Post by cviller on Jan 14, 2009 17:29:38 GMT -5
MAZZULLA, WHO has missed seven consecutive games with a growth plate fracture, continues to participate in a limited role in practice and work with the scout team playing defense against the first team.
He said Tuesday the medical redshirt deadline is today's game and not the Marquette game, as he previously believed and reported. No decision has been made and he continues to hope to play again this season.
"If we're .500 in the league and it doesn't look like I'm going to make much of a difference, I'm not going to waste a year," he said. "If it looks like we have a chance to make a run and could use more depth and give Truck and Da'Sean (Butler) and Alex (Ruoff) and the ball-handlers a rest, that's something Huggs and I will talk about. It just depends on the situation at the point of the season when I get healthy, if I get healthy."
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RUOFF, WHO was critical of his teammates following the Marquette game, declined interview requests Tuesday.
Butler said there was no dissention and the Mountaineers were, as they usually are, upset with the loss.
"We feel terrible about what we did and thought we could have played better after the game," he said. "Everything's fine. There's nothing wrong. After a game, if you feel like you did something wrong or something happened that shouldn't have happened, as a player you feel like saying it and that's it. Sometimes it just happens and as players you feel like you shouldn't be making those mistakes."
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EBANKS HAD a Band-Aid above his right eye after colliding with point guard Will Thomas in practice.
Forward Cam Thoroughman had a shiner around his right eye, although that happened away from practice. Butler said Thoroughman was racing teammate Cam Payne to the car Saturday night and slipped and fell on ice in the Coliseum parking lot.
"They were trying to see who got shotgun," Butler said.
He said Tuesday the medical redshirt deadline is today's game and not the Marquette game, as he previously believed and reported. No decision has been made and he continues to hope to play again this season.
"If we're .500 in the league and it doesn't look like I'm going to make much of a difference, I'm not going to waste a year," he said. "If it looks like we have a chance to make a run and could use more depth and give Truck and Da'Sean (Butler) and Alex (Ruoff) and the ball-handlers a rest, that's something Huggs and I will talk about. It just depends on the situation at the point of the season when I get healthy, if I get healthy."
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RUOFF, WHO was critical of his teammates following the Marquette game, declined interview requests Tuesday.
Butler said there was no dissention and the Mountaineers were, as they usually are, upset with the loss.
"We feel terrible about what we did and thought we could have played better after the game," he said. "Everything's fine. There's nothing wrong. After a game, if you feel like you did something wrong or something happened that shouldn't have happened, as a player you feel like saying it and that's it. Sometimes it just happens and as players you feel like you shouldn't be making those mistakes."
* * *
EBANKS HAD a Band-Aid above his right eye after colliding with point guard Will Thomas in practice.
Forward Cam Thoroughman had a shiner around his right eye, although that happened away from practice. Butler said Thoroughman was racing teammate Cam Payne to the car Saturday night and slipped and fell on ice in the Coliseum parking lot.
"They were trying to see who got shotgun," Butler said.