Last night the Mountaineers dominated the Duquesne Dukes 92-68 (see highlights here). The poll voters need to wake up and start drinking the Huggins Kool-aid. We are the real deal this year. The team is looking very impressive right now and our passing is especially ON FIRE! Last night was a beautiful thing to watch, it’s making me forget about last Saturday (a little).
Check out what the Dukes coach said about the game:
“I can tell you by far this is the best team we played,” he said.
Everhart said that despite the fact that his team was coming off a five-point loss Wednesday to a Pitt team that is the No. 9 team in the country.
“Even on film, I thought they were a much different basketball team than Pitt,” Everhart insisted after West Virginia’s 92-68 lashing of his Dukes on Saturday night at the WVU Coliseum.
“Their motion, the way they cut, their athleticism. … We just got beat by a better basketball team. From start to finish, they took us out of everything we could do.”
Pitt, on the other hand, is looking very overrated. That #9 ranking is a inflated big-time. I can’t figure out how they keep getting these early season high poll spots. They are playing like garbage and that #9 is going to fall this week with two crap ass showings. They got lucky as hell yesterday, winning a one point game against the Washington Huskies. The game was decided by an instant replay call at the buzzer that took 5 minutes to decide. It should have never came to that. Pitt keeps playing this bad, they won’t even make the Big East tourney.
So the gauge right now is Duquesne. Duquesne is a great team by any means, all I’m saying is Pitt beat them by 5, WVU beat them by 24. Can’t wait till Feb. 7!!
Overrated? it’s not even anywhere into the season yet! Quit crying about rankings until WVU is ranked. Pitt is #9 because they are good. But, the real tests come this Saturday against Okla. State and next Thursday against Duke in NYC. Just because WVU beats Duquesne by more than Pitt means nothing. Look what WVU did to Connecticut in football and Pitt lost to UCONN, but Pitt kicked WVU’s asses. I know – it doesn’t make sense. Go Pitt!