The Shotgun/Throwdown: Monday (2/20/12) Edition

By WVUIE97@WVUIE97 Feb 20, 2012, 9:09am EST

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On Saturday, the women's streak came to a halt at the hands of DePaul. While their streak may have ended, you can definitely see the improvement in this team that, with little returning experience, not a lot was expected from them, initially. We also have several men's features with looks ahead to the contests this week with Notre Dame and Marquette. Hertzel also takes a look at some of the already existing areas on the WVU athletic campus that need some serious upgrading for competition in the Big 12 (see: baseball, Hawley Field, ). He also touches on the likely men's sport that WVU needs to add to be compliant with the Big 12. Plus, Huggs needs us all to keep voting. All of this and more...

What You May Have Missed:

Gold And Blue Now: Monday - WVMETRONEWS.COM
the men's basketball team will try and improve its NCAA Tournament resume this week and the women's basketball team shows their support for the fight against breast cancer.

Bob Huggins Uses Twitter to Fight for Cause - WVillustrated
With $100,000 dollars on the line for the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment Fund, the Mountaineers head coach joins the social media craze.

Inspiration is Contagious - ESPN/Infinity
Keep voting for Huggs, once a day, EVERY DAY. He's in a tight battle with Calipari and needs more votes.

HERTZEL COLUMN: WVU not Big 12 ready everywhere - Times West Virginian
In truth, while WVU stacks up well in the Big 12 with its football, basketball and soccer facilities and programs, and has a modern wrestling and gymnastics facility, too, it still has a lot of work to do to bring it to an acceptable level in the Big 12.

Mountaineers Drop Decision to No. 24 DePaul - MSNsportsNET.Com
The West Virginia University women’s basketball team was defeated by No. 24 DePaul, 77-63, at the Coliseum on Saturday afternoon.

MSN DePaul Recap - Mountaineer TV
A recap of [Saturday's] loss to 24th-ranked DePaul at the WVU Coliseum.

WVU Women's Basketball Interviews Following Loss to DePaul - WVillustrated
Coach Carey, Ayana Dunning and Christal Caldwell

Despite loss, Mountaineers much better since start of the season - Daily Athenaeum
Coming into the 2011-12 season, not much was expected from the West Virginia women's basketball team.

Big East position rankings: QB - Big East Blog - ESPN
Any guesses where WVU ranked on these?

Sooner Nation Podcast Tonight At 8:30 (CST) - Welcoming West Virginia - Crimson And Cream Machine
Check out the podcast from our SBNation Sooner brothers that was nice enough to have me on last night

News of Note:

Jones, Kilicli Forming Dynamic Duo - WVillustrated
West Virginia's Kevin Jones and Deniz Kilicli are proving to be a difficult pair to stop for opponents.

HERTZEL COLUMN: Despite win, WVU still has work to do - Times West Virginian
"This gives us a lot of confidence," Jones said. "We know Notre Dame got us at home. There were a couple of plays we slacked on. We will go back to the tape and see what we did wrong. It’s another hostile game."

Mountaineers hoping to continue momentum - Charleston Gazette
As the Providence game proved, though, one win does not a slump-stopper make.

WVU basketball: Browne,WVU are making late push - Charleston Daily Mail
What looked like evidence of a physical game and an emblem for the way the gritty point guard likes to play was actually proof this team is making a literal push for the its postseason potential.

New start for Truck? - Charleston Gazette
Coming off bench might be answer to Bryant’s woes

WVU's Murray, TCU, Huff and Chuck - Charleston Gazette
Vingle's Notebook

Weekly walkthrough: Mizzou-Kansas highlights week of key games - NCAA Basketball - Sporting News
The WVU/ND game is listed as one of the underrated games this week

Weekly Watch: Week 11 - ESPN
Morgantown is a "Place To Be" this coming Friday for the Marquette game

Recruiting:

2013 Prospect Tyler Boyd Excited By WVU Offer - WVillustrated
Pa. athlete interested in the success Holgorsen has with receivers, sides with WVU over Pitt in Brawl rivalry.