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Marshall MBB Heads to Bloomington to Face Indiana

11/26/2021 6:18:00 PM | Men's Basketball

First road game of the season

GAME 6 | MARSHALL THUNDERING HERD (4-1) at INDIANA HOOSIERS (5-0)
Saturday, Nov. 27 | 7:00 p.m. ET
Assembly Hall | Bloomington, Ind.
                                   
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team heads to Bloomington, Ind., for its first road game of the season on Saturday as it takes on the Indiana Hoosiers. Opening tip is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Assembly Hall.
 
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HAVE YOU HERD
The Herd closed out a five-game homestand to open the season with a 93-79 victory over Louisiana on Tuesday.
 
Sophomore Obinna Anochili-Killen collected his second double-double of the season with a career-highs of 19 points and 11 rebounds. The Lagos, Nigeria, native also rejected eight shots and made six of his seven free throw attempts. 
 
Anochili-Killen's eight blocks are tied for 12th-most in a game in program history. He joins Ajdin Penava and Hassan Whiteside as the only players in program history with multiple games of eight or more blocks. Anochili-Killen's 18 blocks in the last two games tie Whiteside for the most in back-to-back games in program history. Whiteside rejected 10 shots against UCF on Jan. 13, 2010 and followed with eight against Tulane on Jan. 16. 
 
Senior Taevion Kinsey tallied 21 points, for his fourth game of 20 or more this season, to go with six rebounds and four steals. 
 
Seniors Darius George and Mikel Beyers also reached double-figure scoring with 15 and 13 points, respectively. It was Beyers' first double-digit scoring effort of the season.
 
Redshirt junior Andrew Taylor collected a career-high seven steals and added nine points. 
 
Marshall had 19 steals in the win, which is tied for third-most in a single game in program history and are the most since also recording 19 against Salem on December 3, 2009.
 
Kinsey reached double-figure scoring for the 39th consecutive game and has scored 20 or more points in four of the first five games this season. The Columbus, Ohio, native now has 25 games of 20 or more points in his career.  
 
Anochilli-Killen leads NCAA Division I men's basketball with 30 blocks and would be tied for 33rd among all teams in Division I men's basketball.
 
Taylor leads the country in steals per game at 3.4.
 
SCOUTING INDIANA
The Hoosiers are 5-0 after defeating the Jackson State Tigers 70-35 on Tuesday.
 
Trayce Jackson-Davis returns to Bloomington coming off a season that saw him named a third-team All-American by Sporting News, NABC and the USBWA as well as second-team all-Big Ten by the AP and first-team by the media within the conference. This season the junior leads the Hoosiers with 16 points per game and 8.2 boards.
 
IU has held the opposition to just 28.4 percent shooting from the field in its first five games, best in Division I men's basketball, and holds teams to 52.8 points per game, best in the Big Ten and fifth best in the country.
 
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