Thought YSU was locked in the first half but didn't take advantage of WVU shooting so poorly and missed a lot of good looks. They could have jumped out to sizable lead, but surely would have taken being down only 1 at the half if you had asked them that before the game.
Losing Shemar didn't help, but the full court press absolutely killed them in the second half. WVU brought the intensity and couldn't miss in the second half. YSU looked gassed and couldn't hit anything. Even in the 2nd half YSU had a lot of wide open 3's they couldn't hit. Ended the game 5-27 and I don't think many of them were contested.
To hold WVU to 24 in the first half then give up 58 in the second half is mind blowing.
Nothing from the keys to victory panned out. Didn't score 70, turned the ball over (20), couldn't hit 3's and didn't get a big game from Akuchie, Cohill and/or Olison (18 points combined). Fouling them also didn't pan out as they hit 25-34 for 73.5% well better than their 60.6% average. And WVU entered the game at just 30.4% from 3 and they hit 46.7%.
Crazy that YSU out-rebounded them 39-32.
I'd say the big positive is it didn't look like Shemar's injury was that serious as it certainly didn't look good when it happened.