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Zone defense & Zoom recruiting, Mike Carey’s 20th season at WVU could look different

(Mike Carey preseason Zoom conference)

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Few words need to be spent about how different 2020 has been from any other year than this — Mike Carey is considering using a zone defense when his WVU women’s basketball team takes the court this winter.

“I don’t like to play zone,” Carey said. “I say we will put a zone in and we will probably use it two minutes the whole year.”

With a program built on a ‘Physical for 40’ mantra and man-to-man pressure defense, Carey can see some value in experimentation.