WVU wins ugly tonight against St. John’s
By Andy Brown on Jan 18, 2008 in Basketball, Big East, News
The West Virginia Mountaineer basketball team got themselves into a dogfight as I expected, but in the end, they defeated St. John’s 73-64. Da’Sean Butler had less foul trouble than he has had in the past few games and was the leading scorer with 19 points and nine rebounds. Joe Alexander was second leading scorer with 15 points, but likely suffered a hip or quad injury when he tried to jam on Larry Wright. We’ll find out in the next few days.
WVU had a slow start and the Johnnies jumped out to a 19-11 lead. Coach Huggs was visibly angry about it and you could see it from the top of the rafters. From there, WVU embarked on a 15-2 run off to Butler, making it 26-21 with 4:19 remaining. St. John’s countered right back to make it a 29 all halftime score.
WVU knew if they could D up and let the playmakers do their thing, the game could be theirs. Sure enough, that’s what happened with a 10-2 spurt to make it 55-43 in favor of the Mountaineers. St. John’s tried to rally with a few threes from Eugene Lawrence and Larry Wright, but WVU dominated at the foul line. The game got ugly in the end as the Big East refs called some ticky-tack fouls against WVU, but WVU prevailed.
The Mountaineers improved their record to 13-4 with a 3-2 Big East record. They head to Tampa, FL to face the South Florida Bulls at 2:00pm Sunday afternoon. Jarrett Brown didn’t see much action, so it will be interesting to see if he plays on Sunday. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MOUNTAINEERS!
Loading ...
1 Trackback(s)