In her postgame radio interview, coach Danny O’Banion put it this way:

“This team is starting to figure it out.”

For the second straight game, the Flashes played very well on the road against one of the MAC’s best teams. This time they played Akron (16-4, 6-3 in the MAC), even for 36 minutes before the Zips put things together for a 74-67 victory.

Kent State may actually have played better than it did in Wednesday’s 67-65 loss to Central Michigan. This time the Flashes led by five points several times in the second half. They shot 49 percent from the field for the second straight game. They made 16 of 21 fouls shots (almost 24 percentage points above their season average). And they held Akron, the leading offensive team in the conference, to 39 percent shooting.

So how did they lose? Three statistics and two players:

• The Flashes gave up 15 offensive rebounds, leading to 15 second-chance points for Akron.
• The Flashes had 17 turnovers, not bad for them for seven more than Akron.
• Between the rebounds and turnovers, Akron had 17 more shots than Kent State.
• Akron stars Sina King and Anita Brown, who average 40 points between them, combined for 44 and scored seven critical points with about four minutes to go. After Kent State had come within one point, King hit two foul shots, Brown a layup on a pass from King, then King a three-point field goal. At that point it was 65-59 a minute and a half to go.

 “Overall, I’m very encouraged by our young team and how we’re growing up over these last couple of weeks.  We are really eager to keep knocking and to break through,” O’Banion said.

“The coaches,” she said, “are still sprinting into the office in the morning and the players are sprinting into the gym. We’re eager to get on the bus and look at the film and get better.

The coach’s postgame tweet said:

“Strong rivalry game performance, but didn’t finish. This team is growing guts. It won’t be long.”

Kent State was led by 18 points from freshman forward Jordan Korinek, who played at Akron St. Vincent St. Mary and turned down an offer from Akron to come to Kent State. She made 7 of 11 field goals, 4 of 5 foul shots, and had five rebounds in 37 minutes.

“It’s fun to watch Jordan grow up,” O’Banion said. “She’s playing more physical now than she ever has.”

McKenna Stephens and Larissa Lurken each had 10 points. Cici Shannon had eight points and 11 rebounds, the sixth straight game she’s rebounded in double figures. She was in foul trouble and played just 22 minutes, about 10 minutes fewer than she’s averaged recently.

Notes:

• The games against Central Michigan and Akron were the first times this season Kent State has scored more than 60 points in two straight games. 67 ties for the second highest point total for the Flashes this year. (Highest was 68 in their opening loss to South Dakota State; they also scored 67 in losing by two points at Cleveland State.)
• For the second straight game, the Flashes didn’t block a shot.
• Kent made 17 turnovers, leading to 18 Akron points. Akron made 10 turnovers, leading to 13 KSU points.
• There were 14 lead changes and seven tie scores.
• Senior point guard Mikell Chinn scored six points, her most this season. She also had five assists.
• Kent State had only six offensive rebounds and eight second chance points. Overall, Akron led in rebounding, 34-31.

The Flashes (3-16, 1-7) are back in the MAC Center Wednesday to play against Eastern Michigan. which is 10-9, 3-5 in the MAC after a 75-53 loss to Buffalo at home Saturday. Buffalo, the preseason favorite in the East, is 11-8, 4-4.

Other Saturday MAC scores:

• Ohio (17-3, 8-1) 74, Central Michigan (10-9, 5-3) 66, at Central Michigan.
• Western Michigan (14-6, 7-2) 61, Miami (3-17, 0-9) 53, at Miami.
• Northern Illinois (9-10, 4-4) 65, Ball State (10-10, 6-3) 62, at Ball State.
• Toledo (12-7, 5-3) 64, Bowling Green (9-11, 2-7) 48, at Bowling Green.

Full KSU box score is here. Full MAC standings here.

You’d think Akron would have had to rebuilt some this year.

The Zips lost five seniors — three of them full-time starters — from a team that that won 23 games and the MAC tournament.

But they’ve got the second best record in the MAC.

Thank Sina King for a lot of that. King, a 6-foot redshirt senior forward, missed last senior with life-threatening blood clots. She’s come back thiis year to average 20.6 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. She has had 10 double-doubles and is the current MAC East player of the week.

Thank also junior Anita Brown, a 5-8 sophomore guard who is averaging 19.3 points per game.

King and Brown make Akron only one of two teams in the nation who have two scorers in the country’s top 40. The other team is Ohiio State (Kelsey Mitchell and Ameryst Alston.)

Akron is 15-4, 5-3 in the MAC. The Zips have trail first-place Ohio by two games in the MAC East and lost to Ohio 72-60 on Wednesday. They won their first 10 games this season. But they’ve beaten only two teams with winning records this season. They’re schedule strength is 202nd in the country (out of 349).

Akron dominates the MAC statistically on offense. The Zips lead the conference in scoring offense (77.7), field-goal percentage (.454), rebounding margin (+3.6), assists (17.2), assist/turnover ratio (1.2) and defensive rebounds (29.0), while ranking second in scoring margin (+12.6) and three-point percentage (.327).

Defensively, KSU is close to last in most of those categories.

The Flashes are coming off of their best games of the season. They lost to MAC West power Central Michigan 65-63 in Mount Pleasant Wednesday, coming within three fouls shots and a last-second three-point attempt.

The game is starts at 2 p.m. at the James A. Rhodes Arena. Audio starts at 1:50 on Golden Flash iHeart Radio. You can get video and live statistics through the Akron website.

The Flashes head to Akron this weekend to face a team with a better record than the one that  one the MAC tournament last year.

The Zips lost their top three scorers from that team — forward Rebecca Tecca, who was MAC player of the year as a junior;

(7-10, 3-4)Lots of story lines in Kent State’s heartbreaking 65-63 loss at Central Michigan Wednesday:

• There’s not much doubt it was KSU’s best game of the season. Only once this season had the Flashes come this anywhere near this close to beating a team with a winning record. That was a two-point loss at Cleveland State, a good team but not nearly as good as Central Michigan. CMU was the overwhelming preseason pick to win the MAC. It has had some costly injuries but still is a half game out of first in the MAC West, having only lost to the two best teams in the East. Kent hasn’t come this close to beating a MAC team with a winning record in four seasons.
• When Kent State shoots well and keeps turnovers down, it’s very competitive. The Flashes made 45 percent of their field goals in Wednesday’s game (49 percent in the second half). They had 18 turnovers overall but only five in the second half. They actually outscored Central 14-7 in points off turnovers in the second half. In the first half, though, CMU outscored Kent 15-2 off turnovers.
• Foul shooting is killing this team. This was the third or fourth game this season it lost at the line. Part of that was the fact Kent State got to the line only five times. It made only one, including four misses by Larissa Lurken in the last minute. One of those misses was intentional. Kent was trailing by three points when she was fouled on a three-point shot with 1.5 seconds to go. She made the first and missed the second, so she deliberately missed the third. Kent’s 5-6 Nadia Cross miraculously got the rebound and fed it to Madison Ridout, but her three-pointer bounced off the rim. Cross was very open herself but probably didn’t realize it.
• KSU was behind 35-26 at halftime and trailed by 10 with 10 minutes t go.
• Lurken, who is Kent’s leading scorer, had 18 points for the second game in a row. If she’s not scoring, KSU doesn’t have much of a chance. But she still is struggling shooting. She was 7 of 18 Wednesday (3 of 11 on three-pointers) and, as noted 1 for 4 on foul shooting. For the season, she’s making just 31 percent of her field goals (26 percent three-pointers) and 55 percent of her foul shots. Last year she made 78 percent of her foul shots and 33 percent of three-points (but still 31 percent of field goals).
• Freshman forward Jordan Korinek, who struggled in December and early January, is playing much better. She had 14 points on 7 of 10 shooting and had six rebounds. She’s playing the third highest number of minutes of any KSU player. (Lurken is first, guard Krista White second.)
• Cross, also a freshman, had the best game of her career. She had 10 points on 4 of 7 shooting (including 2 of 2 three-pointers), eight assists, three steals and three turnovers. It seems she’s looking to score more.
• Cici Shannon had 12 rebounds, her fourth straight game in double figures, and eight points (but made only 4 of 11 shots).
• Freshman Madison Ridout had six points on two three-pointers and played 16 minutes.
• KSU had eight three-pointers, its most of the season, on 18 attempts.
• Kent State outrebounded CMU 36-32 and actually had more baskets (27 to 23). It lost the game at the foul line, where the Chippewas made 10 of 17 shots. (Remember Kent made only one.) KSU had 17 assists, Central 14.
• CMU star Chrystal Bradford, who had played relatively poorly in Central’s losses to Ohio and Akron, scored 31 points on 11 of 19 shooting.
• Coach Danny O’Banion called the loss “bittersweet” in her postgame radio interview. “We never celebrate moral victories but sure can build off of this,” she said.

Kent, now 1-6 and 3-15 in the MAC, plays at Akron at 2 p.m. Saturday.

MAC scores from Wednesday:

• Ohio (16-3, 7-1 MAC) 72, Akron (15-4, 5-3) 60, at Ohio.
• Western Michigan (13-8, 6-2) 83, Eastern Michigan (10-8, 3-4) 56, at Western.
• Ball State (10-9, 6-2) 72, Miami (3-16, 0-8) 55, at Miami.
• Northern Illinois (7-10, 3-4) 67, Bowling Green (9-10, 2-6) 50, at Northern.

Full box here. Full standings here.

Kent State travels to Central Michigan Wednesday to face a team that was supposed to be the best team in the MAC.

Central, which is 4-2 in the MAC and 9-8 overall, still figures to be very good.

But the Chippews have lost two straight games to the best teams in the MAC East. They lost to Ohio 71-51 at Ohio last Wednesday. Ohio is the surprise team of the conference with a 15-3 record, 5-1 in the MAC. Then Central Michigan lost to Akron 74-72 Saturday in Mount Pleasant. Akron is also 15-3, 5-2 in the MAC.

Central had just lost its starting point guard to a knee injury when it beat Kent State 83-62 Jan. 3. Still a senior dominated team, the Chippewas won four games in a row before the losses to Ohio and Akron.

Central had major problems shooting foul shots in both losses, making only a total of 17 of 32 shots. It made only 3 of 9 in the six-point loss to Akron.

CMU’s star Chrystal Bradford, the 2013-14 MAC player of the year, struggled in both of those games, going only 7 for 39 from the field.

Kent State is 3-14, 1-5 in the MAC.It is coming off of a 78-55 loss to Western Michigan. It was KSU’s second-worst margin of defeat this season. (Duquesne beat the Flashes by 26.) Larissa Lurken played her best game in a month to lead Kent State with 18 points.

The game is at 7 p.m. Audio starts at 6:50 on Golden Flash iHeart Radio and 640AM WHLO. Video is on ESPN3, Live statistics are through the CMU website.

Uupdated with extra O’Banion quote and OU score)

After four minutes of Kent State’s game with Western Michigan Saturday, the Flashes could have been good shape.

They led 3-2. Western’s best player, forward Miracle Woods, had picked up two fouls trying to guard KSU’s Cici Shannon in the post. Then Western’s leading rebounder, Michelle O’Brien, picked cup her second foul trying to guard Shannon.

And then things went very wrong.

WMU’s A.J. Johnson hit a three-point basket.

Kent State made four turnovers in the next four minutes.

But the score was still 5-3.

Then Meredith Shipman hit a three-pointer. 8-3.

By the time there was eight minutes to go in the half, it was 15-6, and the game was effectively over.

Western’s second string front line held Shannon, who was coming off three straight double-double, to zero points and just one just in the first half. The score 38-22 at halftime and grew to as many as 33 points in the second half.

The final score was 78-55. Kent is now 1-5 in the MAC, 3-14 overall. Western is 5-2 in the conference, 12-6 overall.

Notes:

• In her postgame radio interview, coach Danny O’Banion said she thought the early turnovers were key. “We only attempted 19 shots and turned the ball over 12 times,” she said. “We can’t give away that many positions.”
• O’Banion said Kent State knew that Western — and everyone else — would collapse around Shannon, and KSU didn’t do a good job getting other people to score. She said she was happy that Larissa Lurken, who had been struggling badly, scored again.
• Lurken had 18 points on 4 of 10 shooting (3 of 7 three-pointers). She made 7 of 8 foul shots. She had scored only 15 points in the previous games combined and was shooting below 50 percent from the foul line going into the game.
• Overall for the game, Kent was 21 for 26 on foul shots (81 percent), its best performance of the year by far. It had made only 56 percent of its shots before the game.
• Shannon had 10 rebounds — her fourth straight game in double figures. But she didn’t score until there were nine minutes left in the game and finished with seven points.
• Shannon and Kent’s other post players had a total of only 14 points.
• Kent State had 23 turnovers, leading to 24 Bronco points.
• Western Michigan outscored Kent  34-18 in the paint, mostly on drives to the basket and breakaways. The Broncos had  20 fast-break points, which is a huge number. It’s rare for a team to have double digits.
• Kent State was outrebounded 35-26 despite the foul trouble for Western’s two leading rebounders.
• Four Broncos, including Woods ands O’Brien, scored in double figures.

The Flashes play at Central Michigan Wednesday. The Chippewas (9-8, 4-2), who are tied for the MAC West lead, lost to Akron Saturday in Mount Pleasant, 74-72. Akron (15-3, 5-2) is a game behind Ohio in the MAC East.

Other Saturday MAC scores:

• Ohio (15-3, 6-1) 60, Ball State (9-9, 5-2) 53, at Ball State.
• Bowling Green (9-9, 2-5) 66, Miami (3-15, 0-7) 53, at Bowling Green.
• Buffalo (10-8, 3-4) 47, Northern Illinois (6-10, 2-4) 43, at Buffalo.
• Eastern Michigan (10-7, 3-3) 75, Toledo (11-7, 4-3) 61, at Toledo.

KSU box score is here. Full MAC standings are here..

It just hit me that I hadn’t done a preview for the Western Michigan game today (Saturday).

It’s at 2 p.m. at the MACC. Coach Danny O’Banion has said she’s hoping for a good crowd. After Kent State beat Bowling Green at home two weeks ago, the BG coach talked of a “hostile environment,” where her team had trouble hearing play calls.

Western is 11-6, 4-2 in the MAC. It has played very well at home (7-1), but is 3-5 on the road. Three of those losses have come to Michigan, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Ohio State.

Kent State’s biggest win last year came at Western when the Flashes outscored WMU 21-3 over the last seven minutes in a 57-48 victory.

Western’s top player is 6-foot junior forward Miracle Woods, who is averaging 13.7 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. Its top rebounder is 5-10 senior forward Michelle O’Brien, who is averaging 7 per game.

Kent State’s 6-4 senior center, Cici Shannon, has moved into a tie with Larissa Lurken as the Flashes’ leading scorer. Both average 9.9 points per game. Shannon has had a double-double for three games in a row while Lurken has score only 14 points total in those three games, going 5 for 26 from the field. She didn’t start at Northern Illinois last Saturday, the first time she hasn’t started at KSU when she was healthy. She still played 28 minutes.

“Larissa is a much better player than she’s showing right now,” O’Banion said in her post-game radio interview Saturday. “But being a better player doesn’t mean anything if you’re not a more productive player.”

Kent State is 3-12 on the season, 1-4 in the MAC. Miami is the only MAC team without a conference victory. Kent and Bowling Green are the only teams with one win.

Here’s a look at how Kent State stacks up to the rest of the MAC as a team. I’ll look at individual stats another time.

SCORING MARGIN: (1) Akron  +15.9. (2) Ohio  +15.3. (11) Kent State -12.1. (The MAC has 12 teams.)

SCORING AVERAGE: (1). Akron 79.3. (2) Ohio 72.8. (11) Kent State 54.7.

FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE: (1) Akron 46.4. (2) Ball State 42.4. (5) Kent State 40.1.

THREE-POINT FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE: (1) Ohio 36.0. (2) Akron 33.3. (9) Kent State 27.3.

THREE-POINT FIELD GOALS PER GAME: (1) Ohio 9.7. (2) Bowling Green 6.5. (12) Kent State 2.8.

FREE THROW PERCENTAGE: (1) Bowling Green 78.9. (2) Toledo 74.9. (12) Kent State 56.4.

A little analysis: Kent State’s field goal shooting is the best it’s been in several years. But its three-point percentage (27.6) is very low and it takes and makes very few three-point shots at all. That leads to the packed zone defenses the Flashes face all the time. Its free-throw percentage is awful — 9 percentage points below the next worst team in the league (Ohio).

It also seems that a team with the fifth best shooting percentage would be scoring more points. The lack of three-pointers is part of that. But the Flashes have taken the fourth fewest number of shots in the conference. Part of the reason for that is turnovers. But offsetting that is the fact that KSU is one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the conference. (More on those stats below)

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SCORING DEFENSE: (1) Northern Illinois 54.6. (2) Western Michigan 56.6. (10) Kens State 66.8.

FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE DEFENSE: (1) Ohio 34.2). (2) Buffalo 36.0. (12) Kent State 41.7.

THREE-POINT DEFENSE: (1) Buffalo 23.6. (2) Bowling Green 26.7. (12) Kent State 34.5.

Kent’s field goal defense — both two and three-pointers — is among the worst in the conference. It may be KSU is losing more because of defense as because of offense.

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REBOUNDING MARGIN: (1) Easternn Michigan +4.2. (2) Akron +4.2. (4) Kent State +2.0.

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS: (1) Eastern Michigan 16.6. (2) Buffalo 16.1. (3) Kent State 14.6.

DEFENSIVE REBOUNDS: (1) Akron 29.4. (2) Eastern Michigan 29.0. (12) Kent State 22.6.

DEFENSIVE REBOUNDING PERCENTAGE (percent of opponents’ missed shots team rebounding: (1) Ohiio 70.3. (2) Central Michigan 69.3. (11) Kent State 62.6.

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDING PERCENTAGE (percent of team’s own missed shots it rebounded): (1) Kent State 40.2. (2) Eastern Michigan 37.4. (12) Ball State 62.2.

BLOCKED SHOTS: (1) Buffalo 4.3. (2) Central Michigan 4.2. (3) Kent State 4.1.

The rebounding percentage — sort of a complicated stat — essentially shows that Kent State is giving up a lot of second-chance shots. (There’s no season stat on second-chance points that I can find, but we can infer KSU gives up a lot, I think.) You’d think that a team with Kent’s height would be better.

Kent gets the most offensive rebounds in the conference. How can it get all those offensive rebounds but not the defensive ones?

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ASSISTS: (1) Akron 17.3. (2) Ball State 14.3. (6) Kent State 12.4.

PERCENTAGE OF BASKETS WITH ASSISTS: (1) Ball State 64.9. (2) Northern Illinois 64.3. (7) Kent State 56.3.

TURNOVERS: (1) Buffalo 20.1. (2) Miami 18.8. (3) Kent State 18.6.

TURNOVER MARGIN: (1) Ohio +6.1. (2) Northern Illinois +4.6. (11) Kent State -4.8.

ASSIST/TURNOVER RATIO: (1) Akron 1.3. (2) Northern Illinois 1.1. (8) Kent State 0.7.

STEALS: (1) Buffalo 11.7. (2) Eastern Michigan 10.0. (8) Kent State 6.6.

Its turnover margin is bad, though not as bad as it’s been in recent years. The percent of baskets with assists is a statistic I created because Kent’s men’s and women’s broadcasters look at it a lot. KSU’s is pretty good, which I think shows that it’s running its offense. Kent’s assist/turnover percentage — at eighth in the conference — is better than I thought it would be. That’s because of the increased number of assists.

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ATTENDANCE: (1) Toledo 3,604. (2) Bowling Green 1,891. (11) Kent State 567.

In the early 2000s, Kent averaged 1,200 or so a game, which was second to Toledo.

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You can find the full MAC statistics, including standings, on the conference website.

There are no more undefeated teams in MAC play.

Central Michigan and Ball State, which both had been 4-0, both lost on the road Saturday.

Central was beaten badly by Ohio, the most surprising team in the league. The Bobcats beat CMU 71-51 and are now 13-3, 4-1 in the MAC. A year ago they were 4-14, the same record at Kent State. I’ll try to do a separate post later on what has created the turnaround.

Central Michigan is 9-7, 4-1 in the MAC.

Ball State, which beat KSU badly in Muncie Wednesday, lost to Buffalo 53-43 at Buffalo. The Cardinals are now 4-1 in the MAC, 8-8 overall. Buffalo, which was the preseason pick to win the MAC East, is 9-7, 2-3.

Other Saturday scores:

Akron (14-2, 4-1) 65, Miami (3-13, 0-5) 47, at Miami.

Eastern Michigan (8-7, 1-3) 64, Bowling Green (8-8, 1-4) 52, at Eastern Michigan.

Toledo (10-6, 3-2) 65, Western Michigan (10-6, 3-2) 46, at Western Michigan.

Kent State (3-13, 1-4), which lost at Northern Illinois (6-8, 2-2), has a midweek bye and plays Western Michigan at home Saturday.

Five reasons Kent State lost 66-49 at Northern Illinois Saturday:

1. KSU had its game plan defensively. NIU just beat it. Statistically, Northern is the worst shooting team in the MAC. The Flashes’ plan was to let the Huskies shoot from the outside. NIU’s percentage — 35 — wasn’t great. But it made a lot of 15- to 17-foot shots, and it made five three-pointers, two more than its average.

2. Despite NIU’s collapsing on KSU post playes, Kent’s guards just didn’t score. Melanee Stubbs, Larissa Lurken and Krista White combined to go 5 for 23. “If we even had the slightest help on our guard perimeter, we’d be a better team,” coach Danny O’Banion said in her radio interview after the game.

3. Kent State had its common problem with turnovers. It had 19, leading to 15 Northern Illinois points. NIU had only six turnovers.

4. After playing a good stretch for about 10 minutes in the first half, the Flashes let the NIU take the game away. NIU went out to an 11-4 lead in the first four minutes. Kent State came back and trailed only 24-23 with four minutes to go in the half, but the Huskies outscored 8-2 in the last three minutes of the first half. Then Northern Illinois outscored KSU 12-2 in the first four minutes of the second half.

5. NIU played very good defense. Besides forcing the turnovers, the Huskies kept Kent State to just seven assists. KSU never could run its offense.

Notes:

• Cici Shannon had her third straight double-double with 13 points and 16 rebounds. But NIU collapsed two or three players on her every time she got the ball and she was clearly frustrated at times. Shannon also had four blocks.
• Jordan Korinek had 15 points, a career high, and six rebounds.
• Neither Korinek, Lurken nor White started as O’Banion shook up the line-up after Kent State’s 29-point defeat at Ball State Wednesday.
• Redshirt freshman McKenna Stephens started her first game but didn’t score. She did have five rebounds in 14 minutes.
• Freshman point guard Nadia Cross had nine points, a career high. But she had five turnovers and only one assist.

Northern Illinois, Kent’s Saturday opponent, scores the fewest points in the MAC (53.6). It has the second lowest field goal percentage (36%) in the conference and the lowest three-point field goal percentage (22%).

Kent State, unfortunately, isn’t much better. The Flashes score the second fewest points (55.1). The Flashes have shot the ball better — 40 percent on field goals overall, 27 percent on three-pointers.

A difference, however, is that NIU has the best defense in the conference statistically. It gives up only 54.9 points per game. It has held opponents to 38 percent shooting (seventh best in the MAC) and 29 percent on three-pointers, (eighth best). (As I look at those statistics, I suspect part the reason of NIU’s low average is because it takes them longer to get shots off.)

Kent State coach Danny O’Banion called their defense “tremendous” in her radio interview after KSU’s loss to Ball State Wednesday.

She did say NIU played almost total man-to-man defense, which she said would be good for the Flashes. Kent State overwhelmingly has faced zone defenses for several seasons because it doesn’t score well from outside. Against a man to man, Kent State’s taller front line may be able to score more.

But in any event, we shouldn’t expect a shootout in Dekalb on Saturday.

Northern Illinois is 5-8, 1-2 in the MAC and 3-1 at home. Its MAC victory came at home in overtime against Eastern Michigan, which is 0-3 and 7-7 overall.

Kent State is 3-12, 1-3 in the MAC and 1-7 on the road.

Northern Illinois’ tallest starter is 6-1 freshman Renee Sladek, who averages 8 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. None of its other starters are taller than 5-11. Two of its starting guards are 5-6. Kent center Cici Shannon, who is 6-4, and forward Jordan Korinek, who is 6-2, have done well against smaller line-ups this season.

The game starts at 2 p.m. and will be on ESPN3, which you can get on computer if you’re get ESPN on cable or DirectTV. Audeo starts on Golden Flash iHeart Radio at 1:50 p.m. Kent time.