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Mountaineers Resume Play Monday Night
November 22, 2015 03:09 PM | Men's Basketball
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia continues play in the Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational on Monday night with a non-conference game against Bethune-Cookman at the WVU Coliseum.
This will be the final on-site contest before the invitational field moves to Las Vegas for games at 10,000-seat Orleans Arena later this week.
West Virginia will face Richmond at 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, November 26, and then either Cal or San Diego State on Friday night.
Both games in Las Vegas will be televised nationally on FSN1.
Last Friday, West Virginia overcame a slow start to defeat Stetson 103-62 at the Coliseum. Junior forward Devin Williams continued his streak of double-doubles with 23 points and 10 rebounds against the Hatters.
It’s the second year in a row Williams, averaging a team-best 20 points and 11.7 rebounds per game, has started the season with three consecutive double-doubles. Also, he’s the first Mountaineer player since Warren Baker in 1973 to begin the year with three double-doubles and the junior is one of only 17 players in the country to have three double-double performances so far this year.
Jaysean Paige contributed 19 points on seven-of-nine shooting coming off the bench, while Elijah Macon added a career-high 18 points on eight-of-eight shooting against the Hatters last Friday night.
West Virginia (3-0) had a 60-22 advantage in the paint against Stetson, something the Mountaineers should be able to capitalize on once again Monday night against a Bethune-Cookman team that has just one player on its roster standing 6-feet-8-inches or taller (junior LaRon Smith).
Smith is averaging 8.7 points and a team-best 9.7 rebounds per game while shooting 60 percent from the floor in the Wildcats’ three games so far this year against Trinity, UT-Martin and Richmond.
Junior point guard Jordan Potts leads Bethune-Cookman (2-1) with an average of 19.7 points per game, hitting a team-best nine threes, while 6-foot-7-inch forward Mario Moody shows averages of 14.7 points and nine rebounds per contest.
In Bethune-Cookman’s most recent game at Richmond, an 89-64 loss, Pitts led the Wildcats with 20 points. Moody contributed 12 and a team-best seven rebounds.
Good tickets still remain for Monday night’s game and tickets can be purchased through the Mountaineer Ticket Office by calling toll-free 1-800 WVU GAME or by logging on to WVUGAME.com.
ROOT Sports (Rob King, Warren Baker, Rob Incmikoski) will televise the game locally, while the Mountaineer Sports Network from IMG’s radio coverage begins with the pregame show at 6 p.m. on stations throughout West Virginia and online via leanStream and the mobile app TuneIn.
Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
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