Congrats Joe Alexander!

We here at wvmountaineersports.com would like to congratulate Joe Alexander on making the All Big East first team. Alexander’s 93 point barrage in the final three regular season games was just enough for the voters to catch up what we already know. For the season Alexander averaged 16.2 points per game to go along with 6 rebounds not to mention 46 blocks for the season. He also shot almost 48 percent from the field while shooting 81 percent from the foul line.

Joe has come a long way since he got relegated to the bench during WVU’s classic NIT title run. Thanks to Coach Huggs Mountaineer Nation will see something that hasn’t been seen in the past soon-to-be 29 years…..an NBA player that hails from West Virginia. Not only is Alexander a leading candidate for next season’s Big East Player of the Year but also, dare I say, one of the top candidates for the John Wooden Award. Once again, congrats to Alexander and let the hype machine for his senior season begin.

Also, our two favorite seniors, Darris Nichols and Ted Talkington, found out Tuesday that they have received Big East Conference Awards.

Darris Nichols will share the Big East Scholarship Award with our much hated Pitt foe Ronald Ramon.

Ted Talkington was named 2007-08 Big East/Aeropostale Men’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year. He will recieve a $2,000 scholarship that can be used for graduate studies or professional studies… in other words, he can blow it in Vegas!