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*** Official West Virginia vs #3 IOWA STATE Game(Day) Thread ***

CascadeClone said:
Houston is super physical, but WV was DIRTY. Shoves in the back on rebounds, trips, elbows. Huggy really coached them how to get away with it too. So glad he is gone.
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Even after a couple years of Huggyball, it was really gross how poorly the officiating crews were prepared to handle their style of play. The crews that saw it all the time just decided to turn a blind eye but it killed WV in the big dance every year.
 
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RezClone said:
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Just listened to them while working out. Pretty decent, other than 145 ad reads for Bobby's Boat Sales and Timmy's Barbecue & Insurance Sales. Lots of respect to ISU players, went thru their ludicrously good shooting stats in detail. Pretty good take on the team, really.

Also - "Tamin Lipsey in his 9th year" - really appreciate when opponents have that love/hate for one of ours.
 
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KennyPratt42 said:
Shouldn't make a difference other than margin of victory, but Brenen Lorient being out for West Virginia will hurt them quite a bit. He is their best interior defender, leads the team in blocks and top 75 in the country in blocks per game. He is also second on their team in rebounding and third for scoring and assists.
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I think him not playing is another 5 or 6 points advantage for ISU. Think he would have guarded Milan or Jeff, guy is a solid defender
 
Hasn’t been to a conference game in a while. What is the parking situation? Any different with students on break?
 
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bustamoveisu said:
He lacks depth/insight and his repetitive cliche' and commentary gets old. I would get it if he was a former superstar with name recognition, but he doesn't check that box either. He sucks.
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I like Coach better, but I don’t hate King McClure as much as some do.
 
packattack425 said:
Hasn’t been to a conference game in a while. What is the parking situation? Any different with students on break?
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There is public parking in the western side of the main parking lots. I think it would be A1-A4 and B1-B4. I believe B1 is probably reserved for media and staff. If there is an event at CY Stephens you may need to go further down.
 
bawbie said:
Some thoughts on WVU

As is the case often with new coaches - their starting 5 is entirely senior transfers. In this case they are all from mid-major programs and mostly have transferred multiple times.

The only one that was a Top100 recruit out of HS (Chance Moore) has only played half the games and missed their last one - not sure if he plays.

They have only played 1 game in the last 20 days - a 30pt win over MVSU. Before that they lost in double OT to Ohio State on 12/13.

They are #55 in Torvik and #65 in kenpom (subsequent numbers from Torvik) - rating better on defense (#38) than offense (#101).

They are 9-4, but not a good 9-4. The only Top 50 teams they've played are Clemson and Ohio State and while they have played both close, they did lose both of them. Their other loses are to teams around 100 in Wake Forest and Xavier.

Their only Top 250 win is a 30 point thrashing of Pitt (#95)

They are led by Honor Huff, a 5'10" Sr whose position should be listed as "chucker" - although he does make close to 42%. He played a year at VMI, then sat out before playing 2 at Chattanooga and now WVU. At 5'10", he's a bit like Josh Hubbard from MSU who we played earlier this year in that they can get a lot of shots off despite being undersized, but Hubbard takes both threes and twos. Huff does not - he takes nearly 10 threes a game and less than 2 twos. He also doesn't pass the ball much (or turn it over). He does get to the line pretty well for an extreme 3pt shooter, I wonder if it isn't mostly getting fouled on long shots.

The other starter averaging double figures is Brenen Loriant (6'9" forward) who played 2 years at Florida Atlantic and one at North Texas before WVU. He's averaging 11 and 6. He doesn't shoot the 3 a lot (less than 2 a game) but can make them (38% career).

The '3' is Treysen Eaglestaff (6'6"), a transfer from North Dakota (where he played 3 years with old friend Eli King). He's historically a very good 3pt shooter and averaged almost 19ppg at UND last year, but is struggling this year at under 30% from deep and scoring just under 10ppg.

Their PG is Jasper Floyd (6'3"). He went JUCO->Fairfield->North Texas->WVU. He averages 8 pts and about 4 assists a game, along with 2.5 turnovers. He's shooting 45% from 3, but only on 20 attempts.

In the middle they have Harlan Obioha (7'0") who played 2 years at Niagra, 1 at UNC Wilmington before going to WVU. He's big, but only scores 6 pts and gets 6 boards a game and doesn't do much else (not many blocks, fouls, etc). He is a decent offensive rebounder.

Overall they play a very very slow pace and don't do anything especially well statistically.
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Harlan Obioha was also the 7'0" OT that CMC offered a scholarship for football during COVID.

Time is a flat circle
 
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ISU 83-64. Time to crank up the intensity on both offense and defense for a majority of the game at least. Last two games had, in my opinion, what seemed like really long stretches that looked like the Cyclones were sleepwalking.
 
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inCyteful said:
Hey, I am thankful we have some time to wait. I am going crazy trying to track all the FB portal commits pouring in, hope to be caught up by game time.

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Wait we are going to have more than 22 people on our FB team nest yr? I thought the world had ended earlier this wk. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
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