'Storms of the Brain' anthology, edited by Michael Knost, features two stories by ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä author E.A. Keville.
Every December, my husband Tony—a college football official—waits to hear if he’ll be assigned a post-season game. Over the years we’ve attend…
West Virginia University receiver Bryce Ford-Wheaton will bypass a potential final season of collegiate eligibility and declare for the NFL Draft. The Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, native came to WVU in 2018, redshirted that year, then played four seasons from 2019-22, including 2020, which did not count against his eligibility due to Covid.
In a post to his Twitter account, the WVU redshirt junior outlined his path at the school and included messages to his teammates and fans.
Ford-Wheaton played in just one game during his redshirt year, staying well under the four-game limit for preserving that status, and did not record any stats. He steadily improved over his four full years in uniform, going from 12 catches for 201 yards and three scores in 2019 to 62 receptions for 675 yards and seven TDs this past year.
In all, he played in 44 games in his Mountaineer career, snaring 143 passes for 1857 yards and 15 touchdowns. He also participated on special teams coverage squads, and had seven tackles over the course of his career.
His best game in what was his final season at WVU came against Kansas, in which he had 11 catches for 152 yards and two touchdowns against the Jayhawks.
Bryce Ford-Wheaton Career Statistics
YearGmsRecYdsTDs 2019 11 12 201 2 2020 9 27 416 3 2021 12 42 575 3 2022 12 62 675 7
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia players and coaches haven't given up on the 2022 season, but a common theme across their comments on Tuesday was that a greater attention to detail is needed in order to reverse the two losses they have suffered to start the campaign.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — After finally finding its shooting touch in the first half, West Virginia reverted to its season-long inability to do much right in the second half and lost its 11th game in its last 12, 77-67, to TCU.
While Taz Sherman became the 55th WVU player to reach 1,000 career points and led the Mountaineers with 23 points, his backcourt partner Sean McNeil did not score.
"We're not going to win with Sean McNeil not scoring, that's for sure," a disappointed, disgruntled coach Bob Huggins said.
But don't think he was pinning the loss on McNeil's shoulders. He had plenty of company and Huggins knows that.
"I'm as frustrated as anyone. I'm not sure we don't have some guys who don't want to be here," he said, using a quite fitting triple negative," Huggins said. "They ran by us like we were standing on the curb. We need to find out who wants to finish this year and who doesn't. We'd be way more better off with who wants to finish. We're not getting the leadership we need to get."
The loss virtually eliminates WVU from even the most optimistic fans' — and Huggins' — hopes of reaching the NCAA Tournament. The only hope would be to sweep the season's final four games and take a couple in the Big 12 Tournament.
"We've got to try to fight through this," Huggins said.
The Mountaineers played a solid first half, shooting 55% on the heels of a 27.9% shooting night against Kansas, but they reverted to 34.6% shooting in the second half.
But it was a lot more than just the inability to put the ball in the basket in the second half. Everything that has been wrong, and most everything has been wrong, was wrong again as coach Jamie Dixon's team led for almost 34 minutes of the game.
Rebounding? TCU led, 42-24.
"We got absolutely slaughtered on the glass," Huggins admitted, saying it had never happened to his team, being doubled in rebounds ... but two games earlier Oklahoma State had outrebounded WVU, 48-24.
And defense? WVU allowed TCU to shoot 55% percent. They were a team shooting 43% for the year.
"That's because they shot layups," Huggins said. "I told them I never had guys get run by them the way we get guys running by us."
Sherman came into the game needing 17 to become the 55th 1,000-point career scorer for the Mountaineers, which meant it would be in reach for him.
But you wouldn't have guessed that he'd do it int he first half, taking over the final 3:46 as WVU sliced away at an 11-point lead by TCU and narrowed it to one at 43-42.
Sherman, in machine gun fashion, hit a 2 and two 3s to change the whole flow of the game.
It started with TCU doing what everyone has done this year to WVU, attacking the rim and eight of the Horned Frogs' first 10 points were in the paint.
Considering that most teams have been crushing WVU down low, it looked as though this would be a disaster.
But somehow WVU shut down the path to the basket that TCU was driving and they finished the first half with 18 points in the paint to 16 for WVU, more points that the Mountaineers had scored down in the entire game against Kansas.
Jalen Bridges chipped in nine points in the half and Isaiah Cottrell was having his best all-around game of the season.
So how was WVU still trailing?
Well, McNeil continued his strange season when he would just completely disappear from the offense. Certainly, in the first half, he was the missing link, shooting just twice and missing both.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — As surprising as Darius Stills’ being overlooked in the NFL draft last week is the fact that Kyle Poland has had…
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