Category: Men’s Basketball
Flashes look to push and share the ball in 2024-2025
Kent State opens the season this Monday at Louisiana as part of the MAC/Sun Belt Challenge. Offensively, the Flashes will look to get back to their identity, to use their defense to create offense and to push in transition for easy baskets. They will look to share the ball, make simple plays and pound the…
Flashes to take I-95 this year
The date was November 12. 2021. The Kent State men’s basketball team was opening their season at the Cintas Center, taking on the tradition rich Xavier Musketeers. Kent State senior forward, and sophomore at the time, Von Cameron Davis played one minute and twenty five seconds in the game. He played eight seconds in the…
Golden Flashes will need to return to defensive mindset in 24-25
Kent State was picked to finish third in the Mid-American Conference on Tuesday as the MAC preseason poll was released. Most publications have the Golden Flashes finishing in the top four in the league, like they have been so often under Head Coach Rob Senderoff. Last season, Kent State limped to an eighth place finish…
KSU Men picked 3rd; Davis on 1st Team
The Kent State men’s basketball team was picked to finish third in the Mid-American Conference Tuesday, as the conference released their preseason poll. Additionally, senior forward VonCameron Davis was picked to be on the first team, while Jalen Sullinger was picked to be on the second team. Head Coach Rob Senderoff said that the plan…
Blue & Gold Collective to help KSU retain and attract talent
As fans know, the landscape of collegiate athletics has changed. Through NIL (name, image, likeness) and the transfer portal, mid-major programs such as Kent State are now faced with unique challenges, but also opportunities. The challenge to retain and recruit players to a program has never been more of a challenge than it is now.…
Flashes seek return to physicality
The Kent State men’s basketball team continues preparation for the upcoming season, with the first game slated for November 4 at Louisiana as part of the MAC/Sun Belt Conference Challenge. Every MAC team will open up their season that night against a Sun Belt opponent. Over the summer is when individuals work on their game.…
Flashes host several for visits
The Kent State men’s basketball program hosted over 25 high school student-athletes and their families this past weekend on campus. The visit included viewing an open practice at the MAC Center of the 2024-2025 Flashes, a tour of campus and the facilities, and it culminated in attending the Homecoming football game with Eastern Michigan. Isaiah…
Flashes picked 2nd by Mid-Major Madness, Davis POY
Mid-Major Madness of midmajormadness.com came out with their Mid-American Conference men’s basketball preview yesterday, and in it they pick the Golden Flashes for second place, behind Ohio. Additionally, VonCameron Davis was chosen as their preseason Player of the Year. “Davis has shown continued growth in his time at KSU. He was the key reason they…
Sendy talks non-conference schedule
Last week the Kent State men’s basketball program released the 2024-2025 non-conference schedule. In a post that appeared on social media, members of the team made drawings of each team’s logo on the schedule, and then asked children at the Kent State Child Development Center to guess the logo. Some of the guesses are humorous…
Windhorst set to return to MAC Center
ESPN NBA sports writer and Kent State alum Brian Windhorst is set to make an appearance at the MAC Center in Kent this Saturday for a Q & A session for all Blue and Gold Collective Gold or Blue status members. The men’s team will work out at 1:00pm and all members are invited to…
Kent State gets their guy in Woidke
The Kent State men’s basketball program secured a verbal commitment from one of the top lead guards in the state of Ohio in the class of 2025 on Thursday when Cleveland Saint Ignatius’ Quinn Woidke pledged to play for the Golden Flashes. The 6-1 dynamic guard took an official visit to Kent State this past…
Woidke talks Kent State visit
Saint Ignatius High School, Class of 2025 guard Quinn Woidke is one of the top combo guards in Ohio and all of the midwest. The 6-1 reigning state champion was in for a visit at Kent State this past weekend. “My visit was awesome,” Woidke said Sunday evening. “Everyone who helped out did a great…
Kent State Men picked 4th by Blue Ribbon, Davis on 1st Team
The Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook is out digitally and is a must have for college basketball fans. With 420 pages, its the most thorough, complete guide out there with in depth quotes from each coach in the country. The publication picked the Kent State men’s basketball team fourth in it’s MAC preseason poll, while…
Townsend commits to Kent State
The Kent State men’s basketball program received a verbal commitment Tuesday evening from class of 2025 wing Jaymen Townsend. Townsend is a 6-6 prospect from Marion, Indiana. Townsend chose the Flashes over offers from Northern Illinois, Valparaiso and NJIT among others. Townsend joins J.D. Tyler (point guard from Chicago) and Landon Vandenwarker (forward from Delaware…
Sullinger returns to Kent State
After social media posts originated this week that showed Jalen Sullinger working out at the MAC Center, Kent State Head Coach Rob Senderoff confirmed Sunday that Sullinger is enrolled as a full time student at KSU and back in the men’s basketball program. Sullinger entered the transfer portal following the 2023-2024 season on March 20.…