Tom Bragg

It hasn't always been pretty – and you could certainly classify Wednesday's first half against Arkansas-Pine Bluff as ugly at times – but this Marshall men's basketball team keeps finding ways to win games they probably would have lost in the not so distant past.

After all of the offseason drama last winter, with the mass exodus of players into the transfer portal and the wave of new faces that arrived via the same transfer portal. New coaches, new staff ... new everything, really.

Cornelius Jackson has not been the head coach of the Marshall men's basketball team for very long, but in that short time in charge his Thundering Herd teams have been resilient.

I have a really hard time working up much energy to get excited about Marshall football hiring assistant coaches who have already been assistant coaches at Marshall in the past

Need more evidence that college football is broken? Look no further than this year's round of bowl games.

It hasn't always been pretty — in fact, oftentimes it has been close to ugly — but Marshall keeps finding ways to win games down the stretch.

Sadly, both the Marshall men's and women's basketball teams bowed out of their respective conference tournaments without titles and are not participating in the NCAA tournament this year, but every dark cloud has a silver lining — and our silver lining is being able to now fully turn our attention back outside.

Spring football, as a concept, is in a weird place. It used to be the spring session of practices were a time when you got your first look

Three players. That is what Marshall men's basketball coach Corny Jackson has to work with right now (as of Friday morning; it could be fewer by the time you read this).

Expectations for the Marshall baseball team this season were understandably high.