Meanwhile, Tod K not happy.

Following tonight's loss, Tod Kowalczyk did not mix words in his opening statement...voicing frustration with how Kent State celebrated after the game. Called the team's action "classless" pic.twitter.com/HdxuQsxnsr

— H. Tyler Seggerman (@TylerSeggerman) February 4, 2026

anyone know what kent did to rile him up so?

This seems to be the issue ...

From the Kent board -

"I was there. End of the game chirping was a big nothing. Sumlin appeared to actually know one of the UT students and was responding to him all night (when the rest of the team was in the locker room for half time ect). Townsend might have been actually chirping but besides that it looked more like a few of our players flexing in that direction with a “what now” face. The whole interaction lasted maybe 7 seconds. It doesn’t help that the visitor bench is shoehorned into their student section. Not ideal, but nothing to blow out of proportion. None of our guys are “thugs” for this and none of their students were outrageously over the line."

TK sounds kind of elitist to me. Perhaps Todd has never had a team come back from a 17-point deficit in the final 9 minutes to win on the road.

I think he and his team would - justifiably - celebrate at the end of the road game if they did the same. Can't get butt-hurt over this, IMO. Road wins are tough to come by in the MAC.

Agree ...

Too much going on during the course of the game/comeback for players to respond to students/hecklers. But after the final whistle, not surprised some players might want to give some back.

Don't condone it. But I do understand it.

Most MAC schools sell tickets to visiting fans/family to sit behind visiting team bench. That cuts down at lot of this kind of stuff. Wonder if Toledo does this.

Hope they don’t lose today. Will take the shine off the Ohio game next Friday and completely upend Miami’s national publicity for them and the conference moving forward rest of season.

Just FYI

According to Kenpom .... Kent State (No. 2) and Miami (No.6) are among the luckiest teams in the NCAA this season. Liberty is No. 1. Next highest MAC team is OHIO at No. 36.

Bowling Green (No. 359 of 365) has had the worst luck of teams in the MAC.

To paraphrase Allen Iverson, "Practice free throws? Is that what you're talking about? Practice free throws?"

UMass loses in 3OT at Coastal Carolina while making 11 of 23 (48%) from the line. Kent St., meanwhile, loses by 1 point at Southern Miss. while making 8 of 18 (44%) at the line.

Then there was the disparity at the line in EMU's 65-60 loss at App St. The Eagles were better at the line (67% to 54%) but had only 6 attempts to App. St.'s 28 foul shots.

Keeping to the foul shooting theme:

UMass losing at CC falls squarely on coach Martin's shoulder. UMass led by 3 in the first OT with under 10 seconds. Instead of fouling, Martin decides to play defense with the CC player hitting a prayer at the buzzer to send it into a second OT.

Finally, a Marshall big man went to the line early in its game with Miami for two free throws. He made both attempts but both were called off because he was called for a lane violation. I don't think I've seen consecutive lane violations on the foul shooter since coaching 7th-grade girls basketball nearly 30 years ago. Question for the official scorers on BA - are you credited for a missed attempt if there is a lane violation? What if the violation is on a teammate?