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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 11-7-2018 The aP rthenon, November 7, 2018 Sadie Helmick [email protected] Sarah Ingram [email protected] Rick Farlow [email protected] Franklin Norton [email protected] Heather Barker [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Helmick, Sadie; Ingram, Sarah; Farlow, Rick; Norton, Franklin; and Barker, Heather, "The aP rthenon, November 7, 2018" (2018). The Parthenon. 744. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/744 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aP rthenon by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018 | VOL. 122 NO. 68 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com | SINGLE COPY FREE WHAT’S PAGE 2 >Men’s basketball newcomers ready to start season PAGE 3 >Women’s basketball looks to improve from last season > Hal Greer to be honored by statue PAGE 6 > Expectations rising for Marshall basketball PAGE 7 > Herd men’s hoops takes on EKU to open season PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY SADIE HELMICK | [email protected] Marshall students Running Six Days a Week! FRIDAY & ride FREE with I.D. 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Brooks- with the team, but will not play in games this going to,” Kinsey said. “I’ve been doing this Harris is from Zanesville, Ohio, where he attended season. Marshall head coach Dan D’Antoni collegiate season, and the Herd gears up for for a long time, but getting to college, where Zanesville High School. announced Monday that Brooks-Harris and itsbasketball 2018-19 team regular will season. experience their first there’s a lot of cameras and During his senior year, Brooks-Harris was Dillon will both redshirt this season. From high school to Division I basketball, people watching made it the 2018 Player of the Year in the East Central The Herd has another West Virginia na- Marshall’s roster includes six freshmen and Ohio League, and he was tive in freshman guard Deaundra Murphy. one redshirt freshman. The rest of the roster Murphy is from Huntington and earned all- is made up of nine returning players, includ- Ohioan by the Ohio Prep state and All-Tri-State honors while playing ing senior guards CJ Burks and Jon Elmore, Sportswritersalso named a first-team Association. All- at St. Joe High School. The 6-foot-3 guard who were both named to the Conference USA That same year, he aver- averaged 24.7 points and 6.6 rebounds per Preseason All-Conference Team last month. aged more than 20 points game helping his school to the state tourna- One freshman, in particular, 6-foot-5 guard “It is very exciting when per game (herdzone.com). Taevion Kinsey, has been Brooks-Harris acknowl- semester after transferring from Alderson- drawing a lot of attention your dunk goes viral, edged the importance of Broaddusment. Murphy midway will through be ineligible last season. for the first toward the Herd after playing at the level of the D’Antoni did not stop his tri-state recruit- his dunks started go- especially because I didn’t returning players. ment there. Freshman guard Luke Thomas ing viral on social “Everyone here is more media. Kinsey’s think it was going to. I’ve experienced, bigger, stron- Proctorville, Ohio. The 6-foot local attended highlights were ger,” Brooks-Harris said. Fairlandgrew up Highjust fiveSchool, miles where from heMarshall averaged in showcased on been doing this for a long “We are trying to catch up 15 points per game his senior season and ESPN in August, and play at the level that led the school to a 20-4 record and an Ohio after a video of his time, but getting to college, they are playing at.” High School Athletic Association Division II acrobatic dunking Freshman guard Jeremy where there’s a lot of Dillon, a West Virginia na- Marshall’s offer as a preferred walk-on. cameras and people watching tive who played football regional semifinals berth. Thomas accepted and basketball at Mingo said. “I’ve always loved Marshall, that’s where made it easier to go viral.” Central High School, had to I wanted“I felt like to playit was and a great coach fit D’Antoni for me,” gaveThomas me make a decision when he the opportunity.” TAEVION KINSEY was offered scholarships The Herd also added redshirt freshman for both football and bas- 6-foot-9, 350-pound guard Iran Bennett, who easier to go viral.” ketball. The 6-foot-5 guard received all-state sat out last season. Prior to Marshall, Bennett The 6-foot-5, 177-pound honors for both sports. At Mingo Central, Dil- spent two years at Hargrave Military Acad- guard from Columbus, Ohio, lon scored over 1,300 points and averaged 20 emy in Chatham, Virginia, where he was a signed with Marshall last April. points per game. Dillon signed with the Herd part of the team that went 47-1 and won the While Kinsey was a senior at last November. 2016 Prep National Championship. Eastmoor Academy in Colum- Dillon was also a Kennedy Award winner Rounding up the Marshall freshman bus, he was named to the Ohio and named West Virginia High School Foot- is 6-foot guard Wilhelm von Arndt. The Prep Sportswriters Association ball Player of the Year after leading Mingo 175-pound guard is from Stockholm, Sweden all-state second team and av- and spent last season at Calusa Preparatory eraged 19.5 points per game, state championship in 2016. Dillon acknowl- School in Miami, Florida. Arndt is a walk-on according to Herdzone. In the edgedCentral basketball to an undefeated would be season better andon his its body first at Marshall and plans to do whatever it takes and said he is excited to see what the team to help his team. last week against West Virginia can do this season. “As of now I’m trying to do everything I can Wesleyan,Herd’s final Kinsey exhibition and Burks game led “I just felt like in the long run basketball whether that’s bringing energy to practices, the team with 10 points each. will be better on my body,” Dillon said. “I’m cheering people on, dressing not dressing, play- This will not be the first time Kin- looking forward to seeing what we can do this ing not playing,” von Arndt said. “I’m focused on sey is playing alongside teammate year, hopefully, this year we will go deeper in doing my best and trying to get better.” The Herd begins its regular season play Freshman guard, Taevion Kinsey, points in excitement during “Herd Madness” at with a 7 p.m. tipoff today at Eastern Kentucky the Henderson Center prior to Marshall’s two preseason games. University in Richmond, Kentucky. RICHARD CRANK | THE PARTHENON Morgan Griffith can be contacted at [email protected]. PAGE EDITED AND DESIGNED BY SADIE HELMICK | [email protected] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018 3 MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Marshall women’s basketball looking Hal Greer to to improve from last season be honored by statue By GRETCHEN KALAR and SYDNEY SHELTON THE PARTHENON Marshall University will honor Hal Greer with a statue in 2019. President Jerry Gilbert has created a committee to focus on the state after he proposed the idea of a sculpture for a recognition of Hal Greer. “The committee has sent out a call for proposal,” Gilbert said. “We had six people express interest and has been nar- rowed down to three individuals.” Don Van Horn, Dean of the College of Arts and Media saidThe the three competition final artists was have set not up been that named each sculptor yet. will present a proposed budget for the creation and delivery - age of materials being submitted for consideration by Marshall women’s basketball team sits and watches the dunk contest in the Henderson Center at “Herd Madness.” theof a committeefinished sculpture. set up to That facilitate budget the is partprocess. of the Those pack materials are due later this month and will include photographs of a model for the sculpture, drawings By SYDNEY SHELTON have fun together, we go out together, we presenting concepts for the installation of the sculp- THE PARTHENON us and that is something that we have to ture, proposed budget, and proposed timeline without closeyear rebounding the gap on if was we aare big going deficiency to have for a terms of that, that chemistry will rely on chance to have a better team so they have thesupport court other and help teams us wintogether.