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Column: Mountaineers turn Baylor’s stars into onlookers

COMMENTARY

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Rico Gathers scored a basket less than 3 minutes into the game and didn’t score another.

Taurean Prince put up 10 points but couldn’t hit the broad side of a Zooperstar.

Baylor’s big, bad weapons were by neutralized by West Virginia and subsequently demoted to cheerleaders by their coach Scott Drew, who saw a 19-point, second-half hole and opted to let the B unit take a crack.

Kudos to Drew, whose unsungs temporarily made it a contest, before the Mountaineers—those first-place Mountaineers—finished the drill convincingly, 80-69.