Marshall University Athletics
Saturday, December 11
Richmond, Ky.
7 PM
Marshall University
at
EKU
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Men’s Basketball Heads to EKU
12/10/2021 3:24:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Third road game of the season
GAME 10 | MARSHALL THUNDERING HERD (6-3) vs. EKU COLONELS (5-5)
Saturday, Dec. 11 | 7:00 p.m. ET
Alumni Coliseum | Richmond, Ky.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University men's basketball team travels to Richmond, Ky., to face the Eastern Kentucky Colonels on Saturday night.
HOW TO FOLLOW
WATCH: ESPN+
LIVE STATS: SIDEARM
MARSHALL GAME NOTES: Notes
HAVE YOU HERD
The Herd defeated Bluefield University 100-57 on Wednesday night in Huntington.
Junior Taevion Kinsey led the Herd with 21 points as he made nine of his 13 shots from the field. The guard added a team-high eight rebounds and seven assists to his stat line in the win.
Freshmen Obinna Anochili-Killen and Aymeric Toussaint each added 12 points in the victory. Anochili-Killen rejected a game-high seven shots and brought down six boards as Toussaint had four rebounds.
The Herd brought down 61 rebounds against Bluefield, tied for fifth-most in a game in program history. It was the seventh game in which it had 60 or more rebounds.
Marshall scored a season-high 58 points in the paint.
Kinsey reached double-figure scoring for the 43rd consecutive game and has scored 20 or more points in eight of the first nine games this season. The Columbus, Ohio, native now has 29 games of 20 or more points in his career.
The Herd made a three in its 979th consecutive game, with the last contest coming without a triple occurring on Feb. 27, 1989, in a win over App State.
Anochili-Killen has reached double-figure scoring in eight of the team's nine games this season and has blocked at least five shots in four contests.
Redshirt sophomore Andrew Taylor rejected a career-high three shots.
Marshall tallied 100 points in a game for the first time since Feb. 12, 2021, against Middle Tennessee.
All 13 Herd student-athletes who saw the court scored in the win with each having at least three points.
Kinsey is 10th in Division I men's basketball in points per game with 21.2.
Anochili-Killen is first in total blocks in the nation with 44.
Taylor ranks eighth in the country in steals per game at 2.78.
SCOUTING EKU
The Colonels are led by fourth-year head coach Herd men's basketball alumnus A.W. Hamilton.
Jannson Williams leads the team with 12.8 points per and 6.6 rebounds per game. Williams transferred to EKU from MU after the 2020-21 season and is the all-time blocks leader in Marshall men's basketball program history.
The Colonels have attempted 362 three-pointers, second most in Division I men's basketball, while ranking 11th with 98 steals.
For all the latest information about Marshall men's basketball, follow @HerdMBB on Twitter and Instagram.
To follow all Thundering Herd sports and get live stats, schedules and free live audio, download the Marshall Athletics App for iOS and Android.
---HerdZone.com---
Saturday, Dec. 11 | 7:00 p.m. ET
Alumni Coliseum | Richmond, Ky.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University men's basketball team travels to Richmond, Ky., to face the Eastern Kentucky Colonels on Saturday night.
HOW TO FOLLOW
WATCH: ESPN+
LIVE STATS: SIDEARM
MARSHALL GAME NOTES: Notes
HAVE YOU HERD
The Herd defeated Bluefield University 100-57 on Wednesday night in Huntington.
Junior Taevion Kinsey led the Herd with 21 points as he made nine of his 13 shots from the field. The guard added a team-high eight rebounds and seven assists to his stat line in the win.
Freshmen Obinna Anochili-Killen and Aymeric Toussaint each added 12 points in the victory. Anochili-Killen rejected a game-high seven shots and brought down six boards as Toussaint had four rebounds.
The Herd brought down 61 rebounds against Bluefield, tied for fifth-most in a game in program history. It was the seventh game in which it had 60 or more rebounds.
Marshall scored a season-high 58 points in the paint.
Kinsey reached double-figure scoring for the 43rd consecutive game and has scored 20 or more points in eight of the first nine games this season. The Columbus, Ohio, native now has 29 games of 20 or more points in his career.
The Herd made a three in its 979th consecutive game, with the last contest coming without a triple occurring on Feb. 27, 1989, in a win over App State.
Anochili-Killen has reached double-figure scoring in eight of the team's nine games this season and has blocked at least five shots in four contests.
Redshirt sophomore Andrew Taylor rejected a career-high three shots.
Marshall tallied 100 points in a game for the first time since Feb. 12, 2021, against Middle Tennessee.
All 13 Herd student-athletes who saw the court scored in the win with each having at least three points.
Kinsey is 10th in Division I men's basketball in points per game with 21.2.
Anochili-Killen is first in total blocks in the nation with 44.
Taylor ranks eighth in the country in steals per game at 2.78.
SCOUTING EKU
The Colonels are led by fourth-year head coach Herd men's basketball alumnus A.W. Hamilton.
Jannson Williams leads the team with 12.8 points per and 6.6 rebounds per game. Williams transferred to EKU from MU after the 2020-21 season and is the all-time blocks leader in Marshall men's basketball program history.
The Colonels have attempted 362 three-pointers, second most in Division I men's basketball, while ranking 11th with 98 steals.
For all the latest information about Marshall men's basketball, follow @HerdMBB on Twitter and Instagram.
To follow all Thundering Herd sports and get live stats, schedules and free live audio, download the Marshall Athletics App for iOS and Android.
---HerdZone.com---
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