Former Herd basketball player Bruce Morris takes a half court shot during a competition at ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œRock the RecÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ in 2015, at the Marshall University Recreation Center in Huntington.
Former Herd basketball player Bruce Morris takes a half court shot during a competition at ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œRock the RecÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ in 2015, at the Marshall University Recreation Center in Huntington.
HUNTINGTON ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥” Bruce MorrisÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™ footprints will return.
Marshall University athletic director Christian Spears said Monday at the Thundering HerdÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s 28-14 victory over Connecticut in the Myrtle Beach Bowl that stickers commemorating the prints marking the longest made basket in college basketball history will be placed on the court marking the spot where Morris shot.
The likely return will come during MarshallÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s Dec. 29 game with Appalachian State, the team Morris made the 89-foot, 10-inch shot against on Feb. 7, 1989.
Herd coach Danny DÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™Antoni said heÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s glad the shot will be memorialized on the new court. MorrisÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™ family and Marshall fans created an uproar on social media when the prints werenÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™t included on the courtÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s first game Saturday vs. Toledo.
ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œThatÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s a big thing that happened with the footprints,ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ DÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™Antoni said. ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œI understand his family. It was a one and only and it may never be broken.ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥
DÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™Antoni said the athletic department will recognize Morris and several other Herd greats in the Cam Henderson Center.
Tim Stephens is a sports writer with The Herald-Dispatch.
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