The Kent State University community gathered Wednesday at the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center to send off the Golden Flashes to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament. In addition, city of Kent community members also cheered for the men’s basketball team as the team bus went through downtown Kent on its way to the airport. Go Flashes! Kent State will play Indiana University on Friday, March 17, in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in Albany, New York. Tipoff will be at 9:55 p.m. Friday. The game will be aired on TBS and on the Kent State Ra...

Looking for information about Kent State University’s men’s basketball team and the 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament? The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has launched a 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament page to assist Golden Flashes fans. The page includes information about tickets, a pregame reception for Golden Flashes who are making the trip to Albany, New York, and how to listen to the team’s tournament games. Fans can also find a tournament bracket. Watch Parties For those who cannot travel and attend the games in person, watch parties are available so that ...

Bob Rader’s path to becoming a Golden Flash was anything but traditional.  In 2018, the retired chemical engineer needed prostate cancer surgery. He had been treated with radiation for the cancer before, but newly elevated PSA levels signaled that it was time for surgery to stem the cancer’s recurrence.   The surgery, at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, went well. Yet something was wrong.  “I wasn’t coming out of the anesthesia well,” he recalled.  Rader was disoriented and could not answer simple questions or recognize people he knew. He had trouble fee...