Sport: | women's basketball |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | Kent State Golden Flashes |
Conference: | Mid-American Conference |
Short Conf: | MAC |
Record: | 21–12 |
Conf Record: | 13–5 |
Head Coach: | Todd Starkey |
Hc Year: | 8th |
Assoc Coach: | Fran Recchia |
Asst Coach1: | Alexa Golden |
Asst Coach2: | Paige Salisbury |
Arena: | MAC Center |
Champion: | MAC tournament champions |
Tourney: | NCAA tournament, first round |
The 2023–24 Kent State Golden Flashes women's basketball team represented Kent State University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Golden Flashes, led by eighth-year head coach Todd Starkey, played their home games at the MAC Center in Kent, Ohio, as members of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The team finished the regular season at 18–10 and finished third in the Mid-American Conference with a 13–5 record in conference play. In the 2024 MAC women's basketball tournament, Kent State defeated Northern Illinois,[1] Ball State[2] and Buffalo[3] to win their fourth MAC tournament title and first since 2002, and advance to the 2024 NCAA tournament. In the NCAA tournament, Kent State was seeded 15th in the Albany 1 region and fell to second-seeded Notre Dame in the first round[4] to finish the season at 21–11.[5]
The Golden Flashes finished the 2022–23 season 21–11, 12–6 in MAC play, to finish in fourth place.[6] In the MAC tournament, they defeated Northern Illinois in the quarterfinals,[7] before falling to top-seeded and eventual tournament champions Toledo in the semifinals.[8] They received an at-large bid into the WNIT,[9] where they lost to Syracuse in the first round.[10]
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