WVU Baseball ends season at home ... #FireGregVanZant
WVU Baseball finishes out Big East play this weekend against USF. This was not a good season for baseball and while they keep saying we have a chance to get into the Big East Tournament the truth of it is we don’t. But for those in Morgantown it is still ...
Ohio Athlete offered by WVU
Another 3 star recruit the Mountaineers have targeted is Darron Lee. Darron is from New Albany, Ohio and is 6'3" 205lbs. Darron is also one hell of a athlete playing everywhere a coach at his high school can find a position for him. Most likely will be a safety on ...
Cincinnati Linebacker receives Mountaineer offer
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DB Lamar Robbins (Miami, FL)...
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Joe Montana's Son Headed to West Virginia Wesleyan...
Nate Montana, the oldest son of perhaps the greatest QB of all time in the NFL, initially started his career in college football as a walk-on at Notre Dame, where his dad excelled on his way to a stellar NFL career. Nate transferred from Pasadena City College in 2009, before transferring ...
Oakland Raiders Ink Mountaineer Legend Owen Schmitt
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WVU Opening With 'Bama in '14...
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Rise & Grind
What a horrible night it was last night, my Lakers lost again. Not only lost, but choked like it was their first playoff series ever. I am pretty much speechless right now, I know it is hard to believe, but I am ... just going to sit here and stare ...
Archive for February 2012
1995-1997
14.1 career scoring average
1,168 points in only 3 years.
Why he’s here: Seldon might not be one of the more memorable players in WVU history, but he was the first legitimite scoring threat we had in the Big East. Seldon had a deep offensive arsenal and during our first few years of Big East play he bailed us out of many possible blowouts. A prime example of how good Seldon was? Look no further than the first ever Big East game for WVU in 1996, an overtime loss to then #6 Georgetown. Seldon scored 26 and matched the Georgetown guard shot for shot, eventally outscoring him 26-22. That opposing Georgetown guard? Allen Iverson. (He outscored Ray Allen in a game later that season too)
#14 – Tyrone Sally
#15 – Frank Young
It was obvious a lot of people didn’t want to see Kevin Jones and Truck Bryant head off into the Mountaineer sunset. There were plenty of no-shows in the contest, and even the people that did show up were less than enthusiastic, like homeslice in the picture above who was reading a GD newspaper while his wife played Angry Birds on her iPhone.
UGH.
Thus, West Virginia’s four-year streak of averaging 10,000 fans per game at the WVU Coliseum was done after Senior Night.
WVU was averaging 9,909 fans per game heading into last night’s game, and needed a crowd of 11,168 to average 10,000 for the season. Last year, the Mountaineers averaged 11,469 one year after a school-record 12,377 attended WVU games during the team’s run to the Final Four.
We had an attendance of 10,255… which was truly not representative of the crowd as I’m fairly certain a HUGE number of no shows were included in that number… and that’s truly a sad, sad representation on a night when one of the greatest, Kevin Jones, was sent off with 22 points and 16 rebounds.
Even Truck decided to play with determination on his way to a 28 point performance that saw him shoot 7 of 13 from the field and 12 of 16 from the line.
Then you had guys like Domo Rutledge who provided a hell of a spark with 8 points and 8 rebounds, giving him a two-game total of 18 total boards… proving he can be a big-guy that’s going to try his hardest to crash the boards and make a difference.
It also didn’t help that DePaul was overly horrific.
Turnovers, errant passes, horrendous shots that didn’t fall and just a general lacking of skills was very indicative of how the night would go.
WVU let the Blue Demons get within striking distance, but KJ’s attacking of the boards and 50.8% FG shooting ensured that we would survive to before we head down to South Florida to take on J.D. Collins’ little brother and the Bulls.
KJ and Truck scoring 50 of our points…. only fitting on a night in which they were finally honored as seniors and given the respect that they’ve garnered with their career stats….
Yet nobody saw it.
We have the attendance numbers to prove it… and that’s just sad.
