The school’s men basketball team is known as the Golden Flashes and in recent years they have become a standard of excellence in the conference holding a league record of 9 straight 20-win seasons.
The Golden Flashes have won five regular season conference titles and four post-season conference tournaments with the MAC.
Kent State has the MAC record for consecutive seasons with double-digit conference wins; in 2002 they finished 17-1 in conference play, setting a MAC record for conference wins in a season.
In the 2002 season the Flashes combined 30 victories which gave them the chance to participate in the NCAA Tournament reaching the Elite 8.
Currently in the 2007-08 season Kent State won the MAC Tournament once again and the bid to the NCAA Tournament in the #9 seed of the Midwest Regional. |