Topic: HZ: Herd Likes `Liberty' as it Heads for C-USA Tourney

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By JACK BOGACZYK
HERDZONE.COM COLUMNIST

HUNTINGTON – Marshall knows the drill. It’s been there, and almost done that.

After finishing in a tie for ninth place in the 12-team Conference USA men’s basketball race, the Thundering Herd (13-18, 6-10) heads for the C-USA Tournament trying to top what it did a year ago.

Coach Tom Herrion’s team traveled to Tulsa, Okla., on Monday, in need of four wins in four days to turn in the kind of March Madness that Liberty (15-20) did in the Big South Conference final on Sunday, and what Manhattan (14-17) was trying to accomplish Monday night in the Metro Atlantic tournament title game.

That would be to flip a subpar season into an NCAA Tournament ticket to the “First Four” next week in Dayton, Ohio. A year ago at Memphis, the Herd won three in a row before falling to the host Tigers for an automatic NCAA berth.

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