1st Staying with Football: The Big East has seen fit to Honor Robert Sands with Big East Defensive Player of the Week; they also chose Tyler Bitancurt as the Big East Special Teams Player of the week. Noel Devine was an honorable mention as well.
Now to Basketball and in this Case I am going to go with Lady's first. They were able to
earn 66-41 victory over Nevada in the Nugget Classic championship on Saturday evening at the Lawlor Events Center in Reno, Nev. In the process now at (5-1) they were able to have two ladies honored and placed on all tournament team. Guard Sarah Miles was named to the team and "frosh star" Center Asya Bussie was named the Tourney's MVP. Way to go ladies. Keep in mind that this is a team that is very young and the future of Mountaineer Women's Basketball is very bright.And if the rest of this news isn't good enough and if the late start wasn't past your bed-time you may know that the Men Likewise were crowned the champions of the 76 Classic. In the process of notching there 5th win in as many tries the Eers landed 2 players on the all Tourney t
eam. First was Foward Kevin Jones and DeSean Butler who garnered MVP honors. Additionally, he is this week’s BIG EAST Player of the Week. This win over a game Portland team was quite entertaining and left some including myself just wanting more of the same. It is the first in-season tourney win for the Eers since 2001. Our recent wins also place us 7th in the AP; 8th in the Coaches Poll and #1 in real time RPI. It has certainly been a great week to be a Mountaineer wherever you may be!!!
Da Geek
3 comments:
Don't get too excited. I just clicked the RPI link and saw St. Johns at 4th and DePaul at 9th so the RPI is almost random at this point.
After watching the 76 tourney, it's obvious we have talent and a LOT of depth. My biggest concern at this point seems to be fouling during the end game. We stopped the clock more often than Portland did. The final 3 1/2 minutes seemed to take about a 1/2 hr to play. I realize the Big East usually doesn't call nearly as many ticky tack fouls. But come tourney time, we won't have Big East officials. I like that they play to win, but we need to contest shots without fouling and play a little smarter.
Fun to watch!!!
I don't think we'll play quite as many for as much time once big east play starts, but we will still be deep. The biggest fault I saw was handling the trap and depth at point guard. Our forwards got trapped several times on the sideline in the half court and it was not pretty. I thought Truck played very well throughout the tourney, but I think Mazulla needs to get the shoulder back all the way so we have the exp. we need in the backcourt.
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