Brent Solheim joins to unpack Oscar leaving, Cottrell's injury, the Oklahoma basketball road trip, and a "comeback for the ages", while we also recap football's Liberty Bowl victory over Army!

Summary

On this week's Got Your Eers On?, Brent Solheim joins us to unpack the WVU Basketball news of Oscar entering the transfer portal, Isaiah Cottrell suffering a season ending Achilles injury, wins over Northeastern and Oklahoma State, a loss to Oklahoma, and a second half "comeback for the ages". We also recap WVU Football leaning on Austin Kendall to capture a Liberty Bowl victory over Army. Join us for all this and more on this week's episode of Got Your Eers On?...!

Show Notes:

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INTRO:

• WVU Wins the Autozone Liberty Bowl vs Army 24-21.
• Isaiah Cottrell is out for the season with an Achilles injury.
• Oscar is Gone....transfer to Miami? What happened?
  • Huggins Talked his hustle in a presser last week.
  • Also mentioned attitude issues.
  • Said he "wasn't surprised".
• WVU drops to #14 in AP poll.

Segment 1: Basketball

WVU vs Northeastern, Win, 73-51.

• Ron Everhart used to coach there... how did we miss that?
• Hearing Lanny Frattare call the game gave me late 80's early 90's pirates flashbacks.
• Led by 8pts at the Half...Huggins Not happy when getting interviews by Amanda...
• Hugs is happy that Oscar is playing a little better he almost has a double/double at the half 8pts/10Rebs.
• McNeil Cold again...0-3 for 3s
• Shooting 42% at the half.
• Matthews hits only 3pt in 1st Half...WVU 1-10.
• Oscar finishes with a Double Double...12pts and 15Reb.
• Matthews with 13pt and Culver with 18pt.
• Bridges and Sherman with 6pts.
• Johnson has 5 points in mop up time...
• McBride looks like a point guard today...with 9pts and 5 assists.
• Shot 43% from the field, but only 9% from 3.
• Isaiah Cottrell's injury is a torn achilles, and he is out for the season.

WVU @ Oklahoma, Loss, 75-71.

• Jalen Bridges gets the start in place of Oscar...and has a phenomenal game.
  • Finishes 7-9 (5-6 from three), 19 points.
  • Only reason we even had a pulse in the first half.
• McBride and McCabe on the court at the same time...Deuce playing the #2 spot.
• Oklahoma jump out big with a mid 1st half 11-1 run on WVU...
• WVU Down 38-20 at the Half.
• We witnessed one of the most chicken bleep double technical calls ever in this game.
• WVU brings it to only down 5 with 12 min left in the game.
• Taz owns the 2nd Half...WVU down by 3.
• Taz finishes with 19 (4-6 from three) alongside Bridges to lead WVU scorers.
• Culver not playing much 2nd half... Where is he under 2mins Still on the bench.
  • DC finishes with 2 points, 6 rebounds in 22 minutes.
• WVU made a good effort, but being down 18 at the half was rough...They came back to tie up, but never got the lead back, and drop one to OU on the road.
• Bridges has a breakout game!
• WVU shot insanely well from behind the arc for the game.
• Umoja Gibson, transfer from noted basketball powerhouse North Texas, comes off the bench to score 29 for OU including 8 three pointers. This is normal.

WVU @ Oklahoma State, Win, 87-84.

• Mike Boyton's John Thompson Towel...
• Starting with 4 Guard play again.. with Bridges, Matthews, McNeil, and McBride.
• Culver gets Double/Double in first half.
  • Finished with a rare 22 point, 19 rebound game.
• Down By 10pts at half.
• A lot of people on Twitter admitting they went to bed at halftime...
• Scoot doesn't like the name "Ice" Likele... it is Issac.
• Down by 19 with 11 mins left.
• "A comeback for the ages".
• Hugs gets 300th win as WVU coach.
• Great games by Culver, McBride, Taz and Johnson.
  • Kedrian Johnson finished with the best +/- for WVU, 9 points, and Huggs is already talking about more playing time for him.
  • Deuce, 21 points, including the two crucial 3's late.
  • Taz, 20 points.

OTHER NCAA BASKETBALL

• Entire NCAA tourney will be played in Indy according to sources.

Segment 2: WVU FOOTBALL

• WVU vs Army in the Autozone Liberty Bowl in Memphis!
• Austin Kendall PLAYS = QB TALKING WITH SCOOT.
• Then He enters the portal for another transfer and year to play Football.
• WVU vs USA...
• Doege spend a decade looking for someone to pass to...Leddie was begging for the pass...Doege throws to the other team.
• Meet me there beat me there...gets an offsides...Stills brothers cranked up to play...last game together.
• WVU can’t get it in the end zone...Sumpter kicks for 3...after missing his first. 3-0 WVU.
• Darius a little pumped up....offsides again.
• Army QB runs in after getting lots of free yards on that series and Army leads 7 - 3.
• I like the end zone design.
• TJ Simmons catches a pass for a TD 10 - 7 WVU.
• Doege stinks...what was he thinking...tuck the ball.
• 2nd half starts with Army pushing down the field and scoring a TD 21 - 10.
• Austin Kendall takes over at QB...takes WVU down the field and passes to Olaughlin for TD.
• Onside kick and Alonzo Addae gets the ball!! BOOM!
  • Nicktroy Fortune was so happy!
• Austin Kendall throws a great pass to TJ Simmons to take the lead...
• 2 pt con puts us up 24-21.
• Defense holds....and get interception....WVU wins liberty bowl!
• TJ Simmons is the MVP of the Liberty Bowl, and announces he is not coming back next year.
• The Juice Squad Band was pumped up.
• WVU becomes the first team to overcome a double digit lead against Army in 61 games.
• Neil Brown is 4 - 0 in his head coaching career in Bowl Games... and wins his first with WVU.
• Darius Stills is a 1st team AP all American.... first one WVU has had since 2012 (Tavon Austin).
• Zach Frazier is a freshman All American.
• Leddie Brown goes over 1,000 yards. First player to do so since 2017.

OTHER NCAA FOOTBALL

• Coach Nehlen turned 85 on Jan 1st.
• Texas fires Tom Herman.
• Marshall fires Doc Holliday...with drama!
• Darrnell Wright looking for a new Home? Could it Be Morgantown?

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