Friday, February 26
Denton, TX
7:30 P.M. eastern/6:30 P.M. central
Marshall University
at
University of North Texas
Photo by: Sydney Shelton
Herd Heads West to Take on Mean Green
2/25/2021 9:28:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Friday’s contest to air on ESPN+, Saturday CUSA.tv
Video Broadcast: ESPN+ Friday, CUSA.tv Saturday
Radio Broadcast: WMUL
Live Stats: Friday, Saturday
Game Notes: Marshall
DENTON, Tx. – Marshall's women's basketball team will travel to North Texas Friday (7:30 p.m. ET/6:30 CT) and Saturday (4:30 p.m. ET/3:30 CT) for games in Denton's SuperPit.
Friday's game will be carried on ESPN+, while Saturday's will be broadcast on CUSA.tv.
Marshall's Jason Corriher will have the radio call for both games via WMUL's Stream 2, which can be found here: https://www.marshall.edu/wmul/wmul-stream-2/.
The Thundering Herd is 6-8 and 5-7 in Conference USA, while the Mean Green sits a game back of Rice in the league's West Division at 11-4 overall and 8-2 in conference play.
Last Time Out: Marshall 68, Rice 56 (2/21/21)
The Marshall women's basketball team allowed just four fourth-quarter points en route to a 68-56 Senior Day win over Rice Sunday afternoon at the Cam Henderson Center.
The Thundering Herd improved to 6-8 overall and 5-7 in Conference USA, while Rice suffered its first league defeat, falling to 13-2 and 9-1.
Marshall's Savannah Wheeler made four of six 3-point attempts on her way to a game-high 25 points and four assists with no turnovers. She was one of four MU players in double figures as Kennedi Colclough had 14 and Kristen Mayo and Taylor Pearson added 10 apiece. Pearson also had a team-high seven rebounds.
Rice's 6'9" center Nancy Mulkey narrowly missed a double-double with 15 points and nine rebounds and Lauren Schwartz used an 8-for-8 free throw effort to post 14 points. Sydne Wiggins also finished in double figures with 12.
The Thundering Herd got out a much better start, offensively, than it did Saturday. Marshall jumped out to a seven-point advantage (13-6) on a three-point play by Wheeler at the 4:58 mark of the first quarter. Rice, though, responded with a 25-10 run the rest of the first half and grabbed a 31-23 lead at the break.
The visitors kept the home team at arm's length by getting to the free throw line throughout the third period, despite Marshall making five of its seven 3-point attempts. However, the final stanza proved to be a much different story.
The Thundering Herd ratcheted up the defensive intensity and limited the Owls to a 2-for-13 effort from the floor, which included an 0-for-6 showing from 3-point range. When all was said and done, Marshall's game-clinching run was 18-0 over the game's final three minutes, 53 seconds. The Owls made just one of their last 11 field goal attempts and turned it over six times in the period.
The defeat was just the third in league play for Rice's program since 2018-19. The Owls, who entered the weekend last in the conference in turnover margin, struggled again in that regard Sunday. Rice was charged with 18 miscues, which resulted in 17 Thundering Herd points. Marshall, meanwhile, committed just nine turnovers, and those became nine Owls points.
Rice did hold a commanding 24-10 edge on points in the paint, however.
The perimeter stats were not close. Marshall went 10-for-20 from downtown (50 percent) to Rice's 20 percent (3-for-15), the Owls' lowest clip of the season.
Seniors Mayo and Pearson were also honored in a pregame ceremony before Sunday's game.
Century Mark!
Marshall's senior tandem of Kristen Mayo and Taylor Pearson are right around the 100-game plateau in the Green and White. Friday's game against the Mean Green will be the 100th for Mayo and 102nd for Pearson.
Mayo Climbing the Charts
Kristen Mayo also enters the weekend with 134 career 3-pointers at Marshall. She needs two to pass McKenzie Akers (2013-17) for fifth (135) and three to top Natal Rosko (1994-98) and Taylor Porter (2015-19) for third on the school's all-time list.
Scouting the Mean Green
The lone league losses for North Texas have been at UTEP (62-52) on January 16 and at Louisiana Tech on February 5 (60-55).
Quincy Noble leads the Mean Green with 18.7 points per game (fifth-highest in the league), while Madison Townley rips down 8.2 boards and N'Yah Boyd dishes out 3.9 assists per contest. Noble is also, far and away, the team's biggest threat from beyond the arc with 48 3-pointers made to go with her 39.3 percentage from deep. Her 3.2 triples per game are tied for the league lead, while the percentage stands second. Townley also leads C-USA in offensive rebounds per contest at 4.1.
The Mean Green lead the league in 3-point percentage defense (26.0), but are 11th in the conference in 2-point percentage defense (46.8), field goal percentage defense (41.8), defensive rebounds per game (24.9) and defensive rebounding percentage (67.2).
For all of the latest information on the Marshall women's basketball team, follow the Herd on Twitter @HerdWBB, Facebook at Marshall University Basketball and on www.herdzone.com.
To follow all Thundering Herd sports and get live stats, schedules, and free live audio, download the Marshall Athletics App for iOS or Android!
Radio Broadcast: WMUL
Live Stats: Friday, Saturday
Game Notes: Marshall
DENTON, Tx. – Marshall's women's basketball team will travel to North Texas Friday (7:30 p.m. ET/6:30 CT) and Saturday (4:30 p.m. ET/3:30 CT) for games in Denton's SuperPit.
Friday's game will be carried on ESPN+, while Saturday's will be broadcast on CUSA.tv.
Marshall's Jason Corriher will have the radio call for both games via WMUL's Stream 2, which can be found here: https://www.marshall.edu/wmul/wmul-stream-2/.
The Thundering Herd is 6-8 and 5-7 in Conference USA, while the Mean Green sits a game back of Rice in the league's West Division at 11-4 overall and 8-2 in conference play.
Last Time Out: Marshall 68, Rice 56 (2/21/21)
The Marshall women's basketball team allowed just four fourth-quarter points en route to a 68-56 Senior Day win over Rice Sunday afternoon at the Cam Henderson Center.
The Thundering Herd improved to 6-8 overall and 5-7 in Conference USA, while Rice suffered its first league defeat, falling to 13-2 and 9-1.
Marshall's Savannah Wheeler made four of six 3-point attempts on her way to a game-high 25 points and four assists with no turnovers. She was one of four MU players in double figures as Kennedi Colclough had 14 and Kristen Mayo and Taylor Pearson added 10 apiece. Pearson also had a team-high seven rebounds.
Rice's 6'9" center Nancy Mulkey narrowly missed a double-double with 15 points and nine rebounds and Lauren Schwartz used an 8-for-8 free throw effort to post 14 points. Sydne Wiggins also finished in double figures with 12.
The Thundering Herd got out a much better start, offensively, than it did Saturday. Marshall jumped out to a seven-point advantage (13-6) on a three-point play by Wheeler at the 4:58 mark of the first quarter. Rice, though, responded with a 25-10 run the rest of the first half and grabbed a 31-23 lead at the break.
The visitors kept the home team at arm's length by getting to the free throw line throughout the third period, despite Marshall making five of its seven 3-point attempts. However, the final stanza proved to be a much different story.
The Thundering Herd ratcheted up the defensive intensity and limited the Owls to a 2-for-13 effort from the floor, which included an 0-for-6 showing from 3-point range. When all was said and done, Marshall's game-clinching run was 18-0 over the game's final three minutes, 53 seconds. The Owls made just one of their last 11 field goal attempts and turned it over six times in the period.
The defeat was just the third in league play for Rice's program since 2018-19. The Owls, who entered the weekend last in the conference in turnover margin, struggled again in that regard Sunday. Rice was charged with 18 miscues, which resulted in 17 Thundering Herd points. Marshall, meanwhile, committed just nine turnovers, and those became nine Owls points.
Rice did hold a commanding 24-10 edge on points in the paint, however.
The perimeter stats were not close. Marshall went 10-for-20 from downtown (50 percent) to Rice's 20 percent (3-for-15), the Owls' lowest clip of the season.
Seniors Mayo and Pearson were also honored in a pregame ceremony before Sunday's game.
Century Mark!
Marshall's senior tandem of Kristen Mayo and Taylor Pearson are right around the 100-game plateau in the Green and White. Friday's game against the Mean Green will be the 100th for Mayo and 102nd for Pearson.
Mayo Climbing the Charts
Kristen Mayo also enters the weekend with 134 career 3-pointers at Marshall. She needs two to pass McKenzie Akers (2013-17) for fifth (135) and three to top Natal Rosko (1994-98) and Taylor Porter (2015-19) for third on the school's all-time list.
Scouting the Mean Green
The lone league losses for North Texas have been at UTEP (62-52) on January 16 and at Louisiana Tech on February 5 (60-55).
Quincy Noble leads the Mean Green with 18.7 points per game (fifth-highest in the league), while Madison Townley rips down 8.2 boards and N'Yah Boyd dishes out 3.9 assists per contest. Noble is also, far and away, the team's biggest threat from beyond the arc with 48 3-pointers made to go with her 39.3 percentage from deep. Her 3.2 triples per game are tied for the league lead, while the percentage stands second. Townley also leads C-USA in offensive rebounds per contest at 4.1.
The Mean Green lead the league in 3-point percentage defense (26.0), but are 11th in the conference in 2-point percentage defense (46.8), field goal percentage defense (41.8), defensive rebounds per game (24.9) and defensive rebounding percentage (67.2).
For all of the latest information on the Marshall women's basketball team, follow the Herd on Twitter @HerdWBB, Facebook at Marshall University Basketball and on www.herdzone.com.
To follow all Thundering Herd sports and get live stats, schedules, and free live audio, download the Marshall Athletics App for iOS or Android!