WVU women win after wakeup call on opening night
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia got hit with a wake-up call on opening night. The 24th-ranked Mountaineers trailed by as many as seven points early and then let a chunk of a 17-point advantage slip away in the fourth quarter, but still pulled out a 68-64 victory inside Hope Coliseum. The Mountaineers (1-0) won their 13th consecutive season opener and held the lead for just shy of 31 minutes, but were still never able to put the Rams away. “It looked like the first game of the year with 10 newcomers and we were a little inconsistent,” was how WVU head coach Mark Kellogg put it. ...