After a nine-day layoff because of COVID-19 rescheduling, the Kent State women return to the court Wednesday at Northern Illinois.
The game has an unusual 11 a.m. (noon Kent time) start and will be broadcast on ESPN+.
Kent State is 2-5 in the Mid-American Conference, with all losses coming by less than 10 points and three of them coming by fewer than five points. The Flashes are 10-6 overall.
After their 65-62 loss at Buffalo on Jan. 15, they were one of only three MAC teams to have played a full schedule over the first four weeks. The rest of the teams have spent the last nine days making up games postponed because of COVID.
NIU is 3-4 in the MAC and 4-9 overall. The Huskies played three games in five days between last Wednesday and Monday, winning two of them.
Northern Illinois guard Chelby Koker, a 5-6 junior, is averaging 18.1 points a game (sixth in the MAC) and leads the league (and is eighth in the country) in free-throw percentage at .921.
NIU junior forward A’Jah Davis leads the MAC in rebounding at 11.9 a game and in field-goal percentage at .516.
Kent and NIU rank first and second in the league in rebounding margin. Kent State has outrebounded every team it has played this season except for a 43-43 tie against Ohio.
In MAC play, Kent State’s leading scorer is freshman forward Bridget Dunn, who averages 13.6 points per game. In all games, the team’s leading scorer is senior Lindsey Thall at 12.8 points per game. Dunn started four games in place of Thall when the senior was recovering from COVID earlier this month.
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