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Univ. has no policy for ‘dead week’BY SAMANTHA COSSICK
STAFF WRITER
West Virginia University pol-icy prohibits professors from giving exams the week before finals, commonly known as “dead week,” but this doesn’t mean they don’t do it and after get away with it.
Students at WVU are claim-ing this policy doesn’t hold true and that teachers give exams during dead week.
“Practical laboratory tests, make-up examinations and regularly scheduled short quiz-zes are the only tests permit-ted for day classes during (dead week). Evening classes have
their final exams on the last meeting of the class preceding finals week,” according to the 2007-2009 WVU Undergradu-ate Course Catalog.
The Office of the Provost, which is responsible for the ad-ministration of academic poli-cies, upholds this policy, stating on its Web site, “All final exami-nations must be given accord-ing to the schedule published in the Schedule of Courses, un-less otherwise approved by the associate provost for academic programs.”
Faculty Senate Chair Nigel Clark said the policy addresses two issues at the University.
“It’s to prevent shortening
the semester,” Clark said. “On the other hand, it’s to prevent burdening the students unnec-essarily immediately before exam week.”
WVU Student Government Association passed a resolu-tion Feb. 10 calling for a review of the dead week policy as well as better enforcement.
However, the current policy doesn’t outline how it should be enforced.
“The Provost’s office sends out a standing memo that is to inform faculty members of the policy,” said Elizabeth Dooley, associate provost for Under-graduate Academic Affairs.
She said the Office of the
Provost has no formal punish-ment for professors who break the policy.
Clark said he has not known of any disciplinary action when it comes to the policy.
“I have not directly known of any incidents of a faculty member being detected or dis-ciplined,” Clark said. “In the-ory, I suppose they could in-cur disfavor from their chairs or the dean.”
However, if a professor gave an exam during dead week and a student wished to complain, they would approach the chair or dean of the college, he said.
In 2007, the WVU Fac-ulty Senate Student Instruc-
tion Committee reviewed the dead week policy and stated the departments and divisions would decide upon the conse-quences for breaking the pol-icy, said Mark Tauger, a profes-sor who chaired the committee in 2007.
“It’s really the job of the chair to bring faculty around to fol-lowing the rules,” Tauger said.
Minutes of the Jan. 8, 2007 Faculty Senate have a report from the Student Instruc-tion Committee saying con-sequences should be applied when the policy is broken. “Deans need to impress on chairs the importance of fol-lowing the policy as it is. Ad-
ministration needs to make sure the deans understand the importance of consequences,” the report said.
The report also recommends “the Senate hear at some point the nature of those conse-quences that are dealt to fac-ulty who have done this.”
Though the Faculty Sen-ate ruled deans and chairs would handle issues concern-ing dead week enforcement, many colleges have not ex-panded upon the policy to in-clude consequences.
Will iam Trumbull , in-terim dean of the College of
BY JOSH COOPERSTAFF WRITER
Former mayor of Morgan-town Ron Justice will no lon-ger be running for State Sen-ate in the 13th district due to heart complications.
He will undergo surgery Monday.
“I regret that I must stop campaign-ing at this time, but my family and my health must come first,” Justice said in a release. “I have had symptoms for a while, and my doc-tor told me yesterday I need to address this imme-diately ... I must take care of this problem now before the situation gets worse.”
Justice had some mild symptoms before the cam-paign but nothing he thought was very serious, said his spokesman Tom Susman.
He went to the doctor this past Monday and was in-formed on Wednesday he needed surgery.
“I really appreciate the sup-port I have received,” Justice said. “I wish I could continue my campaigning in Mononga-lia and Marion Counties.”
Justice, who will turn 48 to-day, will undergo surgery for stents in his heart and legs
at the West Virginia Univer-sity Heart Institute at Ruby Memorial Hospital. The pro-cedure will be performed by cardiovascular specialist Dr. Wissam Gharib.
There is a chance he will have open heart surgery.
“His family wants him to concentrate on his health, not on his campaign,” Sus-man said. “He’s very disappointed. He was looking forward to campaigning, but his health and family come first.”
Justice must still confirm with the
West Virginia Secretary of State that he will be ending his campaign entirely, Sus-man added.
Justice will also be taking a four to eight week leave of ab-sence from his job as director of Student Organizations at West Virginia University.
“He was definitely the front-runne” for becoming District 13’s new state senator,” Sus-man said.
“He had the support of a lot of people in the community.”
Because of his health is-sues, he was not available to comment on his surgery by press-time.
Ron Justice pulls out of State Senate race
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Speaker addresses global, competitive job markets
BY SHAY MAUNZASSOCIATE CITY EDITOR
In the midst of the week’s balmy temperatures, students chatting, reading or lounging rarely left an empty bench on Woodburn Circle. A lone duck sat in front of Woodburn Hall Thursday afternoon.
The Mountainlair Green was the setting for many im-promptu sporting events. And many students shed boots for sandals and went outdoors, taking advantage of the recent warm weather.
“It’s come quicker than I’ve ever seen spring come,” said Maranda Woodruff, a freshman criminology major.
“I like watching out my dorm window as the weather changes.”
Woodruff said the time she’s been spending outdoors is wel-come after the harsh winter.
Several students noted the difficulty of focusing on school work when their minds were outdoors.
“In the winter I don’t have to
go or do anything so I’m stuck inside, so I just do work,” said Natashia Lisborg, a junior ad-vertising major.
Some noted, however, that their motivation improved with their elevated mood due to the warmer weather.
“I think with nice weather you’re just more motivated to do work. The bad weather
made me stay inside, but it just made me not want to do any-thing at all,” said Steve Row-ella, a senior accounting ma-jor, who said he hasn’t so much been participating in outdoor activities, but simply isn’t “in the house as much.
“I hang out outside in be-tween classes and stuff instead of in the Mountainlair or in the
buildings.”Lauren Evans, a senior mar-
keting major, agreed.“For me, it’s easier. It moti-
vates me to do work, because I want to get outside,” she said. “In the winter you don’t have anything better to do, so you put off everything off.”
University students revel in spring weather after winter fi lled with cold weather, snow
BY ERIN FITZWILLIAMS CORRESPONDENT
Norm Augustine, former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology under Presi-dents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, spoke at West Virginia University Th ursday on com-petitive jobs in America and abroad.
Augustine, also a retired chairman and chief execu-tive offi cer of Lockheed Mar-tin Corporation, lectured as part of the University’s David C. Hardesty Festival of Ideas. His presentation was hosted by the Student Partnership for the Advancement of Cosmic Explo-ration, some of whom were in
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Business and Economics, said the school hasn’t had a prob-lem with exams during dead week in the past couple years.
“We’ve got a pretty strict policy not to do that. We came down pretty hard on that a few years ago,” Trumbull said.
“It seemed to be a problem.”
The college doesn’t have an established punishment for professors who violate the pol-icy though, he said.
“We really don’t think in terms of punishment,” Trum-bull said. “We tell faculty not to do that and expect them not to do that.”
Katherine Karraker, assis-tant dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, said the college’s dead week policy is the same as University policy.
“I have heard from just chat-ting to students that it does happen,” Karraker said. “I don’t know if that means stu-dents don’t mind. I’m pretty sure it does happen.”
Karraker said since she has not received any formal com-plaints from students she has not contacted professors about giving exams during dead week.
“If it really was creating a serious concern, I would hope students would say some-thing,” Karraker said.
“If students were to com-plain, I would contact the chair.”
Steve Selin, assistant dean for Academic Affairs in the Da-vis College of Agriculture, Nat-ural Resources & Design, said the college also supports the University policy.
“The Provost’s office sends out reminders to faculty to en-force the policy, and we sup-port that,” Selin said. “We send out reminders to enforce the policy.”
Selin said he doesn’t know of any professors who have given exams during dead week or if there are consequences.
“As a professor and assistant dean, I know that different fac-ulty interpret that (policy) in different ways,” Selin said. “I think we need more strict en-forcement of that.”
There are exceptions to the rule. An exam may be given during dead week if it is granted permission by the Provost’s office.
Angel Tuninetti, chair of the Foreign Language Depart-ment, said language final ex-ams are given during Finals Week, unless they have spe-cial components, like a listen-ing comprehension portion.
This listening part can be given during dead week with permission from the Provost’s office, he said.
Courses for this semester with components tested dur-ing dead week have already been approved by the Pro-vost’s office, Tuninetti said.
However, Dooley said she has not granted any requests for this semester, and there are no standing requests that carry over from year to year.
“If someone seeks permis-sion that permission is sought during the semester that final is given,” Dooley said. “I have not had any requests.”
Dooley said there are no specific criteria for determin-ing who receives permission.
“Those are handled on indi-vidual cases. You never know what the circumstances are around the request until you receive the request,” she said.
The June 11, 2007 minutes of the Faculty Senate show that the Senate approved a “Petition to Administer an Examination in the Last Week of Classes in Undergraduate Courses.”
A copy of the petition shows there are three criteria that must be met before an exam can be granted an exemption:
“This examination cov-ers course materials studied in the last 2-5 weeks of the course and/or materials that cannot be adequately or con-veniently tested in a brief quiz and would have to be tested in the final examination.”
“This examination does not eliminate the final examina-tion. The course will have a fi-nal examination or other com-parable final project distinct from this examination, such as a comprehensive final exami-nation or term paper.”
“This examination does not impose an excessive burden on students of studying or prepa-ration beyond the amount that would be necessary were this examination not be given.”
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BY MELISSA CANDOLFISTAFF WRITER
West Virginia University has made it to the “Fabulous Four” of Victoria’s Secret PINK Nation Collegiate Showdown with 68,031 votes.
WVU has stayed in the rankings since the preliminary rounds and continues to beat other colleges with the outstanding school spirit and dedication the University and community continue to show.
PINK College representatives
Alissa Sweeney, Elizabeth Margo-lin and Sara Robinson are proud the University has continued to stay in the rankings for so long, but continue to encourage stu-dents and community members to keep voting for WVU.
PINK Nation Collegiate Show-down is a concert held and com-pletely funded by Victoria’s Se-cret. The concert will feature bands, celebrities, free giveaways and games. If WVU wins, the con-cert will be held at the University in the fall of 2010.
“Since this is our fi rst year com-peting in the showdown, it really has turned out to be a Cinderella story,” Sweeney said. “We were able to make it to the Fabulous Four when so many didn’t think we could do it. Just like our bas-ketball team’s incredible drive, we have really shown what amazing fans we have here!”
Sweeney said events like the Collegiate Showdown are a great way for the community, Univer-sity, alumni and future WVU stu-dents to come together and be
proud to be a Mountaineer.“Voting not only enhances the
experience for the current stu-dents, but future students as well who could benefi t from this,” she said. “It’s also a really great sell-ing point for the University to at-tract future students. Who doesn’t want to attend a free concert put on by Victoria’s Secret PINK? Th at includes the boys, too.”
Margolin said seeing how far WVU has come in the showdown shows how much school spirit and dedication the University has,
but she knows it will continue to get more competitive.
“Th is round is especially impor-tant because we are up against a Big East team who we love to beat on the football fi eld and hopefully can continue that with the colle-giate showdown,” Margolin said.
Margolin believes with the size of the school and the amount of support they have received from the community, there is defi nitely a good chance WVU could win.
Th e Fabulous Four round will continue until April 13, and then
the top two will be from April 13 to April 19.
Not only would WVU students be able to attend the concert, but visitors and community mem-bers as well, so PINK representa-tives urge the entire community to vote.
To vote, individuals should visit VSPINK.com, where they can join the PINK Nation Collegiate Show-down and vote every day until WVU is eliminated.
melissa.candolfi @mail.wvu.edu
WVU stays in rankings for Victoria’s Secret Collegiate Showdown
attendance along with the dean of the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, Gene Cilento.
Augustine maintained a “tell it like it is” attitude even in the presence of students and faculty from the department of engineer-ing and mineral resources.
“We know what needs to be done,” Augustine said. “We just have to go and do it.”
Augustine stressed the im-portance of math, science, en-gineering and technology in the education of today’s youth.
“Two-hundred million years of (the continents) drifting apart, and it took 20 years to smash them back together,” said Augus-tine, referencing the advanced telecommunications available today.
Today individuals have to com-pete with others around the world, Augustine said, and many are concerned Americans have little chance to compete in the global job market. He attributed Amer-ica’s disadvantage to less qual-ity education in the K-12 levels in America than the rest of the world.
“I would have liked to have had more emphasis on science and technology (in K-12),” said Chris
Carpenter, junior computer sci-ence major. “Learning should start on the lower levels to energize in-terest for engineering, etc.”
Americans’ performance in the fi eld of engineering and technol-ogy is currently on par with the rest of the world, Augustine said.
But he emphasized that Amer-ica needs to focus more on the K-12 grades to instill interest in these less popular subjects.
Currently, around 4 percent of the work force is science and engi-neering , he said, and females ac-count for less than 20 percent of the work force in engineering or technological fi elds.
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CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMNorm Augustine speaks in the Mountainlair Ballroom Thursday evening as a part of the Festival of Ideas.
MONTCOAL, W.Va. (AP) — A federal safety official says more air testing is needed be-fore rescue teams can head back into a West Virginia mine to look for four miners miss-ing since an explosion killed 25 workers.
Federal coal safety admin-istrator Kevin Stricklin says
levels of noxious gases had dropped but not enough for the crews to re-enter the Upper Big Branch mine late Thurs-day night.
He says sampling will con-tinue. If levels do not drop by ventilation, crews will pump in nitrogen to neutralize the atmosphere.
Rescuers are eager to re-sume the underground search in the slim hope that the men made it to one of the rescue chambers in the mine.
Teams spent more than four hours working their way through the mine by rail car and on foot, but had to turn back earlier Thursday.
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PRAGUE (AP) — The nuclear weapons cuts President Ba-rack Obama and Russian Pres-ident Dmitry Medvedev signed on Thursday would shrink the Cold War superpowers’ arse-nals to the lowest point since the frightening arms race of the 1960s. But they won’t touch the “loose nukes” and suitcase bombs seen as the real menace in today’s age of terrorism.
“This ceremony is a testament to the truth that old adversar-ies can forge new partnerships,” Obama declared. “It is just one step on a longer journey.”
The warheads covered by the treaty are lethal relics of the Cold War, and even with the planned reductions there will be enough firepower on each side to dev-
astate the world many times over. And of more immediate concern are attempts by terror-ist groups such as al-Qaida and nations such as Iran and North Korea to acquire or use nuclear weapons.
Obama and Medvedev showed solidarity for a spring showdown with Iran. And, be-ginning Monday, leaders of 47 countries will gather in Wash-ington in an effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weap-ons, crack down on illicit nu-clear trafficking and lock down vulnerable nuclear materials around the world.
Introduced Thursday with trumpet fanfare, the two grin-ning presidents sat at an ornate table in Prague’s hilltop presi-
dential castle and put their sig-natures to a landmark succes-sor to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Nearly a year in the making, the “New START” signaled a bold opening in pre-viously soured U.S.-Russia re-lations. If ratified by both na-tions’ legislatures, it will shrink the limit of nuclear warheads to 1,550 each over seven years, down about a third from the current ceiling of 2,200.
Ratification in the U.S. Senate will hardly be automatic, requir-ing 67 votes in the 100-member chamber during a congressional election year when cooperation can be hard to come by.
Beyond that, urgent interna-tional nuclear tasks still face the two leaders.
Nuke treaty signed, but menacing arms issues lurk
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Morgantown regulars The Hackensaw Boys will make a return to 123 Pleasant Street tomorrow.
With a sound described as “old-timey, informed, hectic, American music” by the group’s guitarist and vocalist Ward Har-rison, The Hackensaw Boys’ unique style of music has cap-tivated audiences across the county.
However, the group is not strictly a bluegrass band.
“When writing songs I will ref-erence, borrow and be inspired by a wide array of music,” Har-rison said. “Some may call us bluegrass, but we are not a blue-
grass band. Bluegrass has very stringent rules that we don’t fol-low and most of the time break gleefully.”
As the group continues to push the boundaries on con-ventional sound, it is constantly working on new music, some of which will make an appearance tomorrow night.
“We’ve been in the studio three times lately and have a new record about a third of the way done,” Harrison said. “With some of the band busy with fam-ilies and jobs, it’s hard to fi nd time for everything, but to quote Larry the Cable Guy we’re just going out and trying to ‘Git-R-Done.’”
Utilizing this fast-paced per-formance style and unique
sound, The Hackensaw Boys are popular regulars among the music festival scene across the country.
This does not diminish the bands love of performing more intimate venues like 123 Pleas-ant Street in front of a college crowd.
“With a college crowd, it’s a Saturday night, and folks are out to have a good time and listen to some good music,” Harrison said. “We really thrive in that en-vironment. We’re simply a good time band, and it sure is a hell of a lot of fun.”
Th e group has had some good times in the past performing in Morgantown.
With so many online streaming video services off ering feature-length fi lms for free, it’s been in-teresting to see what titles have been chosen.
Since most studios don’t want to give up major titles for free, there are tons of little-known fi lms on sites like Hulu and YouTube.
While many of these are fi lms so bad that people wouldn’t have paid for them to begin with, there are a few titles that are worth checking out.
A good example is director Bob Balaban’s 1989 dark comedy “Parents.”
Th e fi lm is set in ’50s subur-bia, where a boy named Michael (Bryan Madorsky) has just moved to a new town with his parents,
Nick and Lily (Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt).
While Nick seems to be the av-erage ’50s father, there is some-thing much more sinister lying underneath, which is hinted at by his occupation.
Working for a chemical com-pany called Toxico, Nick is de-veloping a high-powered defoli-ant that can completely destroy a rainforest in a matter of seconds – and he smiles gleefully while demonstrating this to his boss.
As they start to settle in to their new home, Michael begins to no-tice his quaint family life to not be quite right.
Every night for dinner, his par-ents are serving leftovers of meat dishes, but he can’t seem to re-member ever eating it the fi rst time.
Th ings really start to get strange when Michael walks in on his par-ents engaged in intimacy and be-gins having bloody nightmares.
As he starts investigating his parents, Michael discovers the true secret behind the mystery
Quaid shows his chops in dark comedy ‘Parents’
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MTV’s ‘Real World’ to hold casting callBY DAVID RYAN
EDITORINCHIEF
Morgantown could fi nd itself part of television history, as cast-ing directors from the long-run-ning MTV reality show “Th e Real World” come to town to fi nd its next cast for its 25th season.
Casting directors from Bunim Murray, producers of the long-running reality show, will be holding a casting session at Side-lines Sports Bar and Grill on High Street Tuesday, April 13. Th e ses-sion will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Morgantown has been on the show’s radar for a while,” said Damon Furberg, supervis-ing casting director of “Th e Real World.”
“We’ve often gone to Pitts-burgh a lot, and that it’s so close, we’ve just tended to pull people from West Virginia into that cast-ing call.”
Casting directors are currently navigating their way around 40 cities, with more dates to be added soon.
Where they fi nd the next cast of the show is largely dependent on where those age groups are.
“Obviously what we do, of course, is that we target cities that have big universities,” Furb-erg said.
Th ose hoping to be on the show will have to fi ll out an application with basic information, as well as photo identifi cation and a non-returnable photo the show can keep for identification purposes.
Applicants will then meet with a casting director in small groups.
“Th ey just sit down and talk, depending on how many people show up, from anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes per group,” Furb-erg said.
The goal of the application process is to “get the group talk-ing,” whether it be discussing a current events topic or playing games.
“A lot of the times it’s not what people say but how they say it,” Furberg said.
When selected, eight cast members will be taken to a “fan-tasy house,” according to a press release.
A taping of an average sea-son of 12 or 13 episodes typically lasts four or fi ve months.
Furberg did not know the set-ting of the 25th season as fi lm-ing had not yet been completed on the 24th season, set in New
Orleans.Th ere are no plans to change
the show’s format in its silver an-niversary, Furberg said, though the show has some ideas of the types of people it wants.
Th e show “would love to in-clude a person who is physically challenged, an individual strug-gling with weight issues, some-one who has been aff ected by a natural disaster, a cast member who is a product of home or al-ternative schooling, a follower of a non-mainstream religion or belief system, an elite athlete, a recent graduate aff ected by the economic downturn,” among others, according to the release.
Furberg said those criteria do not represent an attempt to frame storylines for the given season, but some idea of what the show hasn’t had in previous years or recent seasons.
“We’re looking for the peo-ple who jump out at us, people
who have strong opinions and big personalities.”
No official date has been scheduled for the 25th season,
though Ferburg said it would be “likely Winter 2010.”
MTVPICTURED: The cast of the 22nd season of ‘The Real World.’ The season was set in DC and recently ended its run. Casting directors from the show will be in Morgantown Tuesday, April 13 to fi nd new members for its 25th season.
Auditions will take place at Sidelines Sports Bar and Grill on High Street Tuesday, April 13. The casting session will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Only those between 18 years old and 24 years old may apply. Photo ID required. A photo must also be provided that will not be returned.
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FRIDAY APRIL 9, 2010
Unity against hate is the best response
I hate to sound like a bro-ken record, but there are some things that bear repeating. There is a serious disconnect between what Americans want their government to do and how much they are willing to pay for those services.
We want a Ferrari but are only willing to pay for a Buick.
If our government were forced to handle its finances like a random individual, or even a corporation, this wouldn’t be a problem.
Dispassionate economic forces would require that en-tity to either settle for less car or shell-out more money. Sadly, the government plays by differ-ent rules. The result is tremen-dous national debt, perpetual budget deficits and all the grim tidings that come along with them.
Suffice it to say that, if noth-ing changes bad things are (eventually) going to happen.
As I have previously dis-
cussed, the government has only two legitimate options: raise revenue or decrease spending.
With the ink barely dry on a new multi-billion dollar entitle-ment program, the second op-tion has been essentially thrown out the window.
So if President Barack Obama seriously wants to tackle the deficit, he is left with only one option – raising revenue, which means raising taxes.
But the American people don’t like taxes, and they don’t respond well to the idea that they need to pay more.
The last presidential candi-date to openly campaign for raising taxes was Walter Mon-dale, and he was subsequently beaten in one of the largest electoral landslides in Ameri-can history.
But what if there were a way to raise taxes that didn’t really appear to be a major tax hike? That’s exactly what former Fed-eral Reserve Chairman Paul Vol-cker, one of Obama’s economic advisers, is trying to build sup-port for.
He recently proposed a sort of “stealth” tax increase in the
form of a value-added tax, or VAT. Without going into too much detail, a VAT can be com-pared to a sales tax that is im-posed on producers at every stage of production.
Essentially, whenever a pro-ducer creates value (by turning raw materials into a component part, or combining components into a finished product that they can sell at a higher price) they pay a percentage of that mone-tary gain as a tax.
From a political standpoint, the VAT has significant upside. It has the potential to raise a lot of revenue (over 50 percent of French tax revenue is generated via a VAT), but because of the way it’s levied, the incidence is at least partially hidden.
There will be no VAT deduc-tion from worker paychecks or a new section that needs to be filled out on an April tax return.
The fact the tax is “imposed” on and collected by businesses may also be a convenient, if mis-leading political selling point.
A tax imposed on greedy cor-porations that could potentially eliminate our national debt – what’s not to like?
In reality, a VAT applies to all business, large or small, and most of its burden actually falls on consumers in the form of higher prices.
Everything in the economy, from a pack of gum to your house, would be considerably more expensive.
Anyone who has traveled to Europe and experienced sticker shock on everyday items has seen the effect of a VAT of 15 percent to 20 percent.
I should note there is noth-ing inherently bad about a VAT. While some economists dislike the concept, another large sub-set favors it.
The VAT is not a purely parti-san animal – similar proposals have been suggested by conser-vatives, like Republican presi-dential candidate Mike Huck-abee; though as a replacement for the current tax regime, not a supplement to it.
What bothers me about the upcoming proposal is that it may enable our leaders to avoid the long overdue conversation with their constituents about what they want the government to do and how much they are willing to pay for.
A recent Associated Press article revealed 47 percent of Americans will pay zero federal income taxes next year.
For about half the country, tax season is associated with nothing more than a hefty re-fund check.
That half essentially receives the benefits of government ser-vices for free.
Everybody loves riding in their friend’s Ferrari – all the benefits for none of the cost.
I have a feeling they won’t be quite as interested in tagging along when they have to chip in for gas.
Maybe people are willing to give up a significant amount of consumption in order to keep high levels of government service.
But it’s a question that should be openly and frankly debated.
When forced to make an ac-tual choice, instead of ignor-ing the problem as we have done for decades, taxpayers may very well decide that while it isn’t quite as sexy as a Fer-rari, a Buick will get them where they want to go just as well and for a price they can actually stomach.
ZACH VIGLIANCOCOLUMNIST
In 1886, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are legal persons.
Th us, corporations have the le-gal rights of people while not hav-ing other attributes of human be-ings, such as mortality and an integral social conscience.
Corporate board members are legally obligated to maximize prof-its; if they fail, they are held liable by their shareholders.
Th us, if a confl ict arises of ethics versus profi tability, a corporation is obligated to choose the latter.
The inability of corporations to act morally, together with their massive power granted by a legal system dictated by political pro-cesses over which they exert tre-mendous influence, is among the fundamental problems of our society.
As assumed in economic the-ory, established in corporate law and validated by common expe-rience, corporations act to maxi-mize profi ts.
Considerations other than profi t, such as protecting the en-vironment or the safety of workers, as far as they are counter-to or in-dependent-of profi tability, will be ignored or externalized.
Th is has resulted in WalMart shifting the cost of health care of its employees to taxpayers via Med-icaid, Union Carbide lethally poi-soning more than 20,000 people with methyl isocyanate in Bhopal, and the operators of the T&T Fu-els Inc. No. 2 and 3 mines in Pres-ton County trying to transfer AMD waste to the Ruthbell mine for which they were not responsible.
Part of the legal shielding that incorporation provides allows cor-porate decision makers to straddle the law in a way that real people cannot.
If you or I were deciding what to do with a barrel of toxic chemi-cals, a driving factor in our decision (in addition to moral directives to which corporations are immune) would be fear of imprisonment for improper disposal.
For a corporate executive, how-ever, the decision is reduced to a cost-benefi t analysis – the costs of proper disposal weighed against the fines of improper disposal multiplied by the probability of being discovered, prosecuted and convicted.
While these trends could be al-tered through corporate law and enforcement, that possibility has always been and is increasingly un-likely given the massive infl uence that corporations exert over “our” political system.
For those that doubt the legal im-munity described above, note that no Union Carbide employee has done any jail time for the 20,000-plus deaths in Bhopal, nor did Paul Th omas or any other executive re-sponsible for the T&T mine disas-ters serve any jail time.
In fact, a simple cost-bene-fi t analysis reveals that the T&T mining operation, all legal conse-quences included, was quite prof-itable for Th omas.
Under this legal system, no one should be surprised when a corpo-ration acts in an immoral or amoral manner.
Th at the Upper Big Branch Mine had some 458 DEP violations last year (and that less than 20 percent of its fi nes have been paid) refl ects an approach to mining similar to the hypothetical mercury example above.
Should Don Blankenship be in jail?
He (and likely others) should face trial, and if the evidence dem-onstrates knowledge, permission or encouragement of illegal ac-tions, he should be convicted of manslaughter.
Levy is a biology graduate stu-dent at West Virginia University.
MICHAEL LEVYGUEST COLUMN
Executives should be punished for
corporate crimes
Naturally, the headline refers to how to avoid identity theft.
If you are like me, you thought identity theft was some kind of futuristic cloning crime, but sadly, this is not the case. Iden-tity theft is a crime students are particularly vulnerable. College is all about fi nding yourself, and it would be a shame if someone stole that.
Identity theft is when some-one pretends to be you using documentation or informa-tion, and uses your identity to get credit cards, cell phones and click “Like” on all your friends’ most depressing status updates on Facebook.
Identity thieves are a cunning lot, and there’s not a lot you can do to avoid becoming a victim.
Still, if you are determined to re-move from these criminals their only livelihood, there are some ways you can attempt to defend yourself.
A lot of people picture iden-tity thieves as a smooth mass of super-criminals, faces lit by dozens of computer monitors as they sail the digital sea plun-dering e-booty, choosing to use their amazing skills only for a life of crime.
While this is largely true, some people claim they just steal garbage.
See, credit card companies and utility bills and university mail all contain information about you. You then throw this information away and it goes outside and put it where any-one can get it.
Th en they (the criminals) take it (the information). A fi endish plan!
Th ere’s basically no way to stop this. You could get a shred-
der or shred the paper by hand, but all a criminal would have to do is fi nd each piece in the mountain of garbage and pains-takingly reassemble it.
No, your best bet is to just keep all your trash indoors, or fl ush it piece-by-piece.
Another way identity thieves strike is with a technique known as “phishing.” Spelled with a new-age “ph” phishing is another attack against which we are all helpless. Let’s run a scenario.
You’re about to walk into your bank, when you notice that the bank’s location has moved to your front yard, and instead of being a red brick building, it is now a cardboard box with the word, “BANK” on it.
Happy at this newfound con-venience, you greet the teller, a man who identifies him-self as “George Washington American.”
Comforted by what is clearly
an average American name, you take out your credit card.
He also asks you for your driver’s license, social security number and car keys, and re-membering that they don’t give cardboard boxes to just anyone, you hand those over, too.
Did you see anything wrong with that story? Th at’s right, you didn’t tell George that your car is a stick-shift. He might have trou-ble getting it out of the lot.
Phishing is very much like the above story, only it takes place entirely in cyberspace.
A Web site or e-mail will di-rect you to a place that looks like your bank’s Web page and you put in your personal infor-mation. Before you know it, you are the proud owner of 16 new hot-tubs.
Th e only defense is discretion in whom you give your informa-tion to.
But this is clearly impracti-cal, as there’s no way to really
tell the red brick buildings from the cardboard huts.
Conventional methods work, too. Keep in mind that if your wallet is stolen, it contains what-ever personal information you carry around with you, and that your identity could be in dan-ger, too.
If you ever cannot fi nd your wallet for more than fi ve min-utes, immediately cancel all your credit cards and fl ee to Mexico.
Of course, the best defense is what’s called the “pack” defense. See, there are a lot of people that could be victims of identity theft, and only so many thieves.
So only a few people will be victimized out of the herd, and they’ll be the ones the thieves manage to catch.
So long as the thieves stay fed, the rest of us stay safe. But I can assure you, that if you follow my advice to the letter, your friends and family should be perfectly safe.
Identity thieves want their hands on more than just e-bootyJOHNATHAN KASTNERTHE ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGIANCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
Value-added tax not solution to massive defi cit
DONATEThe West Virginia Council
of Churches has established the Montcoal Mining Disaster Fund for the families of miners killed in Monday’s explosion.
To donate: Call 304-344-3141
or visit www.wvcc.org
It was only a matter of time.As the rest of the coun-
try waits for the latest on the fates of the four missing miners stranded under the mountains of West Virginia, one group has decided to politicize the fate of those already dead.
As families and friends of the 25 miners grieve for the losses of Monday night’s explosion at Upper Big Branch mine in Ra-leigh County, West Virginia, a group known for celebrat-ing fallen soldiers attempted to gain the tragic, national spotlight.
Westboro Baptist Church, known for declaring “God Hates Fags,” “Thank God for 9/11”
and “God is Every Day,” took to the state Capitol Thursday.
Thankfully, their efforts to use the state’s tragic losses as a platform for their hatred were squashed by hundreds of local residents.
The Charleston Gazette re-ported Thursday as many as 300 citizens came out to counter Westboro’s hate-filled speech in a “no-hate rally.”
Churches, veteran groups and other local organizations protested with banners of their own, including those declar-ing “God Loves Everyone” and “God hates signs.”
The humorous messages and community togetherness
showed that West Virginians truly care about each other.
Westboro is doing what it’s always done – attempting to hi-jack a moment of national grief for their own gain.
We are humbled and appre-ciative of the community sup-port in Charleston – and oth-ers planning to do the same as Westboro attempt to head to Upper Big Branch itself.
It is in these moments we must come together to grieve and mourn.
The losses in the mine have hit close to everyone, including those here in Morgantown and even our own staff.
What better way honor to
those fallen miners than to protest those who wish to cap-italize on sorrow, grief and despair?
We urge the citizens of West Virginia to ignore groups like the Westboro Baptist Church who try to use this tragedy for their own publicity.
Any criminal action toward the group will only propel it further into the spotlight. Con-frontation will not help quell the hate-filled sentiments spewed by its supporters.
Creative acts such as those in Charleston – and other acts around the country in similar fashion (such as bikers drown-ing out the negative chants at
troop funerals) – are far more effective.
As intolerant as their mes-sages are, they are protected by freedom of speech.
Instead of resorting to vio-lence, no matter how tense and upsetting the moment may be, let them know their hate-filled beliefs aren’t echoed by those they target.
If anything, use Westboro’s presence in our state to solidify our tradition of community to-getherness, uniting behind the memory of the fallen and the hope the missing four may still be found alive.
THE DAILY ATHENAEUM ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | 5FRIDAY APRIL 9, 2010
April Smith makes WV debut at Mountain Stage SundayBY MATT ARMSTRONG
A&E EDITOR
New Jersey native April Smith recently released her third CD, “Songs for a Sinking Ship,” and she and her band, The Great Pic-ture Show, will make their way to Mountain Stage this Sunday.
“I haven’t performed at Mountain Stage or West Vir-ginia yet, so this is a really excit-ing show for me,” Smith said. “A bunch of artists I’ve toured with in the past have played Moun-tain Stage, so I’m familiar with it. When I found out we were playing, I was over the moon.”
Smith grew up in an artsy family: Her parents encouraged her to listen to rock ‘n’ roll, her brother was in a band and her sister painted. She draws her in-fluences from ’30s and ’40s mu-sic and Tom Waits.
“It’s (my sound is) retro pop with a swing and maybe some cabaret thrown in for good mea-sure,” Smith said.
While she had released two previous albums before “Songs for a Sinking Ship,” Smith still needed money to produce her latest CD.
That’s where her fans came in: Smith asked her fans for do-nations to help get the project off the ground.
“It was such an incredible
feeling to know how much peo-ple wanted this record to hap-pen,” Smith said. “When we went past the goal and wound up with over $13,000, I was floored at how generous and supportive my fans were.”
With the support of her fans, Smith released the CD, and “Songs for a Sinking Ship” has been a critical success.
Positive reviews have come from publications like Rolling Stone, who likened Smith to a ’30s or ’40s version of Fiona Ap-ple, and The Chicago Tribune. Even Perez Hilton gave Smith a glowing review.
“We’ve been getting really excellent reviews, and the fans have given us their approval, which is super important,” Smith said. “I’m just trying to keep the momentum up and get the mu-sic out there. So far, so good.”
Despite her early success, Smith isn’t resting on her lau-rels and has started work on her next CD.
“I’m already writing new songs. I’d like to do something a little more live next time, maybe even a live recording between albums,” Smith said.
For Mountain Stage, Smith said she might throw in a few new songs.
“I have to have a new song completely worked out and
nearly perfect before I can de-but it for an audience,” Smith said. “We’ll probably start mix-ing in some new stuff soon, just to see how it goes over with the fans.”
Other musicians performing at Sunday’s Mountain Stage in-clude Jakob Dylan and his cur-rent backing group Three Legs, which includes Neko Case and Kelly Hogan, The Tallest Man on Earth, Clare and the Reasons and The Watson Twins.
Tickets are still available at the Mountainlair and Creative Arts Center box offices and cost $15 in advance and $20 the day of the show.
Mountain Stage is a live radio show and will be broadcast on West Virginia Public Radio. The show starts at 7 p.m. in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre.
New Jersey songstress April Smith makes her West Virginia and Mountain Stage debut Sunday at the Creative Arts Center.
‘Songs for a Sinking Ship’ better craft ed
than the Titanic
Don’t jump ship, “Songs For A Sinking Ship” is sure to im-press and entertain.
April Smith and The Great Picture Show recently released a new album.
The album is a mix of soft rock and pop with a jazz feel that gives the album a unique sound and quirky quality.
Many songs have fun instru-mental solos and hand-clap-ping beats that should satisfy a diverse group of listeners.
While listening to this album, some might feel like they’re in a ’40s jazz club sipping drinks and watching a live band with friends.
The album begins with “Movie Loves a Screen,” a tune with an upbeat sound and catchy lyrics like “I just wanna mean something to you” that sets the mood for the rest of the album.
The energy of the song makes it difficult to dislike.
The energy is sustained throughout the entire album, even in slower songs, and Smith’s vocals are full of emotion.
“Terrible Things” contains a beat fit for ’30s or ’40s cab-aret music. The song is led by Smith’s vocals and accompa-nied by bass and strings.
The album is consistent with its style, not jumping from one taste to another, allowing listen-ers to feel as if they are a part the record.
“The One That Got Away” is one of my favorite songs because
of its powerful vocals. With lyr-ics like “You know what you’ve done, you know very well/ You set a trap for me and baby I fell,” the song is emotionally charged with the same energetic feel.
The album ends with the song “Stop Wondering,” which pro-vides strength for those going through heartbreak.
Smith’s voice begins low and innocent before the charge of energy and strength of her vo-cals shine through.
Her voice is burlesque and al-most shouts out “Bitch, please I’ve got better things to do” as the song comes to an end.
April Smith is in a category of her own when it comes to her energetic, emotionally power-ful voice.
Listeners should enjoy “Songs for a Sinking Ship” if they’re looking for a good time and not in the mood for anything depressing.
Grade: A+
meat he’s been putting off at dinner.
Th e weird and surrealistic tone of “Parents” is reminiscent of a bi-zarre mash-up of “Father Knows Best” and “Th e Texas Chainsaw Massacre” as directed by a “Blue Velvet”-era David Lynch.
Frequent Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti even pro-vides the fi lm’s score.
What makes “Parents” so in-teresting is that it’s a comedy, though, so intensely dark that some audiences might write it off as a failed horror fi lm.
While there are some bad per-formances from the fi lm’s child actors, the weight of the fi lm is carried by Quaid alone.
He might be an actor mostly known for playing a goofy red-neck in “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” but Quaid really gets a chance to show his chops in “Parents.”
While it may not have done well at the box offi ce and is now being online for free, “Parents” is a step above the other low-budget fi lms readily available on the In-ternet and is a good way to spend a rainy day.
Grade: B+
‘PARENTS’Continued from PAGE 3
BRITTNI MCGUIREA&E WRITER
April Smith & The Great Pictue Show
“Songs for a Sinking Ship”
Grade: A+
“Morgantown is like no other town I’ve ever been in,” Harri-son said. “Th e staff at 123 is awe-some and always accommodat-ing. Th e girls across the street at Black Bear (Burritos) are always wonderful to us when we’re in, and the crowd always comes out
and stays with us throughout the show.”
Th e Hackensaw Boys will be perform at 123 Pleasant Street Saturday at 10 p.m., with open-ing act Th e Trainjumpers. Tick-ets are $15.
“At the end of a concert in Mor-gantown you can be assured the night isn’t over,” Harrison said.
HACKENSAWContinued from PAGE 3
HOROSCOPES
CAMPUS CALENDAR COMICS
PUZZLES
April 10THE COFFEE PARTY OF NORTH CEN
TRAL WEST VIRGINIA will meet at 1:30 p.m. at Panera Bread. The Coff ee Party is a national movement that seeks to fi nd solutions to problems facing our nation through civil dialogue and citizen partici-pation in government. This event is open to everyone.
April 11“IRON JAWED ANGELS” will be shown
for free at the Aull Center, celebrating the 90th anniversary of women’s suff rage. Treats will be provided. This event is sponsored by the WVU Center for Wom-en’s Studies and the League of Women Voters.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS will meet at 6 p.m. in the Monongahela Room of the Mountainlair.
Every FridayWVU HILLEL off ers a Shabbat Dinner
at 6:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at 1420 University Ave. For more information or a ride, call 304-685-5195.
LUNCH FOR A BUCK will take place at the Campus Ministry Center on the cor-ner of Willey and Price streets. For more information, call 304-292-4061.
CHABAD AT WVU will take place at 7 p.m. at 643 Valley View Drive. For more information, visit www.jewishWVU.org or call 304-599-1515.
CAMPUS LIGHT MINISTRIES hosts a weekly meeting and Bible study at 7 p.m. in the Bluestone Room of the Mountainlair.
Every SaturdayOPEN GYM FOR VOLLEYBALL is from 2
p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center. No commitment or prior experi-ence is necessary. Just show up and play. For more information, contact Mandy at mhatfi [email protected].
CATHOLIC MASS will be held at St. John University Parish at 5 p.m.
TRADITIONAL KARATE CLASS FOR SELFDEFENSE meets at 10:30 a.m. in Multipurpose Room A of the Student Recreation Center.
Every SundayTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH off ers
services at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The church is located on the corner of Spruce and Willey streets.
WVU WOMEN’S ULTIMATE FRISBEE CLUB TEAM will hold practice at 3 p.m. at St. Francis Fields.
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTERDAY SAINTS off ers a service for stu-dents at 10 a.m. at the chapel on Willey Street. For more information, call 304-296-7538.
WVU HILLEL off ers a Bagel Brunch at 12:30 p.m. at the Hillel House at 1420 Uni-versity Ave. For more information or a ride, call 304-685-5195.
MOUNTAINEERS FOR CHRIST hosts college worship from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Christian Student Center at 2923 Uni-versity Ave.
PAINTBALL TEAM practices at Moun-tain Valley Paintball Park. For more infor-
mation, visit www.wvupaintball.com or e-mail [email protected].
CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP hosts free dinner at 6:15 p.m. followed by a worship service at 7 p.m. at 2901 University Ave. For more information, contact Gary Gross at [email protected].
SIGMA THETA EPSILON, a National Christian Service Fraternity, would like to invite any men interested in the fra-ternity to attend its meeting at 5 p.m. at the Campus Ministry Center. For more information, e-mail [email protected].
CATHOLIC MASS will be held at St. John University Parish at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Mass will also be held at 7:30 p.m. in Room 406 of Allen Hall on the Evansdale Campus. All are welcome.
SINGLE ADULT DINNER for the never-married, widowed and divorced will be held at 5 p.m. More information, call 866-948-6441 or visit www.SingleFocusMin-istries.org.
ContinualGOLF CLUB meets regularly. Golfers of
any skill level are invited to join. Club ac-tivities include competitions with other schools and intraclub golf outings. For more information, e-mail [email protected].
MOTOWNPOETS is looking for poets who are interested in practicing and shar-ing poetry with others on an online forum. For more information, visit www.groups.yahoo.com/group/motownpoetry.
MON GENERAL HOSPITAL needs vol-unteers for the information desk, pre-admission testing, hospitality cart, mail delivery and gift shop. For more infor-mation, call Christina Brown at 304-598-1324.
WELLNESS PROGRAMS on topics such as nutrition, sexual health and healthy liv-ing are provided for interested student groups, organizations or classes by WELL WVU Student Wellness and Health Pro-motion. For more information, visit www.well.wvu.edu/wellness.
WELL WVU STUDENT HEALTH is paid for by tuition and fees and is confi den-tial. For appointments or more informa-tion, call 304-293-2311 or visit www.well.edu.wvu/medical.
CHRISTIAN HELP needs volunteers to help with the daily operations of six pro-grams: a free clothing store, food pantry, emergency fi nancial assistance, Women’s Career Clothing Closet, Working Man’s Closet and the Furniture Exchange. For more information or to volunteer, con-tact Jessica at 304-296-0221 or [email protected].
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS meets nightly in the Morgantown and Fair-mont areas. For more information, call the helpline at 800-766-4442 or visit www.mrscna.org.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets daily. For help or a schedule, call 304-291-7918. For more information, visit www.aawv.org.
CARITAS HOUSE, a local nonprofi t or-ganization serving West Virginians with HIV/AIDS, needs donations of food and personal care items and volunteers to support all aspects of the organization’s activities. For more information, call John Sonnenday at 304-985-0021.
CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING SERVICES are provided for free by the Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. A walk-in clinic is off ered week-days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services in-clude educational, career, individual, cou-ples and group counseling. Please visit www.well.wvu.edu to find out more information.
SCOTT’S RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE, a local outreach organization, needs vol-
unteers for daily programs and special events. For more information or to volun-teer, contact Adrienne Hines at [email protected] or 304-599-5020.
ANIMAL FRIENDS needs foster fami-lies for abandoned animals before they fi nd their permanent families. If you or anyone you know can help, call 304-290-4PET.
LUTHERAN STUDENT MOVEMENT meets regularly at the Lutheran Campus Chapel directly across the street from the Downtown Library Complex. Anyone is welcome to attend the events. For more information, e-mail Rebecca at [email protected] or visit www.lu-theranmountaineer.org and follow the links to the LSM Web site.
WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN needs volunteers. WIC provides educa-tion, supplemental foods and immuni-zations for pregnant women and children under 5 years of age. This is an opportu-nity to earn volunteer hours for class re-quirements. For more information, con-tact Michelle Prudnick at 304-598-5180 or 304-598-5185.
FREE RAPID HIV TESTING is available on the fi rst Monday of every month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Caritas House of-fi ce located at 391 Scott Ave. Test results are available in 20 minutes and are con-fi dential. To make an appointment, call 304-293-4117. For more information, visit www.caritashouse.net.
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS, a United Way agency, is looking for volunteers to become Big Brothers and Big Sisters in its one-on-one community-based and school-based mentoring programs. Com-munity-based mentors pick up a child at his or her home and do activities the two of them choose together on a weekly ba-sis. School-based mentors meet with a child at an area elementary school during the after-school program for one hour, one day per week for homework help and hanging out. To volunteer, contact Sylvia at 304-983-2383, ext. 104 or e-mail [email protected].
ROSENBAUM FAMILY HOUSE, which provides a place for adult patients and their families to stay while receiving med-ical care at WVU, is looking for service or-ganizations to provide dinner for 20 to 40 Family House guests. Although the hos-pital cafeteria is only steps away, guests enjoy a home-cooked or restaurant-do-nated meal. People may, individually or as a group, provide the food, serve and clean up on a regular basis or as a one-time event. For more information, call 304-598-6094 or e-mail [email protected].
LITERACY VOLUNTEERS is seeking vol-unteers for one-on-one tutoring in ba-sic reading and English as a second lan-guage. Volunteer tutors will complete tutor training, meet weekly with their adult learners, report volunteer hours quarterly, attend at least two in-service trainings per year, and help with one fundraising event. For more information, call 304-296-3400 or e-mail [email protected].
CATHOLIC MASS is held at St. John Uni-versity Parish at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.
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Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis
F Minus by Tony Carrillo
Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley
Cow and Boy by Mark Leiknes
Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
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Across1 Large swallows
6 Loosen (up)
10 Joseph who brought Shakespeare to Cen-tral Park
14 Director Kurosawa
15 Plant with thick, fl eshy leaves
16 Morlock prey
17 Elementary particle
18 Neeson of “Nell”
19 Undecided
20 Abbr. followed by a year
21 Criticize a small town?
23 Old Ford
25 Bad luck
26 Checking for doneness at the grill?
30 Jackie Chan and others
31 Magic 8-Ball response
32 Rug feature
35 Giving word?
36 Fertilization targets
37 Priestess in Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers”
39 West famous for “Come up sometime and see me”
40 Tournament pass
41 Scarecrow portrayer
42 Certain pork thief?
45 St. Clare’s town
48 Finish by
49 Spelling contest notice?
52 Name on some Kmart shoes
55 Subordinate
56 Mountain lake
57 Op artist Bridget
58 List of games, briefl y
59 Presque Isle’s lake
60 Bury
61 __ d’oeuvre
62 Opposite of bleak
63 N’awlins sandwich, and this puzzle’s title
Down1 Hunter’s quarry
2 Some are made from koa wood
3 Amount rarely paid
4 Spendthrift
5 __ Bernardino
6 Belt or sock
7 Et __
8 Knock around
9 Tennessee’s largest city
10 Eddie of “Frasier,” for one
11 Orally
12 Blue books?
13 Cold War put-down
21 Narrow waterways: Abbr.
22 Bass attachment?
24 Endangered state bird
26 Munchkin creator
27 Annapolis sch.
28 Kvetch’s words
29 Mauna __
32 Bouncer employer
33 Opposite of aweather
34 Henry VIII’s sixth
36 Olive __
37 Burden
38 1950s-’80s Chevy utility vehicle
40 Runner’s problem
41 Big bell sound
42 Two-footers
43 Spanish pronoun
44 Retailer whose middle name was Cash
45 Put to shame
46 Watch handle
47 Feast that includes the Cup of Elijah
50 Tropical tuber
51 Tennessee state fl ower
53 Nautical leader?
54 Big Apple ltrs.
57 Tear
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BY JACQUELINE BIGAR
BORN TODAY This year, you simply know what works and what pleases others. Still, an el-ement of discomfort follows you with partnerships in general. You might often wish that oth-ers were more vocal. You are of-ten off dreaming up ideas. If you are single, you could meet some-one who knocks your socks off . Wait at least a year before com-mitting. If you are attached, a newfound empathy emerges. It is as if you feel your signifi cant other’s feelings. AQUARIUS un-derstands you.
ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) ★★★★ Your creativity pokes through any project, conver-sation or situation. The trick is to know when to speak and when to muzzle yourself. Sometimes people don’t ap-preciate your suggestions. A meeting proves to be inspira-tional. Tonight: Out the door, celebrating the weekend.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) ★★★ You might feel as if someone created a Catch-22 situation just for you! Remem-ber, you don’t need to play in this ballpark. Sometimes by clearing out, you end the problem. Creativity marks a business or public relation-
ship. Tonight: You might be having too much fun to make it an early night!
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) ★★★★★ Attempt to see the broader picture and visualize what others are seeing. Yes, your mind can drift way be-yond, but to empathize you need to imagine how another person feels. Learning to si-multaneously detach and feel takes talent! Tonight: Put on a great piece of music.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) ★★★★ Someone comes to you with his or her hand open, making an off er that you can-not and will not say no to. Real-ize that your imagination could take what is being off ered to a whole new level, which might not have anything to do with reality. Careful! Tonight: Din-ner for two.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) ★★★★★ Others certainly provide inspiration. What you decide to do with it is your choice. Realize what is hap-pening behind the scenes with a loved one. A talk might be needed and way overdue. Realize that you put this per-son on a pedestal. Tonight: Opt to be with who you want.
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)
★★★★ Understand what is happening within your im-mediate situation. A walk by water would provide a great deal of relaxation, or per-haps purchase a table foun-tain and make a special area for relaxation. Make plans to do just that. Tonight: Out with friends.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) ★★★★★ Your imagination dots all your i’s and crosses all your t’s. Could you be set-ting yourself up for disap-pointment? Try to be realistic. Your ingenuity plugged into a project could prove to be quite benefi cial. Tonight: Put on your dancing shoes.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) ★★★★ If you had a hard time getting into work today, don’t be surprised. Your best and most preferred spot is at home. You are likely to try to get home early or to change plans later on. You might not always be a homebody, but right now you certainly are! Tonight: Order in.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) ★★★★★ Your intuition kicks in – to the extent that you nearly know who is go-ing to call before they pick up the phone. Still, don’t try to de-termine what someone else
means. Clarify and ask ques-tions. You might be surprised by the true intent of some-one’s words. Tonight: TGIF.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) ★★★ Weigh the pros and cons of an investment – this even could be an investment of your time. You could be de-ceiving yourself about the end results. Be aware of how much you off er at fi rst. Tonight: Your treat.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) ★★★★★ Others fi nd you to be inspirational, if you can re-main focused. You might scat-ter from one idea to another, making it diffi cult for even you to keep track of your thoughts. Perhaps jot your ideas down, and later you can revisit them. Tonight: As you like.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) ★★★ Knowing when to back out graciously could make a diff erence in the long run. If you feel as if you don’t have the expertise to deal with a problem, then most likely you don’t. You will learn more if you listen and are open. To-night: Add some mystery to your repertoire.
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Butler secures Brad Stevens through 2021-22 seasonINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Brad
Stevens is content to keep coach-ing the Butler way.
Th e 33-year-old coach, who came within a buzzer-beat-ing shot of winning the NCAA men’s basketball championship, signed a 12-year deal Th ursday that extends through the 2021-22 season.
Team spokesman Jim McGrath declined to say how much the deal was worth, though Stevens had a total compensation pack-age of $750,000 last season. Ath-letic director Barry Collier ac-knowledged Tuesday that Stevens was in line for a pay raise.
Th e Bulldogs got the man they wanted to stay.
“Brad has demonstrated that he’s the right fi t for Butler Uni-versity,” Collier said in a state-ment. “Our program has grown under his leadership, and we’re excited about our future under
his direction.”Stevens is expected to answer
questions at a news conference Friday morning.
Th e move should end, at least temporarily, speculation that Ste-vens would jump to a BCS-con-ference school. Jobs at Oregon, of the Pac-10 and two ACC schools, Clemson and Wake Forest, are open.
But Stevens had said Tuesday that he would speak with Collier, a Butler alum and former head basketball coach, before enter-taining thoughts of leaving.
Collier never gave Stevens, one of college basketball’s best young coaches, a chance to reconsider.
“Tracy and I are thrilled and very thankful for the opportunity to continue to play a role for But-ler University,” Stevens, referring to his wife, said in a statement. “We are already looking forward
to the 2010-11 season.”Stevens just completed the
most successful season in school history.
Th e Bulldogs won a school-record 33 games, set the Butler mark with a 25-game winning streak and became the only Divi-sion I team to fi nish with a perfect conference record this season.
Butler reached the regional semifi nals for the third time since 2003 and advanced to the title game by upsetting Syracuse, Kan-sas State and Michigan State. Th e Bulldogs lost to Duke on Monday night in the closest title game in two decades.
Along the way, Butler went from virtual unknown to house-hold name, and Stevens’ expo-sure made him the hottest per-son on the coaching carousel.
But Stevens has never followed the conventional road. He has produced the school’s only two
30-win seasons and is 89-15 in three seasons with the Bulldogs. Th e 89 victories are a national record for coaches over their fi rst three seasons. Stevens was also the Horizon League coach of the year each of the past two seasons.
So the Bulldogs hoped they wouldn’t have to make a change. Butler has now answered one of the two biggest questions it faced this off season.
Th e other question is whether sophomore swingman Gordon Hayward will leave early for the NBA. That answer might not come until next week, at the ear-liest, but the Bulldogs are hop-ing that Stevens’ return will sway Hayward to come back.
“We’re continually trying to do everything we can to improve our program, and we’ll continue to do that,” Collier said.
With Stevens leading the way.AP
Butler coach Brad Stevens calls a play for his team against Wright State on March 9.
Tiger Woods 3-under at MastersAUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The
shots. Th e fi st pumps. Th e roaring galleries at Augusta National.
Tiger Woods played as though he’d never been away.
Returning from a fi ve-month layoff and trying to rebuild his reputation after a sex scandal, Woods quickly showed his game was still in good shape Th ursday at the Masters.
Even with Phil Mickelson grabbing a share of the lead and 60-year-old Tom Watson post-ing another turn-back-the-clock round in a major, all eyes were on the world’s best player dur-ing one of the most scrutinized opening rounds in golf history.
No one was sure what to ex-pect from Woods, a four-time Masters champion competing for the fi rst time since a Th anks-giving night car wreck led to rev-elations of numerous extramar-ital aff airs. But a 3-under 33 on the front side certainly answered the question on everyone’s mind: How would he play?
No longer sporting the goatee he had worn during practice, Woods bounced back from his fi rst bogey with two precise shots that set up a 10-footer for eagle at the par-5 eighth. When the ball dropped in the cup, patrons rose in unison to salute the disgraced golfer, who delivered his fi rst fi st pump of the day.
But this round likely will be remembered for a shot Woods pulled off at the next hole. He yanked his drive left of the fair-way, leaving him with a treacher-ous 5-iron that had to be hooked around the pine trees to reach an uphill green he could barely see.
Woods ripped into the ball with a powerful swing, then ran out into the fairway to get a look as it skidded onto the green, pull-ing to a stop about 12 feet above the hole. He rolled in the birdie putt, which put him on the lea-derboard for the fi rst time, just two strokes behind.
Th e gallery around the fi rst tee was sparse a half-hour be-fore Woods was scheduled to start. By the time he arrived, it had swelled to 10 deep all the way round. Woods smiled and touched the brim of his cap, ac-knowledging the cheers when his name was announced.
“Make us proud!” a fan yelled.
Not that he totally escaped his personal troubles inside the gates of Augusta National.
A small plane fl ew over the course pulling a banner that
jabbed the golfer: “Tiger: Did you mean bootyism?” – a refer-ence to Woods’ claim that part of the reason for his troubles was that he left his faith, Buddhism. Some people in the stands laughed and pulled out binocu-lars to get a closer look. Later, an-other banner said: “Sex Addict? Yeah. Right. Sure. Me Too!”
Woods largely lived up to his vow to be more responsive to the crowd and try to keep his emo-tions in check. He doff ed his cap to the fans several times, and they were appreciative.
“I think the way he’s react-ing with the crowd is amazing,” said Jim Moehring, who cheered on Woods in Amen Corner. “He seems to be more relaxed.”
Until he got to No. 14. Woods’ explosive temper let loose there after an errant iron shot. He slung down his club and let out a scream as he turned away, un-willing to even watch the fl ight of the ball.
Th e 60-year-old Watson, who nearly became the oldest ma-jor winner in golf history at last year’s British Open, showed that wasn’t a fl uke. He grabbed the clubhouse lead with a 5-un-der 67, tying his best round at Augusta.
Th e last time he did it was 20 years ago. Watson closed with a
5-foot birdie putt at the tough 18th hole, set up by a brilliant iron shot that skipped along the right side of the green, caught the ridge and turned back to-ward the fl ag.
Mickelson was among three other morning starters who matched Watson’s 67, joined by reigning PGA Championship winner Y.E. Yang and England’s Lee Westwood, seeking his fi rst major title.
Mickelson had a blistering ea-gle-birdie-birdie stretch starting at the par-5 13th, and his score could have been even lower. He missed birdie tries of about 10 feet at No. 16 and a 5-footer at the 18th, but this was still an en-couraging start for a two-time Masters winner who has strug-gled this year.
“I do love this place,” Mickel-son said. “I don’t have to be per-fect. I can miss a shot and still recover. It relaxes me when I go down Magnolia Lane.”
Woods was in the next-to-last group, playing with K.J. Choi and Matt Kuchar. It looked as though there might be a rain delay as skies darkened and the wind gusted up to 22 mph ahead of an approaching storm. Th ere were scattered sprinkles, but the front was breaking up as it passed over Augusta.
APTiger Woods reacts after chipping to the 10th green during the fi rst round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., Thursday.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Hornets majority owner George Shinn is negotiating to sell his stake in the NBA club to south Louisiana businessman Gary Chouest, who has owned 25 percent of the team since 2007, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Th e person familiar with both men’s plans and the anticipated sale, told Th e Associated Press on condition of anonymity Th ursday because an agreement has not been signed.
Shinn, a 68-year-old business-man who made his fortune devel-oping a chain of business schools in his native North Carolina, has been either the sole or majority owner of the Hornets since the club’s inception in Charlotte in 1988.
Th e club moved to New Or-leans in 2002 and three years ago Chouest paid about $62 million for his share of the team.
Chouest is expected to pay about $200 million for Shinn’s re-maining shares, the person said.
Initially, Chouest’s involve-ment was meant to stabilize a franchise that was returning to New Orleans following a two-year displacement to Oklahoma City following Hurricane Katrina.
Shortly after the current season opened, Shinn revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate can-cer, which is now in remission.
Shinn spent most of the season away from the club, getting treat-ment at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore and recuperating mostly at a home in the moun-tains of Tennessee.
He returned to New Orleans last month, attending several games in his courtside seats, but did not attend Wednesday night’s game against the Char-lotte Bobcats.
Now that Shinn is free of can-cer, he wants to focus on chari-table work aimed at promoting early diagnosis and treatment of the disease, according to the per-son who discussed his plans with the AP.
Shinn also hopes to write an autobiographical book.
Money raised from Shinn’s speaking engagements and other fundraising “will be given back to causes that serve the Lord,” the person said.
Chouest also missed Wednes-day’s game because he was in Eu-rope on business.
He was traveling back to Lou-isiana on Thursday and could not immediately be reached for comment.
Chouest is a billionaire and owner of Galliano-based Edison Chouest Off shore, a barge and vessel company supporting the off shore oil and gas industry.
He and his sons played bas-ketball in their youth and re-main passionate about the game. Chouest has been a season ticket holder, with courtside seats, since the Hornets moved to New Orleans.
His takeover would strengthen the Hornets’ fi nancial footing and raise the likelihood of the club staying in Louisiana long-term.
Th e Hornets’ current lease al-lows the club to break its lease at the state-owned New Orleans Arena if average attendance falls below 14,735 during a two-sea-son period.
Attendance this season has av-eraged just over 15,000 with two home games remaining.
Chouest, among the more in-fluential businessmen in the state, has said his investment in the club was always about keep-ing it in Louisiana.
Once Chouest takes over, he could have a number of major de-cisions to make in the off season.
Th e Hornets, now 35-44, will miss the playoff s for the fi rst time in three seasons.
Hornets general manager Jeff Bower, who also took over as coach after Byron Scott was fi red nine games into the season, has said he enjoyed his fi rst year as an NBA head coach and hopes to remain with the club.
However, Bower and several other Hornets offi cials have said all decisions regarding the roster and the coaching staff will be re-viewed after the regular season.
Because the Hornets missed the playoff s, they will also be in the NBA’s draft lottery and may need to acquire a player who can contribute in the front court right away if they hope to return to playoff contention in the West-ern Conference quickly.
Hornets 6-foot-10 center Emeka Okafor, acquired in a trade that sent 7-1 Tyson Chan-dler to Charlotte last summer, has struggled defensively against taller, heavier centers and has av-eraged career lows of 10.3 points and 9.1 rebounds in 29 minutes per game.
Peja Stojakovic, plagued by a groin injury, has missed 17 games and has averaged 12.6 points, down from his average of 16.4 two seasons ago, when the Hornets won the Southwest Division.
Meanwhile, 2007 fi rst-round draft choice Julian Wright has been unable to take advantage of several opportunities to start and is back on the bench.
He has averaged 3.6 points and 2.1 rebounds in 12.5 minutes per game this season, and the Hor-nets must decided whether to pick up a team option on Wright this summer.
New Orleans Hornets owner negotiating to sell franchise
Belliard’s HR sends Dodgers past Pirates PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ron-
nie Belliard homered among three extra base hits and drove in four runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers avoided being swept in a three-game series by the Pitts-burgh Pirates for the fi rst time in 10 years with a 10-2 victory Th ursday.
Th e Dodgers played without middle-of-the-lineup hitters An-dre Ethier (left ankle) and Manny Ramirez (day off ), but still got 16 hits off four Pirates pitchers, in-cluding 10 from their No. 1-4 hitters.
Reed Johnson doubled among three hits and scored twice, and Matt Kemp, James Loney and Garret Anderson drove in two runs each.
Belliard, making a spot start af-ter losing the second baseman’s job to Blake DeWitt, hit a two-run homer off Paul Maholm (0-1) in the fi fth to make it 4-0. Belliard added a run-scoring triple dur-ing a breakout four-run seventh against reliever Hayden Penn, huffi ng and puffi ng into third as the ball was mishandled in the outfi eld.
Belliard doubled in the ninth, fi nishing 3 for 5 and a single short of the cycle.
Chad Billingsley (1-0), trying to follow up on his strong start to last season, limited the Pirates to a run over 5 1-3 innings before being lifted after throwing 107 pitches. Th e right-hander gave up fi ve hits, striking out seven and walking four.
Billingsley was 4-0 during fi ve April starts last season and was 9-3 with a 2.72 ERA after 14 starts, making the NL All-Star team. He
faded during the second half, los-ing eight of his fi nal 11 while hav-ing a 4.03 ERA.
With the Dodgers having no established No. 1 starter, they would welcome Billingsley or left-hander Clayton Kershaw pitching himself into that role.
Kershaw didn’t fi gure in the decision as the Pirates won 4-3 in 10 innings Wednesday, giving up three runs and fi ve hits in 4 2-3 innings.
The Dodgers hadn’t been swept in a three-game series by Pittsburgh since Sept. 4-6, 2000, in Los Angeles.
Th e last such sweep in Pitts-burgh was May 31-June 2, 1999, when the Pirates played in Th ree Rivers Stadium.
Th e Pirates, winners of their previous four and five of six against Los Angeles since late September, didn’t score until the sixth, when Delwyn Young doubled off Billingsley and Jeff Clement hit a sacrifi ce fl y off Jeff Weaver.
Garrett Jones went 0 for 3 with a pair of walks after homering three times in the fi rst two games, including a three-run drive on Wednesday.
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Neild said he considered him-self a leader last year because he was a starter. But coming into this season as the team’s most experi-enced player outside of defensive tackle Scooter Berry, he will have to step up even more.
Neild has 27 starts, which is second on the team behind Berry, who has 28.
“With me being a senior, I think I defi nitely have to step up for the team, not just for the defensive line but for the team,” Neild said. “My fellow seniors have done a good job of keeping the team together.”
Neild added that leadership is not all about what is said but more so about what is done on and off the football fi eld.
“Th e young players are going to see that you’re stepping up,” Neild said. “Th ey’ll see that, and hope-fully they will take advantage of
that. We have to act appropriately around them and show them the ropes, what and what not to do.”
Despite what Neild has al-ready accomplished in his career at WVU, the senior said he still has a lot to work on. Th at starts in spring ball for him.
“Right now I need to work on my conditioning. I guess you can say I enjoyed Spring Break,” Neild said with a laugh. “I’m trying to work that off now.”
Casteel is not worried about
Neild, though. In fact, Casteel is so confi dent in what Neild can do that the defensive coordina-tor will make spring ball a little easier for the nose tackle.
“With him, he knows where has to improve. We aren’t going to have him take a beating in the spring. We are going to some of the pressure off of him and just get the rust off ,” Casteel said. “We know what Chris Neild can do.”
The West Virginia club rugby team will hold its 35th annual “I Used To Be A Chicken” Rugby Tournament as part of the na-tionwide “Rally for Change” fund-raiser to behind the National Leukemia Foundation.
The tournament, which origi-nated in 1976, is a staple in West Virginia rugby history. This year’s tournament will feature 20 teams in three seperate brackets.
The games will be held at St. Francis Fields across from the Evansdale Residential Complex Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“This year it’s a fundraiser that is going to raise money for chil-dren who are suff ering from leu-kemic cancer, so it’s for a great cause,” said junior Vice President Vinny Rozette. “Using the tour-nament as a fundraiser for the National Leukemia Foundation is a good way to get people to-gether and get people involved in the community. I am hop-
ing that we can get a lot of peo-ple out here to contribute this weekend.”
The three brackets will be di-vided up individually into three separate categories: competi-tive, social and women’s.
Aside from the games, the fundraising drive will continue into next week where students and faculty will be able to donate to the National Leukemia Foun-dation. There will be a booth set up at the Mountainlair as well as the ERC to collect change. Change jars have also been placed throughout the campus inside local businesses.
“This is such a great thing to do,” Rozette said. “The ‘Rally for Change’ foundation is making a great step forward for kids with leukemia. The team is hoping that raising money during this year’s Chicken Rally Tournament will help even more.”
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Rugby team holds fundraiser for National Leukemia Foundation
BY BEN GAUGHANSPORTS WRITER
The West Virginia cycling team is hosting an Atlantic Col-legiate Cycling Conference race this weekend in downtown Clarksburg, W.Va.
Saturday, the team is hosting a downtown criterium through the streets of Clarksburg. After-ward, there will be family-fun events in Jackson Square with a bike rodeo, food and music.
Th e downtown criterium is the showcase event consisting of a mile-long loop. Th e teams will race each other by going around the loop, with sprinting and car-dio racing.
Sunday, the team will host a road race. It will consist of 12 miles in Waters Smith Park near Lost Creek, W.Va.
“It’s a big relief (to be) hosting a home race,” said team Presi-dent Emily Moy. “We get to do this every year. Th is year is an-other year of not having to travel eight hours.”
Other schools competing in
the events will be Virginia Tech, NC State, Maryland, George Washington, American and the Naval Academy.
“We’re pretty excited about it, because we’re putting on some other events and working closely with the city of Clarksburg,” Moy said.
Th e team will work with chil-dren to teach them lessons about safe riding practices. Th e team will also off er to look at the kids bikes to make sure they are all in working order.
“We’re also putting together some fundraising events while at our race,” Moy said. “We’re try-ing to get the word out about cy-cling to the community.”
Th e city of Clarksburg is also excited about the event as it has put on a commercial for the cy-cling team in an eff ort to attract kids to races.
“We are hoping to make this an even bigger event next year,” Moy said. “Hopefully this week-end goes well.”
Cycling team ready for Clarksburg race
Tennis defeats Dukes, win 14th matchBY MICHAEL CARVELLI
SPORTS WRITER
After a couple of rough matches in Chicago last weekend, West Virginia tennis head coach Marc Walters admitted he was a lit-tle worried about how his team would respond when it took on Duquesne Th ursday.
“I had a feeling we’d start out a little shaky, which we did,” Wal-ters said. “Sometimes you take a tough loss and it can make you second guess yourself, and our girls didn’t do that.”
Th at didn’t seem to be a prob-lem Th ursday as the Mountain-eers (14-5, 4-1 Big East Confer-ence) were able to take down the Dukes 6-1 in their fi nal home
match of the season.“Th at might have been our best
match of the year,” Walters said. “It was probably our most com-plete match. We might not have played our best tennis, but we competed really well.”
Th e result of the match Th urs-day defi nitely felt better for Wal-ters, who saw his team lose three points in singles competition in third sets last Friday against Chi-cago State University.
It was the complete opposite against Duquesne.
West Virginia got third-set vic-tories from senior Stephanie La-Fortune and juniors Monique Burton and Ashley Pilsbury.
“I think everyone’s mentally tough when things are going well
for you,” Walters said. “When we got down to the tight situations, our girls just toughened up, hit a lot of balls and made it more like a prize fi ght instead of a tennis match.”
Saturday, the Mountaineers will try to improve to 5-1 in the Big East when they travel to take on Seton Hall.
Th e Pirates, who currently have a 5-10 record, have struggled up to this point in the season.
Th e Pirates started off losing four-straight matches but then won fi ve in a row.
Seton Hall is currently locked in a six-game losing streak.
“It’s tough to tell how motivated (Seton Hall) is going to be from match-to-match,” Walters said. “Th ey defi nitely are deep, and they
have a lot of talent. If they come to play, it’ll be a barn burner.
“Th ere’s no doubt in my mind that they’re capable of giving us all we can take.”
As of right now, Walters said his team is looking to get a seed anywhere between seven and nine, but hoping he seed could get better depending on how his team fi nishes off the season.
“If we can beat Seton Hall, Vil-lanova and Rutgers to fi nish off the year, we should be able to start picking up some momen-tum,” Walters said. “This sea-son could really end on a big up-swing for us if we can keep our confi dence.”
must bring its best perfor-mance, however, she said her team can’t look too deep into its opponent
“It has been our philosophy all season to just focus on our-selves,” Burdette-Good said. “We are not going to change that just because of this meet.”
Even though the sixth-seeded Mountaineers enter the meet as a clear underdog, Tabor thinks anything can happen.
“Just because some of these teams may be better than us, we are all even when we step onto the fl oor,” she said. “Th ey can have an off -night, and we can very well have an off -night. It is a big meet for us all.”
Cole Bowers, Jeff Braun and Nick Kindler appear to be the top choices to aid a line that features four returning starters.
With Logan Heastie and Deon Long away from the program and unsure of whether or not they want to remain at West Virginia, Stewart is also searching for wide receiv-ers behind Jock Sanders and Brad Starks.
Tavon Austin is a logical choice for one spot with his blazing speed and shifty moves, but he is simi-lar in stature to the undersized Sanders.
Florida natives J.D. Woods and Stedman Bailey have a chance to warrant consideration for play-ing time with a strong spring showing.
With nine defensive starters re-turning, the Mountaineers have fewer question marks on that side of the ball. However, with defensive tackle Scooter Berry still rehabili-tating from shoulder surgery and Reed Williams no longer around, there are leadership voids to fi ll.
“When you think of leadership, you look at your seniors,” said cor-nerbacks coach David Lockwood.
WVU has several to count on in nose guard Chris Neild, lineback-ers J.T. Th omas and Pat Lazear and cornerback Brandon Hogan.
Th e aforementioned areas need to be shored up before West Vir-ginia is near the level it desires to be.
Fortunately for the Mountain-eers, spring has just begun.
REGIONALSContinued from PAGE 9
CAREYContinued from PAGE 9
NEILDContinued from PAGE 9
WVU baseball tries to keep momentum versus St. John’sBY MICHAEL CARVELLI
SPORTS WRITER
The West Virginia baseball team put together their best off en-sive outing of the season Wednes-day in a 20-9 win over Maryland Wednesday.
It pounded out a season-high 25 hits and fi ve home runs – two for Jedd Gyorko and freshman Chris Rasky, and one by freshman Brady Wilson.
Th e stellar power numbers by the West Virginia off ense was a pleasant surprise for Mountaineer head coach Greg Van Zant.
WVU is hoping to continue that success when it makes the trip to New York this weekend for a three game series with St. John’s.
It will be the Mountaineers’ (14-15, 2-4 Big East Conference) third conference series of the season.
Junior all-Big East pitcher Jar-ryd Summers is expected to toe the rubber for West Virginia Friday for
the fi rst game of the series. Summers is boasting a team best
3.68 ERA and has thrown one com-plete game this season.
“Jarryd’s been our Friday night guy all year,” Van Zant said. “He’s going to keep us in the game, and that’s all that you can ask for.”
Off ensively, West Virginia has been led by Gyorko. Th e Morgan-town native is hitting .350 and has eight home runs while driving in 30
runs in the fi rst 29 games of his ju-nior season.
“Jedd’s one of the best players in the country,” Van Zant said. “He’s going to hit well wherever you put him in the lineup, and since he’s been hitting leadoff , he’s been hav-ing good at bats and seeing a lot of good pitches.”
Another junior, Dom Hayes, leads the team with a .444 batting average and has a .496 on-base
percentage.The Mountaineers will need
everyone to contribute over the weekend if they want to have suc-cess against a St. John’s team that is very dangerous at home, winning eight of its fi rst nine home games of the season.
Th e Red Storm will likely send their ace, senior Bruce Kern, to the mound Friday.
Kern, a New York native, is 4-2 on the season with a 4.62 ERA and has good control, as evident by his 2.6 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Th e series opener Friday starts at 3 p.m. at Jack Kaiser Stadium, and the games on Saturday and Sunday start at 1 p.m. and noon, respectively.
“Like any other game, our op-ponent is more the game of base-ball than the actual opponent,” Van Zant said. “If we can play the game correctly, we’ll play the game well.”
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this springWest Virginia’s spring football
practice started later than usual so quarterback Geno Smith could have more time to heal from a broken fi fth metatarsal in his left foot suffered during a January workout.
While the move has helped Smith participate in both practices thus far, he has not been able to do many drills at game speed or show any type of mobility.
Smith’s injury is just one of a number of issues for the Moun-taineers in Stewart’s third year of overseeing spring practice.
Some of the bigger concerns include developing off ensive line depth and fi nding a starting tackle to replace Selvish Capers, getting unproven wide receivers to step up, improving defensive leader-ship and developing secondary depth.
Smith’s setback is a blow to West Virginia because it takes away a chance for the young quarterback to improve and develop a better rhythm with his teammates while it forces the Mountaineers to rely on Coley White behind center dur-ing the spring.
White is the same guy who ap-proached offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen after last season and asked if he could get a look at wide receiver to possibly garner more playing time.
Mullen approved of the deci-sion, but the West Virginia staff has been unable to get a good picture of what White is capable of a pass catcher since he is the team’s only healthy quarterback this spring.
When the regular season rolls around, the Mountaineers’ two backup quarterbacks are likely to be true freshmen Barry Brunetti and Jeremy Johnson, but neither enrolled early enough to partici-pate in spring practice.
Th en there’s the issue of pro-tecting whoever the quarterback might be.
West Virginia’s off ensive line was decent a year ago, but it wore down as the season progressed without reliable backups. Th e same fi ve played almost every snap together, and while they developed over time, the group fatigued as well.
Now off ensive line coach Dave Johnson’s unit is faced with the task of replacing its top blocker from a year ago in Capers and fi nd-ing quality backups at tackle and guard.
GREG CAREYSPORTS WRITERUNDERDOG MENTALITY
BY MATTHEW PEASLEESPORTS WRITER
At the beginning of the season, West Virginia head coach Linda Burdette-Good was excited her program re-ceived the bid for hosting the NCAA Southeast Regional at the Coliseum.
Th is week, her team is too.Th e Mountaineers will welcome fi ve
other teams to the Coliseum Saturday at 6 p.m. in hopes of earning a berth to the NCAA National Championship.
“It is great that we are able to host this,” said senior Shelly Purkat. “It has made the preparations easier and helps us relax.”
Th is senior class also had the op-portunity to perform at the Coliseum for Regionals its freshman year back in 2007.
Senior Ashley Wilson said it makes her career come full circle.
“We had this opportunity freshman year, and we look back to that to pro-
pel us this year,” Wilson said. Th e Mountaineers earned the No. 6
seed in the meet and will be looked at as underdogs against top teams Stan-ford and Michigan; both ranked sixth in this week’s national poll.
Stanford has the No. 1 seed in the meet, and Michigan follows behind as the second seed. Th e three seed is Southern Utah, the fourth is NC State, and Kent State earned the fi fth seed.
West Virginia has never faced Stan-ford in the history of the program.
WVU has hosted Michigan and went up against NC State and Kent State on the road this season.
Th e Wolverines scored 196.4 points against the Mountaineers Feb. 5 and placed fi rst in three of the four events.
“Michigan is just a consistent pro-gram. Th ey seem to do everything right,” said senior Chelsi Tabor.
Pac-10 Conference runner-up Stanford features a fl oor competitor which is mentioned among the na-
tion’s best. Senior Carly Janiga picked up her
fourth career conference floor ti-tle at the Pac-10 Championships last weekend.
Janiga led her team to the fl oor title in the meet.
No. 18 Southern Utah was awarded the Western Athletic Conference championship putting up 195.8 points.
All-around competitor Elise Wheeler not only captured the all-around title with a score of 39.375 but also won WAC gymnast of the year.
“It will be interesting to see Stan-ford and Southern Utah just because we haven’t seen them (this year),” Pur-kat said. “It is also nice to go up against NC State and Michigan again, and to see how they have progressed over the season.”
Burdette-Good realizes her squad
see CAREY on PAGE 8
BY TONY DOBIESMANAGING EDITOR
West Virginia defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel has been at West Virginia for nine years. When he calls a player one of the best he’s ever coached, it means something.
Th at’s what he’s saying about the Mountaineers’ senior nose tackle Chris Neild.
“I think Chris is the best nose guard in our league, and he’s the best nose guard at West Virginia since I’ve been here,” Casteel said in March with Neild sitting next to him. “It’s easy if you have a bunch of Chris Neild’s to be a coach.”
A reigning second-team all-Big East Conference member, Neild has been the gritty player inside that has been a staple over the past two seasons for the Mountaineers’ defense.
“If you talk to anyone inside our program, they will tell you he does everything right – on the fi eld and off the fi eld,” Casteel said. “I know the way his makeup is that he will continue to step up and get better.”
Neild was the center of the Mountaineers’ defen-sive line last year beside defensive tackle Scooter Berry and defensive end Julian Miller.
While Neild’s statistics don’t jump out off the page like some of the nation’s most highly touted players at the position like former Nebraska inside lineman Ndamukong Suh and former Oklahoma inside lineman Gerald McCoy, his eff ects are felt by the rest of the WVU defense.
“Th at guy takes on just about 600 pounds of off ensive linemen on almost every play yet still makes plays,” Casteel said of the fact Neild is dou-ble teamed on almost every play by the opponent’s center and guard. “Our Mike linebackers get in fi st fi ghts trying to be behind him because Chris will make a good football player out of them.”
WVU head coach Bill Stewart has been upset at the team’s overall leadership, specifi cally the Mountaineers’ seniors.
“We are way behind in leadership. We need lead-ership in the worst way. We need seniors to step for-ward,” Stewart said. “Th ey are doing a pretty good job, there is just not many of them. You don’t have to be a senior to lead.”
Neild ready to lead defense
LEANN ARTHUR/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia gymnast Chelsi Tabor performs on the balance beam Feb. 5 against Michigan and William & Mary.
Mountaineers hope to bring their best performance of season to NCAA Regionals Saturday at the WVU Coliseum
WVU SPORTS INFOWest Virginia nose tackle Chris Neild gets ready to rush the off ensive line against Rutgers in 2008.
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2-3-4/BR APARTMENTS FOR MAY, 2010. South Park. Great new renova-tions. Many amenities. WD/utils. included in rent. Some with parking. 304-292-5714.
2/BR 2/BA FALLING RUN ROAD. UTILI-TIES INCLUDED. $300 deposit reserves your room. www.theaugusta.com.
2/BR APARTMENT FOR RENT. 500 East Prospect. Available June. $575/mo plus utilities. NO PETS. 692-7587.
2/BR APT. AVAILABLE IN AUGUST. Gilmore St. Apartments. Open floor plans, large kitchens, large decks, A/C, W/D. Off-street parking. Pet Friendly. Text or call: 304-767-0765.
2/BR South Park. W/D. Parking. $600 + u-tilities; 1/BR Hoffman Ave. W/D, garage, AC. $500 + utilities. 304-319-1243. hymarkproperties.com.
2/BR, 2/BA CREEK SIDE APARTMENT. Close to hospitals and Mylan. A/C. W/D. Parking. No Pets. $850/mo. 685-1834
2/BR, DOWNTOWN. VERY NICE! DW, AC, W/D, Parking available.304-319-2355.
2/BR, NICE BYSTADIUM & HOSPITALon McCullough Ave. W/D, DW, Parking. $375/person. 304-319-2355.
2/BR. 2/BA. NEXT TO STADIUM., Don Nehlen Dr. (above the Varsity Club). DW, WD, microwave, oak cabinets, ceramic/ww carpet. 24/hr maintenance, C/AC. Off-street parking. $790/mo+utilities. Some pets con-ditional. For appt. call 304-599-0200.
2/BR. AVAILABLE MAY. Great condi-tion. 7/minute walk to PRT. Large bed-rooms. DW. CA/C. Free WD facilities. Parking. Storage facilities. $395/mo per person. All utilities included. 304-288-3308.
2/BR. LOWER SOUTH PARK. Includes gas/water/trash. Laundry access. 10-min walk to campus. $550/mo. Available Imme-diately. 304-288-2052 or 304-288-9978.
2BR, 1BATH DOWNTOWN ON STEWART STREET. Ground floor with desk. Off-street parking, DW, laundry facilities. $700/month + electric. 304-296-8943.
2BR, 1BATH DOWNTOWN ON STEWART STREET. Ground floor with desk. Off-street parking, DW, laundry facilities. $700/month + electric. 304-296-8943. www.rentalswv.com
2BR:2BA 3BR:3BA Evansdale, Sunny-side. W/D, CA/C, DW, Free Parking. Lease/deposit. Pet Friendly. 304-669-5571.
225-227 JONES AVE. APT #1: Excellent condition. 2/BR, 1/BA. $600/mo for/2. $485/mo for/1 plus utilities. APT #4: 1/BR. Kitchen, livingroom. Covered porch, private entrance. $425/mo. APT #6: 3-4/BR. 1/BA. Deck. $375/mo for/3. $325/mo for/four Off-street parking with security lighting. NO PETS. 304-685-3457.
2-3-4-5/BR APARTMENTS. SPRUCE and Prospect Streets. NO PETS. Starting in May/2010. Lease/deposit. For more info call 292-1792. Noon to 7pm.
2/BR APTS. ARNOLD HALL AREA. W/D, DW. Off-street parking. bckrentals. Call 304-594-1200.
2BR DUPLEX. CLOSE TO CAMPUS.$750/month + utilities. Parking. WD. AC. No Pets. Available May 2010. 304-594-3365 or 304-288-6374.
3/BR 1124 WINDSOR AVE. CLOSE TO PRT. $1185/mo. plus utilities. Call 304-366-1460 or 304-288-6445.
3/BR 577 CLARK STREET. W/D, FREE PARKING. Utilities included. $400/person. 304-903-4646.
3/BR APARTMENTS. FOREST AVE AND Lower High Street. NO Pets. Lease/deposit. 304-296-5931.
3/BR, 2/BA TOWNHOUSE FOR RENT. Walking distance to downtown campus. $1350/mo, includes utilities. Call 282-8769. No Pets. Visit: roylinda.shutterfly.com!
3/BR, UTILITIES PAID. SNIDER ST & NORTH WILLEY. Off-street parking. $375/mo. 304-292-9600.
4/BR. REDUCED LEASE- SOUTH PARK. Rent includes utilities. Free W/D, Nice courtyard, Off-street parking. Much more. 304-292-5714.
ACROSS RUBY/STADIUM, University Park Apartment on Inglewood Blvd. 1-2/BR Available May & August 2010. Parking. W/D in building. Call 304-276-5233.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 1, 929 UNION AVE.Duplex, 2/BR, large rec room, living room and full-kitchen. Off-street-parking. $900+utils. 304-319-1673 or 304-594-1673
AVAILABLE JUNE. 2&3 B/R. Blocks from campus. Fenced yard, deck, view, W/D. $700/mo. Pets ok. 304-276-2145.
AVAILABLE MAY 15. 925 UNION AVE. 2/BR duplex, garage, off-street-parking, spacious living room & kitchen. $850+utils. 304-319-1673 or 304-594-1673
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JUST RELISTED- 4/BR, 2/BA WILLEYSTREET, W/D, large rooms. Utilities included in lease. 3 minutes to campus. 304-292-5714.
LARGE, UNFURNISHED 3/BR DUPLEXapartment. Available Now. Close to campus/hospitals. Deck, appliances, WD hook-up, off-street parking. No pets. $750/mo+utilities. 304-594-2225
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* A MUST SEE 4 BEDROOM HOUSE, 2 full baths, new furnishings, Built-in kitchen, New W/W carpet, Washer/Dryer, Porch, 8 min walk to main campus. Off-street Parking. NO PETS. 304-296-7476
1 ROOMMATE NEEDED FOR 4BR,2Bath brick house. Free WD, DW, deck, hardwood floors, parking. M/F. Beverly Ave. $475/month includes utilities. 304-673-6506 or [email protected].
3/BR HOUSE. SPACIOUS. OFF-STREET parking. Available 5/15/10. 501 Grant Ave. $285/mo each. Pets okay. 412-287-9917.
5-6/BR, 2/BA HOUSE ON BEVERLY AVE. Dishwasher, washer/dryer. Utilities included. $400/each. Call 304-680-4522.
AVAILABLE 3/BR UTILITIES INCLUDED. Walking Distance to downtown campus. 304-291-2548.
AVAILABLE 6/1/10. 4/BR, 2/BA. 1/MILE from hospital. $350/mo per bedroom plus utilities. Lease and deposit. NO PETS. 304-594-1501
AVAILABLE 6/1/10. 4/BR, 2/BA. 1/MILE from hospital. $350/mo per bedroom plus utilities. Lease and deposit. NO PETS. 304-594-1501
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2 PERSON HOUSE. WHARF AREA. Very large. W/D, carpeted, extra room, big porch. 5 minute walk. $350/person incl. gas. 304-923-2941.
3 or 4/BR HOUSE. 2/FULL BATHS. WD. Parking. Large yard, deck, porch. Minutes from ‘Lair. $425/mo. All utilities included. 304-288-3308.
3 PERSON 4/BR. WHARF AREA. Office, boot room, porch, off-street parking. 5/min walk to town. Carpeted, new kitchen, W/D. $350/person incl. gas. 304-216-1184.
5 or 6/BR HOUSE. SNIDER STREET. Utilites paid. 2/BA. Two kitchens. Off-street parking. $400/mo each. 304-292-9600.
617 NORTH ST. EXCELLENT CONDI-TION. Big 4/BR 2/Full BA, W/D,Deck, Cov-ered Porch. Off-street Parking for 5 and sin-gle car garage. $1300/mo., $325/each plus utilities, Can be semi-furnished. NO PETS. 304-685-3457.
2/BR, 2/BA. TOWNHOUSE. W/D, GAR-AGE. Close to hospitals. No Pets. Lease/dep. 304-216-2000.
3/BR HOUSE AVAILABLE 6/01. WALK TO downtown campus. W/D. 2 story w/ basement. $1000/mo. plus utilities. No Pets. 304-826-0322.
3/BR HOUSE. CLOSE TO TOWN. 1½ -BA. $900/mo plus utilities. Deposit required. NO PETS. 296-3410. Available May 1st.
3/BR HOUSE. WD. 2/BATHS. PETS allowed. 524 McLane Ave. 304-322-0046.
3/BR, 1½/BA FOR RENT New appliances. Central air. Large yard. Pets allowed with deposit. $900/mo Call Ryan304-290-9802
3/BR, 2/BA AVAILABLE 5/15 Walk to downtown campus. WD. Off-street parking. $1200/mo +utilities. Call 304-692-5845
3/BR. GARAGE, OFF-STREET PARKING. Really nice. 740 Union Ave. $500/mo each plus utilities. Lease/dep. Walking distance campus. Some furniture. 304-282-7871
3/BR. OFF OF SPRUCE ST. PARKING,utilities, internet/cable included. $525/mo. per person. 304-543-4106 & 724-263-5766
3BR/1 1/2 BATH. ONLY 2 YEARS OLD! WD. DW. Central air. Two car garage plus parking. Deck. bckrentals.com. Call 304-594-1200.
3BR/2BATH. CLOSE TO SUNNYSIDE.Extra rooms! Yard. WD. bckrentals.com. Call 304-594-1200.
4/BR LARGE, FREE W/D, SOUTH PARK. Short walk to town/campus. Parking. NO PETS. $350/mo person, Available 5/16/10. Call 304-290-3347.
4/BR, 3 PERSON HOUSE. COUNTRYkitchen, great closets. W/D, carpeted, off-street parking. 5/min walk to class. $350/person incl. gas. 304-521-8778.
4/BR TOWNHOME, steps from downtown campus. On Cornell Ave. W/D, Off-street parking. Newly remodeled. $450/mo+ utilities. Available 5/10. No Pets. 304-692-6549
5/BR 438 GRANT AVENUE. 2/BA, W/D. Free parking, utilities included. $450/person. 304-903-4646.
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AVAILABLE MAY, 3 AND 4 BR HOUSES, downtown on Stewart Street. WD, DW, off-street parking. 304-296-8943.
AVAILABLE MAY, 3 AND 4 BR HOUSES, downtown on Stewart Street. WD, DW, off-street parking. Pets considered. 304-296-8943. www.rentalswv.com
EDGE OF SOUTH PARK, 3/BR, All Appli-ances, with W/D, Parking, Fenced yard. $900/mo + utilities. Charming. Can Furnish. 304-216-8676
EXCELLENT LOCATION. 3/BR, 2.5/BAtownhouse. Fully equipped kitchen and laundry room. Basement/storage room, garage, back deck. $1250/mo. 685-1834
NEW TOWNHOMES- LEASE STARTINGMay or August. Garage/Laundry/All Appliances included. $400/person/month, including utilities. 304-639-6193 or 3 0 4 - 4 9 4 - 2 4 0 0www.chesstownhomes.net
NEW TOWNHOUSE 3/BR, 2½-BADen. Hot tub. $1200/mo. Available May. Utilities included except electric. Deposit. Near Ruby Hospital. 304-216-2632 786-412-5952
VERY NICE SPACIOUS 3-4/BR HOUSE.Walk to campus. NO PETS. W/D. $1000/mo. + Utilities. 304-290-5498.
WESTOVER. 1 BR, LR, KIT/FRIDGE & gas stove, laundry w/ W/D. Off-street park-ing. Available 5/01. No Pets. Lease/deposit $550/mo + utilities. Shown by appointment. 304-288-3010.
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WHARF AREA. 5 MINUTES TO CLASS. 3 person, extra large 4/BR homes. Carpeted, excellent condition. $365/each includes gas. Also 2/BR and single available. 304-284-9280.
ROOMMATES49 FALLING RUN ROAD. ROOMMATE needed in a 2/BR apartment. Close walk to campus. Roommate can be Male or Fe-male. 304-296-2787.
FEMALE ROOMMATE - NON-SMOKER to share house: Residential Area Garrison Ave. 2/Blocks from Downtown Campus. Call Stephanie: 724-552-6446.
MALE ROOMMATE TO SHARE 3/BR house near Towers. Grad-student preferred $375/mo plus 1/3-utilities 304-329-1280.
MALE ROOMMATE WANTED. Preferably grad student. Japanese welcome. Private bedroom. Off-street parking. Close to Evansdale campus. $200/mo+ ½utilities. Call: 304-292-3807.
ROOMMATE TO SHARE 3/BR HOUSE.Off-street parking. All utilities included. 5 minute walk to Mountainlair. $370/mo. 304-685-8170.
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PETS FOR SALEROTTWEILER PUPPIES. MALES AND FEMALES. Father’s German,Mother’s AKC. 1st shots/wormed. Tails docked. $400 each. 304-434-2934. 304-257-3051. 304-851-2175.
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HELP WANTEDEXCITING SUMMER JOBS—Outgoing men and women wanted to train for whitewater raft guides. No experience necessary. Retail positions available. 1-800-472-3846 or apply at www.laurelhighlands.com
FOX’S PIZZA DEN NOW HIRING DRIVERS FOR SUMMER. Apply at 3109 University Avenue.
HELPED WANTED TO MOW AND OTHER MAINTENANCE. Truck would be helpful. Work w/ school schedule. 304-292-0400
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The Health Science & TechnologyAcademy (HSTA) is looking for WVU
Juniors, Seniors, and GraduateStudents to serve as Mentors for WV
High School Students during ourSummer Institute Program.
Paid training for all mentors alongwith really needed preparation work(snacks, notebooks, organization of
item) for HSTA students, teachers andfaculty. Tuesday, July 13, to July 16, (4
days) approximately ending 4:30 PM July 16)
No mentor work Saturday, 17Mentors for Seniors: Sunday, July 18
to and including partial July 23, 2009 (6 days)
No mentor work Saturday Jul.24Mentors for Bio Med I: Sunday, July18 to partial Friday July 23 (6 days).Mentors for Bio Med II: Sunday, July25 to partial Friday, Jul 30, (6 days).
Mentors will be assigned to either day or night shifts.
Extra pay, at the regular rate, for regu-lar hours is based on length of timeworked during day, but if more than40 hours are worked during Sunday
through Saturday, anything over 40 isat time and one-half (sleep hours do
not count: unless one is awakened foran emergency) and HSTA does have
particular work hours set.Minimum wage of $7.25 is not expect-ed to go up Jul 1, 2010, but if it does,then of course HSTA would increasewhat HSTA is paying. For information
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COM-PANY expanding in this area. Earn incomegathering data. For details contact [email protected].
JERSEY SUBS NOW HIRING DAYTIME cashiers (11am to 2pm), and delivery drivers. Experienced Preferred. Apply: 1756 MILEGROUND ROAD.
MARIO’S FISHBOWL NOW HIRING cooks and servers for year-round and summer only. Apply within at 704 Richwood Ave.
NOVICHENK’S IN CHEAT LAKE Bartenders servers, and cooks wanted. Great opportunity. Must be 21 years old, apply in person. 304-594-9821
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST: OT POSI-TION available in Bridgeport, WV outpatient rehabilitation clinic. F/T with excellent salary & benefits. Flexible schedule. Paid continu-ing education & gym membership. Send re-sume to Therapy Services, LLC - 1052 Ma-ple Drive, Morgantown WV 26505/Email: [email protected]/Fax: 304-599-5040.
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Bob Huggins is known as a program builder with an abil-ity to recruit players who fi t well into his rebounding and defen-sive-minded style.
Down the line, Huggins may also be recognized as a consistent winner in the most competitive conference in college basketball.
Not only did West Virginia’s re-cently completed 31-win season open eyes throughout the coun-try as to what the Mountaineers are capable of, but it raised the
level of expectations for future WVU teams.
No longer are 20-win sea-sons, a better than .500 mark in Big East Conference play or NIT berths something to relish for the Mountaineer fanbase. And that speaks volumes about the current state of West Virginia basketball.
Elite college basketball pro-grams always expect to be the best. Whether it’s North Carolina, UCLA, Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, Michigan State, Syracuse or Con-necticut, they all have one thing in common – all enter every season realistically expecting to compete for a national championship.
It’s one thing for players and coaches to say the goal is to be-
come national champions, but an entirely diff erent point when those making such a bold state-ment actually believe it.
Expectations aren’t always ful-fi lled, as evidenced by three of those teams failing to reach the NCAA Tournament this season. Still, all eight are consistently in the running for the top high school players.
WVU is not at the level of those aforementioned programs, but coming off an elite season puts the Mountaineers that much closer.
Huggins can now prove to re-cruits what West Virginia is ca-pable of. He is 80-30 in three sea-sons in Morgantown, which is on
par with his .737 winning per-centage against far less competi-tion before he accepted the WVU job.
Winning leads to other key re-cruiting tools as well. West Vir-ginia consistently plays on ESPN and will continue to do so if it re-mains one of the best teams in the Big East Conference.
By winning this season’s con-ference tournament and making the Final Four, Huggins and his players received even more na-tional TV exposure.
Th e Mountaineers were also an extremely loose and confi dent team that often referred to them-selves as a big family, which re-cruits understand is an attitude
passed along by Huggins.Th ere are major shoes to fi ll
next season with Da’Sean But-ler and Wellington Smith no lon-ger around. Devin Ebanks may also forego his remaining two years of eligibility and opt for the NBA Draft, meaning West Vir-ginia would have three starters to replace.
Th at’s asking a lot, but it’s not if Huggins doesn’t let his team set-tle for any sort of mediocrity.
It will be a strong challenge for Huggins to get the most out of his guys, but he has some up-and-coming players to rely on.
Barring something unex-pected, a strong nucleus of Joe Mazzulla, Truck Bryant and Kevin
Jones returns.John Flowers is a logical choice
to assume a position in the start-ing lineup and Cam Th orough-man should become a top reserve. Casey Mitchell and Dalton Pep-per will be called upon as more dependable scoring options.
Deniz Kilicli and Dan Jennings must develop their games to pro-vide a stronger inside presence, but there is enough depth on pa-per for Huggins to smile about what he’s left to work with.
Mountaineer fans should also be smiling, because this season changed the perception of West Virginia basketball nationwide.
Commentary: Th is year’s basketball team set the bar high for the futureGREG CAREYSPORTS WRITER
‘Magical’ run boosts morale on campusBY TONY DOBIES
MANAGING EDITOR
When West Virginia senior for-ward Da’Sean Butler went down with a knee injury in the second half of the Mountaineers’ Final Four game against eventual cham-pion Duke, the crowd at Lucas Oil Stadium went mum.
University President James P. Clements’ parental instinct kicked in.
Butler lay on the ground in pain, Clements and his wife Beth stood up from their front row seats be-hind the Mountaineers’ bench with worried looks on their faces.
As Butler was taken back to the locker room, the president took off after him to make sure the Moun-taineers’ star was alright.
“He’s family. He’s one of us,” Clements said. “Th e reality at that point is that you’re not even think-ing about the game. You’re think-ing about one of your own out there in pain.”
It just happened that it was the second major knee injury he had
seen in a span of a month. One of his twin daughters in high school tore her ACL and meniscus during her last basketball game of the sea-son with just a few minutes to go.
“It was just a fl ashback to what went on with my daughter. So I just wanted him to know that I was thinking about him and pray-ing for him,” Clements said. “It’s just a sad way to end a phenom-enal career.”
When Clements got back to the locker room to see how Butler was doing, he didn’t see or talk to him but spoke to others. He found out if he was OK and told them to tell Butler that Clements had stopped by.
After the 78-57 loss to the Blue Devils, Clements went back into the locker room to console the team but also to make it known how great the Mountaineers’ run had been.
“This has been an unbeliev-able run,” Clements said. “It was magical.”
A run like this, similar to the football team’s runs to the Sugar
Bowl and Fiesta Bowl, can do so much for a school, Clements said.
Th e University received more hits to its Web site and expects to see additional freshmen applica-tions. Clements has received mul-tiple e-mails about that moment, in which some called it the great-est moment in sports. He said most of those e-mails have come from people with no affi liation or con-nection with the University.
“I think a lot of fans became Mountaineer fans because of this run that were not before,” Cle-ments said. “In terms of image, it’s been unbelievable about the campus.”
When Clements has a speak-ing arrangement, he said the Final Four allows him to bring up other positive aspects of the University outside of the basketball team, as well.
Playing for the stateHuggins spoke to the team fol-
lowing a loss at Connecticut on Feb. 22 about how important it was to win not only for the team itself
but for the state. He said there are few states where an athletic team can rally the state.
Since then, the Mountaineers truly played for the state. Th ey un-derstood what it meant. So did Gov. Joe Manchin, who sat court-side beside Clements throughout the NCAA Tournament.
“Th is team has meant so much to the entire state of West Virginia,” Manchin said after the Mountain-eers’ loss to Duke in a quiet, som-ber hallway of Lucas Oil Stadium outside of the Mountaineers’ locker room. “Win or lose, the peo-ple of this state love this team so much.”
Clements echoed Manchin’s thoughts.
“Th ey understand that they are our pro team. Th ey understand the magnitude,” Clements said. “It’s something that I’ve never seen before.”
Going out in styleOn June 30, WVU athletic direc-
tor Ed Pastilong will retire. In his time at the position, Pastilong has
never seen a run to the Final Four or a Big East basketball title.
Th at is, until now.“Any time your teams have a
great year, you just feel so pleased. In this particular situation, fi nish-ing up third in the country, it’s truly special,” Pastilong said. “When you go home and you put your head on the pillow and refl ect on what took place, you really feel good.”
Pastilong said he expected to be at the top of the Big East and near the top of the country when he hired Huggins more than three years ago. He called Huggins a “championship coach.”
Huggins and Pastilong have a long relationship dating back to the 1970s when Huggins was a basket-ball player and Pastilong became part of the football coaching staff . When Huggins left WVU, Pastilong followed Huggins’ career – one day hoping to bring the Mountaineer graduate back to WVU.
“When he came back home, I think he worked harder to win that championship since he was at his alma mater,” Pastilong said, adding
that Huggins has learned to love the game of basketball from his father Charlie, a long-time coach himself. “I truly believe that before he’s done, he will get a national championship.”
Pastilong said he will never for-get two things from this run: the celebration on the Madison Square Garden court after winning the Big East title and the relationships he has built with the team on the trips to New York, Buff alo, N.Y., Syra-cuse, N.Y., and Indianapolis.
And while he won’t have the athletic director title by the start of the next basketball season, he still sees a bright future for the program.
“When we start next year, peo-ple will be looking at us, and our players will respond accordingly,” Pastilong said. “When you have a little bit of extra confi dence, that helps you to have a little bounce to your step and win a game or two because of confi dence or because you’re supposed to.”
“In that moment in time, if I was a parent of a potential college basketball player, I want my son playing for Bob Huggins. I think it shows the side of WVU that we are caring, that we work hard, but if I’m a parent of a young superstar, I’m going to say ‘go play for Bob Huggins.’” – James P. Clements, WVU President on Da’Sean Butler and Bob Huggins.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Da’Sean But-ler’s knee buckled with 8:59 to go in West Virginia’s 78-57 loss to Duke in the Final Four.
He tried driving past 7-foot-1 center Brian Zoubek with no success. A charge was called on Butler.
When the players cleared the area, all that was left was Butler, who was lying on his back on the Lucas Oil Stadium court inside the paint.
WVU head coach Bob Hug-gins looked on as Butler rolled on the fl oor writhing in pain. Train-ers ran out to Butler’s side to no avail.
Th e pain in Butler’s left knee accompanied with the sting from the fact he would never play again for WVU was too much.
He knew he would have to leave his team on the court to lose to the Blue Devils.
Still, he laid on the court for nearly two minutes before Hug-gins charged out and knelt down beside his senior star, who just hours before had earned the Lowes Senior CLASS Award.
“It sucks to leave my team out there,” Butler said.
Butler was carried off the court by two trainers and sat on a stool before a golf cart arrived. He went straight to the locker room for diagnosis. It was a strained left knee, Huggins said.
Butler didn’t watch the rest of the game.
If he did, he would’ve likely been even more devastated.
“I told coach if I could get back out there I would,” Butler said. “But he told me not to worry about it and just to make sure I was fi ne.”
Th e loss ends a historical run through the NCAA Tournament for the Mountaineers – one the school hasn’t seen since 1959 when Jerry West was in uniform.
Th e Mountaineers wanted six wins – but they could only mus-ter four.
It was just horribly tragic to watch.
In the locker room following the game, the tears fl ew down the majority of the team’s faces. Oth-ers tried to hold it in as much as they possibly could.
Butler, who has always been known as an emotional guy, let it all out.
He had tears streaming down his face as he talked to media members. His career was over. Th e run he had dreamed of as a little kid was fi nally over.
It was all over for the Mountaineers.
For a team that was seemingly destined to succeed, it ended too soon.
“It sucks because we work so hard every day,” Butler said.
But, West Virginia fans should remember this team for the heart, the camaraderie and the passion it played with game in and game out.
This team should go down in history as the second-best in school history.
But it could’ve been so much more.
Huggins talked much of the season about teams settling for second when fi rst is available. But this team didn’t settle. It met the wrong team at the wrong time.
Duke played a perfect game – and West Virginia couldn’t com-pete with the Blue Devils that night.
While the Mountaineers’ sea-son may be over, with all this team has accomplished, you must look back at where it began and where it has come.
It’s a group of 20-year-olds, a head coach who is misperceived by just about everyone as a bad guy and a team with a never-end-ing will to win.
From now and forever more, the 2009-10 West Virginia Moun-taineers should be remembered for the four games they won in the NCAA Tournament and the run they made to the Final Four.
Not the loss to Duke.While the team shed tears of
sadness, it proved to everyone it should be remembered for ev-erything great it achieved.
It was truly nothing less than amazing.
WVU’s historic run comes to a close
TONY DOBIESMANAGING EDITOR
BY BRIAN GAWTHROPSPORTS EDITOR
INDIANAPOLIS — With 8:59 re-maining in the second half of Sat-urday’s NCAA Semifi nal contest against Duke, Da’Sean Butler’s left knee buckled, sending the se-nior to the fl oor with a sprained left knee.
Th e Mountaineers’ season and the career of their third all-time leading scorer, was over.
Th e Blue Devils continued on with their hot hand from the fi eld to cruise a 78-57 win, earning them a spot in the Championship con-test with Butler Monday.
“Th at’s when it was over,” said West Virginia’s Joe Mazzulla of Butler’s injury. “To see our leader
and a guy who works as hard as he has to lose it all in that second, it was just painful to watch.”
A crying Butler was calmed by Mountaineer head coach Bob Huggins. He was later helped off the court to the chants of “Da’Sean Butler” by both the West Vir-ginia and Duke crowd, a chant that returned after the game’s completion.
“It sucked to leave my team out there,” Butler said. “Honestly, I be-lieved in my heart that if I was out there too, we would’ve had the op-portunity to win the game.”
Butler fi nished with 10 points although six of those scores came on free throws. While WVU’s lead-ing scorer was limited throughout the game, three Duke players fi n-
ished with at least 19 points in the game.
Kyle Singler, Nolan Smith and Jon Scheyer combined for 63 of the team’s 78 points including 33 of the team’s 39 fi rst-half points. Th e team shot 52.7 percent from the fi eld in the game along with ending 13-for-25 from beyond the 3-point line.
“Th ey came out and made ev-ery shot,” Butler said. “We had op-portunities when we got a cou-ple stops. We had opportunities to make shots, but we didn’t make any.”
Th e Mountaineers’ only lead of the game came 2:11 into the game after a Devin Ebanks shot. After one of two John Flowers 3-point-ers tied the game shortly thereaf-
ter, the hot shooting of the Blue Devils took over.
Singler led the attack, scoring seven of his 14 fi rst-half points within a span of 1:25 to extend Duke’s lead to 18-11. After the Mountaineers began to limit Sin-gler, Smith took over.
The guard needed just 2:34 late in the fi rst half for all of his 11 points in the opening half. Smith fi nished with 19 points while Sin-gler ended with 19.
Scheyer hit 5-of-9 shots from beyond the arc to fi nish with a game-high 23 points.
Th e Blue Devils outrebounded WVU 17-10 in the fi rst half and outscored West Virginia 12-0 in second-chance opportunities.
“Th at’s not us,” Ebanks said. “We
didn’t play our game today.“We knew what they were going
to do – we’ve been scouting them for a week and a half – but they just perfected it.”
Ebanks and Wellington Smith led the team with 11 and 12 points, respectively.
West Virginia cut the lead to fi ve points, 43-38, with 16:35 remain-ing in the game following two But-ler free throws. But the Blue Dev-ils answered with 3-pointers on their next two possessions to end the threat.
The loss, which ended the Mountaineers’ season at 31-7, was the worst of the year for West Virginia.
Duke ends West Virginia’s national championship hopes, Da’Sean Butler injured in loss
BY GREG CAREYSPORTS WRITER
INDIANAPOLIS — On the biggest stage in college basketball, Nolan Smith, Jon Scheyer and Kyle Sin-gler proved why they are referred to as the “big three.”
Th e trio consistently got clean looks and cashed in with 63 points to lead the Blue Devils to a 78-57 win over West Virginia and a berth in Monday’s National Champion-ship against Butler.
“We wanted to play with con-fi dence. Th is is the type of game where you can’t hold anything back. We did a great job of play-ing (confi dent) and freely,” Sin-gler said.
Th irty-six of Smith, Scheyer and Singler’s points came from 3-point-ers, as the Blue Devils often pene-trated into the lane and dished the ball out for clean looks.
“Coach wanted us to keep them out of the middle of the fl oor, and we didn’t do a good job of doing that. As soon as they got to the middle, they found open shoot-ers,” said WVU forward Kevin Jones.
Duke’s crisp passing paid off in a major way, as it fi nished with 20 assists and only six turnovers. Smith and Scheyer combined for 12 assists without a turnover.
“Our care for the ball was excel-lent,” said Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski.
While the Blue Devils protected the ball, West Virginia point guard Joe Mazzulla thought it was an all around poor defensive showing from his team.
“We just didn’t execute defen-sively like we have recently. Th ey were hitting wide-open shots. We didn’t get to contest too many,” he said.
Singler set the tone early and showed he wouldn’t endure an-other poor night from the fi eld af-ter going 0-for-10 in the Blue Dev-ils’ South Regional fi nal victory over Baylor.
Th e junior scored on a layup 2:30 into the contest and hit fi ve more first-half baskets to lead all scorers with 14 points at the
break.While the Medford, Ore., prod-
uct did a bulk of the Blue Devils’ damage, he was not alone in lead-ing Duke to a 39-31 halftime lead.
Smith battled through three fi rst-half fouls to score 11 points while Scheyer contributed eight.
The second half was Schey-er’s turn to shine. He scored 15 points after intermission to lead all scorers with 23 while Singler and Smith fi nished with 21 and 19, respectively.
“Th ey’re three really good play-ers. Every time we tried to make a run, they hit a shot that pushed us back. We were just never able to fully recover from that,” Jones said.
Th e big three combined to shoot 22-for-45 from the fi eld, including a more profi cient 12-for-23 eff ort on 3-pointers.
The Mountaineers primarily played man-to-man defense but changed to a 1-3-1 for several pos-sessions throughout the contest. Neither was capable of slowing down a trio that entered the con-test averaging over 53 points.
“We had a game plan if they did go to the zone, and the cou-ple times they did, we attacked it pretty well,” Scheyer said. “We were really well prepared, and we felt comfortable no matter what they did.”
Blue Devils’ ‘big three’ lives up to its name versus Mountaineers
APWest Virginia head coach Bob Huggins consoles forward Da’Sean Butler after he was injured during the second half against Duke in a men’s NCAA Final Four semifi nal college basketball game Saturday, April 3 in Indianapolis.
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THE ELITE EIGHT | WEST VIRGINIA 73, KENTUCKY 66
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Everyone counted West Virginia out.
Well, almost everyone.According to an ESPN poll, 49
states thought Kentucky would move on to the Final Four. Th e lone state that chose the Moun-taineers was, not surprisingly, West Virginia.
Those fans obviously knew what they were talking about, as the two-seed Mountaineers up-set one-seed Kentucky 73-66 to move on to the Final Four.
“Forty-nine states picked us to lose,” said WVU senior leader Da’Sean Butler. “Obviously, we wanted to make everybody upset.”
Now, the Mountaineers are one step closer to completing their six-step process of winning a National Championship. Th ey are just two games away.
Fans chanted “two more games” as the players held up two fi ngers into the air after WVU ac-cepted the NCAA East Regional Championship trophy.
Th e Mountaineers have been counted out before. Many picked them to be upset in the second round of the NCAA Tournament against Missouri and the Sweet 16 round against Washington. Few thought the Mountaineers would win a Big East Conference title, either.
Alas, WVU is enjoying proving the entire nation wrong.
“We appreciate the doubters,” said WVU senior forward Wel-lington Smith. “Our whole team likes to prove people wrong, es-pecially Huggs because he is such a competitor and wants to win. It trickles down to us.”
It might be surprising to the nation, who sees Kentucky’s
monsters inside and seven na-tional title banners and believes the Wildcats should win.
But it’s not surprising to West Virginia’s team.
“When you’re up against so many NBA prospects and three lottery picks, what do you have to lose?” asked WVU’s starting point guard Joe Mazzulla. “You’ve just got to go out there and play.”
Despite DeMarcus Cousins, Patrick Patterson and John Wall, the Mountaineers used their grit, toughness and intelligence to fi nd a way to win.
But whatever you would de-scribe the game as – ugly, uncon-ventional, out of the ordinary – it was exactly how the Mountain-eers wanted to play it.
For the third-consecutive game, WVU led its opponents into playing the Mountain-eers’ way. Th ere was little run-ning from Kentucky’s quick and speedy backcourt – just like it was against Missouri and Wash-ington in earlier NCAA Tourna-ment games.
West Virginia made its mark with Bob Huggins-style defense and a clutch ability to make shots when it needed to.
“That’s what coach wanted us to do,” Smith said. “Once you start playing our type of game, it’s over.”
After another set of net cut-tings, the Mountaineers cele-brated quickly in the locker room, fi nished up interviews with me-dia and headed straight home.
Tomorrow, West Virginia fi nds out who it will face in the Final Four.
Sounds pretty good to Moun-taineer fans all across the country.
It’s well deserved – espe-cially when nobody outside of the West Virginia state line saw it coming.
West Virginia proves the country wrong with upset
TONY DOBIESMANAGING EDITOR
BY BRIAN GAWTHROPSPORTS EDITOR
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Somewhere, John Beilein is smiling.
After all, it was the former WVU head coach’s trademarked style of play of 3-point shooting and the 1-3-1 defense that led West Vir-ginia to the program’s second Fi-nal Four appearance Saturday with a win over Kentucky.
Th e Mountaineers hit 10 3-point-ers in the game, including eight in the fi rst half, while their 1-3-1 de-fense stymied a young and inexpe-rienced Wildcat squad, which en-tered as a No. 1 seed.
“We had to do it,” said senior
Wellington Smith. “We defi nitely didn’t play Huggins’ basketball, but we made it work.”
All of the Mountaineers’ fi eld goals in the fi rst half came on eight 3-pointers, including four from Da’Sean Butler, who ended with a team-high 18 points along with six rebounds.
West Virginia ended the fi rst half 0-for-16 from inside the arc and couldn’t get past a lengthy Ken-tucky squad, which included for-ward DeMarcus Cousins and Pat-rick Patterson. Th e Wildcats’ fi rst 12 points came inside the paint, while UK outrebounded WVU 29-13 in the opening half.
“Th ey did a really good job every
time we drove to the basket,” Butler said. “We weren’t playing strong in-side the 3-point line.”
Th e rebounding advantage was an aspect the Mountaineers were willing to sacrifi ce, however, due to the team’s success in the 1-3-1 – a defense traditionally known for its diffi culty to rebound out of.
In an atypical move by West Vir-ginia, the team elected to use the 1-3-1 as the go-to defense through-out the game, especially late in the second half.
Th e move to use the 1-3-1 wasn’t decided until WVU began its warm-ups during pregame, according to point guard Joe Mazzulla.
“We were going to change de-
fenses to make them think,” Hug-gins said. “We covered them better in (the 1-3-1) than we did our man-to-man. We were outmanned.”
In the defense, the 6-foot-2 Maz-zulla was given the diffi cult task of guarding the 6-foot-11, 270-pound Cousins as the back man. While Cousins still fi nished with 15 points, the freshman failed to get into a rhythm to make him a dom-inant force for the Wildcats.
“Him being down low bothered us,” Kentucky forward Patrick Pat-terson said. “He was physical, he was tough. He did whatever he could as a defensive player to stop us from scoring down low.”
Th e tough chore didn’t aff ect the
junior’s off ense, either. Mazzulla scored a career-high 17 points on 5-of-8 shooting in the win, includ-ing hitting his fi rst 3-pointer since Nov. 28, 2008, in the fi rst half.
It was Mazzulla’s fi rst start of the season and earned him the tour-nament’s Most Outstanding Player honors.
“Joe stepped up,” Smith said. “He’s basically been a starter. He’s gone through so much to get to where he needs to go. I’m so proud of him.”
In the second half, the Moun-taineers began to play their type of basketball. After being held with-out a two-point fi eld goal in the fi rst half, it took Mazzulla just 1:53 to
score on a layup.“I told them at halftime that we
have to keep grinding it,” Huggins said. “We have to keep screening, cutting and curling and doing all the things we do. I knew it’d open up because people get tired of chas-ing it. It did in the second half.”
Th e win marks the fi rst Final Four for West Virginia since 1959 – the year when the Mountaineers lost in the National Championship. It’s the team’s fi rst win over Ken-tucky since the 1959-60 season.
Huggins is now 8-1 all-time against UK head coach John Calipari.
WVU uses 3-point shooting, 1-3-1 zone defense to defeat Wildcats
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BY GREG CAREYSPORTS WRITER
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — All season long West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins talked about the impor-tance of making shots. Someone forgot to tell Kentucky to listen in.
Th e Wildcats shot 34.3 percent, including 4-for-32 from 3-point range, and the Mountaineers held off a late rally for a 73-66 win to ad-vance to their second Final Four and fi rst since 1959.
“Forty-nine states picked us to lose. Obviously we wanted to make everybody upset. We went out there and played our game. We grinded it out,” said senior Da’Sean Butler, who had 15 fi rst-half points and fi nished with 18 despite hit-ting only 4-of-15 fi eld goals.
It took a while for WVU to play the way it’s accustomed to, as the Mountaineers were held without a two-point fi eld goal for the en-tire fi rst half. West Virginia was 0-for-16 on its attempts inside the 3-point line and outscored 18-0 in the paint
“(Kentucky) did a really good job every time we drove to the
basket and took the ball out of our hands. We weren’t playing strong in the interior,” Butler said.
While the Mountaineers strug-gled inside, they made up for it by shooting 8-for-15 from 3-point range and holding a 13-0 ad-vantage in points off turnovers through the fi rst 20 minutes. WVU also used a 1-3-1 zone that forced Kentucky to miss all eight of its 3-point attempts in the fi rst half.
“Th e 1-3-1 bothered us. We tried diff erent things, and it bothered us more than I thought it would,” said Kentucky head coach John Calipari.
Butler hit four of the eight 3-pointers in a span of 4:10, which turned a 16-9 defi cit into a 25-20 lead. Th e Wildcats trailed 28-26 at the half in large part because they were 0-for-8 on 3-pointers and had 10 turnovers compared to three assists.
However, they remained right in the thick of things by outrebound-ing WVU 29-13.
West Virginia began the sec-ond-half on an 8-0 run that in-cluded 3-pointers from Kevin Jones and an unlikely source in
John Flowers.Th e Wildcats narrowed the def-
icit to fi ve before Joe Mazzulla and Devin Ebanks scored 17 straight points for West Virginia. When Cam Th oroughman became the fi rst WVU player to score in 8:32, the Mountaineers were on top 55-45.
Mazzulla fi nished with 14 of his 17 points in the second half and was named the East Region’s Most Outstanding Player for his eff orts.
Ebanks scored all 12 of his points after the break, and the Mountaineers managed 18 sec-ond-half points in the paint.
“We talked about making them play our tempo. Once we started playing our type of game, it was over,” said WVU senior Welling-ton Smith.
Huggins elected to stay in the 1-3-1 zone and force Kentucky to take shots from the perimeter.
“We came in thinking we would change defenses to try to keep them off balance. Maybe halfway through the fi rst half it seemed like the 1-3-1 was better. So we were going to ride that as long as we could,” Huggins said.
The Wildcats didn’t hit a 3-pointer until DeAndre Liggins knocked one down with 3:28 re-maining to make it 63-52.
“Th ey’re a long, athletic team. Th ey did a great job denying us from getting to the wings. Th eir defense did a great job on us, and we didn’t knock down shots to-day,” said Kentucky point guard John Wall.
Kentucky finished 16-for-29 at the free-throw line while WVU made 23-of-34 attempts.
Jones scored 13 points, and he and Butler joined Mazzulla on the all-region team.
Wall led Kentucky with 19 points but committed fi ve turnovers. De-Marcus Cousins added 15 points and eight rebounds.
The Wildcats finished with a 51-36 rebounding advantage against a team that prides itself on the glass. Still, Butler never let the Mountaineers doubt themselves about the outcome.
“I knew we were going to win,” he said. “It was a matter of how we were going to do it.”
WVU stifl es Kentucky for 73-66 win, Final Four berth for fi rst time since 1959
APWest Virginia’s Da’Sean Butler, right, joins teammates in holding the Eastern Regional Championship trophy after the fi nal game against Kentucky in the East Regional of the NCAA college bas-ketball tournament Saturday, March 27, in Syracuse, N.Y. West Virginia won the game 73-66.
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CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMFans gathered outside the WVU Coliseum to celebrate with the team following its win over Ken-tucky to advance to the Final Four.
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APPRECIATION / WHAT’S NEXT
BY GREG CAREYSPORTS WRITER
Conversations regarding West Virginia athletics usually start with the football program.
These days, though, discus-sions don’t end centered around the pigskin.
The Mountaineer basket-ball team recently completed a historic 31-win season that has plenty of students on the WVU campus talking about the team’s success.
“Morgantown will always be a football town. I don’t think you’ll ever change that,” said WVU ju-nior communications major Jhesse Jones. “But there’s defi -nitely a swing.
“It’s changing, and that’s all be-cause of (head basketball coach Bob) Huggins. Th e whole pro-gram turned around from the start of him being coach.”
Jones is one of many West Vir-ginia students who recognizes the increased attention toward bas-ketball as this year’s team won the most games in program his-tory en route to a Big East Con-ference Tournament Title and a Final Four berth.
Th e Mountaineers also drew 173,281 fans over 14 home games for a record average crowd of 12,377 at the WVU Coliseum.
“Even though it is a football town first, basketball’s rising quickly,” said junior accounting major Tom Peterman.
Th e majority of the Mountain-eers’ fan base doesn’t remember their lone Final Four appearance before this season, which came in 1959 with NBA legend Jerry West running the show. Th at fact does help fans understand the his-torical signifi cance of what this year’s team was able to accom-plish, though.
“Th is is the second time we’ve been to the Final Four so that’s really amazing. And it sucks be-cause that was Duke’s 15th time. It was our time to shine,” said sophomore speech pathology major Jennifer Heddaeus.
One moment above all stuck out over the rest in the Mountain-eers’ loss to Duke.
It occurred with 8:59 remain-ing and the Blue Devils ahead by 15 points when senior Da’Sean Butler tore the ACL, sprained his MCL and suff ered two bone bruises in his left knee on a base-line drive collision with Duke’s Brian Zoubek.
Huggins came onto the fl oor and consoled Butler, who ap-peared to be in excruciating pain. He helped calm Butler down, and eventually the senior was carried off the fl oor with his collegiate ca-reer coming to an end too soon.
Huggins showed a gentler side
many hadn’t seen of him before.“Th e way he calmed him down
was amazing,” Peterman said.Jones was caught off-guard
by the incident more than anything.
“To see Huggins go out there on the court, I’ve never seen anything like that,” he said. “He looked like he was getting ready to kiss him.”
Although they were disap-pointed over a 21-point loss to the Blue Devils in the National Semi-fi nals, WVU students are keep-ing an optimistic outlook over a season that will be remembered forever.
“Everybody was upset with the (Duke) loss, but we still have so much to be proud of,” Jones said. “Th ere’s no reason to hang our head because getting that far is really awesome.”
Students appreciate historic season
CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia senior forward Wellington Smith high fi ves fans after the team returned from In-dianapolis at the Final Four.
BY BRIAN GAWTHROPSPORTS EDITOR
With the loss of starters Da’Sean Butler and Wellington Smith to graduation, there’s room to worry about what the 2010-11 West Virginia men’s basketball season may hold.
Th e departure of the pair sub-tracts 42 percent of the team’s 3-pointers, 33 percent of the team’s total points, 30 percent of the team’s steals and 26.8 percent of the team’s rebounds from the 2009-10 season.
Butler ended his career as the third-leading scorer in the pro-
gram’s history while also fi nish-ing inside the top 20 all-time in rebounds, assists, 3-pointers made and steals.
Smith meanwhile finished third all-time in career blocked shots and 21st in 3-pointers made.
Despite those two voids, the Mountaineers are still optimis-tic they’re on track for another successful season next year after fi nishing with a school record 31 wins in 2009-10.
“It’s going to be a great year next year and for years to come,” Smith said. “Th ey’ll be back.”
Fourteen players return from
last year’s Big East Conference Championship team including juniors to-be Kevin Jones, Devin Ebanks and Truck Bryant.
Jones will return as the team’s leading scorer after averag-ing 13.5 points as a sophomore while Ebanks, who still may de-cide to forego his fi nal two years of eligibility and enter the NBA draft, ended last season as the team’s leading rebounder with 8.1 boards a game.
Deniz Kilicli and either Casey Mitchell or Joe Mazzulla will likely join Bryant, Jones and Ebanks in next year’s starting lineup.
“All of us who are staying are
going to go right back to the gym and work out,” Kilicli said. “We are going to win this next year. We’ll make sure we aren’t going to feel like this again.”
Senior-to-be John Flowers will likely be one of the fi rst off the bench for head coach Bob Hug-gins while Cam Th oroughman and Dalton Pepper will follow suit, unless Ebanks opts to enter the NBA draft.
Two players already playing within the state of West Virginia will join the Mountaineers next season as Logan High School’s Noah Cottrill and Mountain State Academy’s David Nyarsuk will
each don the Old Gold and Blue next season.
Cottrill, a 6-foot-1 point guard, has been committed to play at West Virginia since his sopho-more year of high school. Th e four-star recruit will bring an-other pure scorer for Huggins’ disposal along with added depth at the point guard position.
At 7-foot-1, Nysaruk gives Huggins a true center and an immediate presence under the basket. Th e Sudan native, who is known most for his rebound-ing and shot-blocking abilities, played one season at Th e Pat-terson School (N.C.) in 2008-09
where he was a teammate with current Marshall freshman Has-san Whiteside.
Th e team will once again have to endure the rigors of playing a tough conference portion of the schedule while the squad will also be traveling to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Tip-off tour-nament to play against a fi eld that will include North Carolina, Da-vidson, Hofsta, Minnesota, Ne-braska, Vanderbilt and Western Kentucky.
“Look out for us next year,” Jones added with a laugh.
BY BRIAN GAWTHROPSPORTS EDITOR
INDIANAPOLIS — For a moment it appeared Butler’s dream season would end in the Bulldogs hoisting the National Championship tro-phy in the air.
Instead, Gordon Hayward’s half-court shot bounced off the back-board, off the rim and to the fl oor as time expired.
Th e magical run by the school of just 4,200 students also fell as Duke survived for a 61-59 win over the Bulldogs in front of 70,930 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapo-lis, just six miles from Butler Uni-versity’s campus.
“It felt good. It looked good,” Hayward said. “It just wasn’t there.”
Th e shot came just seconds af-ter Duke’s Brian Zoubek intention-
ally missed his second free throw. Hayward grabbed the rebound and dribbled to half court for the heave.
Hayward also missed a turn-around baseline jumper on But-ler’s previous possession with seven seconds left.
“Th is was a classic,” said Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski. “Both teams played their hearts out.”
Th e win marked the Blue Dev-ils’ fourth national championship, their last being in 2001.
But it didn’t come easy. Th e game marked the closest margin of victory for a championship con-test since Michigan beat Seton Hall 80-79 in 1989. While Duke led for the majority of the game, neither team led by more than six points.
Th e two teams were tied 33-33 at the halftime after the Bulldogs erased a 26-20 defi cit with a 13-6 run to close the fi rst half.
Butler led twice by no more than two points within the fi rst seven minutes of the second half but
trailed Duke the remainder of the contest.
Krzyzewski called it the “toughest” of his four national championships.
“Th ey weren’t going to go away,” said Duke forward Kyle Singler. “We needed every last minutes of that game to get this win.”
It was the fi rst time Butler had allowed 60 points since February as Butler’s steady defense couldn’t overcome the hot-shooting Blue Devil squad, who finished 23-of-52 (44 percent) from the fi eld compared to Butler’s 34.5 percent mark.
Hayward, who entered as the Bulldogs’ go-to player, struggled throughout, ending 2-for-11 from the fi eld with 12 points, all but two coming after halftime.
Th e sophomore’s 12-point per-formance tied for a team high with Shelvin Mack while senior Avery Jukes, who entered averaging 2.9 points, ended with 10.
“We came up one possession short in a game of about 145 pos-
sessions,” said Butler head coach Brad Stevens. “Th at’s hard to stom-ach when you’re on the wrong end of that.”
Singler ended with a game-high 19 points including three 3-point-ers along with nine rebounds en route to earning the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player hon-ors. Th e junior was one of three Blue Devils to reach double fi g-ures as Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith fi nished with 15 and 13, respectively.
Zoubek ended with eight points along with 10 rebounds.
Duke’s win ended Butler’s 25-game winning streak, previously the best in the nation, along with the storybook ending the Bulldogs were hoping for.
“We gave everything we had,” Stevens said. “There’s certainly nothing to hang your head about. I told them in there, what they’ve done will last longer than one night, regardless of the outcome.”
Butler’s dream ends in defeat at championshipDuke beats Bulldogs for 2010 NCAA title
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
“Don’t be surprised if we don’t make another run in the future. It’s not going to take 51 years this time.” – James P. Clements, WVU President
APWest Virginia head coach Bob Huggins, center, speaks to his players during a practice session for the NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament on April 2 in Indianapolis.
2010-11 team will have new feel without Butler, Smith
BY BRIAN GAWTHROPSPORTS EDITOR
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — With or with-out Truck Bryant, West Virginia wasn’t going to be stopped.
Despite committing a season-high 23 turnovers in Bryant’s ab-sence, the Mountaineers outscored Washington 42-27 in the second half and used a game-high 18-point, eight-rebound performance by Kevin Jones to advance to the program’s second Elite Eight ap-pearance since 2005 with a 69-56 victory over the Huskies Th ursday in Syracuse, N.Y.
Th e Mountaineers (30-6) will face the winner of Kentucky vs. Cornell Saturday in Syracuse.
“We were motivated throughout the whole game, especially with Truck gone,” Jones said. “Th at was just extra motivation for us to come out there and play hard.”
Th e win extended West Virginia’s win streak to nine games and set a school record for victories with 30. Th e Mountaineers’ advancement marks the fi rst Elite Eight appear-ance for WVU head coach Bob Huggins since 1996 when Huggins’ Cincinnati team lost 73-63 to Mis-sissippi State.
“It feels good, but there’s not a lot of excitement,” said WVU se-nior Wellington Smith. “We know we want to go farther. Th e Elite Eight and the Final Four is where we want to be.”
Thursday’s win didn’t come easy, however.
After a sloppy fi rst half in which the team committed 13 turnovers, WVU entered the locker room down 29-27 and struggled to score from outside the paint. West Vir-ginia made just 1-of-8 3-pointers and scored just three baskets away from the basket.
Th ree of those down-low scores were provided by freshman Deniz Kilicli who scored the Mountain-eers’ only baskets in the fi nal four minutes of the fi rst half.
“It was huge. He put us back into the game,” Smith said of Kilicli. “We saw how hard he was playing and said, ‘why shouldn’t we play that hard?’”
Casey Mitchell started in place of Bryant, who will miss the re-mainder of the season after break-ing the fi fth metatarsal in his right foot in practice earlier in the week, and played eight minutes. Backup point guard Joe Mazzulla played 25 minutes with four assists and four turnovers.
Bryant’s absence was greatly missed by the Mountaineers. Th ir-teen of WVU’s season-high 23 turn-overs came in the fi rst half. Ebanks, who ran the point while Mazzulla was out of the game, committed four turnovers in the fi rst half and eight in the game.
“It was tremendously uncom-fortable, especially this time of year when you’re not used to bringing the ball up the court,” Ebanks said. “Having our point guard out was a huge blow to us.”
Da’Sean Butler, WVU’s lead-ing scorer, was held to just four points in the fi rst 20 minutes, but after what Butler called a “magi-cal” Huggins halftime speech, the senior immediately took over in the second half.
Butler took 11 seconds to knock down his fi rst bucket in the second half to tie the game at 29-29.
On WVU’s next possession, the senior hit a 3-pointer to give WVU a 32-29 advantage.
Th e Huskies scored four straight
points coming off a timeout to re-gain the lead and had the chance to add another basket with 14:50 remaining.
But Washington couldn’t con-vert four off ensive rebounds on its next possession. Th e Mountain-eers took advantage, going on an 11-1 run sparked by a Kevin Jones 3-pointer immediately after.
Washington didn’t score a sec-ond-chance point the entire game and was outrebounded by WVU 49-29.
“Th ey have a lot of size. It’s hard to even get easy baskets by off en-sive rebounding or anything,” said Washington forward Quincy Pon-dexter. “Th eir size really is a bene-fi t for them.”
Pondexter, who entered 17th na-tionally in scoring, was held to just seven points – all of which came in the second half – after he commit-ted three fouls in the fi rst half.
He was part of a 9:48 drought in which the Huskies failed to make a fi eld goal that allowed the Moun-
taineers to extend their lead to 13 points with 8:11 remaining thanks to WVU hitting four consecutive free-throw attempts after Washing-ton head coach Lorenzo Romar re-ceived a technical foul.
Th e Huskies then executed a full-court press that caused WVU to commit turnovers on three straight possession. Th e Huskies scored six straight points to cut the lead to six, 56-50. Th ey failed to get closer.
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NCAA SWEET 16 | WEST VIRGINIA 69, WASHINGTON 56
WVU IS ELITE
BY GREG CAREYSPORTS WRITER
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — As strange as it may seem, sometimes the
best thing for a player can be to struggle early and head to the bench to get a feel for how the game’s being played.
Such was the case Th ursday
night for West Virginia sopho-more forward Kevin Jones.
“It’s not always eff ective, but we just learn from our mistakes and keep playing hard no matter
what,” Jones said.Jones didn’t draw iron on his
fi rst fi eld goal attempt, a wide open 3-pointer from the left wing.
After Jones missed a layup and another jumper came off the mark, West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins had seen enough.
Huggins pulled his second-leading scorer from the game with 10:31 left in the half, and it was a decision he would not regret.
“Every time the game starts Kevin is just so excited,” said se-
nior Wellington Smith. “When coach takes him out and brings him back in, he just starts killing. He probably needs to calm down, but it’s his fi rst Sweet 16.”
Smith isn’t Jones’ only team-mate who recognizes improved play after getting a breather on the bench.
“Sometimes you need that,” said freshman Deniz Kili-cli. “If you start bad, you come out and watch the game and concentrate.
“Th at’s what he does the best. When he comes out, he sits there
and he’ll be like ‘alright I’m good now.’”
Jones admitted that he was thinking too much and not play-ing on instincts off the opening tip.
“It’s defi nitely me rushing stuff and not playing my game,” Jones said.
After being reinserted into the contest with 6:48 remaining in the fi rst half, Jones was a diff er-ent player.
He hit a jumper and a 3-pointer to fi nish the half with fi ve points on 2-for-5 shooting, but he was just getting started.
Jones’ two rebounds in the fi rst minute of the second half were more than he registered through-out the fi rst 20 minutes and hit-ting the glass seemed to spark his off ensive game.
With the Mountaineers trail-ing 37-36, Jones connected on a 3-pointer to give the Mountain-eers the lead for good with 14:16 to play.
He tied a career-high with three 3-pointers by nailing another one at the 10:44 mark, which was one of the biggest shots in West Vir-ginia’s 69-56 victory over Wash-ington to advance to the Elite Eight.
“Joe (Mazzulla) penetrated into the lane, and I circled around him and was wide open. I’m a pretty good 3-point shooter so I just took the shot,” Jones said.
Jones fi nished with a game-high 18 points and eight rebounds and shot 7-for-12 from the fi eld.
After slowing down and play-ing within the context of his game, WVU seemed to follow suit.
“We all played too fast as a team in the beginning,” Jones said
“Once we slowed down, it was great for us because that’s not our type of game.”
Sophomore Jones comes up big for Mountaineers in second half
Mountaineers cruise past Washington, advance to Elite Eight
APWest Virginia’s Joe Mazzulla, right, fi ghts for control of the ball with Washington guard Venoy Overton during WVU’s semifi nal win on March 25.
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TONY DOBIESMANAGING EDITOR
West Virginia has eyes locked on national title
BUFFALO, N.Y. — It didn’t take long for West Virginia to start thinking about Washington.
Mountaineer forward John Flowers jogged off the court at HSBC Arena after the 68-59 vic-tory over Missouri to advance to the Sweet 16 of the 2010 NCAA Tournament and raised four fi n-gers into the air.
“Four more,” he yelled to the fans around him as he walked to-ward the tunnel; four more games until the Mountaineers are named national champions.
It’s been a running motto for the team since it won the Big East Conference Tournament. After that game, senior forward Wellington Smith yelled out “six more.”
Th e goal is simple: win a na-tional championship.
West Virginia hasn’t deviated from that one bit.
“Th is is business more than any-thing, because I want to win,” said WVU senior forward Da’Sean But-ler. “I’m happy to win this game, and I will celebrate it lightly, but we need to win the next one.”
After the team entered the locker room Sunday, it congratu-lated for mere seconds before me-dia barged in on the scene.
Th ere were no emotion-fi lled hugs or tears of joy. It was a quick cheer of no more than fi ve sec-onds – a few hoots and a holler and that was it.
Junior point guard Joe Mazzulla said the team didn’t celebrate much because it’s “on a mission.”
“If we started celebrating after this one, it would be like we were settling for mediocrity,” Mazzulla said.
He added the team will enjoy it for the rest of the day but will focus on the Huskies as soon as possible.
Th e consensus from everyone surrounding the program was that West Virginia still has work to do.
“Th ey’re going to enjoy it, but they have higher aspirations,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “Th ey want to do more. Th at’s good.”
It was completely opposite two years ago, the last time WVU ad-vanced to the Sweet 16. In that year, the Mountaineers were a seven-seed and faced off against Duke in Washington, D.C., for one of the fi nal 16 spots.
After the 73-67 upset of two-seed Duke in the second round, the Mountaineers were joyous.
“It’s totally diff erent,” said WVU forward Cam Th oroughman. “We were screaming and yelling. We just upset the two-seed.”
After West Virginia won its fi rst Big East title more than a week ago, it found the confi dence it needed to head into the NCAA Tournament expecting to come out as champions.
Th oroughman said the team had been down prior to the late run leading up to what was West Virginia’s eighth-straight win Sun-day against the Tigers.
“When we came back from Con-necticut, we were low,” Th orough-man said. “Th en we beat Cincin-nati, Georgetown, Villanova and then the Big East Tournament.”
Now, West Virginia couldn’t be more confi dent.
When the Mountaineers take on Washington Th ursday, it will be a battle between the nation’s hottest teams – both with soaring confi dences.
But what makes West Virginia so strong is its ability to keep it loose and not take the game too seriously.
Check out Flowers’ Twitter (it’s @jfl ow41 if you didn’t know) at about midnight Saturday. Th en, check out the box score just 16 hours later.
Despite all the fun in a hotel room, a victory was inevitable.
Th e Mountaineers are winning – and enjoying the ride – but not celebrating too much.
“We’re like a big family,” Flow-ers said. “Th is is one of the best times of our lives. We’re not go-ing to be able to have fun with Da’Sean and (WVU forward) Wellington (Smith) next year, so we’re just going to have all the fun that we can have now with each other.”
Th e Mountaineers aren’t stop-ping in Syracuse, either, if they get their way.
There’s a reason they break each huddle at the start of prac-tice by screaming “national championship.”
Th ey want it. And they won’t stop until they get it.
HOW SWEET IT ISBY BRIAN GAWTHROP
SPORTS EDITOR
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Da’Sean But-ler’s reputation says he can han-dle pressure.
His team proved Sunday it could do the same.
Th e West Virginia men’s bas-ketball team effectively broke down Missouri’s full-court pres-sure to claim a 68-59 win over the Tigers in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and advance to the program’s fourth Sweet 16 in the past six years.
Th e Mountaineers (29-6) will now play No. 11 seed Washington Th ursday at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.
“It wasn’t like that was the fi rst time I saw it,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins of Missouri’s pressure. “I had a pretty good idea (of what we needed to do). I knew what we did in the past (to defeat Mizzou head coach Mike Anderson).”
It was Huggins’ fi fth win in six tries going up against Anderson.
Th e veteran coach will admit a little help from Butler didn’t hurt, either. Th e senior scored 19 of his team’s 30 points in the fi rst half and fi nished with a game-high 28 while hitting 12-of-13 from the free-throw line.
Th e senior’s biggest play, how-ever, was a putback off a Cam Th oroughman missed free throw with 1:17 remaining to give the Mountaineers a 64-57 advantage and seal West Virginia’s Sweet 16 bid.
“Nobody really boxed me out,” Butler said. “So I just went up there, grabbed it and laid it in. It was just a matter of getting to the basketball.”
West Virginia jumped out to an 8-0 lead in the fi rst two minutes thanks to Butler’s back-to-back 3-pointers. After a Mountain-eer 6-0 run, Mizzou brought the game within one, forcing Huggins to call a timeout.
Butler came out of the time-out and hit two more 3-pointers and was followed with an Ebanks jumper in the paint for a six-point Mountaineer advantage.
But Ebanks’ bucket was the last WVU fi eld goal in the fi nal 9:03 of the fi rst half, allowing Missouri to tie the game 25-25 with a Kim English 3-pointer with 3:10 left before the half.
West Virginia didn’t hit an-other fi eld goal until 3:48 into the second half when Butler assisted Truck Bryant on a fast break, giv-ing WVU a 36-29 advantage and ending a 12:49 scoreless drought in which WVU shot 0-for-10 from the fi eld.
“We got our fi rst one by being mentally tough, taking care of the ball and running sets,” Butler said, who has made 40 of his last 45 free-throw attempts.
Free throws kept the team in contention, however. Butler hit 5-of-6 from the line in the fi nal 1:19 of the opening half to give WVU a fi ve-point lead into the locker room.
Th e team shot 25-of-33 at the charity stripe in the game com-pared to Missouri’s 12-of-20. Th e Mountaineers made 10 of 14 shots from the line in the fi nal fi ve minutes of the game.
“We wanted to attack their pressure,” Huggins said. “When you’re as aggressive as what they are, you’re going to foul. We knew that.”
The Bryant bucket opened the flood gates for the Mountaineers.
The team hit three buckets within the next two minutes and answered on every Tiger bucket including a Kevin Jones 3-pointer from the left corner for a six-point lead.
On the ensuing possession, Butler was fouled on a 3-point attempt and hit all three free throws for a 50-41 lead with 11:28 remaining.
With the win, the Mountain-eers tied the 51-year-old school record for most wins in a single season with 29 which was fi rst set in 1959.
“I’m happy to win it, and we’re going to celebrate it,” Butler said. “But we need to win the next one to make it that more special.”
BY GREG CAREYSPORTS WRITER
BUFFALO, N.Y. — All the talk leading up to Sunday’s game against Missouri was centered around Missouri’s press and West Virginia’s ability to rebound, but in the end, it was free-throw shooting that played a big part in the Mountaineer win.
For as much as West Virginia hurt itself at the foul line ear-lier this year, the Mountaineers picked the right time for a recov-ery at the charity stripe.
West Virginia hit 25-of-33 free throws in the game. Missouri, on the other hand, only man-aged to connect on 12 of its 20 attempts.
“It killed us at times this sea-son, and now it’s one of those things where we shoot so many we have to make them to win the game,” said senior Welling-ton Smith.
Without a strong showing at the line, the Mountaineers’ sea-son may have come to an end.
Over a stretch of 12:49, which combined the last nine minutes of the fi rst half and the start of the second half, the Mountain-eers went ice cold and didn’t make a fi eld goal.
When the drought began, West Virginia led 23-17, and when it ended, the Mountaineers were still clinging to a 36-29 advan-tage, in large part because they made 11-of-14 free during that period.
“We wanted to attack their pressure. When you are as ag-gressive as they are, you’re going to foul some,” said West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins.
Outside of senior J.T. Tiller, the Tigers combined to shoot 3-for-8 at the line.
West Virginia senior Da’Sean Butler went 12-of-13 by himself, including 7-of-8 in the fi rst half.
Butler’s 19 first-half points helped the Mountaineers main-tain a 30-25 advantage at the break, but his teammates knew they needed to lend a hand with the scoring load.
Th ey choose to focus on at-tacking the basket and getting free points themselves.
“We had to help Da’Sean out somehow. We knew we had to be aggressive and get to the line,” Smith said.
As the Tigers continued to apply their press, West Virginia consistently got around it and into the paint to create opportu-nities at the free-throw line.
“(Teams) don’t foul when you don’t attack,” Huggins said. “We did a pretty good job of staying out of trap areas, and I thought we attacked pressure.”
Even when the Mountaineers missed free throws, things went their way.
With a 62-57 lead and 1:18 re-maining, junior Cam Th orough-man stepped to the free-throw line and became the only WVU player to miss a pair on the day.
Th ere were no worries for the Mountaineers, though, as Butler grabbed the off ensive rebound and converted a layup to seem-ingly put a dagger in the Tigers.
“We kind of crossed, and no-body really boxed me out. It was just a matter of getting to the basketball. I got there before he did, and made the play,” Butler said.
Forward John Flowers looked at it a diff erent way.
“It’s just eff ort and heart. We wanted it more than they did, and it showed out there,” Flow-ers said.
West Virginia is 64-for-79 at the free-throw line over its last three games after shooting 16-for-26 in two games before that.
Mountaineers Sweet 16 bound after 68-59 win over Missouri
Success at foul line advances West Virginia into next round
APWVU’s Da’Sean Butler shoots over a pair of Missouri defenders in the Mountaineers’ 68-59 win over the Tigers on March 21.
APWest Virginia’s Kevin Jones celebrates during the second half of the Mountaineers’ 68-59 win over Missouri on March 21. The win put West Vir-ginia into the Sweet 16 for the fourth time in the past six seasons.
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NCAA FIRST ROUND | WEST VIRGINIA 77, MORGAN STATE 50
Jones, Ebanks lead WVU past Morgan St.BY GREG CAREY
SPORTS WRITER
BUFFALO, N.Y. — West Virginia sophomore forwards Kevin Jones and Devin Ebanks remember all too well the feeling after last year’s fi rst round NCAA Tourna-ment loss to Dayton.
Th e duo vowed not to let some-thing similar happen again.
Jones scored a game-high 17 points and added eight rebounds, while Ebanks had 16 points and 13 rebounds to lead West Virginia (28-6) to a 77-50 fi rst round vic-tory over Morgan State (27-10).
“It was a diff erent mindset for us. We thought back on last year and used it as a learning experi-ence,” Jones said.
Jones and Ebanks were the only Mountaineers to score in double fi gures, although at the start of the game, it didn’t appear anyone on West Virginia would even score.
Th e Mountaineers missed their fi rst 11 shots and trailed 10-0 5:24 into the game. WVU didn’t hit a fi eld goal until Ebanks’ layup 7:48 into the contest, which cut the Mountaineers defi cit to 12-5.
“We were playing pitch and catch on the perimeter,” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “I honestly thought we were ready to play. We just didn’t attack their 2-3 (zone) early.”
Morgan State head coach Todd Bozeman took a diff erent approach.
“Those damn 40-minute games,” he said. “If we had it at 12, we would have won the
game.”After scoring their fi rst basket,
the Mountaineers closed the half on a 33-15 run and hit 13 of their fi nal 20 shots.
Jones and Ebanks combined for 23 of WVU’s 38 first-half points while the Mountaineer reserves contributed another 10 to help build a 38-27 advantage at the break.
Meanwhile, the Bears started 4-for-6 from the fl oor but ended the half making just seven of their last 23 shots.
Th e Mountaineers heated up off ensively after digging in on defense.
“Th at’s what our bread and butter is,” said WVU guard Joe Mazzulla. “We do it all the time, but it puts a lot of pressure on our defense when we’re down 10-0 and we have to get stops.”
WVU picked up in the second half where it had left off and used a 10-2 run to go ahead 48-29 with 16 minutes left.
After being held to three fi rst half points on 1-for-6 shooting,
senior Da’Sean Butler scored six points in the fi rst 6:07 of the sec-ond frame.
Butler fi nished with nine points and six rebounds, but he was not forced to carry the Mountaineers to the second round.
Ebanks held Morgan State’s leading scorer Reggie Holmes to 12 points on 4-for-17 shoot-ing. Holmes began the game with a 3-pointer, but the bulk of his success came when Ebanks was already out with WVU leading comfortably.
With 3:57 remaining, Hol-mes had fi ve points on 1-for-12 shooting.
“Paying attention in fi lm really helped me. I noticed he was al-ways on the right side of the fl oor and liked to bounce it twice and do that step-back,” Ebanks said. “Every time he took two dribbles I tried to time it and get in front of him.”
Holmes was the only MSU player to score in double fi gures. Kevin Th ompson and Troy Smith fi nished with nine points apiece for the Bears.
WVU assisted 20 of its 24 fi eld goals, including a game-high six from Mazzulla. Th e junior has 13 assists compared to one turnover in his last two games.
Th e Mountaineers also contin-ued their late-season resurgence at the free throw line by connect-ing on 25-of-31.
Morgan State had only three assists and shot 11-for-20 from the charity stripe.
APTOP: West Virginia’s Devin Ebanks scores two of his 16 points in the Mountaineers’ 77-50 win over Morgan State in the fi rst round of the NCAA Tournament in Buff alo, N.Y., March 19. BOTTOM: The WVU bench celebrates after a big basket early in the contest. BUFFALO, N.Y. — With West Vir-
ginia down 10-0 and in danger of becoming the fourth Big East Con-ference team to go down in the fi rst round of the 2010 NCAA Tourna-ment, the Mountaineers needed someone to step up.
Senior leader Da’Sean Butler was struggling from the fi eld com-pared to his stunning performance in the Big East Tournament.
Out of a huddle following the fi rst timeout jogged sopho-more forward Kevin Jones who hadn’t taken a shot in the fi rst fi ve minutes.
From that point, he stepped it up.
Jones scored West Virginia’s next nine points, cutting Morgan State’s lead to 17-14. It was those points that helped the Mountain-eers eventually gain the lead over the Bears late in the fi rst half and pull away down the stretch in a 77-50 win in the fi rst round of the NCAA Tournament.
“I felt in the beginning I wasn’t being aggressive enough,” Jones said. “I had to go and still play team basketball, but just be a little more aggressive.”
Jones finished with a game-high 17 points and added eight re-
bounds. He was effi cient, too, fi n-ishing 8-of-10 from the fi eld.
“My shot was falling,” he said. “I was just in one of those zones, and I’m glad that it worked out for my team, that it got us back in the game.”
While Butler has been the team’s go-to scorer this season, partic-ularly late in the year, Jones has been a solid second option. Jones is second on the team in scoring, averaging 13.5 points per game. He’s also second on the team in rebounding, averaging 7.1.
Jones relishes in the fact he can step up for the team on off ense when Butler is struggling.
“When Da’Sean is struggling, everybody just looks around and asks, ‘Who are we going to go to now?’” Jones said. “I’m glad I can be that person.
“It’s great for us to fi nd that sec-ond scorer, somebody else that can put the ball in the hole besides Da’Sean and take a little pressure off of him.”
WVU head coach Bob Huggins compared Jones to Butler earlier in his career, saying the Mount Ver-non, N.Y., native, is a “hard worker” and a “great kid.”
Huggins attributed Jones’ suc-cess to his ability to workout ef-fectively last summer. Jones came in his freshman year as an under-sized 215-pound forward. Now, he’s nearly 250 pounds and bat-tling with opponents’ big men
each game.“He got knocked off the block
before. He got pushed under the basket,” Huggins said. “He’s a big, strong kid now.”
Butler fi nished with nine points – his lowest total since scoring eight against Cincinnati on Feb. 27. Despite his ability to score, he was able to leave that to Jones and focus on controlling tempo and moving the ball. He couldn’t do that without Jones, though, But-ler said.
“I was happy to see that we were up by so much and I didn’t have to do much,” Butler said. “Sometimes it feels good to go out there and not really have to worry about every-thing and just be care-free. I didn’t have a good shooting day, but my teammates responded.”
For Jones, it was a relief to have a successful fi rst day of the NCAA Tournament this year. Last year for him as a freshman, it was more of a nightmare.
He scored just one point in 14 minutes against Dayton in the 2009 fi rst-round loss. In fact, he av-eraged just more than two points in the postseason last year. Th is year, he is averaging 14 points in the postseason.
“It feels great,” Jones said. “Hopefully we keep going for hopefully fi ve games and hope-fully a national championship.”
TONY DOBIESMANAGING EDITOR
Sophomore duo combine for 33 points to advance Mountaineers
game.”After scoring their fi rst basket,
the Mountaineers closed the halfon a 33-15 run and hit 13 of theirfi nal 20 shots.
Jones and Ebanks combined for 23 of WVU’s 38 first-half points while the Mountaineerreserves contributed another 10 to help build a 38-27 advantage at the break.
Butler fi nished with nine pointsand six rebounds, but he was notforced to carry the Mountaineersto the second round.
Ebanks held Morgan State’sleading scorer Reggie Holmesto 12 points on 4-for-17 shoot-ing. Holmes began the game with a 3-pointer, but the bulk of hissuccess came when Ebanks wasalready out with WVU leadingcomfortably.
With 3:57 remaining, Hol-mes had fi ve points on 1-for-12 shooting.
“Paying attention in fi lm reallyhelped me. I noticed he was al-ways on the right side of the fl oor and liked to bounce it twice anddo that step-back,” Ebanks said.“Every time he took two dribblesI tried to time it and get in front of him.”
“ It was a diff erent mindset for us. We thought back on last year and used it as a learning experience.”
– Kevin Jones, WVU forward
With Butler struggling, Jones steps up for WVU
BY BRIAN GAWTHROPSPORTS EDITOR
NEW YORK — Wellington Smith held a sign with a message the West Virginia men’s basket-ball team had been waiting to call themselves for a long time: Big East Champions.
“We knew we could do it,” Smith said. “And we did it.”
Da’Sean Butler’s circus shot in the paint with four seconds remaining gave West Virginia a 60-58 win over Georgetown, earning the program’s fi rst Big East Conference Champion-ship. It was Butler’s sixth game-winning shot of the season and the second of the Big East Tournament.
Th e senior ended with a game-high 20 points and was named the tournament’s Most Outstand-ing Player.
Georgetown’s Chris Wright’s lay up at the buzzer fell short, al-lowing the Mountaineers to be-gin celebrating at midcourt.
“We wanted to win this for our state fi rst,” Butler said. “Th e peo-ple there love us so much and they support us so much. I defi -nitely know it means the world to them. Th at was our main concern – not letting the state down.”
It was the program’s 13th con-ference tournament champion-ship, which includes 10 Southern Conference crowns and two from the Atlantic 10.
“It just really makes you think about where you came from and what it took for you to get here,” Smith said. “It was very emotional.”
Butler also became just the third player in school history to surpass 2,000 career points with his putback bucket with 3:40 re-maining in the fi rst half.
He didn’t start as well as he fi nished.
Th e senior missed his fi rst four shots from the fi eld and didn’t score until 8:42 into the game. His fi rst score began a 9-0 WVU run, however, which gave the Moun-taineers its fi rst lead of the game.
Despite Wright scoring six
straight points on back-to-back and-one plays at the end of the half to bring the Hoyas within two with 46 seconds left in the fi rst half, 30-28.
West Virginia didn’t trail in the second half of any of its three tournament games.
“Why settle for second when fi rst is available?” said WVU head coach Bob Huggins. “Th at’s how
we’re going to go about things. Th at’s what is in us.”
Smith fi nished with 11 points and 10 rebounds. More impor-tantly, however, the senior con-tained Georgetown center Greg Monroe.
Monroe fi nished with 11 points and six rebounds in just seven shots from the fl oor despite hav-ing nearly earned a triple-double
in the Hoyas’ semifi nal win over Marquette Friday.
Wright ended with 20 points and seven assists, while guard Austin Freeman had 14.
“I tried not to let him catch the ball,” Smith said of his strategy against Monroe. “He’s the engine that runs their team so it was im-portant for us to not let him touch the ball.”
The Mountaineers will now wait to see their placement in the NCAA Tournament, which begins next Th ursday.
The tournament selection will take place at 6 p.m. Sunday, and despite experts projecting WVU as a No. 2 seed, Huggins said his team has done all it can do to be a top seed entering the tournament.
“Th ey say ‘Do these things.’ We’ve done them. I don’t know what else you have to do,” Hug-gins said. “We know what we are. But I learned a long time ago you don’t worry about what other people say.
“Th at being said, we’re going to enjoy this one.”
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LEANN ARTHUR/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia celebrates the program’s fi rst-ever Big East Conference Championship after defeating Georgetown in the conference title game on March 13.
Butler’s miracle shot with four seconds remaining lifts Mountaineers past Hoyas
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QUESTIONABLE CALLSWhat was the most memorable moment from the 2009-10 WVU men’s basketball season?
BY BRIAN GAWTHROPSPORTS EDITOR
It was a night I surely won’t for-get. Anyone who follows West Virginia athletics probably won’t either.
It was the night West Virginia upset the No. 1-seed Kentucky to clinch its second-ever trip to the Final Four.
The odds were clearly stacked against the Mountaineers, but they had no eff ect on the out-come. Outside of early in the game when the Wildcats looked like they would run away with the victory, West Virginia came out and shocked the world after only one state thought WVU would be able to overcome Kentucky, a team ranked fi rst in the nation for the majority of the season.
It wasn’t just that West Virginia beat the Wildcats, but it was how the Mountaineers seemingly dom-inated nearly every aspect of the game, despite not even playing their best game.
WVU head coach Bob Huggins and his crew had Kentucky con-fused and frustrated.
The Wildcats were bigger, stron-ger and confi dent – they had no reason to expect their season would end that night, especially since the Mountaineers were with-out their starting point guard Truck Bryant.
But it all didn’t matter that night. WVU was two wins away from be-coming national champions.
I remember heading back to the hotel that night and listening to the radio online as the team ar-rived back to the Harrison-Marion Regional Airport before traveling back to the WVU Coliseum where they were greeted by more than 1,000 fans, despite it being nearly 2:30 a.m.
It capped off what was one of the most unforgettable nights in the history of Mountaineer athletics.
BY TONY DOBIESMANAGING EDITOR
To pick out one memory from what was a magical season is tough. But without a doubt, it had to be the Big East Confer-ence Tournament game against Georgetown and the subsequent celebration.
Never before had WVU won a Big East title, but somehow the 2009-10 team made it to the fi nals after some major upsets. Some-how, the Mountaineers found a way to win.
Da’Sean Butler hit the game-winning shot in traffic and on the other end Georgetown point guard Chris Wright missed a last-second attempt at a running layup to secure the Mountaineers’ fi rst Big East title.
It was pure bliss for those Mountaineer fans in attendance. The players and coaches couldn’t help but rejoice, either.
I will never forget the scene fol-lowing that winning shot. There were players with tears of happi-ness and fans down by the court with the same reactions.
I stood underneath the bas-ket where the team started to cut down the nets and watched every-thing that was going on around me. It wasn’t just those players climbing the ladder and cutting off a piece of history. It was the joy of University President James P. Clements’ smile, it was the emo-tion WVU head coach Bob Hug-gins spoke to the media with. It was everything.
It was something I will never forget.
But it all came to the forefront when Butler stepped to the top of the ladder and cut off the net and placed it around his neck.
It was the sign of a true cham-pion who had just won the school’s fi rst title.
That’s about as memorable as it gets.
BY GREG CAREYSPORTS WRITER
With 31 wins, a Big East Confer-ence Tournament title and a Final Four berth, there were an abun-dance of memorable moments throughout West Virginia’s season.
Yet nothing stood out more than the Mountaineers’ 73-66 vic-tory over top-seeded Kentucky in the East Regional Final at the Car-rier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.
As signifi cant as winning the fi rst conference championship in program history is, this season will be remembered more for WVU’s march to Indianapolis as one of four remaining teams.
Beating a 35-win Kentucky team led West Virginia to its second ap-pearance in the National Semifi nals and its fi rst since a Jerry West led WVU team reached that point way back in 1959.
It also solidifi ed this season as one of the best, if not the greatest, in program history.
The Wildcats were rightfully a popular pick to win the National Championship even before Kan-sas was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament in the second round.
Although Kentucky had an ex-tremely youthful roster, its starting lineup featured at least three fi rst-round NBA Draft picks, making the Wildcats perhaps the nation’s most talented team.
That didn’t matter to WVU. The Mountaineers built a 16-point lead and hung on to hand Kentucky its third loss.
The postgame celebration fea-tured Devin Ebanks jumping onto the scorers table, John Flow-ers mocking Kentucky freshman phenomenon John Wall’s muscle dance, Butler breaking out his own moves and a number of WVU play-ers slapping fi ves with fans to show their appreciation.
Those are the images that stand out most from an unforgettable season.
Mountaineers will leave lasting impression“You have very few times in your
life to be special. Very few people have that opportunity to be spe-cial. Particularly in a place like West Virginia.”
Th ose were the words uttered by coach Huggins on the MSN postgame radio show following his team’s defeat at UConn Feb. 22. It was an ugly, uninspired loss at the hands of an inferior opponent.
Huggins sensed his players were forgetting the unique op-portunity they had to play major
college basketball for the fl agship University of a small, but proud state.
He urged them to rise to the oc-casion, fulfi ll their potential and seize a chance at glory. He wanted them to accomplish something very few teams – or people, for that matter – ever accomplish. To be respected. To be remembered. To be special.
Th is team did that.From the depths of that loss in
Storrs, the team went on to win 10
consecutive games.Along the way, the team won a
Big East Conference Tournament Championship and an NCAA Tournament East Regional Cham-pionship, culminating in a trip to the sport’s greatest stage – the Fi-nal Four in Indianapolis.
Th ough the team lost in the Na-tional Semifi nal to a hot-shooting Duke squad, it was still a wonder-ful experience for all involved. Th e staff of Th e Daily Athenaeum congratulates the Mountain-
eers on their historic postseason campaign.
It was a ride we will forever re-member, and we will always be proud to say that our team – our classmates – won the Big East Championship and made the Fi-nal Four while we attended this University.
When the Big East Champion-ship and Final Four banners are hung in the Coliseum next season, the tears will fl ow.
While the team may not have
given this state and this school its fi rst national championship in a major sport, they will always have our hearts.
Th ey brought our school pos-itive publicity and showed the nation what it means to be a Mountaineer.
Selfi shly, we hope current stars on the team with eligibility re-maining to consider returning next season. For Truck Bryant, we hope his foot heals and he is able to return to the game he loves.
For injured senior all-American Da’Sean Butler, we wish a speedy recovery and a successful profes-sional career.
We would like to thank But-ler and fellow senior Wellington Smith for their tireless dedication to this program and all the suc-cess and excitement we, as fans, got to enjoy due to their four years of hard work.
It was a wonderful ride.
FROM THE FANS
“PROUD is too small of a word to describe how we feel about this team and ALL of its accomplishments. Of all times to run into a team that played its best game of the sea-son! But the moment on the court when we all knew that Da’Sean was reeling in more pain than from his knee and coach Huggins comforting him – that moment showed the world what is at the heart of being a West Virginian. The passion and depth of car-ing we have for our own cannot be matched anywhere!”
— AnnTheFanWVU’s historic run comes to a close
April 4, 2010
“Great team, great coach and great fans. It was a season I’ll remember for a long time and i would bet everything I own that it won’t be 51 years before we return. The only words I know to sum it up are ‘Lets Goooo Mountain-eeeers.’ You make us so proud.”
– Frank CumminsReviewing a record year
April 7, 2010
“I was brought to tears when coach Huggins cradled Da’Sean Butler’s head after he was injured. As a mother, I would absolutely want a man like this in my son’s life if he were contemplating playing for WVU. I have met coach Huggins and he is rough on the outside at times, but he is a teddy bear on the inside. He truly loves each and ev-ery one of these players as though they are the sons he never had. His aff ection for Da’Sean Butler was honest and genuine. I am a fan of coach Huggins, and I hope he is here in Morgantown for a long time to come.”
— AnonymousHuggins deserves better national perception
April 5, 2010
“I love going to school af-ter wins wearing my Gold and Blue, walking down the hallways feeling proud to be a Mountaineer. This team means more to me than anything.”
— MattWVUToday
March 2, 2010
“Thank you to the seniors for staying four years and showing your love and commit-ment to WVU. The future of basketball at West Virginia is bright and there will be na-tional championships to celebrate. I hope and pray that every player who can come back next season will do so because this season was a glimpse of what you can achieve next year. Thank you to Huggins for showing why you are a great repre-sentitive of our state and school by caring so much for the players you coach. Great season guys, you have nothing at all to be ashamed of. You played your hearts out.”
— D.J.WVUToday
March 3, 2010
“LET’S GOO! MOUNTAINEERS! We’re in it to win it. A special team doing it the Mountaineer Way can be re-ally special. Y’all make the Moun-taineer Nation proud.”
— Alum in Clearwater, Fla.WVU proves country wrong with upset
March 28, 2010
IN THE MIDST OF CELEBRATION
CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMThe charred remains of a couch sits on the side of a road in Sunnyside after West Virginia’s 60-58 win over Georgetown to clinch the Big East Conference Cham-pionship on March 13. The Morgantown Fire Department responded to 27 fi res after the victory, four of which were dumpster fi res. Fewer fi res were reported after the team’s win over Kentucky to advance into the Final Four for the fi rst time since 1959.
PHOTOS BY CHELSI BAKER/THE DAILY ATHENAEUM
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TWO SPECIAL SENIORS
BY GREG CAREYSPORTS WRITER
For all Da’Sean Butler did to contribute to the West Virginia basketball program, it wasn’t supposed to end the way it did.
With 8:59 remaining in Duke’s 78-57 National Semifi -nal win over the Mountaineers, Butler attacked the basket as he has done so well over his four years as a Mountaineer.
Only this time, Butler went down in a heap of pain after colliding with Blue Devils’ cen-ter Brian Zoubek. Butler stayed down for a few minutes and was noticeably in severe pain before being helped off the fl oor with the Mountaineers trailing by 15 in his fi nal collegiate contest.
“It just sucks to leave my team out there, especially when I’ve been with them since the beginning,” Butler said afterward.
It was initially ruled a sprained left knee but turned out to be much worse as But-ler was diagnosed with a torn ACL, sprained MCL and two bone bruises.
In typical Butler fashion, he thought he had done some-thing wrong, according to his head coach Bob Huggins.
“When I went out, it was more he felt like he let his team down than it was about the in-jury,” Huggins said. “And that’s Da’Sean. He’s got such a great heart.”
It was a tough scene to watch for WVU point guard Joe Maz-zulla, who was a close team-mate of Butler’s.
“It’s just a shame that bad things happen to great people especially when he’s got a ca-reer ahead of him in basket-ball,” Mazzulla said. “You al-most get down on yourself, because you ask ‘why does that happen to him?’.”
Th at’s just a glimpse of the impact Butler had on West Virginia’s program over his career.
Butler departs West Vir-
ginia as one of the best players in school history. He fi nishes third all-time on the program’s career scoring list with 2,095 points and averaged double-fi gure scoring all four years.
“When you’re the third lead-ing scorer anywhere behind Jerry West and ‘Hot Rod’ Hund-ley, you’ve had a heck of a ca-reer. And he’s done it with class and dignity,” Huggins said.
Butler’s 205 3-pointers are good for fourth all-time at WVU. His teams won at least 23 games every season and Butler was a part of NIT Champion-ship, Sweet 16 and Final Four teams.
Th e same 107-39 record But-ler had in his collegiate career is what teammate and fellow New Jersey native Wellington Smith compiled.
Smith was more of a role player but an still eff ective one over his career. He fi nished av-eraging fi ve points per game with a career-high scoring av-erage of 6.6 this past season.
He will always remember starting all 38 games on a team that was able to win 31 games and reach the Final Four.
“It’s huge knowing that I left my mark at West Virginia,” Smith said. “I wasn’t really part of the NIT run even though I was on that team, but it’s nice knowing that I was a part of this, and I had something to do with it.”
He also connected on 38 of his 72 career 3-point baskets this season. Smith’s 162 career blocks is good for third best in Mountaineer history, but that’s not what sticks out in his mind.
Smith departs West Virginia with the thought that it’s now become a basketball power.
“Th ey call us a basketball school now,” Smith said. “It re-ally shows the state and every-body that supports us that this basketball program is some-thing to be reckoned with each year.”
Butler, Smith left their mark on Mountaineer basketball
APWest Virginia’s Da’Sean Butler dunks in the Mountaineers’ win over Washington in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Butler fi nished his collegiate third all-time in scoring at WVU behind only Jerry West and “Hot Rod” Hundley. The Newark, N.J., native also fi nished inside the top 20 in West Virginia history in 3-pointers made, steals, rebounds and assists.
LEANN ARTHUR/THE DAILY ATHENAEUMWest Virginia’s Wellington Smith dunks during WVU’s win over Louisville Jan. 30. Smith fi nished his collegiate third all-time in blocked shots in Mountaineer basketball history. The Summit, N.J., native hit a career-high 38 3-pointers as a senior and averaged 6.6 points per game, fi fth-best on the team.
GP FG% 3PT% REB STL AST BLK AVG.2007 (Fr.) 36 48% 127 46 37 32008 (So.) 37 228 26 64 7
BUTLER BY THE NUMBERS
2009 (Jr.) 35 208 45 60 102010 (Sr.) 38 237 37 119 15Total 146
50%43%41%45%
35%37%35%35%35% 800 154 280 35
10.112.917.117.214.3
GP FG% 3PT% REB STL AST BLK AVG.2007 (Fr.) 30 26 3 2 11 2.32008 (So.) 37 140 27 34 60 5.2
SMITH BY THE NUMBERS
2009 (Jr.) 35 132 20 46 53 5.22010 (Sr.) 38 156 27 50 38 6.6Total 140
55%42%39%46%44%
39%25%28%36%32% 454 77 132 162 5.0
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