A Sea Of Red

Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia


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KSU Convocation Center
Opened in 2005 - Seats 4600




Amir Abdur-Raheem
4th Season as KSU Head Coach


2022-2023 Schedule/Results

Nov 07 - LaGrange ..................................................... W 99-56
Nov 11 - @ Florida ..................................................... L 78-88
Nov 14 - Brewton-Parker ........................................... W 95-36
Nov 18 - vs. SE Louisiana in Boone, NC ...................... W 72-68
Nov 19 - @ Appalachian State .................................... W 71-67
Nov 20 - vs. Campbell in Boone, NC .......................... L 61-85
Nov 26 - @ VCU .......................................................... L 61-64
Dec 02 - @ Mercer ...................................................... W 66-63
Dec 05 - @ Charleston Southern ............................... W 76-65
Dec 12 - @ San Diego State ........................................ L 54-88
Dec 17 - Georgia College ............................................ W 79-55
Dec 20 - USC Upstate ................................................. W 65-56
Dec 23 - @ Indiana ..................................................... L 55-69
Dec 31 - Central Arkansas .......................................... W 82-66
Jan 02 - Eastern Kentucky .......................................... W 79-75
Jan 05 - @ North Florida ............................................. L 86-89
Jan 07 - @ Queens ...................................................... W 76-67
Jan 12 - Jacksonville .................................................. W 81-68
Jan 14 - North Florida ................................................. W 86-72
Jan 19 - @ Stetson ...................................................... W 82-81
Jan 21 - @ FGCU ......................................................... W 65-63
Jan 26 - Austin Peay ................................................... W 84-57
Jan 28 - Lipscomb ...................................................... W 85-72
Feb 02 - @ Bellarmine ................................................ W 90-84
Feb 04 - @ Eastern Kentucky ....................................... L 74-77
Feb 09 - @ Jacksonville State ..................................... W 54-52
Feb 11 - Jacksonville State ......................................... W 74-71
Feb 16 - Liberty .......................................................... 7:00 PM
Feb 18 - Queens
Feb 22 - @ North Alabama
Feb 24 - @ Central Arkansas



Key Player


#3 Chris Youngblood
6' 4" 218 lbs Junior Guard
Thru 27 Games: Averaging 14.5 Pts, 4.7 Rebs & 1.7 Assists + 64-of-148 (43.2%) on 3-Pt Attempts + 86.9 FT%

Very happy to say I’ll be there for this one.

This game makes me nervous for how the rest of the season plays out. Looking at their roster, it's easy to see that there are match-up issues for us potentially. Size and skill-wise, they're easily going to be the toughest test of the season in the conference schedule. Their big man looks like a specimen though. Blake has an inch on him, but he's got 35lbs on Blake and more on Shiloh. Their guards all have size too and can shoot. We have played great team defense this year, but we will need offensive contributions from everyone to win this game. I'd really like to see Venzant and Warfield more involved in the offense. Those guys both came in ranked pretty highly. I saw Venzant hold the ball at the top of the arc with no one around him for almost 2 seconds in the EKU game. No dribble or thought to take a wide-open shot. He was just looking to pass, which I don't understand?

Youngblood is a former 4-star recruit who is finally proving himself at this level. They have recruited a high caliber athletes for several years now and they are coming into form this season.

That said, they barely survived two game with Jax State over the weekend. And if you look at the margins of their league games, you will notice they don't have many blowouts but know how to win tight games.

Sly Fox wrote: ↑February 15th, 2023, 12:17 pm Youngblood is a former 4-star recruit who is finally proving himself at this level. They have recruited a high caliber athletes for several years now and they are coming into form this season.

That said, they barely survived two game with Jax State over the weekend. And if you look at the margins of their league games, you will notice they don't have many blowouts but know how to win tight games.

We saw last MBB and football seasons, that if you're constantly winning tight games eventually it'll catch up to you and you won't win when it matters. Hopefully, this will be that game for Kenny State.

I think we prove who is the undisputed top dog in the ASUN & I think we do it convincingly! We win this game by 14 or more.

I am hoping you are right. We need to play our best defensive game and make shots. If this happens we will be in good shape.

FlamesHighontheTide wrote: ↑February 16th, 2023, 2:59 am I think we prove who is the undisputed top dog in the ASUN & I think we do it convincingly! We win this game by 14 or more.

That's a tall task given they are 11-0 at home.

Chippy wrote: ↑February 16th, 2023, 11:10 am

FlamesHighontheTide wrote: ↑February 16th, 2023, 2:59 am I think we prove who is the undisputed top dog in the ASUN & I think we do it convincingly! We win this game by 14 or more.

That's a tall task given they are 11-0 at home.

I agree!

FlamesHighontheTide wrote: ↑February 16th, 2023, 2:59 am I think we prove who is the undisputed top dog in the ASUN & I think we do it convincingly! We win this game by 14 or more.

I appreciate the optimism, I think there's a very real chance that we smoke them, and I think it's also our best chance. We've had some games where our offense just flows incredibly, which sets our defense up well and we coast.

I don't trust us in a close game, and I think we lose this one if we let it be close. We haven't proven to be great in crunch time, lots of stagnant offense and hero ball in close games. the only exception this year was the last game vs EKU, maybe that shows us turning a corner, but they're obviously more comfortable in those situations than we are.

Hard to tell because we haven’t played yet this year but I could see us winning by 10 +.

Huge game because it’s effectively our NIT bid should we lose in the conference tournament.

I’m not seeing the game on ESPN plus. Anyone else having this issue?

Watching on ESPN+ with no issues.

Hopefully this is the part where we break their will

Really nice and energetic crowd.

They have us playing too fast and it’s making us sloppy

KSU plays like a bunch of thugs. Plus, like 90% of the ASUN, we get to watch a live broadcast from a high school gymnasium.

FlamesHighontheTide wrote: ↑February 16th, 2023, 9:49 pm KSU plays like a bunch of thugs. Plus, like 90% of the ASUN, we get to watch a live broadcast from a high school gymnasium.

I’ve been waiting to see someone play LU physical like this.

Porter has played terrible

Physical is one thing, but some of the excessive bumping and grabbing of jerseys is dirty basketball.

If we lose, we have no one to blame but ourselves. However, the officiating in this game was terrible on both ends.

Defense was bad today. All kennesaw had to do was drive to the basket and it was an automatic whistle. Scouting report on us is clearly to be as physical as possible because we struggle when it turns into a hockey game.

Straight bullied.

Typical Liberty.

Told you we can’t win close games