Herd Basketball gets off to good starts
This weekend both the Marshall Men's and Women's
The women got
The men followed up the impressive performance by the ladies with an 81-69 win over North Carolina Central. A big question for the men's team coming into this season was how would the Herd replace All-
Thompson was joined in double figures by junior Jon Elmore (17) as well as seniors Stevie Browning (16) and Ryan Taylor (12). Taylor also led the Herd in assists with five. Marshall held just a three-point advantaged, 35-32 at halftime, but used a couple of second half runs to balloon its led to as many as 16 before the Eagles cut it back down to single digits. A technical foul against Central would then allow Marshall to stretch its led back into double figures and finally put the
Coach Dan Dantoni tinkered with his lineup some as all five starters weren't on the floor together all that much until the game's second half. Eight players say the floor and all played at least 12 minutes. The Herd shot poorly from the floor for most of the game's early going but a good shooting second half improved the overall percentage to 47% by the games end, however, Marshall still shot just 31% from three point range.
The real difference, however, was at the charity stripe. The Herd converted 17-25 free throws (68%) while the Eagles made just 8-17 (47%), both teams turned the ball over 13 times and rebounds were just 41-40 in favor of Marshall. The Herd will return to action in the Cam Henderson Center on Wednesday against Moorehead State.