GAME THREAD West Virginia vs. Baylor men's basketball

[Vernon]

WVU (15-9, 6-7) will travel to Baylor (15-9, 7-6) on Saturday for a 2:00 PM ET tip-off. The game will be on ESPN 2.

 

[WVUALLEN]

Winnable game. Can they play 40 minutes.

 

[MountaineerWV]

Over/under 4 shots for our best player this game?

 

[locustwv]

Over/under 4 shots for our best player this game?

Over

 

[locustwv]

Down 5 at half!!! Really need this one!!

 

[locustwv]

Nice run to start 2nd half

 

[locustwv]

Haven’t scored in OT

 

[locustwv]

Hit free throws and it wouldn’t have gone to OT

 

[MountaineerWV]

NIT

 

[MountaineerWV]

The genius idea to draw up play with 3 seconds remaining knowing Baylor would foul up 3 and we draw it up to get ball to our worst FT shooter. Absolute genius.

 

[jlaudiomaster]

The genius idea to draw up play with 3 seconds remaining knowing Baylor would foul up 3 and we draw it up to get ball to our worst FT shooter. Absolute genius.

I’ll give you this, since you’re hell bent on bashing the head coach, the team largely hasn’t improved through the course of the year. That has me question DeVries more than the last play of the game. That said, they just can’t have Okani in at the end of a game. Just can’t. He has proven that he doesn’t care about free throws. Too much of a liability.

 

[MountaineerWV]

I’ll give you this, since you’re hell bent on bashing the head coach, the team largely hasn’t improved through the course of the year. That has me question DeVries more than the last play of the game. That said, they just can’t have Okani in at the end of a game. Just can’t. He has proven that he doesn’t care about free throws. Too much of a liability.

Why not have your worst FT shooter take the ball out? Yeah. I’m no genius. But I did think of that.

And I’m not hell bent on bashing anyone. I just would like to see people have expectations on strategy and in-game moves. And the last two weeks has been less than stellar on both.

 

[WVUALLEN]

Hit free throws and it wouldn’t have gone to OT

Out scored 27-11 from foul line. BYU 27-32 & WVU 11-17. WVU despite Powell and small shooting a combined 2 of 19 from 3 they still could have won. Made more FG 26 and 3 pointers 8 than Baylor did.

So yeah just hit a few more FT and it's a win despite Baylor scoring 27 points from the line.

 

[Phil1972]

So yeah just hit a few more FT

Man, how many years have we been saying that?

 

[locustwv]

Man, how many years have we been saying that?

We’ve lost a ton of games because of it for sure.

 

[WVUALLEN]

We’ve lost a ton of games because of it for sure.

4 foul shooters on this team worth a crap. One of those is out for the season.

3 remaining...
Small 87.9%
Amani 79.5%
Harris 79.4%

These 3 should always be in at the end of games and not taking the ball out, if you can't get it into one of those 3 players hands. Well you see what happens.