Current:Home > StocksKent State coach Rob Senderoff rallies around player who made costly foul in loss to Akron -MacroWatch
Kent State coach Rob Senderoff rallies around player who made costly foul in loss to Akron
View
Date:2025-04-11 20:54:51
Kent State men's basketball coach Rob Senderoff is backing his player who mistakenly made a costly foul in a 62-61 loss to Akron on Saturday night.
Kent State went up 61-60 in the MAC Tournament championship game after center Cli'Ron Hornbeak made a dunk with five seconds remaining. Akron inbounded the ball and Kent State guard Julius Rollins immediately fouled Akron guard Greg Tribble in the backcourt with 4.8 seconds left.
Senderoff and other Kent State players appeared to be in disbelief after the foul.
"He probably thought we were down one, instead of up one," Senderoff explained after the game.
The Golden Flashes didn't have a foul to give and sent Tribble to the free throw line, where he knocked down both free throws to take the lead 62-61. Kent State guard Jalen Sullinger got a shot off with one second remaining, but missed what would have been the game winner.
IT'S BRACKET MADNESS: Enter USA TODAY's NCAA tournament bracket contest for a chance at $1 million prize.
AUTOMATIC BIDS: Who has clinched a berth in the NCAA Tournament?
If Kent State would have held onto the lead and won, it would have secured back-to-back MAC Tournament championships and an earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Senderoff, however, said one play does not make or break a game and he took responsibility.
“As I told the team, I should have called a timeout there. I do not blame Julius," he said. "There’s 100 plays in the game and that was just one of them.”
Senderoff said Rollins is devastated over the costly mistake – "Right now it’s probably the worst thing that’s ever happened to him" – but added that it is just a basketball game at the end of the day.
"This is the thing I told him, I didn’t tell the whole team, I told him if this is the worst thing that’s happened to you when you're 50 years old like I am, then you’ve lived a pretty charmed life," Senderoff said. "Tomorrow the sun will come up, it will be a little cloudy for me and for our guys, but the sun will come up tomorrow."
veryGood! (8)
Related
- Federal appeals court upholds $14.25 million fine against Exxon for pollution in Texas
- Harris accepts CBS News' vice presidential debate invitation
- Indiana judge opens door for new eatery, finding `tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches’
- Dow hits 40,000 for the first time as bull market accelerates
- Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
- Chargers schedule release video takes jab at Harrison Butker after kicker's comments on women
- New Kansas abortion clinic will open to help meet demand from restrictive neighboring states
- 2 people caught on camera committing alleged archaeological theft at historic 1800s cowboy camp at Utah national park
- Stamford Road collision sends motorcyclist flying; driver arrested
- Teen died from eating a spicy chip as part of social media challenge, autopsy report concludes
Ranking
- Charges tied to China weigh on GM in Q4, but profit and revenue top expectations
- Kevin Spacey says he's 'enormously pleased' amid support from Sharon Stone, Liam Neeson
- Man convicted of murder in Detroit teen’s death despite body still missing in landfill
- College professor to stand trial in death of pro-Israel counter-protester last year
- Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
- What to know about how much the aid from a US pier project will help Gaza
- Turkey sentences pro-Kurdish politicians to lengthy prison terms over deadly 2014 riots
- Horoscopes Today, May 16, 2024
Recommendation
What were Tom Selleck's juicy final 'Blue Bloods' words in Reagan family
Alaska lawmakers end their session with late bills passing on energy, education
Shop These Rare Deals on Shay Mitchell's BÉIS Before They Sell Out
EA Sports College Football 25 comes out on July 19. Edwards, Ewers, Hunter are on standard cover
Small twin
Matt Gaetz evokes ‘standing by’ language adopted by Proud Boys as he attends court with Donald Trump
Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing
AP Week in Pictures: Asia