The Marshall men’s basketball season has officially come to an end after losing to Rice in the first round of the Conference USA tournament 72-68 in Frisco, Texas.
Barring a surprising postseason tournament selection, the Herd will finish the season with a record of 15-7 (9-5 in C-USA).
Head coach Dan D’Antoni said that the team did not play up to its normal standards.
“We did not play Marshall basketball,” D’Antoni said. “I thought we did a lot of homerun shooting, a lot of individual things early in the first half.”
Marshall shot 29.4% from three in the game, hitting 10 three-pointers in the game, but four of those 10 threes came in the final 55 seconds when Marshall was attempting a last-minute comeback.