Marshall Falls To Tulsa In C-USA Tourney, 80-64

Marshall Sports Information release-- Tulsa, Oklahoma – Jerome Jordan had 21 points and 12 rebounds and Tulsa closed with a 27-7 run en route to an 80-64 victory over Marshall on Thursday in th...
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Whiteside Named Sporting News C-USA Freshman of the Year

From The Sporting News and Marshall University Sports Information -- HUNTINGTON, W.Va - Marshall's Hassan Whiteside earned three more honors Mar. 10 when the 7-0 post player was selected by The S...
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Marshall Waits On Winner Of Tulsa-Rice For Thursday's Game

By Woody Woodrum, Herd Insider Senior Editor -- TULSA, Okla. - Marshall finds itself in a new position in Conference USA in more than being somewhere other than the FedEx Forum in Memphis, T...
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Whitside, Pena Win Individual, Team Honors From C-USA

From Conference USA, For Herd Insider magazine -- IRVING, Texas - After becoming the only freshman to earn all-conference honors this season, Marshall forward Hassan Whiteside was named the 2...
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Marshall Falls To Tulsa In C-USA Tourney, 80-64
Marshall Sports Information release--

Tulsa, Oklahoma – Jerome Jordan had 21 points and 12 rebounds and Tulsa closed with a 27-7 run en route to an 80-64 victory over Marshall on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Conference USA tournament.

Tulsa (23-10) will play either top-seeded Texas-El Paso or No. 9 Central Florida in the semifinals Friday.

Fellow TU senior Ben Uzoh added 18 points and Justin Hurtt 15 for the fifth-seeded Golden Hurricane.

Freshman guard Donte Medder had 11 points, including two three-pointers in the decisive Tulsa run.

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Marshall Waits On Winner Of Tulsa-Rice For Thursday's Game

By Woody Woodrum,

Herd Insider Senior Editor --

TULSA, Okla. - Marshall finds itself in a new position in Conference USA in more than being somewhere other than the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tenn.

For four years, the Herd has travelled to Western Tennessee and had a disappointing turn in the C-USA tourney which was absolutely dominated by the Tigers, the Memphis fans and their head coach, John Calipari. The “Memphis Invitational,” however, is no more and the Herd not only finds itself getting a first-round bye after finishing tied for third with UAB and the No. 4 seed, Marshall has been tabbed as the “team to watch” outside of UTEP, Memphis and the Blazers by the Tulsa World newspaper.

That is a bit interesting because most observers expect the Herd’s first opponent to be the Golden Hurricane, a five-seed expected to dispatch No. 12 Rice with relative ease tonight at the BOK Center in Tulsa.

“The Thundering Herd has some special parts that can provide a matchup problem for several teams. Center Hassan Whiteside is a special player…Tyler Wilkerson compliments Whiteside well and is a proven scorer. If the perimeter shooters, led by Chris Lutz, are hitting shots, the Herd is a dangerous team,” the World said in this morning’s edition.

“We are excited to be here,” said Donnie Jones on Wednesday morning at a press conference with Marshall’s media contingent. “We have been focusing on ourselves for a few days, not sure who we will play yet, either Tulsa or Rice.

“We played Tulsa twice and Rice once. We will keep ourselves sharp, then scout the game tonight and go back and show the team video of the winner.”

 

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Whiteside Named Sporting News C-USA Freshman of the Year
From The Sporting News and
Marshall University Sports Information --

HUNTINGTON, W.Va - Marshall's Hassan Whiteside earned three more honors Mar. 10 when the 7-0 post player was selected by The Sporting News as its Conference USA Freshman of the Year and its Defensive Player of the Year.
The Sporting News also chose Whiteside second team All-Conference.   The complete set of Sporting News honors as well as all of the honors Whiteside has earned are below.
Whiteside has also been named to both the FoxSports.com and CBSSports.com Freshman All-American teams.
Marshall finished 23-8 this season, third-best winning total in MU history, and head coach Donnie Jones led the Herd to an 11-5 mark in C-USA play and a tie for third place with UAB.
Marshall received a bye for the GMC Sierra Conference USA Tournament in Tulsa, Okla. and will play Thursday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. eastern against the winner of Wednesday's 7 p.m. tip between No. 12 Rice and No. 5 Tulsa.

SPORTING NEWS C-USA AWARDS - INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Player of the year: Randy Culpepper, UTEP
Coach of the year: Josh Pastner, Memphis
Freshman of the year: Hassan Whiteside, Marshall
Defensive player of the year: Hassan Whiteside, Marshall
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Whitside, Pena Win Individual, Team Honors From C-USA
From Conference USA,
For Herd Insider magazine --


IRVING, Texas - After becoming the only freshman to earn all-conference honors this season, Marshall forward Hassan Whiteside was named the 2010 Conference USA Freshman of the Year and the Defensive Player of the Year. Whiteside's teammate, sophomore Dago Pena, shared C-USA Sixth Player of the Year honors with Tulsa sophomore Steven Idlet.
Memphis sophomore guard Elliot Williams was named the C-USA Newcomer of the Year. All awards were voted on by the conference's head coaches and select media.
Whiteside is joined on the all-freshman team by UCF duo Keith Clanton and Marcus Jordan, Rice forward Arsalan Kazemi and Kendall Timmons of Tulane. Whiteside has produced a record-setting freshman campaign.
Marshall's seven-footer leads the nation in blocks per game (5.4 per game) and not only became the first freshman in Conference history to record a triple-double, but the first player to register three in a season and career. The three triple-doubles is also the most in the nation this season.
Whiteside finished the C-USA regular season with 168 blocks, a career school record and also broke the C-USA single-season mark.
Sophomores Idlet and Pena share 2010 C-USA Sixth Man of the Year award. Idlet has come off the bench in all 31 Golden Hurricane games and ranks fourth on the team in scoring and third in rebounding.
Pena played in 28 games for the Thundering Herd with only two starts, averaging 7.0 ppg and shooting better than 50 percent from the field (77-152, .507).
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