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• Butler’s 3-pointer at horn lifts WVU

  Da’Sean Butler took an inbounds pass and banked in a 3-pointer from the head of the key at the buzzer to give No. 7 West Virginia a 54-51 victory over Cincinnati on Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament.

  The third-seeded Mountaineers (25-6) were the only one of the conference’s top four seeds to advance to the semifinals.

   

  March 12, 2010

• HERTZEL COLUMN: Huggins, Wooden take different paths to victory No. 664

  There is going to come a time when college basketball is going to have to wrestle with an interesting situation — whether or not to induct Bob Huggins into the Hall of Fame.

  It is a dilemma, you see, for his record far exceeds his reputation, which has taken more than a few hits over the years.

   

  March 12, 2010

• FURFARI COLUMN: Huggins: Butler a ‘special’ player

  Coach Bob Huggins paid tall tribute to West Virginia University star Da’Sean Butler.

  “He’s a very special guy,” he said before taking the Mountaineers to New York for the Big East men’s basketball tournament.

   

  March 12, 2010

• HERTZEL COLUMN: Top recruit’s change of heart no big surprise

  Having once been married to a woman who could spend an hour and a half in a shoe store trying to decide if she wanted her pumps in red or blue, only to walk out with a pair of pink mary janes, I understand just how difficult it has to be for an 18-year-old kid to decide upon which college he will attend, especially if this kid is among the best football players in the nation and getting sold a bill of goods from every direction.

   

  March 11, 2010

• HERTZEL COLUMN: WVU playing waiting game

  They tell you the wait is the toughest part, the hours that lead up to the game.

  In baseball, players will sit around and play cards or watch tape or listen to music. Football players, well, you’ve seen the movies, banging their heads against the lockers. If you think that’s all fake, think back to a man named Owen Schmitt.

   

  March 10, 2010

• No. 1 UConn tops WVU women, 60-32

  Rest easy, West Virginia.

  Mike Carey will be back to coach your West Virginia women’s basketball team next year, although after what Connecticut’s magnificent ladies did to him and his Mountaineers on Tuesday night in the finals of the Big East Conference championship game might make you wonder why.

   

  March 10, 2010

• Syracuse takes Big East Awards

  Let us, for a moment, play the devil’s advocate, the Devil being those who selected the winners of this year’s Big East Conference individual awards handed out Tuesday in New York.

  Let us say fine, Syracuse was the league’s most dominant team, so it is understandable by Wes Johnson was selected the conference’s Player of the Year and why Jim Boeheim was selected Coach of the Year.

   

  March 10, 2010

• FURFARI COLUMN - Interest in WVU basketball is at peak pitch

  Interest in men’s basketball was never higher than it has been this year.

  So it certainly is not surprising that the Mountaineers, 24-6 for the regular season and nationally ranked in the Top 10, set an all-time attendance record at the Coliseum turnstiles.

   

  March 9, 2010

• WVU’s Butler named first team All-Big East

  Through four years and nearly 2,000 points, Da’Sean Butler’s game has been dissected and analyzed until there is almost nothing left to say about it.

   

  March 8, 2010

• HERTZEL COLUMN - For Huggins, double-bye is no reward

  The first thing any West Virginia University player wanted to do after defeating Villanova in as tough and competitive a game as they have played all year was to get some rest. The long grind that is a regular season under Bob Huggins had taken its toll and a day off or maybe even two seemed like just what the foot doctor ordered.

   

  March 8, 2010

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