CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Seeing JMU on on the schedule might not have enthused Mountaineer Nation, but the actual Mountaineers appeared adequately hyped for the game. Perhaps some credit was due Monmouth, Western Illinois and Radford for putting favorites on alert in college basketball’s opening weekend.
The Gold & Blue Lunch Report rewinds an 86-73 victory inside the Charleston Civic Center, where Press Virginia and that gauche Friends of Coal logo were on full display. (Then again, the eye-fry torture that was Baylor losing on Oregon’s ridiculous court reminded us it can always be worse.