Cinderella Colorado gets another upset victim in WVU in Big 12 tourney

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Mar. 12—MORGANTOWN — Cinderella just didn’t take a bite out of West Virginia on Wednesday, she took off one of her glass slippers and beat the Mountaineers in the back of the head with it.

Colorado, a team that won just three Big 12 games during the regular season, now has two more in the Big 12 tournament, as the underdog and 16th-seeded Buffaloes took out eighth-seeded WVU 67-60 inside the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Mo.

BOX SCORE The Mountaineers (19-13) were denied any opportunity of building some type of momentum heading into next week’s NCAA tournament with the second-round loss.

Instead, the Mountaineers were simply outhustled and outplayed by the last-place team in the conference.

The only possible solace WVU could take away from this one is, at the very least, they aren’t alone on Colorado’s upset tour. The Buffaloes (14-19) also took out TCU on Tuesday.

Colorado advances to play top-seeded Houston on Thursday. WVU returns to Morgantown with a lot of time to think about this one before Selection Sunday arrives.

“We needed it today, ” Colorado head coach Tad Boyle said. “We got it. These guys delivered.”

At the top of WVU’s list of things to ponder has to be generating some type of offense other than Javon Small.

The WVU senior point guard finished with a curious 23 points—more on that in a second—while the rest of his teammates combined to shoot just 39 % from the floor and the Mountaineers also turned the ball over 15 times.

WVU forward Amani Hansberry, who had scored 30 points over the final two games of the regular season, was held to just two points and those didn’t come until the 2:13 mark of the second half.

As for the peculiarity of Small’s game, he came out with 13 points over the first 11 minutes, 30 seconds of the first half. That led to WVU surging out to a 27-14 lead.

Over the final 8:30, Small didn’t score again and was held scoreless until he knocked down two free throws with 10:38 remaining in the game.

By that time, the Buffaloes already had their…

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Author : The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.

Publish date : 2025-03-13 02:36:00

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