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Huggins’ honest summation: ‘We’re a bad basketball team right now’

MORGANTOWN -- A moment of clarity hit Bob Huggins in the second half of West Virginia’s 69-61 loss against No. 7 Texas on Saturday. Where he had believed some things had been fixed through constant drilling in practice, they all reared their ugly heads against the Longhorns. “If you ...

COLUMN: Mountaineers’ mistakes pile up in very bad ways

They are but a tick of the clock, mere small moments that you miss with a blink of an eye or by looking the other way in a 40-minute basketball game. It does not take long for one bad moment to pile onto another, and then another and so on, until the point where all they simply outweigh ...

NOTEBOOK: WVU lacked defense on Texas’ top shooter

Marcus Carr had seemingly spent the first 26 minutes in no-man’s land Saturday night. What he did over the final 14 minutes handed No. 7 Texas a 69-61 victory over WVU in front of 14,141 fans inside the Coliseum. “They started the game double teaming him right off the bat,” Texas ...

Texas brings offensive-minded team to face WVU

MORGANTOWN -- The transformation from defense to offense has been quite noticeable with seventh-ranked Texas. Sort of like that kid who was 5-foot-9 and 120 pounds one summer, then 6-2, 180 the next. A season ago, under former head coach Chris Beard, who was fired on Jan. 5 after his ...

COLUMN: WVU manages to change the script in win over TCU

It was a script straight out of Hollywood, but rather than some sci-fi blockbuster, West Virginia’s 74-65 victory against No. 14 TCU on Wednesday was sort of a mixed genre. It was part inspirational, part horror flick, and in the end, Keanu Reeves got to walk off into the sunset with a ...