back in my early years, they were a bb school, Leo Byrd and Hal Greer, they were players
Of course, that was 50 years ago. Football has been so dominant since their AA days that bb has taken a back seat.
They have three postseason wins ever, and they are 0-5 all-time in the NCAA tournament. Marshall never has been a basketball school, even when they had a future Hall of Famer at guard.
Of course, you don't know what you are talking about. As was mentioned earlier, NCAA tourney wins are just one part of the story. Their overall winning record is better than Ohio, they have a national title (small school) and have had many great players who ended being All-Americans. I don't recall Ohio being ranked 12Th or better ever at the end of the year like Marshall has. Cam Henderson, their coach for 20 years, is credited by most historians as having invented the zone defense. He was 358-158 (69.4%) from 1935-1955, and played and beat plenty of the big boys.
Anyway, you probably are too young and/or foolish to know anything about things more than 10 years ago.
First of all, the personal attacks are cool.
I think it would be very, very hard to find anyone without bias to say Marshall is historically a better basketball school than Ohio. This all goes without saying that Ohio, in the grand scheme of things, has maybe the 80th best basketball program historically in the country. Even Ohio to be considered a "basketball school" is probably pushing it, but they can at least point to fan support and postseason success (aka the reason teams play) to fuel the case. It also helps that historically, our football team stinks. All those factors go into being a basketball school.
This also goes without saying that football far and away is the sport people think of when Marshall is mentioned. Maybe this was a toss up 50-60 years ago, but not now. That is kind of what happens when you have a movie made about a tragedy, you have an All-time receiver and you 2 National Titles.
Last Edited: 3/19/2014 4:21:41 PM by Donuts