20 years later, memorable 2000 Falcons reunite

BOWLING GREEN — The scene was a Huntington, W.Va., hotel, and the news was good.

A few hours winding hours north, Ohio had taken care of Kent State in Athens on the final day of the 1999-2000 Mid-American Conference regular season, and the 81-71 score spread quickly through Bowling Green’s team.

With Kent State’s loss, Bowling Green needed only to beat Marshall to win the MAC title — and the Falcons did just that later the same day, becoming one of only three BGSU men’s basketball teams to win the regular-season MAC championship during the past 35 years.

Twenty years have passed, Marshall is long gone from the MAC, and the players have moved onto careers and families, but they’ll travel down…