MORGANTOWN -- What transpired inside the Fertitta Center on Saturday was not chess vs. checkers. West Virginia simply didn’t show up with any pieces to play with, regardless of whatever game it was. L.J. Cryer finished with 20 points, Houston’s suffocating defense snuffed out ...
MORGANTOWN — The following is the list of teams that have reached 70 points in a game against No. 3 Houston this season: No One University. As in the Cougars (13-0) have built their elite resumé and will open up their first season in the Big 12 on Saturday armed with one of the best ...
MORGANTOWN — There is no crystal ball or anything similar that’s available to tell us how WVU guard RaeQuan Battle will play for the rest of the season. He may continue to go out game after game and become a model of scoring consistency, go in the opposite direction or fall somewhere ...
MORGANTOWN — Patrick Suemnick nearly became the ultimate whodunit on Saturday. As in those old Clue board games we played as kids, the one where it took dozens of questions to find out Colonel Mustard pulled off the murder with the lead pipe in the study. Well, it was through grit and ...
CLEVELAND — You never would have known Roddy Gayle Jr. just had the game of his life Saturday.Cool, calm and collected, Gayle took a hectic moment Saturday and turned it into a highlight reel, leading Ohio State to a 78-75 overtime victory against West Virginia inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.“It’s tough to rattle him,” Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann said. “He’s always been that way. He’s got a disposition about him to where sometimes you go, ‘Roddy, hey, let’s go.’ But, it’s just how he is as a player.” Gayle, a sophomore, had 23 of his 32 points in ...
MORGANTOWN -- It would seem West Virginia is headed for disaster Saturday, when the Mountaineers take on Ohio State in the Legends of Basketball Showcase in Cleveland. That’s what the stats and the metrics say, anyway. Josh Eilert may have a different story in mind, one that has a ...
