Mode: | Women's Basketball |
Year: | 2023–24 |
Prev Year: | 2022–23 |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Team: | Marshall Thundering Herd |
Conference: | Sun Belt Conference |
Short Conf: | Sun Belt |
Record: | 26–7 |
Conf Record: | 17–1 |
Head Coach: | Kim Caldwell |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Asst Coach1: | Jenna Burdette |
Asst Coach2: | Daniel Price |
Asst Coach3: | Angel Rizor |
Asst Coach4: | Mashayla Cecil |
Stadium: | Cam Henderson Center |
Champion: | Sun Belt regular season and tournament champions |
Tourney Result: | first round |
The 2023–24 Marshall Thundering Herd women's basketball team represented Marshall University during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Thundering Herd, led by first-year head coach Kim Caldwell, played their home games at Cam Henderson Center in Huntington, West Virginia as members of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 26–7, 17–1 in Sun Belt play, to finish in first place. In the Sun Belt tournament, they defeated Appalachian State, Old Dominion and James Madison to become champions. They received the Sun Belt's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where, as a No. 13 seed, they lost to No. 4 seed Virginia Tech in the first round.
After the season, head coach Kim Caldwell left to become the head coach at Tennessee. Marshall hired Transylvania University head coach Juli Fulks as her replacement.[1]
See main article: 2022–23 Marshall Thundering Herd women's basketball team. In their 2022–23 season, the Thundering Herd finished eighth-ranked in conference play with a record of 17–14 overall and 9–9 in conference play. They lost to James Madison in the conference tournament quarterfinals and did not advance to postseason play.
On March 27, former Glenville State head coach Kim Caldwell was hired to coach the Thundering Herd.[2]
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