STATE OF KANSAS: 2, WVU: 0. WVU Basketball takes loses to Kansas State and Kansas, WVU Football sees another starter hit the transfer portal, and WVU Baseball starts the season off 3-0!

Summary

On this week's Got Your Eers On?, WVU Basketball loses to the entire state of Kansas as they take one on the chin in Manhattan to Kansas State before losing to the Jayhawks in the Coliseum, WVU Football sees yet another starter hit the transfer portal which kicks off a new round of portal talk, and in better news Randy Mazey's WVU Baseball team starts the season 3-0. Join us for all this and more on this week's episode of Got Your Eers On?...!

Show Notes:

Segment 1: Basketball

• WVU loses to Kansas State, 78-73
  • Had a lead, but then went on a 10 minutes scoring drought.
  • Huggs sent Gabe a message by not playing him this game.
  • Kansas State shot 39 free throws in the game...
  • Cottrell had a career high 13 in this game.
  • Huggs postgame:
    • "We're fine, we just need to win 5 of these last 6."
    • No room in the program for Gabe's actions.
• WVU loses to Kansas, 71-58
  • WVU shot 27.9% tonight. 16th worst shooting night since 1956. 3 of those have happened in the last 11 games (!!). 11 of those have happened since 2008.
  • Kansas grabbed 50 rebounds...
  • Do we just recruit projects that we can't develop?
  • Huggs postgame:
    • "Would give my right arm for Cam Thoroughman."
    • "Unfathomable that you can't make a layup at this point in your career."
• Bob Huggins is once again a finalist for the Naismith Hall of Fame for 2022.
• Was announced that the Mountaineers will participate in the 2022 Phil Knight Legacy Tournament next November.
  • Field includes Duke, Florida, Gonzaga, Oregon State, Portland State, Purdue, West Virginia and Xavier

Next Up:

• At TCU Monday, 02/21
  • 8:00 pm ESPN+
• At Iowa State Wednesday, 02/23
  • 7:00 pm on ESPNU

Football Notes:

• Daryl Porter Jr. announces he's entering the transfer portal, and Mountaineer twitter chaos ensues...
  • He essentially went (on Twitter, at least) from an anti-portal stance to hitting the portal very quickly...
  • Sam Brown chimes into his replies with a "the grass is greener" tweet
  • Tykee Smith tells him to do what's best for him
  • Scottie Young reminds everyone that he hit the portal pre-NIL and that "it's bigger than ball"
  • T.J. Simmons tweets that we're not gonna figure it out...
  • Darius Stills tweets that the portal has ruined college football.
  • His prior tweet to this seemed to be a realization of how much money he could earn (?)
  • This is all coincidentally timed around Jahmile Addae landing at Miami...
• Defensive lineman Tavis Lee also announced he's hitting the transfer portal.
• WVU leads the Big 12 with 18 players transferring out of the program.
• QB recruit Raheim Jeter was shot in the leg and will need surgery.

Baseball:

• WVU has opened the season 3-0
  • Most recently a 10-0 victory over Central Michigan.
• Hussey's first career hit is a grand slam!
• JJ Weatherholt and Austin Davis combine to go 6-10 with 6 RBIs in an opening day

Other:

• Former NFL All-Pro Carl Lee is taking over the football head coaching duties at South Charleston High School.

Keeping Score...Season Predictions

Prediction	Gweedoe	Scoot	Johnson
Leads the team in scoring?	Taz	Taz	Taz
1st into the Jordan McCabe (TM) Doghouse?	Curry	Kedrian	Kedrian
Total wins?	19	21	19
Highest AP poll ranking?	20	15	Also rec votes
Seed in the 2022 NCAA Tourney?	9	7	8
Huggins elected into the Basketball HOF?	No	No	No

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