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Micah Handlogten
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Herd Men’s Basketball Finishes Three-Game Road Swing in Greensboro

12/12/2022 4:47:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Marshall enters contest on nine-game win streak

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University men's basketball team enters its final non-conference road game of the season as it heads to Greensboro, North Carolina, for a contest against the UNC Greensboro Spartans (4-6) on Tuesday night.
 
Game Information
Date: December 12, 2022
Opponent: UNC Greensboro Spartans
Place: Greensboro, North Carolina
Arena: Greensboro Coliseum
Time: 7 p.m.
Live Stats: Statbroadcast
Stream Information: ESPN+
Game Notes: Click Here
 
The Herd took down the Robert Morris Colonials 69-60 on Saturday to extend its win streak to nine.
 
Marshall's nine-game win streak is the longest for the program since it started the 1999-00 season on a 10-game streak during assistant coach Cornelius Jackson's junior season. The Herd has only trailed for 9:11 of the 360 minutes during the eight-game win streak. Eight of the nine wins have come by at least 11 points, with all nine by at least nine points.
 
Fifth-year senior Taevion Kinsey tallied 26 points in the win, his sixth game of 20 or more points this season. The Columbus, Ohio, native is the only player in Division I men's basketball averaging at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists per game.
 
MU enters the contest top 10 in the country in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.61), assists per game (19.1), offensive rebounds per game (14.5) and rebounds per game (42.7).
 
Freshman Micah Handlogten's 27 blocks rank 10th in the nation while his 108 rebounds rank sixth.
 
With 34 made three-pointers, junior Kamdyn Curfman sits in 10th in the nation and has made 41.5 percent of his shots from behind the arc.
 
SCOUTING UNCG
The Spartans fell to the then-ninth ranked Arkansas Razorbacks on December 6, 65-58. UNCG has dropped four of its last five contests entering Tuesday night.
 
Keondre Kennedy leads his side with 13.9 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. Kennedy has made 87.9 percent of his free-throws this season to lead the Southern Conference.
 
Kobe Langley averages 4.0 assists and a SoCon leading 2.1 steals per game.
 
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