WVU Sports
Ruoff to take part in shooting contest
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University’s record-smashing 3-point shooter Alex Ruoff has been chosen to participate in the 3-point competition at the 21st annual State Farm College Basketball Slam Dunk and 3-Point Shooting Championships, which take place at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 2 at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Mich.
The event, which is run in conjunction with the Final Four, will be televised at 9 p.m. on ESPN on tape delay.
Ruoff broke Kevin Pittsnogle’s career record for 3-point field goals with 261 and set the single game record with nine against Radford on Dec. 23.
WVU frosh to
national team camp
Incoming freshman Moeryhan “Peabo” Doue has been selected to attend the U.S. Under-18 Men’s Soccer National Team camp.
The Germantown, Md., native was tabbed as one of only six defenders, 26 players nationally, to compete at the domestic training camp, which will take place at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., from April 18-26. Doue joins two other Mountaineers in the 2009 recruiting class, Uwem Etuk (Herndon, Va.) and Travis Pittman (Manassas, Va.), who were previously selected to U.S. Youth National Team camps.
Two Mountaineers
on pro rosters
A pair of former WVU women’s soccer players have made rosters of Women’s Professional Soccer League teams.
Greer Barnes will be playing for the Los Angeles Sol and Lisa Stoia is a member of the Saint Louis Athletica.
WVU No. 4 seed
West Virginia’s No. 21-ranked gymnastics team will be seeded fourth in the 2009 NCAA Regional at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, N.C. on April 4.
The Mountaineers finished 15-8 overall, 10-2 in EAGL competition as they earned their 26th NCAA regional appearance since the NCAA began sponsoring gymnastics in 1983. Three times they have advanced to the nationals — 1995, 1999 and 2000.
The nation’s No. 1 team, Georgia, is seeded first in the Southeast Regional.
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Marching forward
March, they say, comes in like a lion.
So, too, does Joe Mazzulla.
If baseball had its “Mr. October” in Reggie Jackson, Joe Mazzulla is college basketball’s Mr. March.
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Carey not pleased with team’s bracket
Mike Carey has had enough and he doesn’t care who knows it.
His team has worked too hard and come too far for him to sit quietly any more about the way his team is being treated, both in the Big East and in the NCAA.
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FURFARI COLUMN - Huggins: Decision is ‘totally’ up to Ebanks
Speculation continues to circulate on whether West Virginia sophomore Devin Ebanks will return next season or turn professional.
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WVU opens with Morgan State
If West Virginia was looking for some new incentive it got it out of the NCAA draw that took place on Sunday, one day after they rode on Da’Sean Butler’s shoulders to the Big East Tournament championship.
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HERTZEL COLUMN - Tourney provides lifetime of memories
Let us begin this morning with an apology, for the scope of this column really will not allow us to do justice to what follows, for this is a tale that demands a big screen, a director with a human touch and the backdrop of the city that is New York.
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Butler wins another one for WVU
Da’Sean Butler’s latest game-winner wasn’t as dramatic as his first. This one did give West Virginia its first Big East championship.
The senior guard had a net draped around his neck, a brand new championship hat on his head and a special place forever in the hearts of Mountaineer fans.
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HERTZEL COLUMN: Jarrod West relives shot through Butler
Yesterday’s Hero was gathered in front of his television, just as so many of us were on that Thursday night, watching the final seconds tick off as West Virginia and Cincinnati were coming down the stretch, watching Today’s Hero do his thing.
Jarrod West felt like he’d been there before.
And he had.
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HERTZEL COLUMN: Winning ugly working for Mountaineers
It seems everything in sports has a name, something that defines it and gives it an identity all of its own.
Babe Ruth's New York Yankees were “Murderers’ Row” and Magic Johnson’s Los Angeles Lakers were “Showtime.” Before them in Los Angeles there was the magnificent front four of the Rams that came to be known as “The Fearsome Foursome.”
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WVU survives Notre Dame, 53-51
Da’Sean Butler, West Virginia’s last-second hero in the quarterfinals, scored 24 points to lead the seventh-ranked Mountaineers to a 53-51 victory over Notre Dame on Friday night in the Big East tournament semifinals.
Third-seeded West Virginia (26-6) will face eighth-seeded Georgetown in the championship game Saturday night.
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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.
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