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The Charleston (SC) Cougars (2-3) face the Kent State Golden Flashes (4-2) at MAC Center on November 26, 2023.

Kent State won its previous game versus Fordham, 79-72, on Monday. Chris Payton starred with 23 points, and also had nine rebounds and zero assists. On Sunday, in its last game, Charleston (SC) defeated Coastal Carolina 80-72. With 24 points, Reyne Smith was its leading scorer.

When is Kent State vs. Charleston (SC) and when does it start?

This game between the Golden Flashes and Cougars will take place on Sunday, November 26, 2023. Expect to see the opening tip at 5:30 PM ET.

The Golden Flashes and Cougars will take to the court at MAC Center for this matchup on November 26, and if you’d like to catch the event live, get your tickets now from Vivid Seats!

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Kent State Golden Flashes vs. Charleston (SC) Cougars Game Preview

Kent State averages 82.8 points per game (62nd in college basketball) while allowing 71.7 per outing (207th in college basketball). It has a +67 scoring differential overall and outscores opponents by 11.1 points per game.

The Golden Flashes post 8.6 more points than the Cougars allow (74.2).

Kent State connects on 8.0 three-pointers per game (123rd in college basketball) at a 33.3% rate (160th in college basketball), compared to the 8.5 its opponents make while shooting 38.9% from deep.

Charleston (SC) has been outscored by 4.8 points per game (posting 69.4 points per game, 269th in college basketball, while allowing 74.2 per outing, 253rd in college basketball) and has a -24 scoring differential.

The Cougars score only 2.3 fewer points per game (69.4) than the Golden Flashes give up (71.7).

Charleston (SC) hits 8.0 three-pointers per game (123rd in college basketball), while its opponents have made 8.0 on average.

And for more CBB game previews, NCAA basketball picks or even how to bet on college basketball check out the latest NCAAB lines on Betsperts.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A Charleston County high school science teacher who is using birds to bring life into her classroom is looking for a book for her science class.

Tracy Lyles is the science chair at James Island Charter High School and she’s been teaching for 19 years. Lyles says she enjoys spending time with her students. Even on bad days, she finds something to laugh about.

“Teenagers are fun, they can be a little bit sarcastic but they’re coming into they’re own so they’re fun to work with,” Lyles says.

Lyles says keeping interest levels high is important for student success. She says she came from a time when lectures were the standard way of learning. Even though that’s her preferred way of teaching, her students want to try something different. To keep their engagement level up, Lyles says her students will participate in group discussions, labs, and writing components. Lyles finds anything that can get students active, she receives better results.

“Over the years I’ve noticed a lot of students think they’re not good at science but they’re actually better at it than they think they are,” Lyles says.

Recently, Lyles was fortunate to receive donations for her bird feeder project.

This year, Lyles is asking for the novel “Moonbird: The Little Bird That Migrates” for her students. She says she wants her students to learn about a certain kind of bird named the Moonbird and the role they play. Lyles says nonfiction books can be a fantastic way to bring nature to life in the classroom. Now, Lyles wants her students to learn about the wonderful diversity of birds on the planet and their role in maintaining ecosystem health.

“Especially today because we have so much in our face technology-wise, I think we’re losing sight of just paying attention to what’s around us.” Lyles says, “There’s a lot of stuff going on around us that I think we’re missing. So getting them outside, having them look at that, think about that, I think is really important and birds are easy.”

Lyles says this book will surely intrigue her students and keep their interest levels high.

Click here to become a Classroom Champion by donating to Lyles’ cause.

Donations made through Donors Choose are tax-deductible. When a project is fully funded, Donors Choose purchases all the requested items and ship them directly to the teacher.

Copyright 2023 WCSC. All rights reserved.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A Charleston County high school science teacher who is using birds to bring life into her classroom is looking for a book for her science class.

Tracy Lyles is the science chair at James Island Charter High School and she’s been teaching for 19 years. Lyles says she enjoys spending time with her students. Even on bad days, she finds something to laugh about.

“Teenagers are fun, they can be a little bit sarcastic but they’re coming into they’re own so they’re fun to work with,” Lyles says.

Lyles says keeping interest levels high is important for student success. She says she came from a time when lectures were the standard way of learning. Even though that’s her preferred way of teaching, her students want to try something different. To keep their engagement level up, Lyles says her students will participate in group discussions, labs, and writing components. Lyles finds anything that can get students active, she receives better results.

“Over the years I’ve noticed a lot of students think they’re not good at science but they’re actually better at it than they think they are,” Lyles says.

Recently, Lyles was fortunate to receive donations for her bird feeder project.

This year, Lyles is asking for the novel “Moonbird: The Little Bird That Migrates” for her students. She says she wants her students to learn about a certain kind of bird named the Moonbird and the role they play. Lyles says nonfiction books can be a fantastic way to bring nature to life in the classroom. Now, Lyles wants her students to learn about the wonderful diversity of birds on the planet and their role in maintaining ecosystem health.

“Especially today because we have so much in our face technology-wise, I think we’re losing sight of just paying attention to what’s around us.” Lyles says, “There’s a lot of stuff going on around us that I think we’re missing. So getting them outside, having them look at that, think about that, I think is really important and birds are easy.”

Lyles says this book will surely intrigue her students and keep their interest levels high.

Click here to become a Classroom Champion by donating to Lyles’ cause.

Donations made through Donors Choose are tax-deductible. When a project is fully funded, Donors Choose purchases all the requested items and ship them directly to the teacher.

Copyright 2023 WCSC. All rights reserved.

With last week’s closure of Brown’s Court Bakery, it seemed like a roundup of locally owned bakeries was in order. From downtown Charleston to West Ashley, Goose Creek and Summerville, here are 14 bakeries to try in the Charleston area:

Baguette Magic

792 Folly Road Suite A, James Island

1028 Wappoo Road, West Ashley

Mathieu Richard started Baguette Magic in 2009 as a farmers market stand before opening the retail location on Folly Road in 2011. After purchasing the business in 2019 and freshening up its menu, Paula and Sam Kramer have brought lines of locals to Baguette Magic for breakfast and lunch, when they serve everything from almond croissants and house-made Pop-Tarts to avocado toast, brioche French toast and Italian sub sandwiches. Earlier this year, the sisters added a second location in West Ashley.

EVO Craft Bakery

1075 East Montague Ave., North Charleston

Open daily starting at 7 a.m., this North Charleston favorite sells house-made croissants, pretzels, baguettes and more. For daily specials, check EVO’s Instagram.

The Harbinger Cafe & Bakery

1107 King St., downtown Charleston

Harkin Cafe

62 Queen St., downtown Charleston

Those who frequent King Street café Harbinger will find a menu of inventive breakfast and lunch sandwiches, toasts, bowls, salads, plates and, of course, baked goods. Greenville-based Methodical Coffee is served, setting The Harbinger apart from other Charleston-area daytime destinations.

Pastry options include the “For the Birds” (oats, Rice Krispies, peanuts, sunflower seeds, dark chocolate, honey and peanut butter), “Jam Sesh” (sweet potato, tahini, coconut sugar and oats topped with a strawberry and chia compote and dark chocolate chunks) and the “Cha Cha Cha Chia,” an apricot, cinnamon and oat bar with a chia seed-topped sweet potato frosting.

Visit sister café Harkin for less remote workers and a different pastry offering.

Le Chambertin

113 Church St., downtown Charleston

Macaroon Boutique

45 John St., downtown Charleston

Hailing from France, Fabrice Rizzo ran the pastry programs at restaurants across New York City and later held an executive position within Union Square Hospitality Group. He eventually moved to Destin, Florida, where he owned two bakeries, before coming to Charleston to open Macaroon Boutique at 45 John St. in 2010.

More than a decade later, Rizzo and his wife Fabienne Doco opened Le Chambertin at 113 Church St. on their wedding anniversary in February 2021. The lucky locals who know about Le Chambertin dodge the owners’ black-and-white rescue dog, Lino, and place orders for fresh meat-and-cheese baguette sandwiches on house-made bread; squishy focaccia topped with turkey and arugula; and pissaladière, a flatbread of sorts adorned with roasted cherry tomatoes, olives, tart goat cheese and pesto. Pastries and other treats tempt guests with a sweet tooth.

MOUNT PLEASANT — Lola Rose may feel familiar to those who have dined at The Grocery, chef Kevin Johnson’s downtown farm-to-table restaurant. In style and layout, his newest venture has plenty of echoes of his first.

There’s a long, L-shaped bar along the left side of the room, and a big wood-burning oven is visible through the open pass to the kitchen. Waist-high walls divide the main area into sections, where guests dine at booths or tables set before long banquettes.

Lola Rose, though, is not located in a renovated downtown furniture store. It’s way up in northern Mount Pleasant in a shiny new storefront in the Bend at the Carolina Park, just across the road from a Costco.

Here, the wood-fired oven is deployed not for roasting beets or whole fish but for baking a slate of thin-crust pizzas. The menu leans more toward Italy, and it seems sensibly targeted toward a more suburban family market. Down in the lower right corner, a kids section offers small portions of shrimp and polenta ($12) or spaghetti or orecchiette ($10) with red sauce, white sauce or simply butter or olive oil.

This doesn’t mean the food is dumbed down, though. Quite the contrary. Johnson draws on the same network of local produce and seafood suppliers he cultivated over the years at The Grocery, and he prepares their products with the same sensibility that earned him repeated James Beard Award nominations.

Some impressive small bites get things started. The fluffy cheese ($9) is exactly that — a small bowl of creamy white cheese whipped soft and finished with a pool of spiced honey, which is just hot enough to add a sweet, prickly zip to the mild blend. Almost as fluffy are the warm slices of fresh rosemary-laced focaccia that come alongside for dredging.

Over the years, Rick Harden has written love notes to his wife Carol Frances on small Post-it notes. Most feature two bunnies.

“I love that girl,” says one bunny, pointing to another with big eyelashes.

“She is my favorite artist,” reads another, with one big-eared bunny curled up on a stool in front of an easel.

Frances, an artist who worked at a law firm up until last year, collected all of them. As the couple was putting the finishing touches on their new coffee shop, she enlarged the notes she saved all those years and plastered them on the walls of the bathroom at Bad Bunnies.

This decorative wallpaper is far from the only handmade touch inside Bad Bunnies, which opened at the start of 2023 in the 116 Spring St. space previously occupied by Sunshine Hummus. Harden and Frances, who live near the Cannonborough-Elliotborough shop, completed the entire renovation themselves after gutting the building they purchased in 2021.

“We just thought, ‘Let’s do something together,’” Frances said. “We’re used to big art projects, and this was probably our biggest collaboration to date.”

The renovation started behind the sheetrock, where they uncovered a gorgeous original 18th century fireplace, which Harden enhanced by hand-casting the mantel. He constructed wooden trusses to curve the ceiling, plastering and dyeing them after the installation.

Together, they painted the floors using elements from both of their paintings. Everything from the tabletops, banquettes and pastry case to the entire coffee bar were all crafted by Frances and Harden themselves.

In their 60s, the first-time coffee shop owners welcome people into Bad Bunnies’ stunning interior and encourage them to stay awhile. Their goal is to keep it simple by serving quality coffee and making those who enter Bad Bunnies “feel really loved,” Frances said.

While the renovation part came naturally, operating a coffee shop was new for the couple, who hired a coffee trainer before opening. One year later, Frances said they’ve found their groove.

Bad Bunnies baristas are emboldened to get out from behind the coffee bar and converse with customers enjoying iced lattes with house-made syrups, Second State Coffee, pastries from EVO Craft Bakery and overnight oats Frances makes herself.

“We have a team here that follows our same mission,” Frances said. “We always remind them we want to love on people.”

Bad Bunnies’ proximity to the Medical University of South Carolina and the many Airbnbs that line Spring Street has kept the shop busy. Some customers are struck by the shop’s fun branding, while others come in because of an affinity for Puerto Rican singer Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known worldwide as Bad Bunny.

No matter what brings customers inside, there is usually a seat and always a smile waiting at Bad Bunnies, open 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

A popular Washington, D.C., restaurant serving Malaysian cuisine has signed a lease to take over the 2,350-square-foot downtown Charleston space previously occupied by Goulette Rotisserie and Grill.

South Carolina native James Wozniuk will open Makan at 210 Rutledge Ave., across from Fuel Charleston. A timetable for the modern Malaysian restaurant’s debut has not been set.

“We’re really excited to be in Charleston,” Makan general manager Kate Jacob told The Post and Courier. “It’s such a great community and restaurant scene.”

Located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of the nation’s capital, Makan serves noodle and rice dishes packed with flavor and spice. Wozniuk, who grew up in Greenville and has family in Charleston, was first drawn to Malaysian food during a layover in Kuala Lumpur. The stopover inspired three more trips and the chef’s first solo venture.

Wozniuk is also chef and partner at a D.C. restaurant named Thirsty Crow, and earlier this year, he debuted a virtual kitchen called Spicebird, which operates out of Makan’s 3400 11th St. NW address.

Though Makan opened just one week before the pandemic shut down D.C. restaurants in March 2020, it has gained a dedicated following since. Here is part of what Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema had to say about Makan, one of his eight favorite places to eat in February 2021:

With last week’s closure of Brown’s Court Bakery, it seemed like a roundup of locally owned bakeries was in order. From downtown Charleston to West Ashley, Goose Creek and Summerville, here are 14 bakeries to try in the Charleston area:

Baguette Magic

792 Folly Road Suite A, James Island

1028 Wappoo Road, West Ashley

Mathieu Richard started Baguette Magic in 2009 as a farmers market stand before opening the retail location on Folly Road in 2011. After purchasing the business in 2019 and freshening up its menu, Paula and Sam Kramer have brought lines of locals to Baguette Magic for breakfast and lunch, when they serve everything from almond croissants and house-made Pop-Tarts to avocado toast, brioche French toast and Italian sub sandwiches. Earlier this year, the sisters added a second location in West Ashley.

EVO Craft Bakery

1075 East Montague Ave., North Charleston

Open daily starting at 7 a.m., this North Charleston favorite sells house-made croissants, pretzels, baguettes and more. For daily specials, check EVO’s Instagram.

The Harbinger Cafe & Bakery

1107 King St., downtown Charleston

Harkin Cafe

62 Queen St., downtown Charleston

Those who frequent King Street café Harbinger will find a menu of inventive breakfast and lunch sandwiches, toasts, bowls, salads, plates and, of course, baked goods. Greenville-based Methodical Coffee is served, setting The Harbinger apart from other Charleston-area daytime destinations.

Pastry options include the “For the Birds” (oats, Rice Krispies, peanuts, sunflower seeds, dark chocolate, honey and peanut butter), “Jam Sesh” (sweet potato, tahini, coconut sugar and oats topped with a strawberry and chia compote and dark chocolate chunks) and the “Cha Cha Cha Chia,” an apricot, cinnamon and oat bar with a chia seed-topped sweet potato frosting.

Visit sister café Harkin for less remote workers and a different pastry offering.

Le Chambertin

113 Church St., downtown Charleston

Macaroon Boutique

45 John St., downtown Charleston

Hailing from France, Fabrice Rizzo ran the pastry programs at restaurants across New York City and later held an executive position within Union Square Hospitality Group. He eventually moved to Destin, Florida, where he owned two bakeries, before coming to Charleston to open Macaroon Boutique at 45 John St. in 2010.

More than a decade later, Rizzo and his wife Fabienne Doco opened Le Chambertin at 113 Church St. on their wedding anniversary in February 2021. The lucky locals who know about Le Chambertin dodge the owners’ black-and-white rescue dog, Lino, and place orders for fresh meat-and-cheese baguette sandwiches on house-made bread; squishy focaccia topped with turkey and arugula; and pissaladière, a flatbread of sorts adorned with roasted cherry tomatoes, olives, tart goat cheese and pesto. Pastries and other treats tempt guests with a sweet tooth.

MOUNT PLEASANT — Lola Rose may feel familiar to those who have dined at The Grocery, chef Kevin Johnson’s downtown farm-to-table restaurant. In style and layout, his newest venture has plenty of echoes of his first.

There’s a long, L-shaped bar along the left side of the room, and a big wood-burning oven is visible through the open pass to the kitchen. Waist-high walls divide the main area into sections, where guests dine at booths or tables set before long banquettes.

Lola Rose, though, is not located in a renovated downtown furniture store. It’s way up in northern Mount Pleasant in a shiny new storefront in the Bend at the Carolina Park, just across the road from a Costco.

Here, the wood-fired oven is deployed not for roasting beets or whole fish but for baking a slate of thin-crust pizzas. The menu leans more toward Italy, and it seems sensibly targeted toward a more suburban family market. Down in the lower right corner, a kids section offers small portions of shrimp and polenta ($12) or spaghetti or orecchiette ($10) with red sauce, white sauce or simply butter or olive oil.

This doesn’t mean the food is dumbed down, though. Quite the contrary. Johnson draws on the same network of local produce and seafood suppliers he cultivated over the years at The Grocery, and he prepares their products with the same sensibility that earned him repeated James Beard Award nominations.

Some impressive small bites get things started. The fluffy cheese ($9) is exactly that — a small bowl of creamy white cheese whipped soft and finished with a pool of spiced honey, which is just hot enough to add a sweet, prickly zip to the mild blend. Almost as fluffy are the warm slices of fresh rosemary-laced focaccia that come alongside for dredging.

Over the years, Rick Harden has written love notes to his wife Carol Frances on small Post-it notes. Most feature two bunnies.

“I love that girl,” says one bunny, pointing to another with big eyelashes.

“She is my favorite artist,” reads another, with one big-eared bunny curled up on a stool in front of an easel.

Frances, an artist who worked at a law firm up until last year, collected all of them. As the couple was putting the finishing touches on their new coffee shop, she enlarged the notes she saved all those years and plastered them on the walls of the bathroom at Bad Bunnies.

This decorative wallpaper is far from the only handmade touch inside Bad Bunnies, which opened at the start of 2023 in the 116 Spring St. space previously occupied by Sunshine Hummus. Harden and Frances, who live near the Cannonborough-Elliotborough shop, completed the entire renovation themselves after gutting the building they purchased in 2021.

“We just thought, ‘Let’s do something together,’” Frances said. “We’re used to big art projects, and this was probably our biggest collaboration to date.”

The renovation started behind the sheetrock, where they uncovered a gorgeous original 18th century fireplace, which Harden enhanced by hand-casting the mantel. He constructed wooden trusses to curve the ceiling, plastering and dyeing them after the installation.

Together, they painted the floors using elements from both of their paintings. Everything from the tabletops, banquettes and pastry case to the entire coffee bar were all crafted by Frances and Harden themselves.

In their 60s, the first-time coffee shop owners welcome people into Bad Bunnies’ stunning interior and encourage them to stay awhile. Their goal is to keep it simple by serving quality coffee and making those who enter Bad Bunnies “feel really loved,” Frances said.

While the renovation part came naturally, operating a coffee shop was new for the couple, who hired a coffee trainer before opening. One year later, Frances said they’ve found their groove.

Bad Bunnies baristas are emboldened to get out from behind the coffee bar and converse with customers enjoying iced lattes with house-made syrups, Second State Coffee, pastries from EVO Craft Bakery and overnight oats Frances makes herself.

“We have a team here that follows our same mission,” Frances said. “We always remind them we want to love on people.”

Bad Bunnies’ proximity to the Medical University of South Carolina and the many Airbnbs that line Spring Street has kept the shop busy. Some customers are struck by the shop’s fun branding, while others come in because of an affinity for Puerto Rican singer Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known worldwide as Bad Bunny.

No matter what brings customers inside, there is usually a seat and always a smile waiting at Bad Bunnies, open 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

A popular Washington, D.C., restaurant serving Malaysian cuisine has signed a lease to take over the 2,350-square-foot downtown Charleston space previously occupied by Goulette Rotisserie and Grill.

South Carolina native James Wozniuk will open Makan at 210 Rutledge Ave., across from Fuel Charleston. A timetable for the modern Malaysian restaurant’s debut has not been set.

“We’re really excited to be in Charleston,” Makan general manager Kate Jacob told The Post and Courier. “It’s such a great community and restaurant scene.”

Located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of the nation’s capital, Makan serves noodle and rice dishes packed with flavor and spice. Wozniuk, who grew up in Greenville and has family in Charleston, was first drawn to Malaysian food during a layover in Kuala Lumpur. The stopover inspired three more trips and the chef’s first solo venture.

Wozniuk is also chef and partner at a D.C. restaurant named Thirsty Crow, and earlier this year, he debuted a virtual kitchen called Spicebird, which operates out of Makan’s 3400 11th St. NW address.

Though Makan opened just one week before the pandemic shut down D.C. restaurants in March 2020, it has gained a dedicated following since. Here is part of what Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema had to say about Makan, one of his eight favorite places to eat in February 2021: