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Meet Joe Wasserman, WVU’s resident board game expert BY RACHEL JOHNSON ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR As an R1 research institution, WVU is involved in a multitude of research projects in fields such as biology, physics, psychology and even board games. Joe Wasserman, a Ph.D. student at WVU, is a board game expert. Wasserman was recently cited in a Wirecutter article as being a board games and learning researcher. Wasserman grew up in the Chicago area and received his undergraduate degree in anthropology from the Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He then received his master’s in communication from WVU and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. “After graduation, I organized and hosted several tabletop game design jams, which is basically like a group of people getting together for a short time and making a game,” Wasserman said. “Typically, it focuses on digital games, but for us, it was always tabletop games. Through that, I sort of got the reputation of a board game person.” In the article for Wirecutter, Wasserman was asked what the best board games for beginner gamers are. Wasserman said it is difficult to name the best board game because people are so diverse in their board game taste. “Without playing games, you can’t know what your taste is,” he said.
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Joe Wasserman Wasserman conducted studies on people’s motivation for playingg board games. He found that face-to-face social interaction, being a part of a community, intellectual challenge and being immersed in a fictional world were people’s top reasons for playing. For Wasserman, the reason he plays games is due to the combination of getting together with people he enjoys the company with and who have a shared interest in board games as well as figuring out how games work. Wasserman said his favorite style of game is games that are fairly complex with a very broad decision space. Examples of these types of game are Container, Rolling Stock, 1830 and
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Indonesia. Wasserman said he is not a fan of games where the best move is obvious or the outcomes are completely left to chance. He enjoys board games for the ability they have to bring people together and the options they give players to create their own game dy-
namics, as opposed to video games where the rules are set. He said that he plays to have fun and not necessarily win. “In any given game, only one person can be the winner, so most people are not going to be,” Wasserman said. “My research most broadly is
about cognitive, social and behavioral consequences of consuming media. But within that, I’ve been focusing on games and learning with a further emphasis on tangible games like board games and systems thinking competencies or the ability to understand complex systems.”
WVU Board of Governors to vote on e-cig, smoking ban on Friday BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR The WVU Board of Governors will vote Friday morning whether to enact a policy aimed at banning all tobacco types on campus, including e-cigarettes and vapes. The Tobacco Free Policy, if passed, would officially enforce a six-year-old rule WVU passed in 2013 that bans all tobacco on campus and add e-cigs to the list of banned products. Rocco Fucillo, a state and local relations specialist at WVU, said the old policy was not effective because there was no enforcement, and the language used didn’t specifically prohibit e-cigarettes and vapes. Fucillo also chaired
the task force that recommended these changes. “The reason why we put this group together; it was obvious that the policy wasn’t enforced,” he said. “One of the reasons why it wasn’t enforced was there was no existing entity that was in place that was responsible for enforcing it. So that will change.” However, WVU and the task force have not made a decision on who will enforce the policy. “Right now, quite frankly, the policy is not going to take its effect until Aug. 1. It will be established by then,” Fucillo said. “We have not specifically determined what that entity is going to be.” Fucillo did say it will not be the UPD that enforces it. While different enforcement strat-
egies are being considered by the task force, Fucillo said the entity will also work toward creating educational programs on campus and promoting wellness. “We don’t have all the specifics yet. What I can tell you is the enforcement strategy is in development, but the University is going to be committed to promoting a culture of compliance within our community, and so there will be an entity,” he said. “There will be someone responsible for ensuring that.” Fucillo noted that WVU’s campus has “hot spots” or areas where students smoke more regularly, which the entity will look at. If the rule is passed, Fucillo said WVU will still remain a completely to-
bacco-free campus and there will still be no smoking-designated areas. “No, that’s not going to happen,” he said about designated areas. “One of our major values is promoting health and wellness, and if you look at [West Virginia] as a whole, we lead in cardiovascular deaths, death by cancer, we are one of the leading tobacco users as a state. We don’t want to promote that culture.” “Instead, what we’re going to do is try to encourage people to help them stop, to provide an education and other resources to not smoke,” he added. Fucillo said the BOG received around 100 public comments since Dec. 14, when the policy revision was announced.
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Design firm presents pedestrian safety proposals to city, SGA BY JOE SEVERINO AND QUEST BABCOCK NEWS STAFF A planning and design firm working to fix pedestrian safety issues in Morgantown presented proposals and ideas to the city and SGA this week. The city of Morgantown was granted $250,000 to study last year from Alta Planning and Design, a national firm that specializes in designing and engineering new pedestrian safety projects in cities that have struggled with these issues in the past. Alta is currently designing new crosswalks, bike paths and new systems in Morgantown. On Wednesday night, Alta presented plans to SGA during its regular meeting time. Alta representative Phil Goff described the initial state of Alta’s plans for Morgantown. So far, Alta has been conducting analysis on the region’s topography, sidewalks, pedestrian activ-
ity and connectivity to the PRT, bus routes, along with the creek and river trails. Goff was accompanied by Mary Jo Thompson, the University’s project manager for the Office of Strategic Initiatives and Bill Austin, executive director of the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization. All presenters expressed the ongoing need for community involvement and support. Austin spoke of using volunteers to “take inventory” of Morgantown’s sidewalks. Goff spoke of a simpler form of volunteering, by simply completing a 16-question survey, which will be hosted on the soon-to-launch website bikewalkmorgantown. com. “A united community gets things done,” Thompson said. “This is a bigger issue than just the University and just the students.” On Tuesday night, around 70 people attended an event hosted by Alta at the Metropolitan Theatre for a pub-
lic meeting and discussion on new pedestrian safety initiatives. An interactive board was displayed where the public could point out on a map where they thought intersections or roads could use improvement and where an accident might be at an increased risk, Austin said Wednesday. “You were able to vote on what your preferred type of improvement was, such as enhanced lighting, more crosswalks, better driver education outreach,” he said. Austin said according to the American Community Survey, which is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, 13 percent of people who commute to work are walkers and one percent are bikers. “Those are huge numbers for an urban area. Typically, that’s about four times the national average,” Austin said. “A huge proportion of our population walks or bikes to and from work when compared to communities in the U.S.”
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to view adequate crosswalks and pedestrian safety features that are in other cities and may work with some adaptation in Morgantown.
Education, opioid crisis skipped over at SOTU, Democratic response BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR During the 2019 State of the Union address and in the following Democratic response, issues like education and the opioid crisis were hardly mentioned at all. President Donald Trump addressed the opioid crisis just once in his second State of the Union speech while in office. It was in reference to one of the few bipartisan pieces of legislation passed by Congress during the first two years of his presidency. Stacey Abrams, who was defeated in Georgia’s governor’s race in the 2018 election, mentioned opioids zero times in the Democrats’ response. Trump’s only take on ed-
ucation reform concerned charter schools, a policy Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has worked toward in her time in Trump’s cabinet. “To help support working parents, the time has come to pass school choice for America’s children,” Trump said. Abrams’ addressed education, but in terms of safety from firearms in schools and the crushing increase in student debt. “Children deserve an excellent education from cradle to career. We owe them safe schools and the highest standards, regardless of ZIP code. Yet, this White House responds timidly while first-graders practice active-shooter drills and the price of higher education grows ever steeper,” Abrams said. “From now
on, our leaders must be willing to tackle gun safety measures and face the crippling effect of educational loans, to support educators and invest what is necessary to unleash the power of America’s greatest minds.” In his last State of the Union address, Trump discussed the opioid crisis in more detail, but it was in terms of coming down harder on drug dealers who crossed over the United States’ southern border, and later mentioning it during his plans for immigration reform. “We must get much tougher on drug dealers and pushers if we are going to succeed in stopping this scourge,” Trump said in 2018. “These reforms will also support our response to the terrible crisis of opioid and drug addiction.”
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Stacey Abrams delivered the official Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union. In 2018, she was defeated by Brian Kemp for the Georgia governship. In last year’s Democratic response, Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., only mentioned opioids once, but in the context of the Democratic argument that the Trump administration
paints the party as only choosing one side. “As if the parent who lies awake terrified that their transgender son will be beaten and bullied at school is any more
or less legitimate than the parent whose heart is shattered by a daughter in the grips of opioid addiction,” Kennedy said. Drug overdoses killed an estimated 72,287 Americans in 2017, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the last time an official study has been released on the subject. The highest overdose rates came in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. And as for education, the Daily Athenaeum reported in October 2018 that WVU has the highest rate of loan defaults in the Big 12. Nearly 10 percent of WVU graduates who started repaying federal loans in 2012 had already defaulted on them.
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BY ALAYNA FULLER ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR The West Virginia House Education Committee has created its own strike-and-insert bill on education reform in West Virginia, reforming Senate Bill 451, which was passed by the West Virginia Senate on Monday. The original bill seeks to discourage teacher strikes, establish charter schools, establish a 5 percent salary increase for teachers and school service personnel and implement a non-severability clause that says if any part of the bill is struck down in a court challenge the measure would be void. House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, and House Education Chairman Danny Hamrick, R-Harrison, agreed that the bill is likely to change throughout the legislative process. “There will be some changes when the bill is introduced to the committee, just based on the thoughts and feelings of members of the house,” Hamrick said. The non-severability clause originally stated in the Senate bill was controversial within the House, and modifications were made to paycheck protection, establishment of charter schools and education sav-
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ings accounts. In interviews with WV MetroNews, multiple delegates gave their opinions on the bill. “At the end of the day, this bill is a pig,” said Del. Isaac Sp onaugle,D-Pendleton, on SB 451. “I don’t care how much lipstick you put on it, you won’t make it any prettier.” The main consensus of the House on SB 451 was that it contained too many different ideas and that amendments will have to be considered for the bill. “I don’t particularly care for the fact that you have so much on one bill,” said House Minority Leader Tim Miley, D-Harrison. “If they were as important as everyone claims each of the parts to be, they should be addressed separately and passed on the merits of each idea in the bill.”
Miley also said it would be extraordinary for a bill of this size and of this complexity to not have amendments from both parties. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported Monday that of the 25 members on the House Education Committee, 15 are Republicans, but six of those and all 10 Democrats said they opposed the Senate bill as is. The bill would die if struck down in committee. The West Virginia Senate passed SB 451 on Monday after Republican senators Bill Hamilton and Kenny Mann sided with Democrats, resulting in an 18-16 vote. A 17-17 vote would have killed the bill. The bill will be sent back to the Senate for more debate if the House makes any changes and is passed by the whole chamber.
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Second TEDx event coming to WVU this spring with changes BY CODY NESPOR CULTURE EDITOR After a successful inaugural event last year, TEDx WVU will be returning this spring with a new venue, a new theme and new speakers. The theme for this year is “Bridging the gap.” “We want to show the diversity in Appalachia,” TEDx WVU president Noelle Forde said. “The theme is [bridging the gap] between different cultures and generations. To show how people are more similar than different is the idea we were going with.” Forde, a graduate student, said last year’s event was very successful and they were excited to make changes for this year. “I think it was a really positive reaction [last year],”
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George Cicci speaks to the crowd about ADHD at last year’s TEDxWVU event. Forde said. “I think it’s something really good to bring to the University.”
This year, the event will be held on March 2 in the Gladys S. Davis Theater in
the Center for Creative Arts. Like last year, the event is capped at 100 tickets sold for
$12 each, but it will be live streamed on Facebook and at tedxwvu.com. Tickets will go on sale in the Mountainlair and the CAC on Monday. “We wanted to get a really good mix [of speakers],” Forde said. “I think it was really good that we were able to get students because it gives them a voice and they wouldn’t usually have this kind of voice. So I’m really happy that we got some students.” The students who will be speaking are seniors Emma Harrison and Shannon Cawley. Harrison is a Morgantown native studying political science with an emphasis in Africana studies, women’s and gender studies and leadership studies. A 2018 Truman Scholar, Harrison is also a part of the West Virginia In-
nocence Project and was named one of the DA’s Most Influential people of 2018. Cawley is an English major from Weirton, West Virginia. She has had two poetry books published, “depression is a thunderstorm and i am a scared dog” and “kingdom now.” Cawley was also named one of the DA’s Most Influential. The other speakers include Dr. Ali Rezai, the vice president of neuroscience and an associate dean at WVU, Amanda Messer, the co-founder of because I said I would, a nonprofit and social group, and Anthony Zolezzi, the CEO of Twinlab Consolidated Holdings. Full biographies of each of the speakers can be found at tedxwvu. com/speakers.
WVU graduate goes from Morgantown student to Miami queen BY CIARA LITCHFIELD STAFF WRITER WVU routinely produces alumni that make all kinds of achievements; professional athletes, authors, award-winning journalists, musicians and now a Miss Miami winner. Heather Lee O’Keefe (formerly Naples), a WVU Reed College of Media alumnus, was crowned Miss Miami 2019 on Jan. 26 and is now a candidate for the title of Miss Florida. O’Keefe graduated from WVU last spring with a degree in journalism and a minor in political science. While at WVU, O’Keefe was elected vice president of the Pre-Legal Society and was also on the Student Government Association’s Judicial Board and Executive Board. She was a part of the Mountain-
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Heather Lee O’Keefe graduated from WVU last year with a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism and a minor in political science. eer Leadership Program and the Student Conduct Board. O’Keefe is now a first-year law student at Nova Southeastern University. The Miss Miami competition was held at the Coral Springs Charter School
in Coral Springs, Florida. O’Keefe competed in a 10-minute personal interview with the judges, followed by an on-stage question, the talent, evening gown and swimsuit category. This will be the last year
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OPINION Staff Shorts are tidbit writings by our editorial board. They’re mostly meant to be light-hearted, but we sometimes touch on more serious, important topics. They aim to express the many student voices of the University.
Mountainlair traffic ages drivers A lot of WVU freshmen can’t wait to turn 21. Fortunately, if an 18 year old gets in a car and tries to drive past the Mountainlair during the day, they’ll be 22 by the time they reach the other end. Traffic is backed up deep into downtown as students rush to and from classes. A pedestrian bridge or tunnel would be the best way to maneuver students across the street in front of the Mountainlair. That would also be the most expensive option. A University employee could also be assigned for traffic control and crowd direction; that would also come at a price. Simply going around the Mountainlair is the most common option, but doing so seems to just back up other areas. Until a solution is found, frustration will continue to be an aura around the Mountainlair as drivers honk the day away.
That’s my (unofficial) seat There aren’t assigned seats in college. But there are self-designated seats that a student chooses at the beginning of the semester. The student sits there nearly three hours each week, and it becomes a home within hell. Then comes exam day. Students who have never been in class before show up in the masses, and they take the self-designated seats that have been nurtured for months. Those who show up everyday are dethroned by those who PHOTO VIA FLICKR couldn’t care less about the Like Ned Stark, students are willing to die for their throne. class material.
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Notify drivers before consuming parking lots with Career Fair attendees College is a time to explore your passions and figure out what you want to do with your life. The University does what it can to help you get started in the professional world, including career fairs, which are great opportunities to network, connect with people in your desired profession and maybe even land an internship. While the University is providing a wonderful service to its students, it’s also creating a multi-day inconvenience for
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other students. When the Career Fair is at the Student Rec Center, two of the three paid lots are blocked off for those in attendance, removing many spaces and forcing students to fight for spots in the Rec lot. What the University fails to do is alert people who normally use those paid lots ahead of time so they can plan accordingly and park elsewhere, instead of showing up at their normal time, discovering that there is nowhere to
park and being forced to find parking somewhere else, adding more time onto their commute and potentially making them late for class. And let’s face it, the University is strapped for parking on a good day anyway. All I ask is that the University be considerate by sending out an email one day or so before the Career Fair, letting the rest of the students know that they will have to make other parking plans.
Your knees shouldn’t be visible when it’s colder than a freezer outside. We get it. You’re tough. But it’s cold out, dude. There is no reason you should be wearing shorts. Your macho masculinity is not going to make it any less cold. No one’s going to clap as you walk by. No lover is going to dive into your arms because they see how “not cold” you are. Anyone in passing is going to want you to put on clothing, not take more off. So before you decide you’re going to put on shorts, please remember things shrink when it’s cold, like people’s respect for you.
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SPORTS Freshmen show progress despite team struggles BY QUINN BURKITT STAFF WRITER
MEN’S BASKETBALL Although the WVU men’s basketball team continues to spiral into an abyss of defeat, the future looks brighter with strong play from the Mountaineers’ freshman class. “It would really be unfair of me to say we’re playing for next year,” Huggins said. “We need to play those young guys, because there are going to be situations where we’re going to have to go deep into our bench. That happens over the course of a long season.” Although Huggins repeatedly expresses that he’s still working on this year’s team, the future looks the brightest for the Mountaineers after the team fell to a 10-13 overall record and 2-8 in Big 12 play fol-
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Freshman Guard Jordan McCabe shoots for a 3-pointer against Oklahoma. lowing Monday night’s defeat by Texas Tech. Forward Derek Culver first touched the court in real game action in late December and didn’t take long to
make a name for himself. The Youngstown, Ohio, native registered double-digit performances in five of his first six matchups. Then, on Feb. 4, Culver had
his biggest game yet against Texas Tech after scoring 23 points and snatching 12 rebounds. The 6-foot-10-inch forward has served as a consistent scoring outlet for a
gloomy Mountaineers squad that averages only 73 points per game compared to opponents 75.3 points per game. “If Derek will make the commitment that Sags (Konate) did or like a Devin Williams did, he’s going to be a heck of a player,” WVU head coach Bob Huggins said. “It’s amazing what he gets done not knowing what he’s doing.” After sitting out last season with an injury, redshirt freshman guard Brandon Knapper has begun to step into his role as well after notching 25 points against Oklahoma on Feb. 18 — providing a spark to give WVU a long-awaited win. Arguably the most glorified incoming freshman prior to the beginning of the season, guard Jordan McCabe has averaged only 2.8 points per game so far this season while starting in only five games. Despite what is seen in the box
score, McCabe has provided the Mountaineers with a consistent ball carrier up the court all season. Other first-year Mountaineers include forward Emmitt Matthews Jr. and guard Trey Doomes. Matthews has averaged 2.7 points per game but holds a pair of double digit performances, scoring 11 points against Rider and Iowa State. Doomes has struggled so far this season due to lack of playing time, as he is only averaging 1.9 points per game in his seven games played. Before arriving at West Virginia, Doomes averaged 19.6 points and six assists per game while attending University School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As this year’s Mountaineers continue to struggle, the freshmen continue to shed a glimmer of hope for seasons to come.
WVU battles Texas for second time Saturday BY JARED SERRE ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
MEN’S BASKETBALL On Saturday, the WVU men’s basketball team will look to wrangle the Longhorns as Texas travels to the WVU Coliseum. The matchup is the second time the two teams have met this season. On Jan. 5, the Longhorns came out victorious on their home court in Austin, 61-54. Since WVU joined the Big 12 in 2012, Texas has had the slight edge in the headto-head battle. In 15 games, West Virginia has only come out on top seven times compared to the Longhorns’ eight victories. With head coach Shaka Smart at the helm, the 201819 version of Texas comes into the game with an overall record of 12-10. They currently sit at sixth in the Big 12 with a 4-5 conference record. The Longhorns have been led on the floor by senior guard Kerwin Roach II,
who leads the team in scoring with an average of 14.6 points per game. Senior forward Dylan Osetkowski leads the team in rebounding, averaging eight per game, while also contributing an average of 10.3 points per game. On the West Virginia side of things, the Mountaineers come into the game having dropped their most recent matchup, losing on Monday in a drubbing at the hands of Texas Tech, 81-50. One thing to note is that freshman forward Derek Culver, in his second start of the season, ended the night with 23 points — a career high. Culver now also leads all Mountaineers with 8.5 rebounds per game. Excluding junior forward Sagaba Konate, who has been injured since December, James “Beetle” Bolden leads West Virginia in scoring with 12.2 points per game. The Mountaineers and Longhorns will tip off at 9 p.m. Saturday. ESPN2 will have the television broadcast.
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Redshirt junior guard Tynice Martin hyping up teammates as they prepare to play against Kansas.
WVU looking for first win of season over ranked opponent BY COLE MCCLANAHAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL With a four-game winning streak on the line, the West Virginia women’s basketball team hits the road on Saturday to face No. 22 Iowa State. It is only the third ranked opponent this season for WVU (16-5, 7-3 Big 12), but the Mountaineers received votes in this week’s AP Poll as well. West Virginia traveling to Iowa State (17-5, 7-3) is also the beginning of a string of road games for the Mountaineers, as they have to play five of their next seven games away from home. “We got to go out and win some games on the road,” said WVU head coach Mike Carey. “We can do it. You gotta be able to steal some games on the road.” The Mountaineers and Cyclones have already faced each other once this season in a Jan. 16 matchup in Morgantown that ended in a 7364 victory for WVU. For West Virginia to complete the season sweep of Iowa State, it will rely on junior guard Tynice Martin to continue her high level of play. Martin has averaged 17.9 points per game this season, but in WVU’s four-game win streak, her scoring has elevated to 21.3 points per game. Martin’s scoring increase even came with a better field goal percentage, too, as she has upped it from 39.1
percent on the season to 40.9 percent. “[Tynice Martin] has been playing very well,” said junior guard Lucky Rudd. “She has been a key impact to our team.” West Virginia isn’t the only team with a win streak on the line, though, as Iowa State is on a three-game streak of its own. The Cyclones are beating their opponents by an average margin of 90-63 during the streak, with two of the wins coming on the road. For the Mountaineers to successfully complete the sweep, they will have to contain senior guard Bridget Carleton, Iowa State’s leading scorer at 20.5 points per game. Only two other Cyclones join Carleton in averaging double-digit points per game, sophomore center Kristin Scott at 13.2 and freshmen guard Ashley Joens at 11.9. Carleton is also the team leader in rebounds at 8.2 per game and is second in assists with 4.9 per game. Not only does the 6-foot-1 guard lead Iowa State on offense, but she is the team leader in blocks and steals per game, too, at 1.3 and 2.2, respectively. With West Virginia and Iowa State currently tied for third-place in the Big 12, a win for the Mountaineers would go a long way to help their Big 12 Tournament seeding and even help propel them into the NCAA Tournament. “We gotta continue to win
to make sure we get that bid in the NCAA [Tournament],” Rudd said. WVU and Iowa State are set to tip-off at 7 p.m. on Saturday.
As the season dwindles down, the Mountaineers are looking forward to the postseason and qualifying wrestlers for the NCAA tournament in March. But first, West Virginia has one final regular season dual on Feb. 24 at South Dakota State. Following the dual with South Dakota State, WVU has two weeks to prepare for the Big 12 Tournament. The Big 12 Tournament does not just determine the best wrestler from the conference per weight class, but the winner of each class, and a few that finish highly ranked in the tournament, will also qualify for the NCAA Tournament automatically. The Mountaineers currently have two wrestlers ranked in the top 20 of their respective weight class by the InterMat poll. However, there are at least one or more Big 12 wrestlers in each weight class ranked higher than the West Virginia wrestler in that class. The NCAA tournament selects 330 wrestlers, 290 through the automatic bid tournaments and 40 wrestlers selected atlarge by the NCAA Division I Wrestling Committee.
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Redshirt freshman Noah Adams lifts Army wrestler off the mat Last season, the Mountaineers qualified three wrestlers, only one of which is currently wrestling for the team. Now a redshirt sophomore, Matthew Schmitt placed fourth at the Big 12 Tournament last season to get his automatic bid. This year, Schmitt is ranked 18th by the InterMat wrestling poll. One of the three wrestlers who made the tournament from last year’s team was senior Jacob A. Smith, who wrestled in the 197-pound weight class. This season, Smith has been replaced by redshirt freshman Noah Adams. Adams has been one of the best wrestlers for the Mountaineers and hopes to make the tournament in his first year, just like Schmitt did last year. West Virginia has only had three wrestlers win their class in the NCAA Tournament, with the last being Greg Jones
in 2005. However, last year Zeke Moisey came close, placing eighth in the tournament. Shortly after WVU began its search for a new coach, though, Moisey transferred to Nebraska. Moisey’s 125-pound weight class has been filled by redshirt freshman Joey Thomas, who has had a solid year for the Mountaineers. Thomas, however, was unable to compete at Wyoming or against Army, and though his future looks bright, he most likely will not make the tournament this year. West Virginia has four wrestlers that have a clear path to the tournament this year. The wrestlers are redshirt senior Christian Monserrat, redshirt sophomore Schmitt, sophomore Nick Kiussis and redshirt freshman Adams.
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