KENT, Ohio- Kent State will be making its 17th postseason appearance in 21 years, as the men's basketball team has accepted a bid to the 2019 CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT). The Golden Flashes will play a first-round game at the University of Louisiana Monroe on Thursday, March 21 at 8 p.m. in Monroe, La.
The Flashes were the No. 4 seed in last week's Mid-American Conference Tournament and lost, 89-81, to Central Michigan in the quarterfinals.
Kent State will make its fifth appearance in the CIT. The Flashes advanced to the quarterfinals in 2015 by winning on the road at Middle Tennessee State and Texas A&M- Corpus Christi before falling to Northern Arizona, 74-73 in overtime.