On Saturday, Kent State lost out on a potential trip to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in one of the wildest ways you will ever see.
The Golden Flashes led Akron in the closing seconds of the MAC tournament championship game in Cleveland when guard Julius Rollins fouled Zips guard Greg Tribble. Tribble then stepped up to the free-throw line and hit a pair of foul shots to send Akron to the Big Dance for the second time in three years.
Kent State coach Rob Senderoff’s emotional reaction to Rollins’s mistake drew a lot of attention, but he was quick to back his player in the game’s aftermath.
