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Marshall's Ahmad Bradshaw Scores Winning TD In Giants Win In Super Bowl |
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By Woody Woodrum
Herd Insider Sr. Editor
Feb. 6, 2012
HUNTINGTON - Former Marshall University running back Ahmad Bradshaw scored the winning touchdown and claimed his second NFL Championship in four years as his New York Giants once again beat the New England Patriots, 21-17, in Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. on Sunday, Feb. 5.
Bradshaw rushed for 72 yards on 17 carries, including the touchdown with under one minute to go in a game the Giants had jumped out to a 9-0 lead in, but then found themselves behind 17-15 with under two minutes to play.
Truth be told, Bradshaw tried not to score as Giants quarterback Eli Manning yelled for him to stop short of the goal to run as much time as possible off the clock, thereby negating a chance for a last-second touchdown drive by Tom Brady, who has seven of those in the fourth quarter or overtime.
Bradshaw slowed at the goal line, turned his back to the end zone and tried to stop but his momentum carried him into the end zone, sitting down for the score. The extra-point gave the Giants a four-point lead, but also gave Brady and the Pats nearly a minute to go down and score.
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Manning said after the game he yelled at Bradshaw as he saw the Patriots defense spread open to allow the six-yard touchdown, with the ball snapped with just 1:04 on the clock. The two-time Super Bowl MVP quarterback said he should have done a better job of reminding Bradshaw of trying to run time off the clock.
The Giants kicker, Lawrence Tynes, had not missed an extra-point or field goal of 30 yards or less in four years, so New York was hoping to move the ball up, run the clock down as far as possible and kick for an 18-17 win.
After the score, Brady had three passes hit the hands of receivers but were dropped or caught out of bounds. He did move the offense with a couple of passes and a penalty.
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Brady finally had the Pats to mid-field, with only nine seconds left, and his "Hail Mary" was nearly caught as the New York defenders by tight end Rob Gronkowski, who made a reach for the batted ball but was hindered by the bad ankle that had limited his effectiveness throughout the game.
For Bradshaw, it will now be a game-winning touchdown with just a minute left in the game.
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Herd Plus-23 Rebounds, Breaks Four-Game Losing Streak With 63-44 Win Over Tulane |
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By Woody Woodrum
Herd Insider Senior Editor
Feb. 1, 2012
HUNTINGTON – A four-game losing streak was something the Thundering Herd men’s basketball team had heard, read and experienced about all they could take.
For the Tulane Green Wave, they could not have picked a worse night to show up at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, W.Va. to play Marshall in basketball on Wednesday night.
When it was all said and done, Marshall had out-rebounded the Wave by 23 boards - with an edge on the offensive glass of 20-to-5 - and held the Tulane team scoreless over nearly ten minutes of the first half.
The Herd had four players score in double figures, kept its big men out of foul trouble to control the glass and used a stingy defense to break the losing streak, 63-44, over Tulane.
The Thundering Herd (14-8, 5-3 C-USA) back to its roots, defend and rebound, said head coach Tom Herrion after the game.
Tualne’s 44 points allowed tied a season low for any MU opponent, going back to game two of the season on Nov. 13, 2011, when the Herd beat Jacksonville State 58-44.
That point total was the was the fewest allowed by the Herd in a conference game since 1950, when the Herd was a member of the Ohio Valley Conference.
On that night, Marshall knocked off OVC rival Tennessee Tech 88-43, in a game at Vanity Fair/Radio Center on Fourth Avenue in downtown Huntington just months before the Herd would move into the new arena in town, the Cabell County Veteran’s Memorial Field House in the fall.
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Marshall falls to Tulsa, 79-70, Sataurday In Oklahoma |
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By Woody Woodrum
Herd Insider Senior Editor
Feb. 4, 2012
TULSA, Okla. – Marshall came into the game at the Donald K. Reynolds Center looking for its first win in the building, as Marshall had never won at the home of the Tulsa Golden Hurricane since joining Conference USA.
Make it 0-6 at TU for the Herd, as Tulsa out-rebounded the Herd (34-to-30), made two more threes and drew nine less fouls than MU on the way to a 79-70 win over the Thundering Herd.
Marshall falls to 14-9 overall, 5-4 and drops to fifth in Conference USA behind Southern Miss, Memphis, Tulsa and UCF, who the Herd will play in Orlando on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
The Golden Hurricane picked up its seventh win in a row in C-USA, since opening the
league 0-2, improving to 14-9, 7-2 and moved one-half game in frontof Memphis for second place.
The Tigers beat Xavier in a non-conference win on Saturday and are 6-2, while Southern Miss leads the league at 7-1.
Tulsa coach Doug Wojcik tied legendary Tulsa coach Clarence Iba with his 137th win at TU, joining Iba (1949-60) – until Tulsa’s next win – as the co-winningest coaches in Hurricane history.
But the game was in doubt right up to the two-minute mark of play, as Marshall battled back to cut a nine-point lead to just four, 71-67, with 2:39 on the clock.
Tulsa’s sophomore guard Jordan Clarkson hit a three with Marshall’s Damier Pitts in his face and just two seconds on the shot clock to push TU back up by seven.
Then a turnover and three-point play on the other end by Clarkson wrapped up the game with 1:16 to go as Tulsa was back up ten then, 77-67.
All that remained was to set the final score, 79-70.
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Marshall Football Announces 2012 Recruiting Class |
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by Woody Woodrum
Feb. 1, 2012
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Marshall University Head Coach Doc Holliday has announced the Thundering Herd's 2012 recruiting class, and the class filled a number of need for the program and was highly touted in both Conference USA and nationally.
The class features 30 student-athletes and 15 players are already enrolled at Marshall since January 2012 classes began.
That group includes junior college, prep school and “gray-shirts" (freshmen who delay enrolling until January of following year), and some academic non-qualifiers are working since the fall of 2011 on eligibility.
"Our coaching staff and support personnel deserve a lot of the credit for the work that they put in to make this happen," Holliday said.
"This is another outstanding recruiting class and I look forward to welcoming these young men into the Marshall Football program.”
Marshall's recruiting class has being rated as one of the top two classes in Conference USA and features 12 players from the state of Florida.
From a position perspective, Marshall’s tight ends are ranked 16th nationally, the defensive backs 30th, the linebackers 32nd and the offensive linemen 47th.
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