MOUNTAINEERS CONTINUE IMPRESSIVE PLAY, CRUSH SETON HALL 92-66

By Matt Whitfield

West Virginia continued in hot streak Saturday winning its fifth straight against Seton Hall before 8, 127 at the Prudential Center. West Virginia is now nationally ranked in the coaches and AP poll, being ranked 22nd and 25th in each respectively.

Like West Virginia’s last four games Saturday’s game was a relative breeze as Da’Sean Butler and Alex Ruoff finished with 18 points a piece and the Mountaineers bench would outscored the Pirates bench by a margin of 33 to 10. If that wasn’t enough Bob Huggins’s team wasn’t missing free throws as they made twenty of twenty-five attempts from the line. The Pirates Jeremy Hazell, the Big East second leading scorer, did have 29 points on the day in the losing effort.

The Mountaineers are now 11-2, and 1-0 in Big East play. They will face 5th ranked Connecticut and Hasheem Thabeet at the Coliseum Tuesday night.