Game Details
Marshall 94, FIU 78
FIU (18-12, 9-8 C-USA), Marshall (17-13, 10-7 C-USA)
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | 7 p.m.  
Huntington, West Virginia | Cam Henderson Center
 
The Basics
- Marshall used a big second half, outscoring FIU 47-32 in the final 20 minutes of play, to snap the Panthers' four-game winning streak with a 94-78 victory over FIU on Wednesday night at the Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, West Virginia. The Panthers drop to 18-12 on the year, and 9-8 in Conference USA, while the Thundering Herd improve to 17-13 and 10-7 in C-USA play.
 
- Osasumwen Osaghae (Miami, Florida) scored a career and team-high 19 points and grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds for his sixth career double-double. Osaghae was one of five FIU players to score double-digits along with Brian Beard, Jr. (Rancho Cucamonga, California) who had 12 points and Devon Andrews (Lorain, Ohio), Antonio Daye, Jr. (Durham, North Carolina) and Trejon Jacob (Raleigh, North Carolina) who all added 10 points in the loss. Beard, Jr. also handed out six assists on the night.
 
- FIU fell behind early in the first half but battled back to tie the game at 22-all, and then put together a 9-0 run to take a 31-22 lead on a layup by Michael Douglas (Sachse, Texas) with 8:32 left in the half. FIU eventually pushed its advantage to as many as 12 points, three times, the latter being with just over four minutes remaining in the half on a driving layup by Devon Andrews with 4:21 left before the intermission. The Andrews layup made the score 42-30. Marshall, however, closed the half on a 17-4 run to take a 47-46 lead into the locker room at the break.
 
- After the Panthers held a slight advantage for the first few minutes of the second half, the Thundering Herd regained the momentum and tied the game at 56-all, just over three minutes in, and took the lead for good on a Taevion Kinsey three-point play. Marshall never relinquished the lead the rest of the night pushing the lead to double-figures with just under 12 minutes left. Despite FIU shooting 43 percent (34-for-79) from the field, and outscoring the Thundering Herd, 60-44, in the paint, Marshall won the battle from behind the three-point arc, hitting 10 treys as opposed to the Panthers' two.
 
Notable
- Today's starters for FIU were: G, Brian Beard, Jr. (Rancho Cucamonga, California); G, Antonio Daye, Jr. (Durham, North Carolina); F, Devon Andrews (Lorain, Ohio); F, Isaiah Banks (Conyers, Georgia) and C, Osasumwen Osaghae (Miami, Florida) … FIU is 3-2 with this lineup on the year.

- FIU's nine turnovers forced, against Marshall, gives them 591 turnovers forced on the season building on its single-season record … It is just the fourth time in program history that the Panthers have recorded better than 550 turnovers forced in a season, joining the 1997-98 (580), 2012-13 (569) and 1996-97 (555) teams.

- Beard, Jr.'s 12 points marks his 53^rd career double figure scoring game in an FIU uniform.

- Beard, Jr.'s one steal against the Thundering Herd gives him 181 for his career … He is currently just 23 steals shy of equaling the all-time steals record in program history (209, Carlos Morban, 2001-03), and 24 from setting a new mark.

- In addition, Beard, Jr.'s six assists gives him 365 for his FIU career – in just 61 career games … He sits second on the Panthers' all-time assist list behind Carlos Arroyo (459, 1997-01) … In addition, with his one steal, Beard, Jr. surpassed his own single-season steals record set last season … He currently has 91 steals on the year.  

- Devon Andrews 10 points marks his 23^rd double-figure scoring game of his collegiate career.

- Trejon Jacob's 10 points is his 41^st career double-figure scoring performance, and the 16^th of the season.

- Osasumwen Osaghae's career-high 19 points marks his 12^th double-figure scoring performance of the year, and the 15^th of his career.

- Osaghae's 11 rebounds led to his ninth double-figure rebounding game of his career.

- In addition, Osaghae's 19 points and 11 boards marks his sixth career-double-double, and second-straight.

- Through tonight's game with Marshall, and his three blocks, Osasumwen Osaghae has 114 career blocked shots, good enough for third all-time in school history … In addition, his 80 blocks on the season is also third on the school single season list.

- On Wednesday, Michael Douglas (Sachse, Texas) surpassed Anthony Harris (1999-99) for sole possession fourth place on FIU's career games played list having played in his 115^th career game with the Panthers.  

Up Next
Following Wednesday's game against Marshall, the Panthers will return home for their regular season finale on Saturday, March 9, at 7 p.m.

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