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Best in the Belt! Herd Women’s Basketball Wins SBC Regular Season Title
2/27/2024 9:55:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Marshall locks in top spot at SBC Championships next week
Box score | Coach Caldwell Post-Game Press Conference
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – When Coach Kim Caldwell officially joined the Marshall University family in April 2023, the new head coach said she hoped to build something special in Huntington, to make Marshall fans proud, and to Give God Glory in the process - a phrase spoken by her late-father Coach Scott Stephens.
In the first year of Caldwell's era with the Thundering Herd, the team has done just that.
On Tuesday night, the Marshall women's basketball team dominated Georgia State, 97-69, in front of 2,554 enthusiastic fans at the Cam Henderson Center to clinch the outright Sun Belt Conference regular season title, which locks the Herd into the No. 1 seed at next week's SBC Tournament in Pensacola.
"I'm really happy [the team] got to have that moment," Caldwell said. "So they got to celebrate, they got that Championship feel, which is rare. They have earned it, they deserve it, I am proud of them. I hope they remember this day as long as they live and I think they will. They have put in a lot of hard work to get here."
In true Herd fashion this season, four players led the team with 17 points. Abby Beeman, Breanna Campbell, Aislynn Hayes, and Meredith Maier all shared the night's scoring lead.
Marshall is typically a team that is more reliant on its 3-point shooting, but on Tuesday, the Herd showed its strength at the rim as well, finishing with 56 of its 97 points in the paint as the Panthers looked to take away the perimeter.
No matter what was employed, there was no stopping Marshall's team on what proved to be a special night in Huntington.
"Hats off to the players who are here and did that, that created that moment" Caldwell added. "They were the ones who put in the hard work and were resilient and believed in the system and trusted in it even though they weren't necessarily recruited into this or to play for me. That is what makes this team so special and they are going to remain special, there is never going to be a team quite like them."
Marshall has now won 20 of its last 22 games and is ranked No. 18 in the latest CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25.
The Thundering Herd women look to cap a historic regular season at 6 p.m. on Friday when the team celebrates Senior Day against Georgia Southern at Cam Henderson Center. The team will honor its three seniors: Abby Beeman, Breanna Campbell and Tamia Lawhorne following the game.
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