Topic: Gazette: Herd getting short end of bench battles

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By Doug Smock

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- WHEN DEANDRE Kane cramped up and left the game with 13:06 left in Marshall's 71-59 loss to Memphis Saturday night, it was his first trip to the bench in 207 minutes, 54 seconds.

He had last ridden the proverbial pine in the final 1:18 of the first half against Southern Methodist, a 68-57 loss on Jan. 30. The junior from Pittsburgh played all 40 minutes in the previous four games.

It reminds me of the time that, after Kane scored 40 points in 54 minutes in the Herd's triple-overtime win over Tulsa last March, Herrion looked at him and said, "You can't bitch about minutes no more, son."

No, he can't, and neither can his fellow starters. Kane, Dennis Tinnon, Nigel Spikes, D.D. Scarver, Elijah Pittman and second big man Robert Goff combined for 174 of 200 possible minutes in the Memphis game.

Link: http://www.wvgazette.com/Sports/Marshall/201302170194