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Article: MU falters in final minutes
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- January 23, 2003
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DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER
Five minutes.
That's what the entire Marshall vs. West Virginia University game
came down to Wednesday at the Charleston Civic Center Coliseum.
The last five minutes.
After 35 minutes of close basketball that was more competitive
than pretty, this game was decided during the final five minutes.
And Marshall came up two minutes short.
The Mountaineers out-shot, out-played and, mostly, out-executed
the Herd down the stretch to claim a 65-61 win before a near-
capacity crowd of 11, 981.
But going into the last five minutes it was Marshall's game to
lose.
"Oh, listen," said Marshall Coach Greg White. "We're plus-one (MU
held a 53-52 lead at the five-minute mark), get two ...