An evening after your erstwhile conference started in earnest with two borderline unbearable games, the Big 12 Tournament starts tonight. WVU and Texas Tech lift the lid and Texas and TCU will follow some three hours later.
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A lot of the blame for that weird-looking win-loss statistic up top can be explained by the offensive figures and failings found below. Still, maybe not enough fingers have been pointed at the defense. It hasn’t been good. It’s been problematic. WVU wasn’t armed offensively for the transition to the higher scoring Big 12, but that forgives the fact WVU wasn’t ready defensively, either.
To hear the players say it, this roster isn’t nearly as capable as prior rosters at taking away what an opponent does and working as a group to lock down the other team’s best player.
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No team has won four games in four days to take home the Big 12 Tournament title. No team seeded fourth or worse has cut down the nets. Nevertheless, eighth-seeded WVU seeks to make history by, just as unlikely, taking momentum from Saturday’s loss on the trip to Kansas City.
Too early to say exactly how WVU’s visit to EA Sports in July will shape the upcoming release of the game, but Ryan Dorchester and Alex Hammond shared with me what they shared with the video game designers and producers.
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I said before that it was going to be hard to write about spring football. I decided to talk about it instead after Sunday’s practice.
Iowa State 83, WVU 74: Cyclones top the 80-point mark against WVU, Georges Niang doesn’t wait until the end to send the Mountaineers to their sixth straight loss.
You are looking live at a rendering of Turkey. Today, of course, is Deniz Kilicli’s final home game and his parents will be in the Coliseum to see him play a college game for the first time. In their honor, İstiklâl Marşımwill be played before the game.
That would be the Turkish national anthem.
And so would this.
Fear not, the crimson banner that proudly ripples in this glorious dawn, shall never fade,
Before the last fiery hearth that is ablaze within my homeland is extinguished.
For that is the star of my people, and it will forever shine;
It is mine; and solely belongs to my valiant nation.Frown not, I beseech you, oh thou coy crescent,
Smile upon my heroic nation! Why the anger, why the rage?
Our blood which we shed for you might not be worthy otherwise;
For freedom is the absolute right of my God-worshipping nation.
Interesting, perhaps only to me, subtext to today’s game. WVU has a five-game losing streak . That’s as long as the miserable slide the football team had in the fall. That ended against Iowa State. The Mountaineers also have a three-game losing streak on Senior Day.
What does it all mean? No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative.
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