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NCAA Conference Tournament | Falcons @ Golden Flashes

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NCAA Conference Tournament | Falcons @ Golden Flashes

By Don Phillips

Bowling Green Falcons @ Kent St. Golden Flashes

7:00 PM ET, Monday, March 7, 2016
Memorial A&C Center, Kent, Ohio

BOWLING GREEN FALCONS
Record: 14-17 (5-13 Mid-American Conference)
Last Game: L, 83-87 vs. Buffalo (Mar. 4)
Head Coach: Michael Huger (BGSU, 1994)
Huger’s Record: BGSU: 14-17 (1st); Career: Same

KENT STATE GOLDEN FLASHES
Record: 19-12 (10-8 Mid-American Conference)
Last Game: L, 60-74 at Akron (Mar. 4)
Head Coach: Rob Senderoff (Albany, 1995)
Senderoff ’s Record: Kent State: 100-66 (5th); Career: Same

BGSU will be on the road for the first round of the 2016 MAC Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament for just the second time in the last six years. The Falcons last played on the road for the first round of the conference tournament in 2014 when BGSU fell to Northern Illinois 54-51 in overtime. Prior to that, BGSU last played on the road in the first round in 2010 at Western Michigan.

Bowling Green is only 1-5 all-time versus the Kent State Golden Flashes in the two teams’ MAC Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament history. They last met in the postseason event back in 2004, a quarterfinals 79-66 win for the Golden Flashes. BGSU played Kent State in the MAC Championship game in 2002, a 70-59 win for the Golden Flashes.

KSU has won each of the last three meetings between the two teams in the conference event. BGSU’s lone win over the Golden Flashes in MAC Tournament play came in 1994, a 68-58 quarterfinals win at home.

With their loss to Akron in the regular season finale on Friday night, Mar. 4, the Golden Flashes finished the MAC slate at 10-8 overall and in a third-place tie with Buffalo in the MAC East Division. Kent State, who is one win away from win number 20 on the season at 19-12 overall, are 13-2 at home in the M.A.C. Center this year with its last home loss coming to Toledo back on February 6.

Forward Jimmy Hall leads the Golden Flashes with 16.7 points and 8.1 rebounds per game on the season, and has been a Falcon killer this season with 26 points and 16 rebounds in the game at Bowling Green on Jan. 23 and 22 points and nine boards in the home win over the Orange and Brown just one week ago on March 1.

Guard Kellon Thomas is averaging 12.2 points and 2.5 assists per contest for the Golden Flashes, while the big men duo of Chris Ortiz and Khaliq Spicer are combining to averaged 15.0 points, 11.4 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game on the year.

Basketball odds experts at America’s Bookie currently have the Kent State Golden Flashes a 7½-point home favorite with the total set at 141½. If you prefer moneyline betting, you’ll find the Golden Flashes -350 and the Falcons +290, paying well if you believe they can come in and upset the home squad. With March Madness set to take off, keep it locked at the world’s best offshore sportsbook for all your NCAA Basketball betting needs.

Selection: Kent State