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<title>Mountaineers misfire</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Jay Wright has never had much success bringing his Villanova basketball teams into the Coliseum. Truth is, hes never been all that successful against West Virginia on any court. Since becoming the Wildcats coach in 2003, Wright was just 3-6 ag...]]></description>
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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:17:49 -0500
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<title>WVU must return to lunch pail style of play</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - West Virginias Big East basketball battle with Villanova may have been the most nationally hyped game in the Mountaineers long history.ESPN promoted it and the following Big Monday game of Kansas-Texas as if they were Ali-Frazier bouts. The ne...]]></description>
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<title>Super showdown in the Big East</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - By the time West Virginia had polished off a 79-60 win at St. Johns Saturday afternoon, the Mountaineers knew they had dodged a bullet.Trailing by 16 points in the second half, they were in danger of not only suffering a rather embarrassing de...]]></description>
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Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:24:45 -0500
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<title>In a New York minute</title>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK - With just over two minutes to play Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden, No. 6 West Virginias 79-60 win over St. Johns was ready to be put into the books. The only variable in an odd game in which the Mountaineers trailed by 16 and led by...]]></description>
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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:42:31 -0500
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<title>Mazzullas grittiness not apparent in boxscore </title>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK - Joe Mazzulla sat at the very end of West Virginias bench for the entire first half of West Virginias game with St. Johns Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden. Even lowly sportswriters had a better vantage point, given that the end of the ...]]></description>
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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:45:27 -0500
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<title>Repella leads WVU women</title>
<description><![CDATA[PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Liz Repella scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to help No. 11 West Virginia beat Providence 75-59 on Saturday.  Asya Bussie added 12 points and a game-high 11 rebounds for the Mountaineers (21-3, 8-2 Big East), who bounced back aft...]]></description>
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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:09:44 -0500
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<title>WVU contends with unruly fans </title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In recent years, <a href="http://www.wvu.edu/ ">West Virginia University</a> mens basketball coach Bob Huggins has been vocal about packing the seats for home games at the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown.  Its unlikely Wednesdays events...]]></description>
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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:18:07 -0500
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<title>WVU students only hurting themselves</title>
<description><![CDATA[I CONSIDERED not writing this column. See, at one time, I was one of those obnoxious college students. I went to West Virginia University. And, yes, I screamed profanities at the opposing sports teams. How could I tackle this subject without being hypocrit...]]></description>
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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:58:23 -0500
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<title>Brawl gets physical</title>
<description><![CDATA[        MORGANTOWN - It was not all that long ago that West Virginia would send out onto the basketball court pretty good teams that played the game rather politely. They would run their backdoor cuts and shoot their 3-pointers, play efficient if not hard-...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:48:00 -0500
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<title>Good, bad in charged atmosphere </title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - To say the atmosphere in the Coliseum on Wednesday was charged would be an understatement.Lets just say it was a blessing smoking wasnt allowed in the arena.A lit match might have blown the top off the joint.The two rivals in the Backyard Braw...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:13:28 -0500
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<title>Stew: We have a special class</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - All things considered, Bill Stewart was on top of the world by midday Wednesday. The West Virginia recruiting class that he had just signed put to rest pretty much any notion that events of the past few months - de-commitments and coaching cha...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:02:12 -0500
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<title>Bios of WVU football signees</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Here are the biographies on WVUs announced signings, as released by West Virginias sports communications department: <li>Travis Bell, FS, 6-2, 187, Belle Glade, Fla./Glades Central: Orlando Sentinel Florida Top 100 . . . Palm Beach Post Top 10 . . . he...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:37:44 -0500
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<title>WVU signee list</title>
<description><![CDATA[Here is the list of the 19 players who signed binding national letters of intent Wednesday to play football at West Virginia beginning next season:Player    Pos    Ht    Wt    School    HometownTravis Bell    FS    6-2    187    Glades Central    Belle Gla...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:03:09 -0500
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<title>WVUs Butler finalist for Senior CLASS Award</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia Universitys DaSean Butler was among 20 finalists Wednesday for the Lowes Senior CLASS Award.The Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School award recognizes the nations outstanding senior student-athlete in NCAA Division I mens ...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:29:38 -0500
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<title>WVU  signing day updates</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Updated 4:20  MORGANTOWN -- West Virginias football recruiting class took off this morning thanks to a quick wave of signings from virtually every previously committed prospect and a late commitment from one of the top players on the Mountaineers board...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:31:41 -0500
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<title>UConn women beat WVU 80-47 for 61st straight win</title>
<description><![CDATA[HARTFORD, Conn. - For 25 minutes, West Virginia hung with top-ranked Connecticut.Then like they have during nearly every other game during the 61-game winning streak, the Huskies took over.Kalana Greene scored 18 points and UConn (22-0, 9-0 Big East) shot ...]]></description>
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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:12:59 -0500
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<title>New looks for WVU, Pitt</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - When last West Virginia and Pitt met in basketball, it was on a neutral floor at Madison Square Garden in last seasons Big East quarterfinals. The Mountaineers won 74-60 over a Panthers team that revolved around DeJuan Blair, Sam Young and Lev...]]></description>
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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:18:10 -0500
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<title>Stew looking for big, fast athletes</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Bill Stewart will never be confused with Randy Newman.The former, of course, is West Virginias football coach. The latter is the singer-songwriter who in 1977 penned and recorded the satirical &quot;Short People.The only thing they might have ...]]></description>
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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:18:57 -0500
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<title>Williams earns Big East Scholar-Athlete award</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia University senior linebacker Reed Williams was selected the 2009 Big East Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year.Williams, a graduate student from Moorefield, will receive a $2,000 scholarship, which may be applied to graduate or professional s...]]></description>
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<title>Rowdy WVU fans reprimanded</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - The profanity flying out of the West Virginia student section was so loud it could be heard on national television, prompting a university official to warn students to tone down their language at basketball games.They obliged a week later - te...]]></description>
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<title>WVU recruit list</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Here is the list of players who have publicly committed to sign national letters of intent today to play football at West Virginia:Player    Pos    Ht    Wt    School    HometownLatwan Anderson    S    5-11    185    Glenville    Cleveland, OhioIshmael...]]></description>
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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:19:29 -0500
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<title>Playing waiting game with recruits</title>
<description><![CDATA[    MORGANTOWN - Take one look at the ESPN ticker on any night lately and one gets the impression that this is not an ordinary football recruiting season. More often than not, the news is not that a high school player has committed to one school as much as...]]></description>
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Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:58:40 -0500
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<title>Hickman: Monumental task for WVU women</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - No coach worth his weight in whistles and sneakers ever goes into a game thinking his team doesnt have a chance to win. And even in the rare cases when that might be a fleeting consideration, he certainly wont let his players know it. And so b...]]></description>
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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:14:57 -0500
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<title>How will Kilicli look in his debut game.</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Certainly the most intriguing question surrounding Deniz Kiliclis debut on Wednesday concerns how he will change the look of West Virginias basketball team.But for anyone who has watched the freshman from Turkey at all this season - even as he...]]></description>
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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:40:00 -0500
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<title>Mazzulla still hesitant to shoot</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - There were at least three times Saturday afternoon during West Virginias 77-74 win over Louisville when Joe Mazzulla found himself with the ball and an open look on the perimeter.No, he wasnt ridiculously wide open or anything like that, but h...]]></description>
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Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:32:55 -0500
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<title>Butlers time again</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - You wouldnt know it to watch the guy play most of the time, but DaSean Butler doesnt really like to deal with tension.Oh, he does OK with it, mind you. Take the final moments of yet another bizarre West Virginia basketball victory, for example...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:46:03 -0500
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<title>Staying on point key in Mountaineer victory</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - After closely watching West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins for the past two-and-a-half seasons, Ive come to the conclusion one of his finest attributes is his ability to keep his team on point.Which helps them score points.Which wins ga...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:49:08 -0500
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<title>WVU women outlast Louisville</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Vanessa House and Sarah Miles scored 17 points apiece to help No. 16 West Virginia beat Louisville 72-66 Saturday night.House hit two crucial second half 3-pointers to keep the game out of the Cardinals reach as the Mountaineers (20-2, 7-1 Big...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:58:18 -0500
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<title>Louisville has had WVUs number</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - There are two major areas of concern for West Virginia in todays home game with Louisville - handling the Cardinals pressure and dealing with ULs inside muscle.But theres also a third, more cerebral roadblock for the Mountaineers.No one on Wes...]]></description>
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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:28:05 -0500
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<title>Huggins: Its not all bad</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Perhaps much of the recent criticism of West Virginias basketball team is unwarranted. So what if its The Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straight.Who cares that if the Mountaineers arent digging themselves an early hole, they are allowing other teams...]]></description>
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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:28:39 -0500
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<title>Gold-Blue tradition scrapped for Geno</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Im sitting here trying to understand exactly why it is that most college football teams even bother staging spring games.OK, if youre Alabama and 92,000 people show up to watch it, fine. Youre throwing a bone to a rabid and well-heeled fan bas...]]></description>
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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:08:04 -0500
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<title>Huggins getting less out of WVU bench</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - The difference in the boxscores was staggering.On one side there was DePaul, which got 17 points from guard Will Walker and exactly zero from its other four starters combined. The Blue Demons relied almost exclusively on their bench to score a...]]></description>
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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:00:19 -0500
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<title>Florida prep receiver commits to WVU</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia received another football verbal commitment this week from a wide receiver who knows current Mountaineer quarterback Geno Smith very well.Dante Chambers, a 5-foot-11, 165-pound wide receiver from Miramar, Fla., told the South Florida Sun-Sent...]]></description>
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<title>WVU women get back on track</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - West Virginia didnt take long to get back to its winning ways.After having the second-longest winning streak in school history snapped, Korinne Campbell scored 17 points and the No. 16 Mountaineers took out a little frustration on Seton Hall, ...]]></description>
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<title>Well done, Wellington</title>
<description><![CDATA[ROSEMONT, Ill. - Bob Huggins joked one day last week before West Virginias game with Marshall that there was really no easy way to draw the Herds 7-foot center, Hassan Whiteside, away from the basket. The Mountaineers only hope, he surmised, was if perhaps...]]></description>
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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:40:05 -0500
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<title>Notebook: Butler got WVU off on right foot</title>
<description><![CDATA[ROSEMONT, Ill. - If DaSean Butlers confidence in his own ability to put the ball in the basket was wavering, the beginning of Tuesday nights 62-46 win over DePaul should have shaken him out of his crisis.OK, so maybe the rest of the night wasnt lights out....]]></description>
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<title>Huggins hopes to roll in Alabama</title>
<description><![CDATA[THERE WAS a sigh of relief in WVU Recruiting Land this week.Three- or four-star football recruit Barry Brunetti confirmed his commitment to the Mountaineers, stopping, at least for now, the recent string of recruits jumping ship on coach Bill Stewart.There...]]></description>
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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:38:45 -0500
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<title>Suddenly, DePaul isnt a gimme</title>
<description><![CDATA[    MORGANTOWN - A few weeks ago, this looked like the breather in West Virginias rigorous Big East schedule - a late January game against the leagues bottom feeders following two intense non-conference games and with the meat of the league slate yet to co...]]></description>
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<title>Resilient describes this team</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - So after nearly a month of often torturous performances by his West Virginia basketball team, Bob Huggins was asked Monday if he had learned anything. You sort of expected to hear him say that hed discovered some technical glitch that he was w...]]></description>
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<title>Defense, rebounding continue to be key</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Oh, if it were only this simple.Truck Bryant sat slumped in a chair after West Virginias exhausting 71-65 win over No. 21 Ohio State late Saturday afternoon. He talked about the defensive changes the Mountaineers had made after falling behind ...]]></description>
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Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:10:37 -0500
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<title>WVU back in business</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - These slow starts are getting to be a very bad habit for West Virginias basketball team. What the Mountaineers did after their latest one, though, just might be the push they need to get back on track.And even if thats not the case, well, at l...]]></description>
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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:27:04 -0500
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<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Many in the press corps believed West Virginia had Saturdays Top 25 basketball matchup with Ohio State in the bag at halftime.I know. The hosts were trailing by 40-28.But then 75-year old Hot Rod Hundley, in town to have his number retired, un...]]></description>
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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:32:35 -0500
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<title>Hot Rod humbled by retired No. 33</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Hot Rod Hundley continued to spin tales on Saturday like he used to spin a basketball on his finger. During halftime of the West Virginia-Ohio State game, though, his alma mater stopped the Charleston natives spinning long enough to honor him ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[sports@wvgazette.com (Mitch Vingle)]]>
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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:34:14 -0500
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<title>WVUs Smith breaks foot again</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Last summer, when Geno Smith arrived for his first summer at West Virginia, he promptly broke his foot and was limited during his first fall football camp.Now, heading into his first spring - and as WVUs apparent starter at quarterback - Smith...]]></description>
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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:35:51 -0500
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<title>WVU braces for Buckeyes</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Its not often that one of West Virginias midseason non-conference games comes with this kind of punch or as many story lines. Even when the Mountaineers took time out to face UCLA a couple of times in the middle of the Big East schedule a few ...]]></description>
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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:50:44 -0500
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<title>WVU pays back its original showman</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - With just one of his seemingly thousands of stories, Hot Rod Hundley can pretty much explain two things:First, why it is he became the showman he was during his career at West Virginia in the 1950s, and second, why he cant help but laugh when ...]]></description>
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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:54:00 -0500
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<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Playing against one of the most intimidating defensive presences in all of college basketball, a guy on West Virginias bench stepped up and one-upped the guy Wednesday night.Now thats fairly surprising, but not shocking. After all, one of the ...]]></description>
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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:20:21 -0500
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<title>Buckeyes remember thumping by WVU</title>
<description><![CDATA[OHIO STATEs basketball players might feel like theyre pulling double duty during Saturdays showdown at West Virginia.Not only will the Buckeyes be running smack into another nationally ranked team, but theyll be charged with wiping out memories of last yea...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[rickryan@wvgazette.com (Rick Ryan)]]>
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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:22:54 -0500
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<title>Hundley event prompts memories of Charleston native </title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - More than a half-century after he played his last game for the Mountaineers, Hot Rod Hundleys No. 33 will be retired by West Virginia University during Saturday afternoons nationally televised basketball game against Ohio State.This will be an...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[ (Rene Henry)]]>
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Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:25:50 -0500
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<description><![CDATA[The womens game started at a more fan-friendly 6:30 p.m., and it struck West Virginia coach Mike Carey as an idea worth trying.The new starting time worked out well, he thought, and his teams vast superiority likewise played out nicely, giving the Mountain...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[sports@wvgazette.com (Mike Whiteford)]]>
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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:02:13 -0500
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