CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As Agent 86 of Control would have said to his counterpart, Agent 99, “Missed it by that much,” a line made famous by Don Adams in the 1960s and by Steve Carell in the remake of “Get Smart” in the late 1990s.
Marshall’s women’s team had lost 10 in a row to WVU in the annual Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic, many of those games ending as a blowout, but that was not the cast in the 2015 edition as the Thundering Herd fought the Mountaineers down to the wire before just missing on a win, 66-60, and also the first loss of the year for Coach Matt Daniel’s team.