Whitside, Pena Win Individual, Team Honors From C-USA

From Conference USA, For Herd Insider magazine -- IRVING, Texas - After becoming the only freshman to earn all-conference honors this season, Marshall forward Hassan Whiteside was named the 2...
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Herd Women Fall To UCF In OT To Lose At C-USA Tourney

From Marshall University Sports Information's Bob Pristash for Herd Insider -- TULSA, Okla. – Marshall junior forward Tynikki Crook recorded her seventh double-double in seven Conference USA T...
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Wilkerson, Whiteside Named To C-USA All-Conference Team

From Conference USA, edited by Woody Woodrum for Herd Insider -- IRVING, Texas - Players from five different schools are represented on the 2010 All-Conference USA men's basketball first-...
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Hassan Whiteside Named To Sporting News Second Team Freshman All-American Squad

From The Sporting News, For Herd Insider magazine, March 8, 2010 -- HUNTINGTON, W.Va.—Marshall University men’s basketball player Hassan Whiteside has been selected to the Sporting News Secon...
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Whitside, Pena Win Individual, Team Honors From C-USA
From Conference USA,
For Herd Insider magazine --


IRVING, Texas - After becoming the only freshman to earn all-conference honors this season, Marshall forward Hassan Whiteside was named the 2010 Conference USA Freshman of the Year and the Defensive Player of the Year. Whiteside's teammate, sophomore Dago Pena, shared C-USA Sixth Player of the Year honors with Tulsa sophomore Steven Idlet.
Memphis sophomore guard Elliot Williams was named the C-USA Newcomer of the Year. All awards were voted on by the conference's head coaches and select media.
Whiteside is joined on the all-freshman team by UCF duo Keith Clanton and Marcus Jordan, Rice forward Arsalan Kazemi and Kendall Timmons of Tulane. Whiteside has produced a record-setting freshman campaign.
Marshall's seven-footer leads the nation in blocks per game (5.4 per game) and not only became the first freshman in Conference history to record a triple-double, but the first player to register three in a season and career. The three triple-doubles is also the most in the nation this season.
Whiteside finished the C-USA regular season with 168 blocks, a career school record and also broke the C-USA single-season mark.
Sophomores Idlet and Pena share 2010 C-USA Sixth Man of the Year award. Idlet has come off the bench in all 31 Golden Hurricane games and ranks fourth on the team in scoring and third in rebounding.
Pena played in 28 games for the Thundering Herd with only two starts, averaging 7.0 ppg and shooting better than 50 percent from the field (77-152, .507).
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Wilkerson, Whiteside Named To C-USA All-Conference Team
From Conference USA,
edited by Woody Woodrum for Herd Insider --

IRVING, Texas - Players from five different schools are represented on the 2010 All-Conference USA men's basketball first-team, featuring three repeat all-conference selections and two newcomers.
Seniors Aubrey Coleman of Houston and Ben Uzoh of Tulsa are joined by juniors Elijah Millsap of UAB and Randy Culpepper of UTEP, along with sophomore Elliot Williams of Memphis. All five players are guards. Voting on the awards was done by the C-USA head coaches and media members in each conference city.
Marshall senior Tyler Wilkerson and true freshman Hassan Whiteside were both named to the All-Conference USA second team. They are the first Marshall players named as high as the second team.
Mark Patton in 2006 and Markel Humphrey in 2007-08-09 were both named to the All-C-USA third time all four appearances. Marshall last had a second team all-conference selection when Marvin Black was named to the Mid-American Conference second team in 2004.
The Herd's last first team pick was J.R. VanHoose in 2001, when he was first team All-MAC.
Whiteside has also been named to The Sporting News All-American Freshman Team on the second team and is expected to be named to both the C-USA All-Frosh team and as the C-USA Freshman of the Year.
Wilkerson leads Marshall in scoring (13.9 ppg) and is second on the squad in rebounding (7.2) and blocks (1.1), and Wilkerson has scored 995 points in his career and is on verge of becoming 45th Marshall player to score 1,000 career points.
The senior from Lexington, Ky. recorded a career high 28 points against UAB Feb. 13. He is shooting 52 percent (154-of-296) from the field this season.
Wilkerson's 20 rebounds against North Carolina A&T were the most by a Herd player since Rodney Holden's 20 against The Citadel Jan. 18, 1986, and he blocked a career high seven shots against Lamar. His 18 career double-doubles are the third most among active Conference USA players.
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Herd Women Fall To UCF In OT To Lose At C-USA Tourney
From Marshall University Sports Information's
Bob Pristash for Herd Insider --

TULSA, Okla. – Marshall junior forward Tynikki Crook recorded her seventh double-double in seven Conference USA Tournament games, but UCF's Chelsie Wiley countered with 19 to lead UCF to a 59-57 win over the Herd women’s basketball team in the opening round of the 2010 Conference USA Championship on Monday, March 8.
Crook scored 18 points while grabbing 12 rebounds. Mystee Dale had a career-high 21 points, including hitting 10-of-13 from the free throw line, while the rest of MU's players only made 2-of-8.
The Herd finishes the season with a 14-16 mark, the first time the Herd has finished with a losing season since the 2002-03 season.  UCF advances to play top-seeded Tulane.
Marshall jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead just over two minutes in as Crook hit back-to-back buckets.  UCF stormed back with the next six points to take their first lead of the contest two minutes later, a lead they would hold into the second half.
Turnovers were the problem for the Herd for the remainder of the half  as MU turned it over 17 times the first 20 minutes of play, 27 times in the contest.
The Herd cut the deficit to three points on a pair of occasions before the Knights wrapped up the half on an 8-1 run to take a 27-17 lead at halftime.
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Hassan Whiteside Named To Sporting News Second Team Freshman All-American Squad
From The Sporting News,
For Herd Insider magazine, March 8, 2010 --
HUNTINGTON, W.Va.—Marshall University men’s basketball player Hassan Whiteside has been selected to the Sporting News Second Team Freshman All-American squad.   Whiteside is one of four players on the second team All-Freshman All-American team from TSN to be from non-BCS conference.

Whiteside reset the Conference USA and his own school record for most blocks in a game with 13 against UCF Feb. 27.  Whiteside has blocked 168 shots this season, tying him with Stepahane Lasme of UMass (168 blocks in 2007) for tenth-most blocks in a single season in NCAA Division I history. Next up at ninth will be Alonzo Mourning of Georgetown, who blocked 169 shots in 1989.

The 7-foot post player also broke the Marshall career blocks record against UCF on Feb. 27.  The previous Marshall career blocks record was 148, set by Omar Roland (1988-90) when Marshall was a member of the Southern Conference. Whiteside broke the Marshall school record for most blocks in a season when he recorded five against UAB Jan. 16. The old record of 101 which was set by Roland during the 1989-90 campaign.

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