TROY, Ala. -- "Groundhog Day" the movie came out in 1993, but Marshall University's women's basketball team has revived the film in 2025.

The key to winning basketball games is to score more points than the opponent. While that's not a monumental revelation, it's certainly relevant to Marshall University's men's team's 7-7 record. The inability to put ball in basket has cost the Thundering Herd in its losses.

Both the Troy Trojans men’s and women’s basketball teams picked up Sun Belt Conference wins over the Marshall Thundering Herd on. 4. The Troy men’s team (10-4, 3-0) survived an exciting 58-57 slugfest over Marshall (8-8,

Nate Martin made 1 of 2 free throws with 3:39 to go to give Marshall a 57-54 lead. The Herd would not score again as it made one only of its last 10 shots. In the final 3:43, the Herd missed seven shots and had one shot-clock violation.

Troy's men's basketball team led for just 44 seconds on Saturday, but it held during the most important tick, squeezing past Marshall 58-57 on Saturday at the Cam

Marshall entered the Cam Henderson Center on Thursday night for a matchup with Texas State and left with a new experience — leading an entire game and closing it out.