.

Santoro took over at point guard halfway through the second quarter when Mariah hurt her knee in a collision with a BSU player. Kent State outscored Ball State 49-39 when Santoro was running the team. Modkins' injury doesn't seem to be serious; the BSU player left the M.A.C.C. on crutches.

Fran Recchia got her first win as acting head coach. Todd Starkey missed the game — his first in 21 years of coaching — after he tested positive for COVID-19 early in the week.

Full story, including quotes from Recchia and Blackford, is on the blog at https://wbbFlashes.com.
01-09-2021 10:00 PM
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Thanks cschierh! Excellent reports, as always.
01-10-2021 08:07 AM
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The women's two games this week have been postponed because of COVID-19. Practice and other team activities have been suspended.

The Flashes had been scheduled to play at Akron Wednesday and to host Western Michigan on Saturday.

It’s KSU’s third game in the last two weeks postponed because of COVID-19. Last week’s game in Kent against Northern Illinois wasn’t played after coach Todd Starkey tested positive for COVID. No other players or coaches had tested positive at that time. The team played and beat Ball State Saturday.

A KSU statement said team activities had been canceled “following COVID-19 protocols.” It didn’t say whether any individual had the virus.

The statement said the Mid-American Conference was working to reschedule the games, but there's only one bye date on KSU's schedule. Otherwise, games would be made up by playing three games in a week or canceled altogether.

The Flashes are 4-0 and in second place in the MAC.

A story with a few more detailed is on the blog at https://wbbFlashes.com.
01-12-2021 06:09 PM
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They must be closing in on herd immunity. Either our protocols are very tough or they are awfully unlucky.
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Virginia women’s team just threw in the towel. They have been locked down since 12/13 and are 0-5 on the season. ESPN speculated that since they had little or no chance to make the tournament that the effort wasn’t worth it.
01-17-2021 04:09 PM
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San Jose St also shut down, mainly because of the restrictions on Santa Clara county
01-18-2021 08:30 AM
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Kent State's Wednesday game against Toledo was postponed.

It's expected. Quarantine last 10 to 14 days, and Wednesday will be nine or 10 days. Next game is scheduled to be at Northern Illinois Saturday. NIU lost its first two MAC games, then has won four in a row, including beating previously undefeated Bowling Green and Central Michigan.

Kent State is the only undefeated team left in the MAC at 4-0. Buffalo is 5-1; everyone else has lost at least two.

I'm trying to figure out how the league standings will work if teams don't play the same number of games. I suspect it would be like football, where they went by winning percentage if teams played a minimum number of games. To qualify for the NCAA Tournament, a team has to play at least 13 games (half of the maximum 25). If MAC did the same thing, that would be 10. Of course they can always change the rules. (See Ohio State football.)

Vanderbilt canceled its season today. That's three Power 5 teams -- Duke, Virginia and Vanderbilt. Plus San Jose State and Dixie State.
01-18-2021 08:33 PM
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(01-18-2021 08:33 PM)cschierh Wrote:  Kent State's Wednesday game against Toledo was postponed.

It's expected. Quarantine last 10 to 14 days, and Wednesday will be nine or 10 days. Next game is scheduled to be at Northern Illinois Saturday. NIU lost its first two MAC games, then has won four in a row, including beating previously undefeated Bowling Green and Central Michigan.

Kent State is the only undefeated team left in the MAC at 4-0. Buffalo is 5-1; everyone else has lost at least two.

I'm trying to figure out how the league standings will work if teams don't play the same number of games. I suspect it would be like football, where they went by winning percentage if teams played a minimum number of games. To qualify for the NCAA Tournament, a team has to play at least 13 games (half of the maximum 25). If MAC did the same thing, that would be 10. Of course they can always change the rules. (See Ohio State football.)

Vanderbilt canceled its season today. That's three Power 5 teams -- Duke, Virginia and Vanderbilt. Plus San Jose State and Dixie State.

Dixie State?? I guess they will let anyone into Division I.
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Is it true what they say about Dixie?
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Two more women’s games have been postponed. Running out of time to make these up. Might have to pull an NBA and play 4 games in 5 nights.
01-22-2021 02:41 PM
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Any updates on the Women's status? They have missed 5 games in a row. running out of time for makeups
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Wednesday’s game was postponed last week but so far the Saturday game is still on. I think that is a good sign.
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(01-26-2021 10:40 AM)burden Wrote:  Wednesday’s game was postponed last week but so far the Saturday game is still on. I think that is a good sign.

Home against EMU at Noon.
01-26-2021 10:51 AM
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Well at 5:00 PM they postponed the EMU game for tomorrow. I think our season has got to be very close to being over. They have postponed 6 out of the last 7 and the one they played was without their coach.
01-29-2021 05:05 PM
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The postponement was because of COVID on Eastern Michigan's end.

I had talked to Starkey 45 minutes earlier. The team was ready to play tomorrow, though they only had eight healthy players in practice today (four on Wednesday, five on Thursday).

They'll try to keep playing. Starkey said they were looking to play Wednesday at Ohio, earlier if the MAC found an opponent for Sunday or Monday.

Rutgers had eight games in a row canceled and supposed to play Sunday.

I have no idea how the MAC going to do tournament seedings if teams don't play the same number of games. In football, it was winning percentage but a team had to play half of its games. That would be 10.

So far the MAC is so wide open the seedings may not mean much. BG and Buffalo have lost two, and Central, Ball State and NIU three. Eastern and Ohhio are 6-4.

KSU, of course, is 4-0 but has played half as many games as any other team and six fewer than two others.
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