Men's Basketball Hosting Kent State for Final Saturday Home Game of the Season

Saturday, February 14

Muncie, Ind.

2 PM

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Men's Basketball Hosting Kent State for Final Saturday Home Game of the Season

February 13, 2026 | Men's Basketball

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The Ball State men's basketball team remains home to host Kent State at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Worthen Arena.

Mick Tidrow and David Eha are on the ESPN+ broadcast, while Mark Foerster and Scot Bunnell handle the radio call on WMUN 92.5 FM / 1340 AM and on the WMUN app. Links to both broadcasts, tickets and live stats can be found above and on the schedule page.

Ball State (8-16, 3-8 Mid-American Conference) had three players in double figures scoring but fell 63-53 to Buffalo on Wednesday night.

Kent State (18-7, 9-3 MAC) beat Eastern Michigan 95-91 on Tuesday night in its most recent contest.

Head coach Rob Senderoff is in his 15^th season in charge of the Golden Flashes, who were picked to finish third in the MAC preseason poll.

Kent State paces the league in free throws made per game (19.6, No. 8 in NCAA Division I), rebounds per game (40.4, No. 25) and rebounding margin (+6.3) while ranking No. 18 nationally in scoring offense at 86.4 points per game.

Senior Delrecco Gillespie is the national leader in rebounds per game at 11.8 and double-doubles (19) and ranks third in the MAC in scoring (19.0 points per game). Junior guard Cian Medley averages 10.7 points and a conference-most 6.6 assists per game.

Ball State will next hit the road to play at Ohio on Tuesday night.

IT'S BEEN AWHILE: Ball State has played 28 Mid-American Conference games since the last time facing off with Kent State, a contest that saw the Cardinals claim a 75-67 road win over the Golden Flashes on Jan. 4, 2025.

Not including UMass, who joined the conference ahead of this season, Ball State has played every other team in the MAC except for Western Michigan multiple times since the last game
against Kent State. The Cardinals have even played Buffalo four times in that span.

MAXEY MAKING SHOTS: Senior Juwan Maxey made three 3-pointers and scored 11 points on Wednesday against Buffalo, draining multiple triples in consecutive games for his second such stretch of the season.

The guard made two in the Feb. 7 win at Louisiana Monroe, and had three straight games with 3+ triples at the Lafayette Classic in late November.

FISH FINDING HIS WAY: Forward Kayden Fish went for a team and career high 17 points and collected six rebounds in last Saturday's 73-68 win at Louisiana Monroe.

The redshirt sophomore shot 6-for-10 from the field and 5-for-6 on free throws while playing in a season-most 30 minutes. Fish bumped his season averages to 7.5 points and 3.4 rebounds a game with the performance.

BENCH GETTING BUCKETS: Led by Fish's 17 points on Saturday, the Ball State bench scored more than half the team's points with 38 in the win against the Warhawks.

Davion Hill added 14, and Juwan Maxey chipped in seven for the team averaging the fourth-most bench points per game in the MAC (26.6).

SUCCESS OVER THE SUN BELT: Ball State's win at Louisiana Monroe last Saturday clinched the Cardinals' first sweep of the MAC-Sun Belt Challenge, which is in its third season.

A 75-64 win over Louisiana in the season opener was the first leg in the two-game event. Ball State is now 3-0 at home and 1-2 on the road in the Challenge and was one of only three MAC teams to win on Saturday against Sun Belt opponents.

The Cardinals became the first team in the series history with the Warhawks to win on the road, as both teams entered the contest 2-0 at home for a 2-2 split.

LOT OF LEADING SCORERS: Only three teams in NCAA Division I (George Washington, Tarleton State and VCU) feature more different leading scorers in games this season than Ball State's eight.

Armoni Zeigler (eight), Davion Hill (five), Devon Barnes (three), Kayden Fish (two), Joey Hart (two), Elmore James IV (two), Juwan Maxey (two), and Preston Copeland (one) have all led the Cardinals in scoring in at least one game this season.

MILESTONE WATCH: Senior guards Devon Barnes and Juwan Maxey are approaching career scoring milestones in their respective NCAA Division I careers.

Barnes is 10 points away from reaching 1,000, while Maxey needs two to hit the 500-point mark.

WINNING WITH DEFENSE: Ball State's 58-53 win against Northern Illinois on Jan. 24 was the first time the Cardinals have won a game scoring fewer than 60 points since Dec. 21, 2022 against Georgia Southern (58-54).

The last time the program had won a conference game without reaching the 60-point mark was Feb. 16, 2019 vs Akron (57-56).

HILL BIG OFF THE BENCH: Guard Davion Hill scored or assisted on the final 11 points in Ball State's win against Northern Illinois on Jan. 24, finishing the game with team bests in points (18), rebounds (eight) and assists (three).

The strong finish came a game after the Williamsport, Pa., native drove to the lane and finished through contact for the game-winning and-one in Ball State's 68-67 win at Central Michigan on Jan. 21.

Hill ranks second on the team in average points both overall (12.4 per game) and in MAC play (14.2) while shooting 48.3 percent from the field against conference opponents.

ZEIGLER GETTING STRONGER: Junior Armoni Zeigler led the Cardinals in points, rebounds and assists in consecutive games leading up to the Jan. 24 battle vs NIU before tying for a game-high with 18 points and tying a career high with four 3-pointers against the Huskies.

Zeigler averages 15.7 points and 5.1 rebounds a game in MAC play compared to 10.2 points and 4.9 rebounds in the non-conference season. The guard is 13th in the league in scoring and ninth in free throw percentage (82.8) in conference action.

The Amityville, N.Y., native scored a career high 30 points on Jan. 13 at Akron and was the first Cardinal since Jarron Coleman with 30+ points in a game (33 on March 11, 2021 vs Toledo). It was only the fourth 30-point game for a Ball State player in the last nine seasons.

TURNOVER TALK: Ball State committed only eight turnovers in the Jan. 24 triumph vs Northern Illinois a game after limiting giveaways to a season-low five in the win at Central Michigan.

Seven giveaways was the previous season-low on four separate occasions before the game with the Chippewas, and Ball State is the top conference team in turnover margin (+2.6) and taking care of the ball (9.6 turnovers per game) against MAC foes. The Cardinals also give away the second-fewest turnovers per game in the league overall for the full season (10.8).

Ball State kept control of the ball at Bowling Green, giving up only 10 turnovers to a team that averaged more than 16 turnovers forced per game entering the contest for the sixth-most in NCAA Division I.

TV CHANGES GAME DAY: Ball State's home game against Akron originally scheduled for Feb. 21 has been picked up by CBS Sports Network and will now be played at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 20 at Worthen Arena.

The Cardinals topped Ohio 76-71 on Jan. 16 in another Friday night conference contest aired on CBSSN in Muncie.

CARDINALS CLAMPING DOWN ON DEFENSE: Ball State leads the Mid-American Conference in scoring defense (69.8 points per game) and ranks second in fewest fouls committed per game (15.6) and fourth in steals per game (7.7) through the season's first 24 contests.