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26 February 2010
IF THE NCAA decides to go to a 96-team men's basketball tournament, I'd miss the madness associated with March.
A team would have to be in a figurative coma in order to miss the field, and end-of-the-regular-season games would be reduced to little more than exhibitions. What drama, for instance, would there be to see if West Virginia gets a No. 2 or 5 seed? Would it matter an iota whether the Mountaineers play the No. 23 or No. 20 seed?
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25 February 2010
West Virginia basketball legend Jerry West was one of four players named Wednesday to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
West joins Duke's Christian Laettner, UCLA's Sidney Wicks and North Carolina State's David Thompson in the Hall's Class of 2010.
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25 February 2010
MORGANTOWN - Give Bob Huggins an opening to talk about Da'Sean Butler and what he means to West Virginia's eighth-ranked basketball team and he'll pounce on it.
The direction Huggins will take, though, is always a mystery.
He might go the versatility route and wonder aloud how many players could seamlessly morph from a shooting guard to a small forward to a point guard and then to an inside banger - quite often not simply in the same game, but in one possession.
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25 February 2010
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The NCAA accused the University of Michigan of failing to comply with practice time rules under Coach Rich Rodriguez, who admitted making "mistakes'' but will be back for a third try at bringing college football's winningest program back into the national title hunt.
Incoming UM Athletic Director David Brandon disclosed the NCAA conclusions today, but said there were no surprises in the report. He expressed full support for his coach, who is 8-16 in two disappointing seasons.
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20 February 2010
When Noel Devine and Jock Sanders announced their intention to return for their senior season at WVU they sited unfinished business. They intend to bring a national title to Morgantown in their final year at WVU.
Bill Stewart seconded Devine and Sanders lofty goal. “As the head coach, if I don’t believe we can contend for a national championship, the staff can’t believe it, and the team won’t believe it.”
With Stewart, Devine, and Sanders having thrown down the gauntlet, I will look into what has to happen for WVU football to do what it has never done.
I give you the five offensive players that have to exceed expectations for WVU to reach college football’s “Promised Land."
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19 February 2010
With apologies to Paul Harvey, author Roland Lazenby offers a new take in his book "Jerry West; The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon.''
It's the West of the story.
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16 February 2010
MORGANTOWN - The last thing Bob Huggins wants to do right now is dwell on free-throw shooting.
Practice those freebies? Sure. But obsess about it? Fixate on it?
No way.
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13 February 2010
PITTSBURGH - For the second time in three seasons, West Virginia lost a game at Pitt that it appeared to have all wrapped up. This one took a lot longer than the last one, though.
After blowing a five-point lead in the final 34 seconds of regulation, the Mountaineers fell 98-95 to Pitt in three overtimes Friday night. The game lasted more than three hours and stretched across two days.
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06 February 2010
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04 February 2010
MORGANTOWN – Da’Sean Butler’s 18 points led No. 6 West Virginia to a 70-51 victory over No. 22 Pitt Wednesday night at the WVU Coliseum in the 179th Backyard Brawl. Kevin Jones added 16 points and Devin Ebanks grabbed 16 rebounds to get the Mountaineers to 18-3, 7-2, on the season.
“Usually when Pitt and West Virginia get together it does have a little bit of everything,” West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said.
