Over her last two games (separated by a 25-day COVID-19 layoff), Hannah Young has scored a total of 23 points and grabbed 15 rebounds. Both numbers are twice as many as she put up in KSU’s first six games combined. (Photo from team website.)
The Kent State women return home Saturday to play last-place Miami at noon.
The game is on ESPN+, which costs $5.99 a month. You can sign up after you click on the link. Internet radio starts at 11:45 a.m. You can get live statistics during the game on the KSU website.
Miami (1-11 MAC, 2-14 overall) won its first MAC game Wednesday, beating 10th-place Western Michigan 73-64 in Oxford.
Kent State, which lost 85-70 at Ohio Wednesday, is still technically in first place in the league with a 4-1 record and .800 winning percentage. But the Flashes had seven games postponed in January because of COVID-19 issues. Every other team in the conference has played at least twice as many games. Kent’s game against Ohio was its first in 25 days.
Six Flashes average at least seven points a game in MAC play: Nila Blackford (15.2), Katie Shumate (12.4), Mariah Modkins (10.0), Casey Santoro (9.6), Lindsey Thall (8.4) and Clare Kelly (7.2).
Shumate (23 points), Hannah Young (11 points) and Santoro (10 points) had among their best games of the season against Ohio.
Blackford just missed her fifth straight double-double in MAC play with nine points and nine rebounds. She is tied for first in the conference in rebounding, averaging 12.2 per game.
Miami’s Peyton Scott, a 5-8 point guard who made the MAC all-freshman team a year ago, scored 37 points against Western Michigan. It tied for the sixth highest point total in team history. She is averaging 20.8 points a game in MAC play, sixth in the league.
Freshman wing guard Katie Davidson averages 11.9 points a game for the Redhawks. 6-3 senior forward Kelly McLaughlin averages 11.2 and leads the team in rebounding at 6.9.
The game is the first of three at home this week for the Flashes. They are scheduled to play Toledo at 2 p.m. Monday afternoon in a game rescheduled from an earlier COVID postponement. Wednesday they will play Bowling Green at 6 p.m.
MAC Standings
Through games of Wednesday, Feb. 3.
| MAC W-L | Pct. | Home | Away | All | |
| Kent St | 4-1 | .800 | 2-0 | 2-1 | 5-3 |
| BGSU | 9-3 | .750 | 5-1 | 4-2 | 13-4 |
| Buffalo | 7-3 | .700 | 4-1 | 3-2 | 10-5 |
| Ball St | 7-3 | .700 | 2-2 | 5-1 | 9-5 |
| NIU | 7-3 | .700 | 4-2 | 3-1 | 9-6 |
| CMU | 8-4 | .667 | 4-3 | 4-1 | 10-6 |
| Ohio | 8-4 | .667 | 4-2 | 4-2 | 10-5 |
| EMU | 6-4 | .600 | 2-3 | 4-1 | 9-6 |
| Toledo | 4-7 | .364 | 3-3 | 1-4 | 8-7 |
| Akron | 1-10 | .091 | 1-4 | 0-6 | 4-9 |
| WMU | 1-10 | .091 | 1-4 | 0-6 | 2-11 |
| Miami | 1-11 | .083 | 1-5 | 0-6 | 2-14 |