‘Nova cold-cocks West Virginia back in the bubble
By Andy Brown on Feb 20, 2008 in Basketball, Big East, Rantings
The following is a postgame rant not an actual game summary (who really cares about this one, right?)
Looks like Hunsi Sangarie got the better end of a beatdown than the West Virginia basketball team did. Tonight’s blowout loss mirrored eerily similar to the one that happened on January 5, 2005 at The Pavilion. Who can forget that? They were down early and often, just like tonight. They were down by 20 at the half, tonight they were down by 24. They ended up losing 84-46, tonight the Eers lost 78-56 (at least they won the second half). After that 2005 game they would proceed to lose six of the next eight games including the hated Thundering Herd. WVU cannot afford a similar letdown or we’ll be forced to spell N……………….I…………………T.
That’s a very dreadful thing to spell. We won the worthless thing last year and no one was here celebrating on High Street that night. There wasn’t even a single couch burned (I think Spring Break had something to do with that). I don’t care to see the Eers defend that illustrious title. I’d rather see the Eers get blown out by North Carolina in the 1st round of the NCAA Tournament. At least Mountaineer Nation would be proud to see them in the big dance.
Have no fear, when Kevin Jones, Truck Bryant, Roscoe Davis, and all sorts of Top 100 talent come to The Coliseum I will assure you Mountaineer fans we will never EVER have to say the word “bubble”. Coach Huggs and his assistants came to WVU with one goal in mind: To win the national championship. I’m not throwing this team under the bus tonight. They are still student-athletes. Crap like tonight happens but I still support them.
So let’s get a pack house going Saturday night as they play the Providence Friars. We’re gonna need that sell-out crowd to get crazy and throw the Friars off their game. Don’t forget to support the women’s team before the men’s game as they face the Villanova Wildcats. The tipoff for that one will be 4pm. They will be in the NCAA Tournament that’s for certain. If there’s only one good thing out of this blowout tonight it was the fact that I got to see the lunar eclipse.
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Jim | Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
What’s up with this team??? They definitely cannot play on the road!!! We looked HORRIBLE on television…glad it was only a regional telecast. Huggs better get their heads in the game or we will be NIT bound baby!!!
Andy Brown | Feb 20, 2008 | Reply
From what Coach Huggs stated in his postgame interview (which was VERY late) he mentioned that NOVA started out physical, that WVU players were down on themselves when they couldn’t hit the shots, that despite an 80-minute walk through about switching some players said, during the blowout, that they didn’t know who to cover (leading to very wide open shots that my dad could make),that this team has no dribble penetration, obvisiously NOVA wanted it more than we did, and so on and on and on. It amazes me sometimes that WVU is still over .500 in the Big East (7-6) but that shows how good Coach Huggs is and how humbling it is for us to really believe that this is an NCAA Tourney team.