{"id":3142,"date":"2024-11-14T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:24:21","slug":"marshall-womens-basketball-coach-earns-first-win-at-helm-vs-elon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/2024\/11\/14\/marshall-womens-basketball-coach-earns-first-win-at-helm-vs-elon\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Women\u2019s Basketball Coach Earns First Win at Helm vs. Elon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Anderson\u00a0<\/a>
\n11-14-2024
\nJuli Fulks, Marshall head women\u2019s basketball coach, earned her first win at the helm Wednesday. Marshall defeated Elon 65-56 with a strong defensive showing by the Thundering Herd.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve been really blessed and lucky,\u201d Fulks said during her postgame news conference. \u201cThere is no better job than this, and so to be able to watch them go out and the work they have done to get this win, to me, that the satisfying part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall\u2019s defense forced Elon into numerous mistakes and tough shots early by utilizing its 2-3 zone defense. At the first media timeout midway through the first quarter, with the game tied 8 all, Marshall had limited Elon to 3-9 shooting from the field and had forced 3 turnovers.<\/p>\n

Marshall struggled offensively to start the game as well, starting the first five minutes only shooting 3-8 from the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were kind of slow to get going today,\u201d Fulks said. \u201cTheir (Elon\u2019s) pressure is really not meant to speed you up; it meant to slow you down and make a lot of extra passes.\u201d \u201cI thought they (Elon) had done a really good job. We had to play slow in the backcourt and it\u2019s kind of hard to switch gears every couple of possessions. So, it took us a few minutes to get going.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Herd quickly bounced back with Aislynn Hayes scoring 8 points and going 3-5 from the floor to give the Herd a 19-15 lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe (Hayes) was an instrumental part of that (getting us going in the first quarter),\u201d Fulks said. \u201cWe got out of the press break, and we were able to get some easy looks early and get us on the board and get us on the flow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall defensively would show its strengths in the second quarter as Marshall would hold Elon to nearly 3 minutes without a made shot. Elon would also end the quarter missing its last 5 shots and converting on only one of its previous 8.<\/p>\n

Elon would be held to 21% from the field in the second quarter and 0-6 from behind the arc as it could not get past the effective zone of the Thundering Herd.<\/p>\n

Elon would outscore Marshall 20-15 in the fourth quarter, but Marshall would win the game at the free throw in the hands of Hayes as she went a perfect 6-6.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this summer, that was my main focus,\u201d Hayes said during coach Fulks\u2019 postgame news conference. \u201cWorking on free throws, I left a lot of points off the court when I did not make my free throws last year. I feel like when you put in the work it will show in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fulks said that she had prepared her team as of late on scenarios to earn late-game trips to the charity stripe.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things we\u2019ve been working was trying to get a lot of early action to open up the driving lanes late and getting to the rim,\u201d Fulks said. \u201cWe are trying to make sure that the defense has to move and shift before we are really attacking, and I thought we done a much better job the last six quarters of understanding that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, the Thundering Herd held the Phoenix 35% shooting and 13% from behind the arc and allowing a quarter-high of 20 points in the 4th quarter. Fulks said that the team is getting closer to reaching its goals defensively.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, we defended very well,\u201d Fulks said. \u201cIt was 15, 10, 11. Our goal is under 15 every quarter, and we are getting closer to the game that we nail that for four quarters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall women\u2019s basketball seeks to earn back-to-back wins Sunday when it entertains George Mason at the Cam Henderson Center. The game will be broadcast on WMUL 88.1-FM, with pregame coverage starting at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Anderson\u00a0 11-14-2024 Juli Fulks, Marshall head women\u2019s basketball coach, earned her first win at the helm Wednesday. Marshall defeated Elon 65-56 with a strong defensive showing by the Thundering Herd. \u201cI think I\u2019ve been really blessed and lucky,\u201d Fulks said during her postgame news conference. \u201cThere is no better job than this, and so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[464,219,115,478,100,375,69,437,300,28,138,236,23,212,301,51,96],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wmul-sports","tag-aislynn-hayes","tag-cam-henderson-center","tag-college-radio","tag-elon","tag-fm88-sports","tag-herd-basketball","tag-huntington-wv","tag-juli-fulks","tag-marshall-basketball","tag-marshall-university","tag-marshall-university-athletics","tag-sun-belt-conference","tag-thundering-herd","tag-thundering-herd-athletics","tag-thundering-herd-basketball","tag-wmul","tag-wv"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}