HUNTINGTON — When things are going well for Marshall’s basketball team, even the “alley-whoops” plays work.
So it started for the Thundering Herd on Thursday night at the Cam Henderson Center. On Marshall’s first possession, point guard Jon Elmore sent one of those arcing passes toward the hoop. But breaking two-guard Stevie Browning wasn’t quite up to the task for a perfect backdoor.
No matter. The 6-foot-3 Browning made the catch, went up on a secondary leap and scored. It was the first bucket in the Herd’s 90-67 Conference USA romp past visiting Florida Atlantic, starting the Herd toward its eighth consecutive league victory at home, dating to last season.