The Kent State Golden Flashes men’s basketball team will be without four contributors— three for the first half of the MAC championship game, and one “indefinitely”— after the Mid-American Conference announced said players would be disciplined for a social media post which aired overnight on Friday following KSU’s semifinal win over Ohio.
The social media video in question was posted to redshirt junior forward DJ Johnson’s Snapchat account with the caption “see they bitch ass in the Championship Game tmmm” while flashing the middle finger, and included him and teammates Malique Jacobs, Cli’Ron Hornbeak and Julius Rollins improvising a rap song directly dissing several members of the Akron Zips men’s basketball team.