Herd Men’s Basketball Closes Keystone State Road Trip at Robert Morris

By Press release submission

Dec 14, 2022

Coming off an 82-71 victory at Duquesne on Thursday, the Marshall University men's basketball team (8-1) is now on an eight-game win streak as it closes out its Pittsburgh-area road trip at Robert Morris (4-6, 1-1 Horizon League) on Saturday.

Game Information
Date: December 10, 2022
Opponent: Robert Morris Colonials
Place: Moon Township, Pennsylvania
Arena: UPMC Events Center
Time: 7 p.m.
Live Stats: SideArm
Stream Information: ESPN+
Game Notes: Click Here

Marshall's eight-game win streak is the longest for the program since it started the 1999-00 season on a 10-game streak during assistant coach Cornelius Jackson's junior season. The Herd has only trailed for 6:43 of the 320 minutes during the eight-game win streak. All eight victories have come by at least 11 points.

With nine makes from the field against the Dukes, fifth-year senior Taevion Kinsey now has 814 for his career as he passed John Taft's 811 for second most in program history. He also reached the 2,100-point plateau in the contest as he now has 2,118 during his career.

It was the fourth contest of the season the Herd had five student-athletes score 10 or more points in the win at Duquesne.

The Herd leads all of NCAA Division I men's basketball in assist-to-turnover ratio at 1.85 after Thursday's contest. It also sits in fourth in the nation in offensive rebounds per game (15.11) while ranking fifth in assists per game (19.9) and rebounds per game (42.89).

Kinsey has scored 20 or more points in five of the team's first nine games. His 20.3 points per game rank 17th most in the country, leading the SBC. The Columbus, Ohio, native also leads the conference with 5.6 assists per game, 27th most in the country.

After grabbing a career-high 16 boards against Dukes, freshman Micah Handlogten is averaging 10.6 rebounds per game to lead the Sun Belt Conference and sit 13th nationally.

SCOUTING ROBERT MORRIS
RMU is coming off 71-66 victory at Central Michigan on Wednesday night after dropping a close contest at Northern Kentucky, 60-56, on Saturday.

The Colonials have had hot hands from three-point range as they make 39.4 percent of their shots from behind the arc ranking 22nd nationally.

Robert Morris has three players averaging double-digit points this season led by Enoch Cheeks 15.8 points per game. Cheeks has tallied at least 11 points in his eight games played this season, including a season-high 21 against West Virginia Wesleyan on November 16.

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