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THURSDAY APRIL 18, 2019
Mountaineers add pair of shooters in McNeil, Sherman MEN’S BASKETBALL
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BY COLE MCCLANAHAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR West Virginia announced the signing of two men’s basketball players on Wednesday afternoon, beginning the day with Sean McNeil and finishing with Tajzmel Sherman. McNeil and Sherman both come from the junior college ranks and are 6-foot-4 guards looking to score and fill out the Mountaineers’ wing positions. “Sean gives us another physical guard who is a tremendous threepoint shooter,” WVU head coach Bob Huggins said. “He brings a physical mentality to the guard position, while also giving us an outstanding rebounder in the backcourt.” McNeil played his freshman season at Sinclair Community College, and was named to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II First Team All-America last season. The Union, Kentucky, native averaged a nation-leading 29.7 points per game and 4.3 three-pointers per game, en route to also earning Ohio Community College Athletic Conference Player and Freshman of the Year. The high scoring outputs from McNeil included a 55-point game and six scoring performances of 40 points or more, while also shooting 49.5% from the field, 43.1% from three-point range and 87.6% from the free throw line. Joining McNeil is Sherman, a sophomore from Collin College in McKinney, Texas, who will have two years of eligibility remaining once he enrolls at WVU. Sherman averaged 25.9 points per game his sophomore season at
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West Virginia coach Bob Huggins gestures during the first half of the team’s NCAA college basketball game against Iowa State. Collin College; he shot 87.5% from the line in 2018-19. “Taz [Sherman] adds tremendous athleticism to the guard position,” Huggins said. “He is very fast with the ball. His quickness and length will be welcomed as we reintroduce Press Virginia.” The Missouri City, Texas, native was named to the National Junior College Division I Second Team All-America last season — a season that included three 40-point games and a 39.9 three-point percentage from Sherman. The duo looks to aid the WVU rotation from last season, which ranked last in the Big 12 Conference in both field goal and three-point percentage and finished in the bottom half of the league in free throw percentage.
They will also help round out the Mountaineer roster, which lost six players from last season, including veterans Beetle Bolden and Lamont West as transfers, with Sagaba Konate still on the team but having declared for the NBA Draft. McNeil and Sherman join Oscar Tshiebwe and Miles “Deuce” McBride as part of WVU’s 2019 recruiting class after Tshiebwe and McBride both signed with the Mountaineers in December. West Virginia now has two open scholarships to fill for next season, but that number gets pushed to three if Konate does not return to WVU for his senior season.
Maryanne Reed, dean of the WVU Reed College of Media, will become the University’s next vice president for academic affairs and provost starting July 1, according to a release from WVU Today. Reed will follow Joyce McConnell, who will be leaving WVU in the summer to become the president of Colorado State University. Reed is a native of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. “I am thrilled to be asked to serve as provost,” Reed said in the release. “In my 15 years as dean, I’ve had the good fortune of working with several excellent provosts who have been leadership role models, including Joyce McConnell. I have a lot to live up to, but I’m up for the challenge.” After becoming head of the P.I. Reed Journalism School (no relation) in 2004, she later worked toward centralizing the journalism, public relations, advertising and general communications programs and created the Reed College of Media in 2014. WVU opened the Media Innovation Center in the Evansdale Crossing in 2016 as part of that move, according to the release. She also helped create the nation’s first online Integrated Marketing Communications graduate program. Reed has been part of the WVU faculty since 1993. Before she arrived on campus, she worked as a broadcast reporter and producer. In a radio interview with WAJR Wednesday, Reed said she had to sit on her decision to leave her long-time post.
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Maryanne Reed, WVU’s next provost. “I had to think about it for a little while,” she said. “I love what we do at the College of Media. I love my job here, but I really felt that this was a larger opportunity to serve and to have an impact beyond the College of Media; and, honestly, when [President E.] Gordon Gee asks you to do something, it’s hard to say no.” “Maryanne has demonstrated throughout her career, first as an award-winning documentarian then as a visionary academic leader, that she is always looking ahead and is willing to take the necessary steps to lead into the future – even if there is some risk involved,” Gee said in the release. “I am confident [in] her ability to see trends, ask the hard questions and move quickly to innovate will be of great benefit to this University as we move forward.” The DA will be interviewing Reed on Monday.
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