The Golden Flashes played on cruise control against the Bears of the NAIA, which will likely not be the case when Mid-American Conference play begins on the road Saturday at Buffalo.
KENT, Ohio -- Kent State went about its business in ho-hum fashion Monday night, earning a dominant 90-65 victory over Shawnee State at the M.A.C. Center.
It was Kent's first home game in a month, and was played without the services of starting point guard Mike Porrini, who is nursing a sore toe. After the game, Kent coach Rob Senderoff said Porrini should be back at practice later this week, and available for action by the weekend.
The Golden Flashes (10-3) still played on cruise control against the Bears of the NAIA, which will likely not be the case when Mid-American Conference play begins on the road Saturday at Buffalo.
"It is what it is," Senderoff said. "I'm not going to apologize for being 10-3."
A positive sign was the production from seniors Carlton Guyton and Justin Greene. For Guyton, the MAC's sixth man of year last season, his 15 points, four rebounds and five assists came on the heels of an 11-point, seven-rebound, six-assist game at Arkansas State for his best back-to-back outings of the season.
As for Greene, the conference's defending Player of the Year, his 15 points and five rebounds snapped a two-game streak of failing to score double figures. Kent's leading scorer, Randal Holt, was off his game, finishing with eight points on 2 of 10 shooting.
The Bears (7-7) shot 36.1 percent from the floor and committed 17 turnovers. Kent was 47.6 percent from the field, and 22 of 32 from the line with four players in double figures including Chris Evans (13) and Kris Brewer (10).
That Shawnee State scored 65 points and had 15 offensive rebounds was the real downer for Senderoff, who had many goals for his team going into the game.
"We accomplished some of them, some of them we didn't," he said.
Now it is off to Buffalo (6-4), often a house of horrors for KSU. The Bulls this season have one of the best rebounding teams in the nation.
"We got smacked up there last year (79-54)," Greene said. "We got smacked the year before, and we were smacked there my freshman year."
Even at less than 100 percent effort, the Golden Flashes' athleticism was enough to get them a 44-31 halftime lead Monday.
Greene scored all seven of his first-half points at the line, while Eric Gaines worked the baseline for a pair of hoops and knocked down a 3-pointer to help Kent open up a double-digit lead, which got as high as 89-61 late in the second half.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2012/01/kent_state_breezes_to_25-point.html
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