"Imagine professional wrestling on a 94-foot-long, 50-foot-wide wooden court.
That's what Marshall's 91-68 loss to UTEP before 6,781 disgruntled fans in an often raucous Henderson Center resembled Saturday night.
Nobody got hit with a steel chair..and no one was suplexed through a wooden table.
But otherwise?
It looked like a game played in the "squared circle."
It was physical, physical and more physical. That didn't bode well for an under-sized, height-challenged Herd trying to deal with the tag-team of 7-foot-1 Matt Willms and 6-11 Kelvin Jones.
"It was real physical," said Marshall's Austin Loop, who had two of MU's paltry total of only three 3-point field goals. "Their bigs were tough.
"We're a little undersized. When guys like that are playing physical, it's tough for us." [herald-dispatch.com]
http://www.minerrush.com/2017/1/29/...gs-we-learned-from-the-wku-marshall-road-trip
That's what Marshall's 91-68 loss to UTEP before 6,781 disgruntled fans in an often raucous Henderson Center resembled Saturday night.
Nobody got hit with a steel chair..and no one was suplexed through a wooden table.
But otherwise?
It looked like a game played in the "squared circle."
It was physical, physical and more physical. That didn't bode well for an under-sized, height-challenged Herd trying to deal with the tag-team of 7-foot-1 Matt Willms and 6-11 Kelvin Jones.
"It was real physical," said Marshall's Austin Loop, who had two of MU's paltry total of only three 3-point field goals. "Their bigs were tough.
"We're a little undersized. When guys like that are playing physical, it's tough for us." [herald-dispatch.com]
http://www.minerrush.com/2017/1/29/...gs-we-learned-from-the-wku-marshall-road-trip
