Zips sports news, features and notes
- UA’s Alexis Cooks wins discus with school-record throw
- Seven KSU baseball players earn All-MAC honors
- Marla Ridenour: From walk-on to champion: UA’s Alex McCune finds his niche
- KSU’s Jennifer Ha struggles to 79 in first round of NCAA Women’s Golf Championships
- Zips notebook: Quincy Diggs back in school; football player arrested
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 1: Flashes top Zips, get help from Bowling Green to win MAC title, earn top seed in tournament
- On the Record — May 18
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 3: Flashes muster enough energy to top Zips, stay alive for top seed in MAC Tournament
- Kent State golf in fifth after two rounds of NCAA Regional
- Kent State-Akron in-game updates: Kent State wins 4-3
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Familiar face will coach Ohio U
Men's basketball
A former MAC coach will return to the conference to lead the defending champions.
Jim Christian, who coached at Kent State from 2002 to 2008, will coach Ohio University, leaving Texas Christian, where he was 56-73 since 2009.
Ohio advanced to the Sweet Sixteen last month under John Groce, who then departed for Illinois. The Bobcats return every member of that team, and certainly finding a coach who would experience little or no learning curve was imperative.
Another candidate was Jeff Boals, the Ohio State assistant and OU grad who once served as an assistant at Akron under Keith Dambrot. Boals expressed interest in the job before Ohio chose Christian.
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