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- | ====== January 10, 2009 - West Virginia vs. Marquette ====== | ||
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- | ===== McNeal’s 26 Help Marquette Past Mountaineers 75-53 ===== | ||
- | MILWAUKEE — For a half, the matchup between No. 18 Marquette and No. 25 West Virginia looked more like rugby than basketball. | ||
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- | At one point, a pair of Golden Eagles players ended up on the floor tangled in a scrum with a couple of Mountaineers as 3-on-3 play continued down the court without a whistle. | ||
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- | But after going into halftime bruised, beaten up and trailing by two, the Golden Eagles’ high-octane offense recovered to take control down the stretch for a 75-53 victory over the Mountaineers on Saturday. | ||
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- | “It was the most physical game I can remember, | ||
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- | [[Dominic James]] added 17 points and [[Wesley Matthews]] scored all 13 of his points in the second half for the Golden Eagles (15-2, 4-0 Big East). | ||
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- | “I thought it was a classic Big East fight, in regards to everybody’s going to fall down, everybody’s going to go after every rebound,” Marquette coach Buzz Williams said. | ||
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- | After getting a pair of remarkable shooting performances from McNeal and Matthews in their previous two games, Marquette shot 33.3 percent in the first half—including 1-for-10 from 3-point range. | ||
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- | Some of Marquette’s shots began to fall in the second half. And some of those physical no-calls turned into opportunities at the free-throw line, much to the chagrin of [[West Virginia]] coach Bob Huggins. | ||
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- | Asked about the officiating after the game, Huggins held his tongue. | ||
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- | “You all are trying to get me in trouble,” Huggins said. “I get in enough trouble. I would love to wax eloquently about it, but I can’t.” | ||
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- | Da’Sean Butler led West Virginia (11-4, 1-2) with 16 points, but was shut out in the second half after getting into quick foul trouble and eventually fouling out. | ||
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- | The Golden Eagles took control with a 16-5 run down the stretch—and most of their points came at the free-throw line. | ||
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- | With Marquette leading by 2, McNeal began the run with a 3-pointer at the 8:29 mark, earning a slap on the backside from Williams as he ran back on defense. | ||
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- | West Virginia’s Wellington Smith made a jumper, but the Golden Eagles went on to score the next six points on free throws. | ||
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- | One of those fouls was the finale for Butler, who picked up a pair in the first four minutes of the second half, then sat on the bench until the 7:04 mark. He fouled out less than a minute after getting back in the game. | ||
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- | His final two fouls were called away from the ball. | ||
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- | “Granted, if it is me guarding the basketball and I commit a foul, then I can live with it,” Butler said. “But on those two calls, the referee didn’t even know what I did when I asked him. I don’t know what to tell you.” | ||
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- | Matthews picked up his fourth foul, and was replaced by Dwight Burke—who immediately blocked a shot by Smith into the front row. Marquette then forced a bad shot by Will Thomas as the shot clock expired, the beginning of a two-minute scoreless skid by the Mountaineers. | ||
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- | McNeal hit another 3-pointer with 5:26 left, putting Marquette up 60-48. Huggins called a timeout, then was called for a technical foul for arguing with an official. | ||
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- | McNeal hit one of two free throws, and West Virginia’s Alex Ruoff hit a 3-pointer to cut the Golden Eagles’ lead to 10. But [[Lazar Hayward]] made a 3-pointer, putting Marquette ahead 64-51 with 3:22 left. | ||
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- | Hayward, who took intravenous fluids before the game, was limited to four points and five rebounds in 23 minutes. Williams said he didn’t know what exactly was wrong with Hayward. | ||
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- | “I told them to give him an I.V., and he was going to play,” Williams said. | ||
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- | McNeal played his second straight game with a finger injury. He taped it up at Rutgers on Wednesday, then began Saturday’s game with a sleeve on his finger. | ||
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- | Williams was skeptical of the sleeve, and told McNeal he’d have to take it off if he missed some shots early on. | ||
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- | “I saw him before the game and said, ‘Is that some stuff that Kobe wears? | ||
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- | McNeal started cold, so off came the sleeve. | ||
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- | “He came to the bench and he was rubbing it,” Williams said. “So I told him he needed to take it off.” | ||
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- | ===== Box Score ===== | ||
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- | West Virginia vs Marquette | ||
- | 1/10/09 11 a.m. at Bradley Center - Milwaukee, Wis. | ||
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- | VISITORS: West Virginia 11-4, 1-2 BE | ||
- | TOT-FG | ||
- | ## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN | ||
- | 01 BUTLER, Da' | ||
- | 03 EBANKS, Devin....... f 4-6 0-0 0-0 0 3 3 | ||
- | 35 SMITH, Wellington... f 3-6 0-1 0-0 2 1 3 | ||
- | 22 RUOFF, Alex......... g 4-12 | ||
- | 25 BRYANT, Darryl...... g 0-4 0-2 0-0 0 1 1 | ||
- | 02 THOROUGHMAN, | ||
- | 05 JONES, Kevin........ | ||
- | 24 THOMAS, Will........ | ||
- | 41 FLOWERS, John....... | ||
- | 45 PROBY, Dee.......... | ||
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- | TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 12-24 50.0% 2nd Half: 9-36 25.0% Game: 35.0% DEADB | ||
- | 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 4-7 57.1% 2nd Half: 1-7 14.3% Game: 35.7% REBS | ||
- | F Throw % 1st Half: 3-5 60.0% 2nd Half: 3-5 60.0% Game: 60.0% 3 | ||
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- | HOME TEAM: Marquette 15-2, 4-0 BE | ||
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- | ## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN | ||
- | 12 Burke, Dwight....... f 0-1 0-0 4-6 2 3 5 | ||
- | 32 Hayward, Lazar...... f 2-6 1-2 2-2 2 7 9 | ||
- | 01 James, Dominic...... g 8-18 | ||
- | 22 McNeal, Jerel....... g 9-19 | ||
- | 23 Matthews, Wesley.... g 3-9 0-1 7-7 1 4 5 | ||
- | 04 Hazel, Patrick...... | ||
- | 33 Butler, Jimmy....... | ||
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- | TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 11-33 33.3% 2nd Half: 12-23 52.2% Game: 41.1% DEADB | ||
- | 3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 1-10 10.0% 2nd Half: 4-7 57.1% Game: 29.4% REBS | ||
- | F Throw % 1st Half: 6-6 100 % 2nd Half: 18-21 85.7% Game: 88.9% 3,1 | ||
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- | Officials: Jim Burr, John Gaffney, Joe Lindsay | ||
- | Technical fouls: West Virginia-TEAM. Marquette-None. | ||
- | Attendance: 17085 | ||
- | Score by Periods | ||
- | West Virginia................. | ||
- | Marquette..................... | ||
- | ID=715340 | ||
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- | Points in the paint-WVU 24,MU 22. Points off turnovers-WVU 6,MU 8. | ||
- | 2nd chance points-WVU 9,MU 10. Fast break points-WVU 10,MU 17. | ||
- | Bench points-WVU 10,MU 8. Score tied-5 times. Lead changed-7 times. | ||
- | Last FG-WVU 2nd-01:31, MU 2nd-00:24. | ||
- | Largest lead-WVU by 8 1st-08:02, MU by 22 2nd-00:24. | ||
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