West Virginia 78, Connecticut 72: Connecticut Has No Answer for Alexander
Published 3/14/2008 at NYT > College Basketball
West Virginia’s Joe Alexander took care of Connecticut, scoring a career-high 34 points to lead the Mountaineers to victory in the quarterfinal round of the Big East tournament.
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Syracuse went out with a bang this year, ending their dramatic NCAA Tournament hopes in excruciating fashion, at the barrage of threes from Villanova. But chin up, Orange fans, you guys are almost a lock for the NIT. This marks the 2nd consecutive year that Syracuse has failed to make the NCAA Tournament, and only the second such time in the Jim Boeheim era (the other being '81-'82),I BLAME ALL OF YOU
Carolina March found this 3/14/2008 on www.cardchronicle.com
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West Virginia 78, Connecticut 72: West Virginia 78, No. 15 Connecticut 72
For the third consecutive season, the Connecticut Huskies were defeated in the first round of the Big East tournament, this time by Bob Huggins’s Mountaineers of West Virginia.
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