The Thundering Herd are led by head coach Cornelius Jackson and play their home games at the on-campus Cam Henderson Center which opened in 1981.

They set a Marshall school record with 32 wins in a season; a 17–0 start to the season; a 35-game home winning streak; and won the National Championship in the National Association for Intercollegiate Basketball (today's NAIA) in Kansas City in 1947, sweeping five games in six days.

[4] Center Charlie Slack set a still NCAA record of 25.6 rebounds per game for Henderson's final team in 1954–55.

19 in the nation in 1950, a 96–72 Marshall win), Indiana State (Henderson was 2–1 versus John Wooden, when the UCLA legend was coaching the Sycamores), BYU, Idaho, Hawaii, Cincinnati, Tennessee, Western Kentucky, Loyola, Maryland, Miami-Florida, Denver, St. Francis, Wichita State, Colorado, Cal, CCNY, Long Island Univ., South Carolina and St. Louis.

His 1954–55 team was second in the Mid-American Conference, but was denied a berth in the NIT by the league in the wake of the cheating scandals in New York and other college spots in the early 1950s.

Henderson's first basketball All-American, Jule Rivlin, coached the 1955–56 Herd to its only MAC title and first-ever NCAA Tournament.

Johnson brought the Herd back to the NIT in 1968 behind point guard Dan D'Antoni, but they lost in the first round.

He was drafted by the Kansas City-Omaha Kings and played four seasons in the NBA before moving on to greater glory in the Italian League, winning titles as a player and coach.

Bob Zuffelato took the Herd to the Southern Conference finals in 1979–80, falling again to Furman, after Aberdeen died during the summer of 1979 while on vacation.

Marshall would go on to be 5–0 versus the Mountaineers in Huntington before the series moved permanently to the Charleston Civic Center in the state capital.

A highlight of Huckabay's time at Marshall occurred on February 7, 1985, when backup guard Bruce Morris made the longest shot in NCAA basketball history.

[7] Donovan helped land West Virginia native and future NBA standout Jason Williams after he had originally signed with Providence.

White followed in the great Marshall tradition of outstanding players from the Mullens, West Virginia area including both Mike and Dan D'Antoni.

White coached his first Marshall team to its final Southern Conference tournament title game in 1996–97, falling to UT-Chattanooga on a last-second, game-winning shot.

Marshall joined the Mid-American Conference for the second time in 1997–98, and the Herd was 21–9 in 1999–2000 under White, falling in the MAC semi-finals to Miami, Ohio.

In 2010, Marshall hired former College of Charleston head coach, Tom Herrion, to lead the Thundering Herd.

This gave Marshall its first Conference USA championship and sent the Thundering Herd to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 31 years.

Marshall, however, was not able to repeat the previous season's success and was knocked out in the conference tournament quarterfinals to Southern Miss, before ultimately accepting an invite in the CIT for the first time since 2011.

Following quarterfinal and semifinal wins over Presbyterian and Hampton respectively, Marshall would move on to the CIT Championship game against Green Bay, which they would dominate with a 90–70 victory and secure the program's first postseason hoops title in 72 years.