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JOE ALEXANDER: "DEPAUL > DUKE"
Published 3/22/2008 at With Leather
Alright, the West Virginia star cager didn't actually say that, but he did say: Alexander on breaking down Duke on film: “We knew that coming in that they were just going to stand around and not rebound. So we were ready to exploit that.”  Alexander on the Big East vs. the A.C.C.: “People are always hating on the Big East. I don’t understand why. We came in the fifth in the Big East and we manhandled a good A.C.C. team.” I suppose a ...

WVU Wants You to Know the Big East Is Good
Published 3/24/2008 at The Sporting Blog
By Chris Mottram WVU, and mostly star forward Joe Alexander, felt the need to use their postgame press conference on Saturday as an opportunity to tell the world how great the Big East is. You know, the same Big East whose best team lost to the Southern Conference champs, and whose fourth best team lost to the Sun Belt champs: Other choice postgame comments from Alexander: "We don’t care that they’re Duke. That doesn’t mean anything to us," and, "People are always hating on the Big East. I don’t understand why. We came in the fifth in the Big East and we manhandled a good ACC ...

When Our Work Is Done For Us
Published 3/25/2008 by Charley West at West BY GOD Virginia
... We take pride here at WBGV in talking as much shit towards other teams as possible. But, we also take pride in sitting on our ass and letting other people do the job for us. That’s why your post game press conference was a thing of beauty. It killed the proverbial two birds with the proverbial one stone. ...

On Duke and Hatred, Part II
Published 3/26/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... , a virulently homophobic (if sometimes amusing) rant against the Blue Devils that already has been viewed 50,000 times. The sleepy Verizon Center crowd was roused to life twice by the prospect of rooting against the Blue Devils; the two loudest games of the weekend were easily Belmont-Duke and West Virginia-Duke. A New York Times blog post containing anti-Duke musings from the West Virginia locker room received ...

WVU Wants You to Know the Big East Is Good
Published 28 days ago at The Sporting Blog
By Chris Mottram WVU, and mostly star forward Joe Alexander, felt the need to use their postgame press conference on Saturday as an opportunity to tell the world how great the Big East is. You know, the same Big East whose best team lost to the Southern Conference champs, and whose fourth best team lost to the Sun Belt champs: Other choice postgame comments from Alexander: "We dont care that theyre Duke. That doesnt mean anything to us," and, "People are always hating on the Big East. I dont understand why. We came in the fifth in the Big East and we manhandled a good ACC ...