New chapter begins for Marshall men’s basketball

CHRISTIAN TYLER RANDOLPH | Gazette-Mail Photos ¬ Marshall Head Coach Dan D'Antoni watches his team against the Jackson State Tigers in the second half at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, W.Va. on Monday Nov. 21, 2016.Earlier this month, Dan D’Antoni’s Marshall basketball program reached a milestone in making its most legitimate bid for the Conference USA tournament championship.

The day after the Thundering Herd fell short in the finals against Middle Tennessee, another new chapter began: Rosters now will be 100 percent populated with D’Antoni recruits.

That’s where coaching legacies are made and broken. MU’s only other trip to the C-USA finals, in 2012, was engineered by Tom Herrion,…