West Virginia
West Virginia Enters the Season in SI’s Top 50
Sports activities Illustrated launched its males’s basketball 1-363 preseason rankings on Wednesday, inserting the West Virginia College Mountaineers at No. 49.
The Mountaineer basketball program is seeking to bounce again from a disappointing 16-17 season that included a 4-12 Huge 12 Convention document and a final place end within the league.
West Virginia welcomes seven transfers to the staff this season, though Emmitt Matthews Jr. returns after a season enjoying near house for the Washington Huskies, and freshmen Josiah Harris and Josiah Davis.
Together with Matthews, guard Erik Stevenson, and ahead Trey Mitchell spotlight the group of transfers.
Matthews noticed his offensive manufacturing leap from 7.8 factors per sport his junior yr in Morgantown to 11.7 as a Huskie final yr and upped his rebounding common from 4.0 to 4.7.
Stevenson averaged 11.6 factors per sport final season at South Carolina, whereas additionally chipping in 4,3 rebounds and 1.1 steals per sport.
Senior guard Kedrian Johnson is the one Mountaineer returning with important minutes (20.4) and sophomore guard Kobe Johnson made 32 appearances and averaged almost 9 minutes per sport.
The Huge 12 Convention has 9 members contained in the Prime 50 with the Baylor Bears coming in sixth, whereas Kansas is ninth and Texas is twelfth. Texas Tech was positioned seventeenth and TCU is No. 23. Oklahoma rests at 40, Oklahoma sits at 42 and Iowa State is one spot above WVU at No. 48. Kansas State is the one outlier at 69th.
WVU Nonconference Opponent SI Rankings
Mount St. Mary’s – 290
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Pitt – 99
Morehead St. – 240
Penn – 140
Purdue – 35
Gonzaga – 2
Xavier – 25
Navy – 210
UAB – 46
Buffalo – 187
Stony Brook – 223
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