MOUNTAINEERS TAKE 1 OF 2 IN THE BIG 12 TOURNAMENT AND WE'RE DANCING! Tech win, Kansas loss, and a 9 seed vs MD!

Summary

On this week's Got Your Eers On? WVU Basketball gets a win over Texas Tech before bowing out to Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament. The Mountaineers are now a 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament and face Maryland in the first round this Thursday. Notable coaching changes around the Big 12 and around the country, Huggs is now officially the active leader in head coaching wins, the transfer portal is setting new records, and realignment rumors continue! Join us for all this and more on this week’s episode of Got Your Eers On!

Show Notes:

Basketball

• Big 12 Basketball Awards:
  • Kansas’s Jalen Wilson POY
  • Erik Stevenson 3rd Team All-Big 12
    • Stevenson was also the Big 12’s Newcomer and Player of the Week last week
    • Now 1 of 5 players in WVU Basketball history to score 23+ points in 5 straight games
• TCU’s Eddie Lampkin
  • First reported that he stepped away from the team to deal with personal matters
  • Entered the portal on Monday
  • Has been contacted by WVU
• WVU beat Texas Tech, 78-62
  • Advances to the 2nd round of the Big 12 tournament
• Texas Tech parted ways with Mark Adams
  • Apparently a significant number of Tech players said they would not return if Adams remained as the coach
  • Tech’s Fardaws Aimaq immediately entered the transfer portal
  • WVU has already reached out to potential Tech transfer Robert Jennings
    • He’s 1 of 5 additional portal players to have been confirmed as having contact with WVU so far
• WVU lost to Kansas in the 2nd round of the Big 12 tournament, 78-61
  • Bill Self was not on the sideline as he was dealing with a health issue
• WVU a 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament
  • Will face 8 seed Maryland Thursday at 12:15 in Birmingham, AL
  • Winner likely faces number 1 overall seed Alabama
  • WVU opens as a 2 point favorite
  • WVU is 24-14 all-time vs the Twerps
  • Heading into the tournament, a third of WVU’s games were against teams now seeded 3 or higher (!)
• Big 12 put 7 teams into the NCAA Tournament
• WVU finished strong in basketball per game attendance this season

Other Basketball:

• Madisen Smith of WVU Women’s Basketball named Player of the Week last week
• Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim weirdly retired
  • This makes Huggs the active leader in head coaching wins
• Chris Beard is finalizing a deal to be the next head coach at Ole Miss
• Georgetown parted ways with Patrick Ewing
• McNeese suspended new head coach Will Wade for the first 5 games of next season
  • Apparently this was in his contract
• UNC ain’t going to no NIT…
• 173 players (a new record) have gone portaling as of Monday

Football:

• Seahawks signed Geno Smith to a 3 year $105 million deal
• David Long signed a 2 year $11 million deal with the Dolphins
• Kyzir White signed a 2 year $11 million deal with the Cardinals
• Realignment talk:
  • Former ESPN President wants the ACC to merge with the Pac 12
  • Seems like daily reports of the Big 12’s Brett Yormark continuing to talk to the “4 corner schools”

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