BIRMINGHAM (March 9, 2016) -- FIU women's basketball could not stop the onslaught of offense from sixth-seeded Marshall and conceded a 76-44 result in round two of the Conference USA Championships at Bartow Arena on Wednesday night. FIU's season ends at 5-26, and the all-time C-USA Tournament record slips to 4-2.
 
Marshall advances to take on the third-seeded WKU program in the late game Thursday night. Marshall set a program record with 12 three-point baskets made in the contest.
 
"I just want to thank the girls for believing in us as a staff, and for being there for each other over these last four games," said Interim Head Coach Tiara Malcom. "We asked them to be together and that's the way we finished."
 
The Herd came out hot in the opening period and kept it from being a contest early. Marshall shot 10-for-19 (.526) in the opening period and held FIU down to just .308 on 4-for-13 shooting. FIU had trouble from long distance, hitting just one of five attempts from behind the arc in the opening quarter.
 
FIU scored just nine points in the second quarter, which played much like the first, with FIU shooting just .308 in the first half. The bright spot for FIU was junior forward Janka Hegedus (Budapest, Hungary), who had 11 first-half points.
 
FIU outscored the Herd 14-12 in the third quarter, but the result was already determined. The Panthers were 6-for-18 in the period, hitting a pair of three-point baskets in the period, more than in the first half.
 
Junior Nikolina Todorovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) finished with 10 points.
 
"What I love about this team is that we never quit," said Todorovic after the game.
 
The game was the last for senior Taylor Shade (Boynton Beach, Florida / Community HS), who scored eight points. She finishes 18^th on the all-time FIU scoring list with 1,069 points.
 
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and at the FIU Football Stadium.
 
About FIU: Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. Its colleges and schools offer more than 180 bachelor¹s, master¹s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU is Worlds Ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded 200,000 degrees and enrolls 50,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.