Marshall coach Greg White knows exactly how Andy Greer is feeling.

After the NIU men’s basketball team’s 94-66 loss to the Thundering Herd Wednesday, the Huskie coach said he couldn’t be more disappointed in the way the Huskies (4-16 overall, 3-8 Mid-American Conference) have played in the last five games.

White said sometimes teams just bottom out, which is exactly what happened to NIU.

“As a coach, we have all been there,” White said. “I feel for them. Sometimes you have to bottom out and it happened here. Hopefully they will bounce back and try to get back on track. I still believe this program can do some damage. They will be able to turn things around and get back to playing like they can play.”

Greer hopes with an upcoming two-game road trip, the Huskies might recover.

“This is not intramural basketball,” he said. “This was another tough ball game for us. Our kids are flat out there. They are tired. But mentally we are out of it and we need to get back into it.”

Since their 69-67 upset over Toledo Jan. 20, the Huskies have lost five consecutive games by at least 80 points. Greer said after Monday’s loss to Akron that the Huskies showed no emotion and it carried over.

Junior forward Leon Rodgers went 2-for-13 from the floor and finished with 8 points, but finished with one rebound and three fouls in the 29 minutes he played.

Marshall center J.R. VanHoose, who finished with 15 points and 10 boards, said the game plan was to try and limit Rodgers, as well as Mike Brown, to as few points as possible.

“Anytime you can limit a guy to 10 points below his season average, you know you have played some good defense,” VanHoose said. “Our scouting report said to key on Rodgers as well as Brown. As they go, so does the team. We thought if we can play great defense against those guys, we would have no problem.”

With Rodgers and Brown not starting, the Huskies were able to take the early 6-0 lead. But without the key players on the court, the Thundering Herd was able to go on a 26-7 run to take the 26-14 lead and never look back, taking a 47-33 lead into halftime.

Tamar Slay, who finished with a game-high 22 points, and VanHoose then came out in the second half and dominated the Huskies, scoring the first 15 points and 24 of the first 28 points.

“For them to score 94 points, we cannot expect to come back and win,” Greer said. “Not us. We don’t have the offensive capabilities to do that. Our games need to be in the 60s or 70s for us to be successful.”