ESTERO, Fla. (Nov. 29, 2024) – The West Virginia University women's basketball team collected its first win of the Gulf Coast Showcase with an 89-54 victory over High Point on Friday afternoon inside Hertz Arena.



The Mountaineers led from wire to wire in a game that saw the Mountaineers lead by as many as 39 points in the fourth quarter. West Virginia forced 22 High Point turnovers to break the 20-plus mark for the seventh time this season. Of those miscues, 14 were WVU steals which also marks the seventh time this season West Virginia has reached double figures in a game.



Freshman forward Jordan Thomas recorded her first career double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Both marks are a career-high as she is the first Mountaineer to record a double-double since Kyah Watson hit the mark in January of last season against Baylor.



Senior guard JJ Quinerly finished with 22 points to lead all scorers. She added four assists and two steals. Junior guard Jordan Harrison was the final Mountaineer in double figures with 13 points. Fifth year forward Kylee Blacksten (8) and senior guard Kyah Watson (7) crashed the glass to help the Mountaineers to a 46-22 advantage on the boards. Watson’s rebounds give her 600 for her career.



Senior guard Sydney Woodley was relentless on the defensive end, finishing with eight steals to set a new career mark.



Quinerly had the hot hand early, scoring the Mountaineers opening six points to help WVU to a 9-0 lead over the first four minutes. She finished the frame with 10 points as WVU knocked down 9 of 13 attempts from the floor on the way to a 22-7 lead. Quinerly finished with 18 points on 7 of 10 shooting from the floor in the first half as the Mountaineers led 40-16 after 20 minutes of play.



West Virginia tacked on 22 more points in the third before scoring a quarter-high 27 points in the fourth frame to cruise to a 35-point victory.



The win is the seventh straight to open the season, marking the second consecutive season WVU has hit the mark. It is just the seventh time since the 2000 season the Mountaineers have opened with seven straight wins.



Of note, WVU is now 3-0 all-time in the series against High Point. West Virginia is 15-2 all-time against the Big South Conference. West Virginia is a perfect 18-0 in regular-season nonconference action under head coach Mark Kellogg.



Next up, West Virginia continues play at the Gulf Coast Showcase. WVU is set to meet Boise State in Estero, Florida on Saturday, Nov. 30. Tipoff is set for 5 p.m. ET inside Hertz Arena.

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AG Bailey said “Congress never gave Biden the authority to saddle working Americans with half-a-trillion dollars in other people's debt.”

Some takeaways from court today where we challenged Biden’s latest unlawful $500 billion student loan debt cancellation scheme:

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Javon Small is an elite player. Top 500 nationally ranked in pretty much everything you'd want your 1 to be ranked in. A Torvik PRPG! over 5.0 means you are a top 50 level player at helping your team get points.
Tucker is shooting 46.9% from deep. Maybe the best shooter we've had in a long time. Buck Harris' PRPG! vs D-PRPG! is kind of funny. He's an offensive black hole, but his defense is so good having him on the floor is good for a few points a game in the aggregate. It's the most extreme discrepency between the two I've ever seen since I've been following Torvik's system. Okani shoots better from the floor than from the FT line somehow.
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And here's the season projections. I think we might have a legitimate shot to get into the tourney, boys! Really the big prize was going 2-1 in quad 1 games this weekend. That's going to be so huge in March.

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (Dec. 9, 2024) – The West Virginia University women's basketball team held its No. 15 ranking in the fifth edition of the AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll, released on Monday.



The Mountaineers are 9-1 this season, and they got back in the win column last week with an 85-40 win over East Tennessee State.

WVU earned 376 points in the poll. A total of four Big 12 teams appeared in the rankings, including No. 12 TCU (447), No. 13 Kansas State (427) and No. 18 Iowa State (190). Utah, Oklahoma State and Baylor are featured in the receiving votes section.



Additionally, the NCAA’s second NET ranking of the season was released and has the Mountaineers seated at No. 12.

West Virginia hits the road for their first true road game of the season with competition against Temple on Sunday, Dec. 15, inside the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The contest will be the Mountaineers' first on national television, broadcasting on ESPN2

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NEW OFFERS
--LB Landyn Watson from Marshall (Also holds offers from Arizona, South Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Southern Miss, Florida Atlantic)
--LB Antarron Turner from Western Carolina (FCS) (Also holds offers from Toledo, Kansas, Florida A&M (FCS), UTEP, Campbell (FCS), Georgia State, Middle Tennessee State, Western Kentucky, Austin Peay (FCS), Gardner-Webb (FCS))

THOSE ALREADY OFFERED
--DL David Oke picks up offers from Arkansas and Kansas State
--RB Durell Robinson picks up offers from Arkansas and South Florida
--WR Javon Tracy picks up offers from Utah and Kansas
--EDGE Clev Lubin picks up offer from Louisville
--CB Raion Strader picks up offer from Michigan State
--CB Tre Wood picks up offer from Miami (OH)

VISITS
--LB Raion Strader taking visits at West Virginia, Middle Tennessee State, Western Kentucky, and Kansas

TRANSFERS OUT
--CB TJ Crandall picked up offer from Oregon State
--Crandall is also taking a visit to Oregon State

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are lighting the world on fire.

Syria is just the latest case of U.S. medling and the timing could not be more suspicious.
The Biden administration has triggered another proxy war for Donald Trump to deal with when he becomes president next month. The U.S. deep state is fighting a proxy war in Syria, which appears to be waged with the intention of further destabilizing the Middle East and stirring up another front in World War III.

Syria is collapsing under the weight of another U.S.-sponsored proxy Civil War, with the US, Israel and Sunni jihadists on one side and Russia, Iran, Assad, and Shiite jihadists on the other.

Al Nusra (which is comprised of Al-Qaida and ISIS affiliates) is taking over the country with the help of Turkey, a U.S. ally and key member of the NATO military alliance. These rebels have seized the city of Aleppo and many smaller towns and villages.

M. Dowling at The Independent Sentinel notes that “Jake Sullivan has said Al-Qaida is on our side in Syria.”

Jake Sullivan is Biden’s national security adviser and a key enabler, along with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, of the anti-Russia obsessed deep-state club that shares one thing in common. They all belong to the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dowling notes that Syria’s civil war started in 2011 after an uprising against President Bashar Assad’s rule. The U.S., Russia, Israel and Iran all have a military presence in Syria. Forces opposed to Assad, along with U.S.-backed rebels, control more than a third of the country and now Russia and Iran have launched a counter-offensive. Russia is very upset with Turkey for instigating the coup against Assad, likely with the direct assistance of the CIA.

The false narrative being proffered by the US mockingbird media is that a rag-tag coalition of so-called “noble rebels” has somehow organically emerged to save Syria from the dictator Assad. No, what we have here are Sunni jihadists backed by the U.S. and NATO fighting Shia jihadists backed by Russia.

As Dowling points out, “All jihadists are bad guys.” They are bad because as soon as they get in power one of the first things they do is start raping the Christian women and executing the Christian men. It happened in Iraq after Saddam Hussein was overthrown and it’s happening now in Syria.

Congress funded jihadist rebels in Syria for years. The chief war whores of the military-industrial complex, Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain, led the way.

Graham is now turning on Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, because he’s afraid the Fox News host might not be fully on board with the U.S. forever wars.

Dowling quotes Joe Kent, a former chief warrant officer in the U.S. Army special forces, saying that the U.S. is “in an endless cycle of violence” and a “regime-change war” in Syria that the US has pushed.

The world is aflame and the regime in Washington appears to be dowsing it with gasoline in anticipation of handing the chaos over to Donald Trump to deal with as the 47th president.

Dowling ends her article with this truth bomb:

“We need to be out of Syria. We’re helping no one, certainly not Americans. This is another spear in World War III.”

The U.S. is also stirring the pot in the Eastern European country of Georgia, where protesters continue to be out in the streets. The U.S. is complicit in the deaths of more than half a million Ukrainians.

I would say we need to be out of every country in the world where there is no direct compelling national interest for America’s national security. Rein in the CIA and limit its actions strictly to intelligence gathering (no more fomenting of revolutions and coups) bring our boys home and return the concept of “defense” to our U.S. Department of Defense.