Kent State Golden Flashes Football Tickets

Kent State Golden Flashes is the official name for the athletic teams of Kent State University. They take part in the NCAA Division I (I-A for football) and the Mid-American Conference East division. Kent State currently represents teams in several kinds of sports, such as baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country, field hockey, football, men's golf, women's golf, women's gymnastics, women's soccer, softball, men's track and field, women's track and field, women's volleyball, wrestling.

The Kent University's most acute competitor is the team of the University of Akron, which is situated 10 miles away. Both football teams have taken part in the Wagon Wheel since the year of 1946 and every year since the year of 1972. The University of Akrons squad has lead in this series for several years since 1997 and has won 8 out of the last 10 competitions. The present record of the team is 27-20-1. The latest game, played on September 30, 2006, was pulled off by the Kent State Golden Flashes with the score 37-15 at the Dix Stadium.

Kent State and Akron's men's basketball teams have also competed quite avidly. Kent State keeps a narrow 62-57 edge in the overall series. In the year of 2002 Kent State men's basketball team took the Elite Eight in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. In the regional final they lost to the Indiana Hoosiers, however this year it was the best result of the team in that contest in its history. Both mens and women's basketball programs have been rather successful in the Mid-American Conference, especially in the last ten years. Both teams lead in several division titles, conference competition titles, and moved to the NCAA basketball contest.

Kent State University is the only institution in the conference tournament that had both men's and women's basketball teams playing in the conference games in the same year. It happened 4 times: in 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2006. Besides the teams usually won the competition titles in the same year and moved to the NCAA championships. It happened in 2002 when the mens team won the Bowling Green Falcons and the womens team wan the Ball State Cardinals in Cleveland. Last in it was in 2006, when the mens team won the Toledo team in the championship and to move to the NCAA championship, while the women were defeated by Bowling Green in the championship game.

When speaking about other Kent State Golden Flashes athletic teams, they advanced to the Mid-American Conference and were successful on the national level as well. They are the women's field hockey, baseball, softball, women's golf, men's golf, women's soccer, and women's gymnastics.

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