{"id":3259,"date":"2025-01-01T22:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:24:18","slug":"marshall-mens-basketball-welcomes-texas-state-for-sun-belt-conference-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/2025\/01\/01\/marshall-mens-basketball-welcomes-texas-state-for-sun-belt-conference-home-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Men\u2019s Basketball Welcomes Texas State For Sun Belt Conference Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Preview<br \/>\nBy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/ben-anderson\/\">Ben Anderson<\/a>, FM88 Sports<br \/>\nJan. 1, 2025<br \/>\nHUNTINGTON, W. Va. (WMUL-FM) \u2014\u00a0Marshall men\u2019s basketball is set for its Sun Belt Conference opener Thursday when it welcomes the Texas State Bobcats.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall is 7-7, (0-1) after concluding non-conference play with a 73-59 road loss against Elon on Saturday. Texas State is 8-5 (1-0), coming off a 72-80 loss against Texas Arlington.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third meeting between the two schools with all the meetings coming in the short three-year span of Marshall competing in the Sun Belt Conference. Marshall won the previous matchup last season 79-75.<\/p>\n<p>The Thundering Herd is led by first-year head coach Cornelius Jackson. Jackson succeeded long-time head coach Dan D\u2019Antoni after serving last season as the associate head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall opened Sun Belt Conference play on the road falling to Southern Miss 68-66 on Dec. 21, 2024. Texas State won its conference opener, defeating Georgia Southern on Dec. 21, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Texas State brings its high 3-point shooting offense that ranks first in the Sun Belt Conference in field goal percentage from behind the arc, shooting 38%. Marshall ranks last in the conference from trifecta territory, shooting 29%.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup pits elite scorers in the conference, with Marshall Mikal Dawson, and Texas State\u2019s Tyrell Morgan. Both players have four consecutive games of 20 or more points.<\/p>\n<p>Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Cam Henderson Center, with live coverage on WMUL-FM 88.1 and online at marshall.edu\/WMUL. Pregame coverage begins at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Preview By Ben Anderson, FM88 Sports Jan. 1, 2025 HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (WMUL-FM) \u2014\u00a0Marshall men\u2019s basketball is set for its Sun Belt Conference opener Thursday when it welcomes the Texas State Bobcats. Marshall is 7-7, (0-1) after concluding non-conference play with a 73-59 road loss against Elon on Saturday. Texas State is 8-5 (1-0),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[140,430,429,472,473,219,115,535,100,375,376,69,300,355,28,138,415,460,236,462,527,534,528,23,212,301,536,51,96],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wmul-sports","tag-ben-anderson","tag-ben-anderson-marshall","tag-ben-anderson-wmul","tag-bobcat-basketball","tag-bobcat-mens-basketball","tag-cam-henderson-center","tag-college-radio","tag-cornelius-jackson","tag-fm88-sports","tag-herd-basketball","tag-herd-mens-basketball","tag-huntington-wv","tag-marshall-basketball","tag-marshall-mens-basketball","tag-marshall-university","tag-marshall-university-athletics","tag-mikal-dawson","tag-sbc-basketball","tag-sun-belt-conference","tag-sun-belt-conference-basketball","tag-texas-state-basketball","tag-texas-state-mens-basketball","tag-texas-state-university","tag-thundering-herd","tag-thundering-herd-athletics","tag-thundering-herd-basketball","tag-tyrell-morgan","tag-wmul","tag-wv"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","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\/1074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}