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Final
– First defeat in a home opener since 1988: Robert Morris.
FINAL: Buffalo 99, (13) WVU 94
A stunner. The Bulls clear their 13-point deficit in 15:43 to win a legendary performance by CJ Massinburg at Mountaineers. They were rudderless without Beetle Bolden in the last stretch.https: //t.co/8MzL76h9wc pic.twitter.com/VstUtVz5Od
– Mike Casazza (@mikecasazza) November 10, 2018
pregame
– Beetle Bolden did everything during warm-ups before the match.
– Derek Culver was warming up too.
– Senator Joe Manchin is here. I got caught behind him in the lobby. He had … a mixed reception.
– Entries: Bolden, Harler, West, Ahmad and Konate.
First half
– The first shot of the season for WVU is a failed Ahmad 3. The first basket is a West 3.
– Oh man. Konate dissolves at the top of the key and makes a 3. Buffalo returns. West makes a corner 3 and is fouled. He hits the free throw, and it is 10-2. Konaté should not be able to do that.
– Regular season debut for Jordan McCabe. On the defensive, Buffalo hits a kickout 3. Miss a 3 behind a screen. Gets his rebound, is harassed and hits the ball out of the game. "This is not a high school student," shouts a man at 4:35 pm.
– Brandon Knapper scores for McCabe and scores a straight line at 3. WVU leads 13-5 and is 4-in-7 from 3 points and 0-to-1 to 2 points.
– Ahmad is 0-on-3 with a turnover, and Buffalo believes that it can lead to him. He gets shot.
– Do that two turnovers Ahmad. Chase Harler saves him by taking a loader … in the circle and probably moving too. Harler is hurting his back in pre-season by taking a load.
– Buffalo is upside down right now. WVU can not stop inside and Buffalo does not miss out. He is 13-12.
– WVU has turnovers on four consecutive possessions.
– At 12:38, WVU has a double pointer.
– Gordon triples the threats of the elbow, leads and fires a shot foul. Go 1-to-2 to the foul line, but I need one second. It was also out of time.
Bolden tried to get him to Gordon at the highest position. It's stolen. Gordon comes back and blocked a lob that passes on the panel.
– Ahmad is not endearing. Figure of business. Defense. Number 2 does not consider much Ahmad as a defender.
– A lot of shots in one pass or even without defeat until now. Defensive rotations are not great either.
– Yes, WVU can not stop or catch the ball.
– Gordon triple threat himself on the bench.
– Both teams missed 9 shots on 10. Buffalo leads 20-16.
– WVU is 1 for 7 on a range of 2 points and 4 for 13 on a range of 3 points. Buffalo's head is only 22-18.
– Buffalo disintegrates. It seems that the Bulls can shoot anywhere in the 3-point line, but they continue to take 3. WVU has made five consecutive shots. Three are 3. The head is 31-26.
– It took 12:18 to WVU to get 18 points. It is the same in the past 9:42.
– Buffalo lets Boldon take a screen and drive to the left. The southpaw with the wrong left hand did a left-handed lay-up just before the ring. WVU leads 38-30 at the half and, we may agree, did not play well. But neither are the Bulls. But WVU started 5-in-20 and finished 8-in-10. Buffalo … is not.
Half time
HALFTIME: (13) WVU 38, Buffalo 30
WVU needed 12:18 to score 18 points. Scored 20 points in the final at 7:42 and managed 8 of 10 shots to finish the half. https://t.co/cMzPY6dXpE
– Mike Casazza (@mikecasazza) November 10, 2018
– Buffalo is 7 -19 years old on dunks / layups. Why Buffalo took 17 3 is a mystery.
Second part
– WVU is the first with 10 points in advance. It's usually good enough to win a match. But last year was not ordinary. Remember, 21-5 in the lead by 10 and beautiful defeats in these five defeats.
– WVU leads 49-36 with under-16 time, and I'm not sure Buffalo will be back in double digits.
– Knapper, Haley, Ahmad, Harris and Konate are hard to circulate or dribble. It was fun to watch.
– Buffalo's Harris is a very good one. He was 2-10 / 0-5 in the first half and looked a bit sheepish in the second half – he did not actually shoot. On the timeout of the under-12s, he scores a set.
– Lamont West and-one in fast mode on the other end, and it is 59-50.
– Each team has an answer for the other at the moment, but a Konate 3 (he is 3 against 4) gives double the lead. He is 68-56.
– The lonely Harris of Buffalo takes a step in three.
– Bolden has the last eight points of WVU – a layup, a 3 and three free throws – and a 79-69 lead with 4:43 to go.
– Konaté just catch a badly thrown ball just one foot off the edge. The official Joe DeRosa called him goalkeeper … and it was not even close.
– Konate was running in transition and fell. No contact or anything. Stand up, favoring his knee. He helped the back.
– Buffalo CJ Massinburg is on fire now. The Bulls are being put in place and he records 3 points. Back-to-back bombs reduce the lead to 81-79 with 2:55 to go.
– Massinburg: 9-18 / 7-13 / 6-6 for 31 points.
– The opponents will score 30 or more at the Coliseum in the Huggins years: Dominique Jones of the USF, Will Walker of DePaul, Andrew Wiggins of Kansas and Kevin Knox of Kentucky.
– Bolden is out. He had a knee injury on the last dead ball and McCabe and Trey Doomes had to help him get up.
– Ahmad makes two free throws and WVU gets a stop because Harler does well to stick to Massinburg and force a hard shot into the traffic.
– Bolden was missed in the next possession. Knapper is in and misses a deep 3 as the shot clock approaches zero.
– And Harris, from Buffalo, has missed everything at a grand opening 3. Good time for Buffalo called by WVU here. WVU leads 84-79 with 1:15 to go.
– Harris, from Buffalo, is hitting Konate, whose elevator seems to be down. Ahmad dribbles and loses the ball, and Buffalo takes possession of the ball in a scrum. There are 84-81 left with 31.8 seconds.
– WVU guards. Buffalo is missing a 3 of a guy who had 1-5 / 0-2. I guess nobody was expecting it? Deadball bounces back to Buffalo, but let's move on to the exam.
– Massinburg hits about 30 feet with 14.2 seconds to go. Nobody expected this.
– WVU is trying to post Konate. Knapper can not trigger it. West misses a 3 on the ring. Overtime.
Overtime
– Ahmad with a pass where he thought Konate would be. Ahmad has 10 points on 3 or 11 shots to go with six turnovers and six rebounds. There is no rebound this half.
– This is a merger without Bolden.
– Massinburg has nine 3. Tamar Slay is the only other opponent of WVU to do it.
– Fifth opponent to score 40 or more at Morgantown.
– Trey Doomes does not come in but Traevon Horton gets there.
– WVU will fall to 0-1 in games where it leads by 10 points or more.
– Nobody in the history of basketball WVU has ever inflicted on the Montagnards what Massinburg did: 43 points, 14 rebounds and nine 3.
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