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Gold-Blue Debut Thursday in Wheeling

Ongoing concourse work at the WVU Coliseum is requiring West Virginia to play its annual team scrimmage away from Morgantown this year, along with an exhibition game against WVU Tech in Beckley later this month.

Coach Bob Huggins is very familiar with the Ohio Valley having played high school basketball at Indian Valley South in nearby Port Washington, Ohio.

“We used to scrimmage Bridgeport (Ohio) all the time,” Huggins said. “My dad and (late Bridgeport coach) Frank Baxter were really good friends so I spent a lot of time in that area and I have a lot of friends there.