MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (Nov. 5, 2024) – The West Virginia University women's basketball team opened the regular season with an 85-41 win over Towson on Tuesday evening inside the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown.



A trio of Mountaineer guards combined for 56 of the Mountaineers' points. Junior guard Jordan Harrison scored a WVU career-high 23 points, junior guard Sydney Shaw produced a career-high 19 points and senior guard JJ Quinerly rounded out the Mountaineers in double figures with 14 points.



The win is the 14th straight in the non-conference for the Mountaineers. WVU finished a perfect 11-0 in non-conference action last year.



Harrison filled the stat sheet adding eight assists and six steals. Shaw finished 7-of-9 from the floor and 5-of-6 from three while adding four assists. The guard trio finished the night 9 of 14 from beyond the arc.



Harrison had the hot hand for the Mountaineers to open the game, scoring seven of the Mountaineers opening points on a perfect 3-of-3 mark from the floor. Towson kept pace, leveling the score at 11 at the first media timeout. Freshman forward Jordan Thomas scored the Mountaineers' final three points of the quarter to take a 14-13 advantage after the opening 10 minutes.



Towson jumped out to an 18-16 lead early in the second before the first of three second-quarter threes from Shaw spurred a 13-2 run by the Mountaineers and their first double-digit lead of the contest. Towson cut the lead down to six points before Harrison took over. The Oklahoma City, Oklahoma native scored the final nine Mountaineer points to push the WVU lead to 38-25 at halftime. Harrison alone outscored the Tiger 9-2 over the final three minutes of the quarter.



WVU and Towson traded scores over the opening six minutes of play out of the break, to a 45-32 WVU advantage. West Virginia then found a rhythm from beyond the arc with back-to-back Shaw threes and a Celia Riviere bucket to spur on a 12-0 run and a 27-point WVU advantage. WVU pushed its lead to as many as 30 points in the final minute of the quarter before taking a 65-27 lead at the break.



The Mountaineers ran away with the game in the fourth, outscoring the Tigers 20-4, and increasing its lead to as many as 44 points. West Virginia outscored Towson 47-16 over the final 20 minutes.



WVU forced the Tigers into 32 turnovers and turned those miscues into 42 points. The Mountaineers held a 38-29 advantage on the glass and corralled 14 offensive rebounds. The effort on the boards resulted in 17 second-chance points.



The win marks the 11th straight season the Mountaineers have been victorious on opening night and is the 29th straight non-conference regular season home win dating back to the 2018-19 season.



Next up, West Virginia takes on Niagara on Saturday, Nov. 9, inside the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown. The Mountaineers and Purple Eagles are set to tip off at 2 p.m. ET.

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So, we've got men's soccer vs MooU at 7:15 and women's b-ball vs. Towson at 7:00.
Or Selection Show at 7 or election results until who knows when?
Tomorrow night nothing.

In school, I used to get straight As but IN (Improvement Needed) in conduct because I talked too much. Nothing has changed in all these years. Still do and this will probably get me banned......sorry V. I HOPE THE ELECTION TOMORROW makes me as HAPPY as I am after watching our basketball team. God Bless America!!!!

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--West Virginia jumped out to a big lead in this one and never really looked back beating Robert Morris 87-59. The Mountaineers led this game 30-2 and while it wasn't always clean it was a very good debut for head coach Darian DeVries with a fun brand of basketball and a defense that is aggressive and challenging.

--Again Tucker DeVries was the best player on the floor and he is just very crafty. He is more athletic than he looks and understands how to get position and angles with or without the ball. He had 18 points and did it on 6-13 shooting. He is going to be fun to watch this year.

--Javon Small has some wiggle to him and while he was a little loose with the ball at times still had 5 assists to go along with 15 points on 6-11 shooting. Again, we know who he is at this stage.

--Jonathan Powell has such a sweet stroke and scored 11 points on 4-8 shooting and 3-7 from deep. He had a few rim out on him too so there was a chance for an even bigger game but he is a confident shooter and looks like he is going to become a very good player down the line. Speaking of freshmen, KJ Tenner also looked the part in this game and the Mountaineers have themselves a player there as well. Tenner has a really nice floater, but played with a lot of confidence tonight finishing with 10 points on 4-5 from the floor and most importantly 3 assists with 0 turnovers.

--Amani Hansberry is fun to watch. He finished this game with 9 points and 12 rebounds but is a very good passer for a big and is active. He's not been afraid to let it fly either from deep.

--West Virginia was a little careless with the ball at times in this game but with only 11 turnovers it certainly wasn't a disaster for a first game situation. Did think the team shared the ball well and had 16 assists on 33 made baskets.

--People are going to talk about the offensive end in that 30-2 start, but I was more impressed with the defensive end. West Virginia was challenging everything and really made it difficult for them to even get off a quality look. The Mountaineers were active in passing lanes in this one as well and had a total of eight blocks. I don't know the total but I'd imagine that the Mountaineers had a lot of deflections in this game. However, the one area that West Virginia didn't fare to well was rebounding as the Colonials held a 41-37 edge and had 16 offensive rebounds. The Mountaineers can't allow teams to have that many second opportunities with their size although it didn't hurt them too much in this one with just 12 second chance points.

--Speaking of defense, Sencire Harris is just really fun to watch. He is a really good on the ball defender and while he only scored 4 points, had 3 blocks and a steal while holding Kam Woods to 3-16 from the field. He is very competitive on that end of the floor. Also really like what Toby Okani brings to the table on that end with his versatility.

--West Virginia shot 33-60 from the floor or 55-percent and was at 41-percent from three (14-34) which is very good. But the 58-percent from the line isn't really. That will need to get up ticked but if you're going 50 and 41 it's hard to nitpick. The Mountaineers were at 1.299 points per possession in this one and at one point was over 2.1 insane.

--The Mountaineers were 13-18 on layups and dunks including one from Toby Okani that was highlight reel worthy.

--This was a good opener all around but now onto the next one and cleaning up some of the minor issues here although to be fair this team was in control from start to finish.

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judge ordered voting hours to be extended until 10:00PM

At some point the GOP needs to counter this stuff.....but they won't...it's always 'next time will be different'

Trump beats woman

The first results of the 2024 election day are in from Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, with former President Donald Trump and Vice-president Kamala Harris splitting the tiny town's six votes.

The final count read out by officials around 12:10 a.m. on Tuesday morning were 3 for Trump and 3 for Harris.

In 2020, future President Joe Biden swept all the votes there. Back in 2016, four people voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton, two for Trump and one for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.

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At Tennessee, they are adding a ‘talent fee’ to the price of sports tickets. At Arkansas, they will charge 3% more at the concessions stands. At Michigan and Michigan State, athletic directors sent letters alerting boosters that winning is going to start costing more. And, in a first, Clemson is going to start adding an athletic surcharge to tuition bills.

Won't link due to competing site but Wren finally pulled the plug on that game.