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Doug Smock: Marshall easily surpassed preseason expectations

Marshall men’s basketball coach Dan D’Antoni claps as his team celebrates a Dec. 9 win against Eastern Illinois at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington.

HUNTINGTON — The preseason prognosticators could have gotten this one right about Marshall’s basketball prospects: The Thundering Herd would have to hit not one but two buzzer-beaters to defeat the 12th-place team in Conference USA.

That was the case Saturday night when the Herd somehow beat Southern Mississippi 108-106 in an exhausting overtime game. Just going off memory, I’m not sure when the last time MU came back from 23 down.

(The margin in the 1983-84 comeback on Marquette was 22 points, correct?