Don’t let the high(low?)light of the final play be your only Mountaineer memory from this season, though. West Virginia wasn’t even supposed to make it this far. They were supposed to just roll over and quit when they saw the big, bad Gonzaga Bulldogs in their way. Yeah, right.
We mentioned three areas of importance West Virginia needed to excel at to come out victorious: shooting, defense and rebounding.
In the 1st half, the ‘Eers were 7-for-31 (22 percent) from the field and only 1-for-11 (9.1 percent) from 3-point range. We shouldn’t have expected perfection, but to shoot this poor was extremely frustrating.