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Welcome to February. Tomorrow is National Signing Day so there's a bit of recruiting news today. It has been a fairly slow beginning to the WVU sports news week (even Hertzel seems to have taken the day off yesterday). Also, the WVU women look to get off the schneid tonight as they host the Friars of Providence (shouldn't their women's teams have a different moniker or is it just me?).
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What You May Have Missed:
School takes steps to stop illegal recruiting interactions - Daily Athenaeum
Huggins Sportsline: The Jacobs Defense - WVMetroNews.com
MSN broadcaster Jay Jacobs tries to defend himself against Bob Huggins' tough questions and what happened on the basketball team's three day road trip.
Kerwin Student-Athlete of the Week - MSNsportsNET.Com
Varsity Sports Report...and no, @JFlow41, #we'renottalkingboutkermit
NCAA College Basketball Polls - ESPN
#25 AP & just outside the Coaches Top 25
Bubble Watch - Andy Glockner - SI.com
NCAA Bracket Watch - Andy Glockner - SI.com
#5 SE region
Bracketology - ESPN
#5 SW Region
2011 Women's College Basketball Rankings and Polls for Week 13 - ESPN
#14 AP
West VIRGINA Mountaineers - Notable Misspelled Jerseys - Photos - SI.com
News of Note:
Basketball
Mountaineers Host Providence - MSNsportsNET.Com
WVU Women's Basketball Game Preview: WVU vs. Providence - WVillustrated.com
Head Coach Mike Carey - MountaineerTV
Coach Mike Carey talks about the team's performance against DePaul and the injury to Madina Ali.
WVU basketball: Huggins looking for his 7-8 guys - Charleston Daily Mail
Big East Basketball Proving Black and Blue Label - WVillustrated.com
Too Strong For Its Own Good? - MSNsportsNET.Com
‘The expectations I have for myself have changed’ - WVU Sports with Mike Casazza
Casazza talks about Joe Mazzulla
Mitchell's Return Unknown - WVMETRONEWS.COM
Blurb and video
Football
VIDEO: WVU Football Interviews - WVillustrated.com
Julian, The Tandy, Urban, JJ, Lindamood and Bitancurt
Jenkins ready for spring - Parkersburg News and Sentinel
He's already a senior?
2011 Returning Starters! - Phil Steele's College Football
He ranks WVU 103 for returning starters
How All-Big East team ranked as recruits - Big East Blog - ESPN
Recruiting:
Selders Stable On Commitment? - WVMETRONEWS.COM
WVU Recruiting Process Culminates in Wednesday's Signing Day - WVillustrated.com
Mountaineers ready to add 17 recruits - Charleston Gazette
Excuse WVU for 2011 class - Daily Athenaeum
Five Things to Watch for On National Signing Day - NCAAFB FanHouse
Louisville's top-20 class leads Big East recruiting race - ESPN
Complete conference breakdown
Big East recruiting needs - Big East Blog - ESPN
Rules fail to curb schools from oversigning football players - USA Today
Around the League (and Beyond):
Big East Basketball Power Rankings Week 12 - The UConn Blog
Big East, SEC and Texas Highlight Big Week for College Basketball - NCAABB FanHouse
Can't anybody here make sense of this game? - Charleston Gazette
Chipotle Stalks Orange Nation Like A Wolf Stalking A Lamb - Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician
Louisville can't quite win against Georgetown 62-59 - Courier-Journal
All Aboard The Bandwagon! Georgetown Beats Louisville 62-59 - Casual Hoya
Cats struggling heading into February - The Nova Blog
Toro Solves Recruiting, Oversigning, and College Sports Creepiness Forever - Voodoo Five
Seton Hall Basketball: JP's 5 Thoughts- Herb, Hazell, FTs, Officials, CBA - South Orange Juice
A Bunch of Commitments: Recapping a Busy Weekend - Pitt Redshirt Diaries
They got commits from the 2 guys that visited them and us this past week/weekend
Cincinnati Bearcats have difficult road ahead - Cincinnati Enquirer
As player of the year buzz grows, Kemba Walker struggling to live up to the hype - The UConn Blog
Hoop Thoughts - Seth Davis - SI.com
Five-Step Drop: Change of Heart - NCAAFB FanHouse
What's On Tap:
Providence Friars vs. (14) West Virginia Mountaineers - ESPN
7:00 tonight from the Coliseum on WVPBS
Video of (Dis)Interest:
Warning: a couple naughty words slip through
Miss Throwdown:
Today's Miss Throwdown is a SI swimsuit model and John Legend's girlfriend. Here's today's gallery of Christine Teigen (click on the pic).
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