{"id":210364,"date":"2025-12-29T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/210364\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:04:09","slug":"marshall-mens-basketball-welcomes-panthers-on-nye-for-sbc-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/210364\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall Men\u2019s Basketball Welcomes Panthers on NYE for SBC Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"_Hlk186116757\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/herdtickets.evenue.net\/list\/B1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Tickets Here<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FSupportMarshallAthletics&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ctraylor8%40marshall.edu%7C8d426eaf8db046094a8408db980ac95d%7C239ab2783bba4c78b41d8508a541e025%7C0%7C0%7C638270944922346715%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=yYjEZV624%2F6t3EvkVY6Pv6foDpqbBWon3HDkEB4lj9A%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Championship Fund<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHUNTINGTON, W.Va. \u2013\u00a0The Marshall University Men&#8217;s Basketball team (8-5) is set for its final game of 2025 and Sun Belt Conference home opener on Wednesday against Georgia State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTipoff on New Year&#8217;s Eve is scheduled for 4 p.m. in the Cam Henderson Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHOW TO FOLLOW VS GEORGIA STATE<br \/>\nWatch: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/player\/_\/id\/ae776c48-aea5-40b6-b5c1-cb392feb0c56\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a><br \/>\nLive Stats: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statbroadcast.com\/events\/statmonitr.php?gid=mars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">StatBroadcast<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Herd_MBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Herd_MBB<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPRE-GAME NOTES<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Herd was last in action on Wednesday in a 102-52 win over WVU Tech.&#13;<br \/>\n\tMarshall recorded 30 assists for just the seventh time in program history and the first time since 2016 with the contest marking the first 100-point effort under Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/herdzone.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/cornelius-corny-jackson\/2126\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2126\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelius &#8216;Corny&#8217; Jackson<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/herdzone.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/jalen-speer\/10427\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10427\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Speer<\/a> leads the conference in total assists (75) and assists per game (5.8), ranking in the top 35 nationally in each category.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/herdzone.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/matt-van-komen\/10734\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10734\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Van Komen<\/a> sits fourth in the country with 37 blocks and tied for fifth at 3.08 rejections per game.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nABOUT THE PANTHERS<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tGeorgia State has won its last two contests over App State on December 20 and Columbia College (SC) on Sunday.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Panthers make 76.7 percent of their free throws, second best in the SBC.&#13;<br \/>\n\tMicah Tucker is shooting 85.7 percent from the charity stripe while averaging 12.6 points per game.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nFor all the latest information about Marshall Men&#8217;s Basketball, follow @Herd_MBB on Twitter and @herdmbb on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>To follow all Thundering Herd sports and get live stats, schedules and free live audio, download the Marshall Athletics App for iOS and Android.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;HerdZone.com&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buy Tickets Here | Championship Fund \u00a0 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. \u2013\u00a0The Marshall University Men&#8217;s Basketball team (8-5) is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-210364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}