Ball State Cardinals @ Kent State Golden Flashes

13-6, 4-2 MAC

Final

	1	2	T
Ball State BALL	28	37	65
Kent State KENT	45	41	86

Kent State Golden FlashesKent StateKENT

16-3, 6-0 MAC

Ball State Cardinals

starters
Mickey Pearson Jr.M. Pearson Jr.#3
Payton SparksP. Sparks#5
Jaylin SellersJ. Sellers#12
Jarron ColemanJ. Coleman#0
Demarius JacobsD. Jacobs#1
bench
Basheer JihadB. Jihad#11
Ben HendriksB. Hendriks#34
Kaiyem ClearyK. Cleary#23
Darian Owens-WhiteD. Owens-White#13
Luke BumbaloughL. Bumbalough#2
Jalen WindhamJ. Windham#24
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
25	7	2-4	1-3	2-2	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	1
28	7	3-5	0-0	1-2	2	2	5	0	0	0	2	3
28	11	4-11	1-6	2-2	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	2
29	7	1-9	1-3	4-5	5	1	2	1	0	1	4	2
35	9	2-6	1-4	4-4	8	3	3	0	1	3	5	4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
16	11	3-6	2-3	3-6	4	0	1	0	0	4	0	3
3	3	1-1	0-0	1-2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
3	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
20	8	3-8	2-5	0-0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	3
8	2	0-1	0-0	2-2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	65	19-52	8-24	19-25	31	8	15	3	1	12	19	19
		37%	33%	76%

Kent State Golden Flashes

starters
Miryne ThomasM. Thomas#33
Cli'Ron HornbeakC. Hornbeak#42
Malique JacobsM. Jacobs#2
Giovanni SantiagoG. Santiago#11
Sincere CarryS. Carry#3
bench
Delrecco GillespieD. Gillespie#23
Chris Payton Jr.C. Payton#4
VonCameron DavisV. Davis#1
Akeem OdusipeA. Odusipe #34
Jalen SullingerJ. Sullinger#13
Julius RollinsJ. Rollins#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
17	3	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	5
22	7	3-5	0-0	1-2	9	2	0	0	2	5	4	3
29	11	5-11	0-0	1-2	5	5	3	2	2	3	2	2
30	4	1-3	1-2	1-2	3	3	0	1	0	0	3	4
34	18	6-15	3-8	3-4	2	3	2	1	0	0	2	0
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
9	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	1
16	16	6-6	0-0	4-6	6	0	0	1	2	2	4	3
19	8	1-7	0-3	6-6	5	0	1	0	0	0	5	4
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	13	5-8	2-4	1-1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
2	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	86	30-59	9-21	17-23	36	14	7	8	6	10	26	22
		51%	43%	74%

Game Information

Kent, OH

Referee:Lamont Simpson

Referee:Chris Beaver

Referee:Scott Siville

NCAA Division I

Mid-American Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Miami (OH)	18-0	-	32-2
Akron	17-1	1	29-6
Kent State	14-4	4	24-10
Toledo	11-7	7	19-15
Bowling Green	9-9	9	18-14
Ohio	9-9	9	15-17
Buffalo	7-11	11	17-15
Massachusetts	7-11	11	17-16
Ball State	7-11	11	12-19
Central Michigan	6-12	12	10-21
Western Michigan	4-14	14	10-21
Eastern Michigan	4-14	14	10-21
Northern Illinois	4-14	14	9-21

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