Just like that, it was over.
Less than 24 hours after the women’s basketball team advanced to the Mid-American Conference Tournament semifinals, Kent State’s hope for an NCAA Tournament bid vanished.
“I had a really great feeling after our win against Buffalo,” sophomore forward Lindsey Thall said. “I felt like we could go really far.”
The MAC semifinals would have been the team’s first appearance since 2010. The Flashes were two wins away from their first NCAA bid since 2002.
“Hope is a powerful thing, and so is belief,” Starkey said. “I think we had a lot of hope going into the tournament because we were playing pretty good basketball.