HUNTINGTON — As he enters his fifth season as Marshall’s women’s basketball coach, Matt Daniel has substantially changed his life and the Thundering Herd program.
Daniel and his wife have welcomed two daughters since coming to Huntington. His last two teams have gone to postseason play, with the 2015-16 team winning 21 games — the most for the progam in three decades. That team also went 9-9 in the league, the second Herd team to hit .500 in the 11-year Conference USA era.
He also coached his first first-team All-Conference USA selection.
So what, as the Herd tips off the season tonight at Illinois, can Daniel do for an encore?