In a game that started out very slow for the eers on the offensive side, the Mountaineer frosh forwards decided to dial it up yet another notch. Devin Ebanks (who was named rookie of the week for the second time this season, on Monday) scored 6 early points to slow the onslaught and Kevin Jones ended the first half with 6 of his own as the Mountaineers came from 10 down to be 2 up at half. Kevin also turned in his first double double, 12 and 10. The real story from these two new-comers was there contributions on the board. They were able to come down with 19 timely rebounds on both the offensive and defensive sides. Truck had a bad scoring evening but was able to deliver the ball effectively in the game too. Nice to see the young guys really deliver. Huggs demonstrated his masterful coaching again deciding to scrap the switching style of the man-to-man to go to a more effective assignment man-to-man and then in the second half he brought out a very effective 1-3-1 to stifle the Irish. The older guys came to play as well. Alex led all in scoring with 22. DaSean (who was on Big East Player of the week honor roll) put in 19 of his own. And Wellington Smith may have delivered his best game to date matching up with the big hacker from ND. While Luke Harangody got his points he had to earn all most all of them. Bottom line the team came to play and got a very important win against a nemesis that has all but owned them on the court. Probably the most telling stat of the night was the turn overs the Mountaineers only had 6 of them. An evening to remember.
DaGeek
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Harangody might have got his points but I thought Jones exposed him on several levels. Probably just cost him a few million. Harangody will never make it in the NBA.
I read some the online chat on ESPN after the game. Interesting that what our freshman did against their seniors!! You have to like the direction of our program vs. their's.
I still maintain Ebanks when all is said and done will be the biggest star to come out of this group. He's really starteing to show his talent. Now imagine him with a couple years of strength and conditioning under Huggins. This team has a very bright future.
I think 2 more wins and we easily get a bid at this point.
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