The West Virginia girls’s basketball crew scored an enormous upset on Friday night time by knocking off No. 15 Duke, 57-49, to enhance to 4-0 on the season. As massive a win as it’s for the Mountaineers, the ultimate rating is simply the subplot to the true story of the sport.
West Virginia upsets Duke regardless of six ejections at halftime
West Virginia secured the win after not solely trailing at halftime by three factors, but additionally after having six gamers — together with 5 bench gamers and a starter — all get ejected from the sport as a result of an altercation on the finish of the primary half.
It began when Duke’s Jordan Wooden blocked a possible buzzer-beating shot from Jordan Harrison, after which proceeded to taunt her after the buzzer.
That infuriated each Harrison and the West Virginia bench.
A lot in order that 5 West Virginia gamers stormed off the bench to hitch the altercation, leading to six ejections.
Bench gamers Gia Cooke, Carter McCray, Madison Parrish, Jordan Thomas and Kierra Wheeler had been all ejected within the altercation, together with Harrison.
Wooden was additionally ejected for Duke.
With six Mountaineers gamers getting ejected, that left them with simply 5 gamers to complete the remaining 20 minutes. They ended up outscoring Duke by a 37-26 margin, together with 24-9 within the third quarter.
West Virginia coach Mark Kellogg mentioned he was disenchanted ultimately of the half and that he believes his crew must be higher than that, however that he was proud of the group of five players on the floor and the way they finished the game.
There will probably be loads of upsets in faculty basketball this season, in each the boys’s and girls’s video games, however there’s a good likelihood none of them will probably be as wild as one which sees a crew’s whole bench get ejected at halftime and nonetheless come again to win the sport.
