The Golden Dream: The Story of the 2001-2002 Kent State Men’s Basketball Elite Eight Season

2022 would be the twentieth Anniversary of the 2001-2002 Kent State Males’s Basketball Group’s nice run to the NCAA Event Elite Eight. One of many biggest runs in NCAA Faculty Basketball Historical past by a Mid-Main College. This staff put Kent State on the Faculty Basketball Map.

– Greatest season in program historical past 30-6 file.

– Advancing to the Elite Eight within the NCAA Males’s Basketball Event subject of 64.

– Defeating seventh seed Oklahoma State.

– Upsetting 2nd seeded Alabama and third seeded Pittsburgh earlier than falling to eventual Nationwide Runner-Up Indiana.

The staff set college and Mid-American Convention data for 30 total wins in a season and 17 convention wins. The staff’s 21 sport successful streak set each the MAC and staff data for a single season.

This e book will seize that magical season, 20 years later with emotion, relationships, and tales folks by no means heard earlier than. It can go behind the scenes to seize how this staff was constructed, how this staff rallied after a bumpy begin to the season, the way it got here collectively for one of many biggest runs in Faculty Basketball Historical past, and the way it introduced the complete group collectively.