The schedule makers didn’t do Bowling Green any favors to start the Mid-American Conference season.
The Falcon men opened MAC play at Buffalo last Saturday with a win in a game that started late as the
second game of a doubleheader and then went into double overtime. Then there was the long bus ride back
to Bowling Green and the start of classes on Monday.
Now the Falcons play at Kent State tonight, one of two Tuesday MAC games. Tipoff is at 7.
"Coaches use the word toughness, but really it is mental toughness," BG head coach Louis Orr
said. "The things you can’t control, scheduling, when you play, you just have to fight through it.
"If you can go on the road at Buffalo and win a double overtime game and persevere and grind through
that, then it helps prepare you for the next test," Orr continued, "When it comes 7 o’clock
we’ve got to dictate the outcome of the game between the lines. We can’t let anything in between really
stop us."
For BG, A’uston Calhoun has scored 90 points and added 27 rebounds in the last six games, with three
games of 20 or more points.
Cameron Black, a 6-foot-10 freshman, will be making a homecoming tonight after playing high school
basketball for his father at Kent Roosevelt.
SCOUTING KENT: Kent State is 9-6 overall, having lost three straight, and 0-1 in the MAC. Kent State lost
its league opener at arch-rival Akron, 65-62.
"They are a team that is going to compete and their expectations are always high," Orr said.
Justin Greene, a 6-8 junior, is averaging 16.2 points and 7.7 rebounds per game and is one of the top big
men in the conference.
"He’s a guy we have to pay a lot of attention to," Orr said about Greene.
Rod Sherman, a 6-3 fifth-year senior, is averaging 12.5 ppg.
Michael Porrini, a 6-2 junior, who has played at Western Carolina and Gulf Coast (Fla.) Community
College, is playing well at point guard.
Kent has not had Carlton Guyton, a 6-4 junior, for the last four games after he was suspended
indefinitely on Dec. 19. He was charged with felony threat after being accused of stealing a car. He was
averaging 12.7 ppg before the suspension and he still leads the team with 24 3-pointers.
NEXT: Bowling Green hosts Miami Sunday with tipoff at 2 p.m.
The Falcons will be wearing throwback jerseys for the game modeled after the uniforms from the
early-1960s.
