<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3rTX2U_1H0C2Ue100" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3rTX2U_1H0C2Ue100" width="1200" height="800" ></figure>The Kent State men’s basketball team fell to 1–2 on the season after a 91-73 loss to the 3-0 UNC Wilmington Seahawks on Wednesday. Head coach Rob Senderoff had high praise for the Seahawks after Kent’s win last week, acknowledging them as a tough opponent. “We have some really good teams in the MAC, but Wilmington is a really good team, picked to win their league,” Senderoff said.The Flashes rolled out with the same starting lineup they had last week, sending sophomore Latif Diouf, sophomore Quinn Woidke, senior Chansey Willis Jr., senior Brenden Moss and senior Jamal Sumlin.The team started off looking better defensively than they did in their first away game against Louisiana Tech, holding UNC Wilmington to under 10 points for almost six full minutes to start the game. The KSU offense could not complement their defense, though and only put up 10 points in that same amount of time. That trend continued for the entire first half as UNCW outscored the Flashes 49-30. Willis Jr. led the scoring for Kent in the first half with only seven points, while shooting three-for-eight. He was also the leader in minutes played with 16. As a team, the Flashes struggled to hit their shots, going just 10-for-33 from the floor. They also continued to rack up too many fouls, hitting 11 in the first half. Senderoff thought the team struggled to get consecutive stops after an early Redhawks run that flipped how the game was going. Their transition defense and Kent’s inability to get the ball in the paint were heavy contributors to their fall. “I thought we did start the game much better,” Senderoff said.The second half of the game provided little to no change in Kent State’s defensive play. UNCW put up 42 points in the second half, headed by their star center, senior Patrick Wessler. Wessler ended the game with 29 points in just 26 minutes, while shooting an incredibly efficient 10-for-11. Despite their lack of defense, the KSU team exploded on offense, putting up 43 points, outscoring UNCW by one. Willis Jr. led this charge after a shaky first half, putting up 19 points in the second half on five-for-nine shooting, a huge jump in efficiency. Willis Jr. was the team’s leading scorer of the game with 26 points, more than double freshman Dhani Miller’s 13 points, which was second on the team. Willis Jr. put in work outside of his scoring, leading the team with three steals.Diouf continues to put on numbers on the boards, tying Sumlin for first on the team in rebounds with six. Willis Jr. and Miller got the team’s only two blocks as the team continued to struggle to stop their opponents from scoring, allowing the Redhawks to shoot 52.6 percent from the field. This is the second time in their three games that KSU allowed their opponents to shoot over 50 percent while hitting under 40 percent themselves. Kent State will now host a 2-1 Eastern Kentucky team on Monday that is also winless on the road early in the season. Senderoff feels the team needs to lock in on their defensive play if they want to win against the Colonels, who put up over 100 points in two of their three games so far this season. “That’s really the bottom line, we have to get better defensively,” Senderoff said. Kent still has time to fix their gameplay before they face their first in-conference opponent Dec. 2 against Bowling Green, but it needs to start against EKU.Michael Elaro is a sports reporter. Contact him at [email protected]</div></body>

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The Kent State men’s basketball team fell to 1–2 on the season after a 91-73 loss to the 3-0 UNC Wilmington Seahawks on Wednesday. Head coach Rob Senderoff had high praise for the Seahawks after Kent’s win last week, acknowledging them as a tough opponent. “We have...

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The Kent State men’s basketball team fell to 1–2 on the season after a 91-73 loss to the 3-0 UNC Wilmington Seahawks on Wednesday. Head coach Rob Senderoff

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