Post by elp525 on Feb 13, 2011 9:04:56 GMT -5
February 12, 2011
By Ryan Pritt
The Charleston Gazette
With just five games left on the Big East slate, and four games against teams with a better conference record, the time to make up ground is now for the West Virginia women's basketball team.
The No. 17 Mountaineers will begin the home stretch at 5:15 p.m. today when they travel to Louisville. The game will be televised on ESPN2 and ESPN3.com as part of the network's "February Frenzy" promotion, which supports the Kay Yow Cancer Fund in partnership with the V Foundation.
The Cardinals (15-9, 6-4) are a half-game ahead of WVU in seventh place in the league. West Virginia coach Mike Carey knows how important the rest of the conference schedule is to his team.
"We put the Big East standings up in the locker room," Carey said. "It's time to face reality right now. I normally don't talk about standings; I normally don't bring any of that up because they have enough pressure on them as it is. We all put ourselves in this situation so we need to know where we're at.
"I also told them that we have five games left in the conference and four of those teams are ahead of us in the conference standings. I think it's important that you're realistic with your players and straight to the point. This is what we have left, a five-game season, and we need to win some games."
The Mountaineers (20-5 overall, 6-5 Big East) have lost four of their last five games, including Tuesday's 57-51 loss to No. 2 Connecticut. Conventional wisdom would say the team should garner some confidence after leading at halftime and pushing the Huskies to the limit, but senior Sarah Miles disagrees.
"Everybody says just because it's UConn and you lost by six, you should feel good about that," Miles said. "But I don't think a lot of us feel too good about that. We're going to see them again, that's the plan. But we wanted to win, we wanted to be the ones to beat UConn, we wanted to be the ones to end their Big East winning streak. Are we settling for that loss? No, not at all."
West Virginia leads the all-time series 6-2 over the Cardinals.
By Ryan Pritt
The Charleston Gazette
With just five games left on the Big East slate, and four games against teams with a better conference record, the time to make up ground is now for the West Virginia women's basketball team.
The No. 17 Mountaineers will begin the home stretch at 5:15 p.m. today when they travel to Louisville. The game will be televised on ESPN2 and ESPN3.com as part of the network's "February Frenzy" promotion, which supports the Kay Yow Cancer Fund in partnership with the V Foundation.
The Cardinals (15-9, 6-4) are a half-game ahead of WVU in seventh place in the league. West Virginia coach Mike Carey knows how important the rest of the conference schedule is to his team.
"We put the Big East standings up in the locker room," Carey said. "It's time to face reality right now. I normally don't talk about standings; I normally don't bring any of that up because they have enough pressure on them as it is. We all put ourselves in this situation so we need to know where we're at.
"I also told them that we have five games left in the conference and four of those teams are ahead of us in the conference standings. I think it's important that you're realistic with your players and straight to the point. This is what we have left, a five-game season, and we need to win some games."
The Mountaineers (20-5 overall, 6-5 Big East) have lost four of their last five games, including Tuesday's 57-51 loss to No. 2 Connecticut. Conventional wisdom would say the team should garner some confidence after leading at halftime and pushing the Huskies to the limit, but senior Sarah Miles disagrees.
"Everybody says just because it's UConn and you lost by six, you should feel good about that," Miles said. "But I don't think a lot of us feel too good about that. We're going to see them again, that's the plan. But we wanted to win, we wanted to be the ones to beat UConn, we wanted to be the ones to end their Big East winning streak. Are we settling for that loss? No, not at all."
West Virginia leads the all-time series 6-2 over the Cardinals.
