Marshall’s senior day got off to a slow start Saturday in the Cam Henderson Center but the Thundering Herd rattled off the early nerves to defeat Florida Atlantic, 76-61, erasing a 17-point first half deficit in the process.
“Obviously (it’s) a little emotional again,” Marshall head basketball coach Dan D’Antoni said following the game, which saw his first full recruiting class, consisting of guards Rondale Watson, C.J. Burks and Jon Elmore, along with forward Christian Thieneman, honored before the game.
“We started out a little slow,” D’Antoni said. “The first time out (the players) came over and I gave them some words of inspiration.