Northern Illinois 67, at Kent State 70

KENT, Ohio (Interstat) — In a game defined by its final, frantic seconds, the Kent State women’s basketball team escaped with a narrow 70-67 victory over Northern Illinois on Wednesday night at the Memorial Athletics Center, overcoming a determined effort from the visiting Huskies. The Mid-American Conference contest, played before a crowd of 1,274, saw the Golden Flashes improve to 12-13 overall, while Northern Illinois fell to 5-21. The decisive sequence unfolded in the closing ten seconds with Kent State clinging to a 68-67 lead. Northern Illinois, after a timeout, designed a play for leading scorer Sa’Mahn Johnson, but her… Read more...