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This game will obviously be an uphill challenge for our young Hokies. The Cousins come into this contest firing on all cylinders so Tech will need to play its best game of the year to have Buzz dancing on the Clamshell floor after this afternoons game. The Mountaineers have several good wins this year, including beating Connecticut by ten and NC State by fourteen. In terms of common opponents, they beat VMI by thirty one earlier this season.
Huggy Bear has his team playing some strong fast paced basketball so far, led by senior guard Juwan Staten (#3), who is scoring almost 16 ppg, along with 3.3 rpg, and 4.3 apg from the point guard position. Another senior, forward Jonathan Holton (#1), provides the Mountaineers their inside scoring with 11.9 ppg and 7.3 rpg. He is joined by sophomore forward Devin Williams (#5), who is putting up 10.2 ppg and 6.9 rpg. One other Moutaineer that the Tech guards will need to keep in check is Jaysean Paige (#0) due to his deadly accuracy from outside. He is averaging almost 50% from behind the arc so far this season.
One area that WVU excels at this season is turning their opponents over. Their opponents have been giving them the ball 22 times a game compared to the 12 turnovers that WVU averages on offense. 10 more possessions can make a 10-15 point swing in a game so the Hokies will need to play good possession basketball, making crisp passes and not allow the Mountaineers to rush them into mistakes. We will likely see some 3/4 court press to extend the court quite a few times this afternoon, but beating the press is one area the Hokies have seemed to be pretty strong so hopefully Tech can turn this into easy baskets. The Mountaineers also excel on the boards, using their size inside to dominate the rebounds, pulling down almost as many offensive rebounds (18 pg) as compared to defensive rebounds (20 pg), so our big men will be critical in this game and any sign of foul trouble for JVZ or Pierce could be disastrous down low.
The one area that seems to be a weakness for the Mountaineers is their ability to shoot the midrange to outside shot when being contested. They dont seem to have many guys that can hit shots without being wide open from the outside. If the Hokies want to win this game they will need to constantly be forcing shooters to alter shots and having hands up to prevent passes into the lane. Once the ball gets inside, its going to be difficult to prevent the two WVU forwards from getting good shots down low. If we had the depth to foul, they arent exactly world beaters from the free throw line similar to the Hokies so Buzz may need to employ strategic fouling late in the game to get a win.
This is only the second game so far this season where I have felt that this young team really will struggle. This is going to be a difficult game to get a win for the good guys. Fortunately we are coming off our most complete performance of the season in our game against Presbyterian so hopefully that translates into enough confidence to stay in the game early. If they can keep this game close, than they may have a chance to close out a win late. The key will be not allowing the Moutaineers to go on one of their patented 18 to 20 point runs this afternoon.
Final Score: Mountaineers 75, Hokies 70
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