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Mountaineers facing Penn State before regular season

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On Saturday, the WVU men’s basketball team will take on the visiting Penn State Nittany Lions in anticipation for the regular season tip-off later next week.

The exhibition matchup has been organized as a charity effort. Representatives from the American Red Cross will be collecting donations as fans arrive.

Looking at the all-time head-tohead, the Mountaineers have the nod as the better team, having won 66 of the 119 total matchups throughout history. This is the first time the two teams will face each other since the 1990-91 season when both teams were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.

In the present day, Penn State is led by head coach Patrick Chambers, who is in his eighth season at the helm of the Nittany Lions. The team finished last season with a record of 26-13— the best under Chambers’ tenure— en route to becoming National Invitation Tournament (NIT) champions.

On the floor, Penn State is returning 10 members of last season’s squad, including six players that started in at least two games last season. Key returnees include redshirt junior forward Mike Watkins, who led the team with 8.9 total rebounds per game, as well as junior forward Lamar Stevens, who ended the season second on the team in minutes, points and total rebounds.

However, the Nittany Lions will have to overcome the crucial loss of guard Tony Carr, who declared for the 2018 NBA Draft and eventually signed to play in Italy. Carr, who left

No. 13 West Virginia. No. 17 Texas. An elimination game of sorts in the Big 12. Two talented quarterbacks.

What more could you want in a football game?

Of the four games containing two ranked opponents on Saturday, WVU-UT could be one of the most intriguing and exciting to watch.

WVU is coming off of a 58-14 pounding of the Baylor Bears.

Texas, on the other hand, will be trying to recover from a 38-35 upset loss in Stillwater against Oklahoma State.

This was the fourth straight game that has finished with a six-point margin or closer for the Longhorns: a 19-14 win vs. Kansas State; a 48-45 win vs. Oklahoma; a 23-17 win vs.

Baylor; and the loss last weekend.

Last season, Texas was on the losing end of a lot of those games.

In that same margin- games ending in a six-point deficit- UT was 1-4.

A big part of that turnaround has to do with sophomore quarterback Sam Ehlinger.

The hometown QB has 1,817 yards and 13 touchdowns passing while just throwing two picks. Ehlinger is just as much of a threat on the ground, piling up 277 rushing yards and eight touchdownsthree coming in the win against the Sooners.

UT has six turnovers in eight games, which head coach Dana Holgorsen is impressed by.

“It starts with the quarterback.

That quarterback has got to have that trait,” said Holgorsen. “I think Ehlinger does a really good job of that, especially because they run him so much, to not put the ball on the ground.”

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James “Beetle” Bolden scored 321 points in the 2017-2018 season, Esa Ahmad scored 214 points and Sagaba Konate scored 389 points.

State College after his sophomore season, started every game he played last season and led the team in points per game (19.6), assists (186) and total minutes (1308). He also had a .433 three-point field goal percentage, which tied with fellow departure Shep Garner for the team lead.

Carr is not the only loss for the team as guards Garner (graduation) and Nazeer Bostick (transfer to St. Peter’s), as well as forward Julian Moore

(ran out of eligibility), have all left the team.

The Mountaineers also have key departures, including guard Jevon Carter (graduation) and Daxter Miles Jr. (graduation). Head coach Bob Huggins and staff will use this game to address concerns about Carter’s replacement. Freshman Jordan McCabe and redshirt freshman Brandon Knapper both received the majority of time at point guard for their respec-

tive teams during WVU’s Gold-Blue Debut intrasquad scrimmage earlier in the season.

WVU players also expected to receive an uptick in minutes are juniors Logan Routt, a forward, and Chase Harler, a guard, who played key roles during the Gold-Blue Debut.

The Mountaineers and Nittany Lions will tip off at noon on Saturday at the Coliseum. The game will be broadcast on AT&T SportsNet.

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NEWS ACLU: Amendment 1 won’t make abortion illegal, but opens door for future restrictions

BY ALAYNA FULLER STAFF WRITER A statewide ballot initiative in West Virginia in the Nov. 6 general election, Amendment 1, will decide whether the line “nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of abortion,” is added to the state Constitution Julie Warden, a coalition spokesperson for the ACLU of West Virginia, said legal precedent would still protect the legality of abortion in West Virginia.

“Amendment 1 doesn’t immediately make abortion illegal in West Virginia. We do still have Roe v. Wade that protects us,” she said.

Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision, ruled against criminal prosecution or restricting access for abortions.

If the amendment is passed, it would open the door for state legislators to make new abortion laws if Roe v. Wade is overturned in the future.

“If the federal court were to overturn Roe v. Wade, the con-

“Amendment 1 doesn’t immediately make abortion illegal in West Virginia. We do still have Roe v. Wade that protects us. If the federal court were to overturn Roe v. Wade, the constitutional amendment would criminalize abortion in West Virginia.”

-Julie Warden, spokesperson for the West Virginia ACLU stitutional amendment would criminalize abortion in West Virginia,” said Anne Lofaso, a professor at the WVU College of Law in an interview with the Charleston Gazette-Mail.

Roe v. Wade prohibits states from banning abortion prior to fetal viability, which means prior to the fetus being potentially able to live outside the mother’s womb. SCOTUS ruled, however, that states can regulate and/or prohibit abortions once a fetus reaches the point of viability.

“In the state constitution abortion is legal; we just have restrictions on them here in West Virginia,” Warden said.

West Virginia prohibits abortions after 20 weeks.

It also requires a woman to have state-directed counseling and must wait 24 hours before having the abortion. A parent of a minor seeking an abortion must also be notified.

West Virginia passed a law in 1993 that restricted Medicaid funding for abortions, except when a mother’s life is at risk, or in cases of rape or incest. The state Supreme Court later overturned the law, citing it discriminated against low-income women.

Amendment 1 would undo the 1993 state Supreme Court decision.

Medicaid now pays for abortions found to be “medically necessary,” meaning for a woman’s well-being.

Panhellenic Association tells sororities recruitment process will not change

BY JOE SEVERINO NEWS EDITOR The WVU Panhellenic Association (PHA) sent a letter to its sororities earlier this week saying a recruitment program similar to the new one rolled out for fraternities would not work.

Freshmen interested in joining sororities cannot currently do so until the Spring semester.

Earlier this month, the WVU Interfraternity Council (IFC) rolled back its deferred recruitment policy and created a pilot program for first semester freshmen to rush WVU-affiliated fraternities.

The letter said the IFC and PHA are two distinct groups and what works for one group

may not work for the other.

“An exemption process, as was implemented for the IFC, would not work for Panhellenic in its current form,” the letter writes.

The letter also said the IFC program is based on performance, and fraternities must meet a certain criteria to be eligible for fall recruitment. “[N]ote that moving forward, the approved exemption process to IFC will apply to those fraternities that qualify based on criteria—it is not a permanent change back to the primary fall recruitment process,” the letter writes.

“We believe that our community would suffer if we were to switch to performance-based recruitment.

“Since this style is not feasible for our community and we are not exploring an exemption process to the deferred recruitment at this time,” it went on.

The IFC’s pilot rush week began Oct. 24 and will run until Nov. 16.

The University defines eligible freshmen as having a minimum 2.75 GPA, and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life will grant eligibility status to fraternities and pledges.

WVU listed several requirements for fraternities during the IFC rush week, which include alcohol-free events, event approval from the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and no events can be held between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.

WV MetroNews reported in January the number of Medicaid-funded abortions more than tripled over the last five years. 502 Medicaid-funded abortions were performed in 2013, while 1,560 were performed in 2017.

In 2017, a woman could qualify for a Medicaid-funded abortion if her income is less than $17,000.

In an interview with the Intelligencer, West Virginians for Life spokesperson Mary Anne Buchanan said her organization is supporting a “yes” vote on the amendment to take taxes out of abortion.

“West Virginians should vote for Amendment 1 because if they’re like me, they don’t like their taxes paying for things they don’t necessarily agree with,” Buchanan said.

“That’s what Amendment 1 is designed to do. It will take the taxpayer out of the equation and it will stop taxpayer funding of elective abortions.”

Warden said the debate over Amendment 1 has extended to a social issue, and the exact point of the resolution may be different than what people think.

“What we’ve seen a lot is that people are trying to make this a pro-life versus prochoice amendment, and the bottom line is, that’s just not the case,” Warden said.

“The problem is that in the future, it could be that women’s health care decisions are only left in the hands of the government and it also paves the way for politicians to pass other restrictive laws that could put women in danger in West Virginia,” Warden said.

“Politicians are trying to take rights away from West Virginians by a constitutional amendment, and it’s really dangerous because it has no protection for any victims of rape, incest or if a pregnant women’s life or health is at risk,” she added.

West Virginia is one of 43 states that bans abortion beginning at a certain stage of pregnancy, according to Ballotpedia.

Other states have passed similar resolutions to Amendment 1.

“Tennessee had one really similar to this amendment that did pass, and it’s really made it dangerous for women

in that state to try to obtain abortion care,” Warden said.

In 2014, Tennessee became one of only a few states to effectively propose and add a pro-life amendment to their state Constitution. After 14 years of work, the amendment passed 53 percent to 47 percent by voters on Nov. 4, 2014, according to Tennessee Right to Life.

In West Virginia, 15 Republican state senators sponsored this amendment in the legislature. On Feb. 9, the state Senate voted 25-9 to pass the amendment. All 22 Republican senators, along with 3 Democrats, voted yes on the amendment.

9 Democrats voted no, according to Ballotpedia.

In the West Virginia state House of Delegates, Amendment 1 needed 67 votes to put the measure before voters in November. Republicans held a 64 to 36 majority at the time of the vote on March 5.

The amendment was approved 73 to 25 with two members not voting. A total of 63 Republicans and 10 Democrats voted to put the amendment on the ballot, according to Ballotpedia.

Man arrested after allegedly strangling cat inside home STAFF REPORT A man was arrested Tuesday morning after he admitted to strangling a cat inside his home, according to a press release from Morgantown Police.

James Gregory Wicker, 43, was arrested and charged with animal cruelty. Monongalia County Animal Control was called to Wicker’s residence at 412 Harding Ave. and found nine cats, one of which he admitted to strangling.

His residence is located on Evansdale, near the McDonald’s and Oakland Residence Hall.

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Wicker was arrested at his home on 412 Harding Ave., just 50 yards from Oakland Hall. the release. Wicker was fostering the cats, which were owned by Appalachian Peace

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Wicker was released on personal recognizance bond.

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Woodburn Hall cow ghost spooks students and staff

BY OLIVIA GIANETTINO CULTURE WRITER The cow ghost of West Virginia University has haunted students and faculty since the school was established.

Woodburn Hall is a staple landmark on the downtown campus, and its paranormal past is as unique as the building’s architecture.

Last year Jason Burns, the founder of West Virginia’s Spectral Heritage,which has a purpose of preserving West Virginia’s haunted history, told the DA about WVU’s strangest haunting.

“As the story goes, some of the students from the agriculture department stole a cow from the WVU farm, and led the poor thing up into the top of the Woodburn Hall bell tower,” Burns said.

According to the tale, a group of students enrolled at WVU in some of its earliest years, setting a standard for the University’s wild party reputation, plotted a prank that would accidentally lead to a cow’s demise.

Their master plan was to lead a cow into the Woodburn Hall bell tower to be put on display and shock those who would walk past, according to the tale. The cow, stolen from the agriculture department, was successfully taken all the way to

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Built in 1870, Woodburn Hall houses the history department at WVU – and possibly a ghost cow. the bell tower. It stood inside and mooed as if the clock struck midnight and its cries were the ringing of the bell.

They executed their prank as

planned.

What they did not plan for, though, was how they would get the cow back down.

The large animal could

not make it down the steps it once walked up. There is speculation on what exactly happened to the cow; some say it was euthanized on the

Blow Pops top the chart as WV’s favorite Halloween candy

BY CODY NESPOR CULTURE EDITOR Fireworks on the Fourth of July, Turkey on Thanksgiving and candy on Halloween. Some things just go together.

However, one question always comes around at this time of the year; what candy do you buy to celebrate the spooky season? While everyone has their own preferences over what sugary treat to rot their teeth with, candystore.com has put together a list of the most popular Halloween candies in each of the 50 states.

The top 10 nation-wide have few surprises. Longtime Halloween staples like Skittles, M&M’s, Snickers and Reese’s Cups top the list with familiar favorites like Hershey’s and Jolly Ranchers ending it. The results from each individual state; however, might surprise you.

The top three in West Virginia are Blow Pops with 44,123 pounds being sold, Milky Way with 22,139 pounds and Hershey’s Mini Bars at 19,844 pounds.

Blow Pops are listed on Amazon.com as weighing 0.96 ounces, which means roughly 735,380 Blow Pops are sold in West Virginia for Halloween. That is nearly one Blow Pop sold for every two of West Virginia’s 1.861 million citizens.

That 44,123 pounds of Blow Pops is roughly 27.5 heavier than the WVU football team’s starting offensive line.

Candystore.com notes that West Virgnia is the oldest state in the country with a median age of 40, so they expected the most popular candy to be something more classic such as a Clark Bar or Necco Wafers.

West Virginia is not alone in its love of Blow Pops.

Mental Floss ranks Blow

spot in the tower.

Since then, people have reported hearing faint “moos” coming from Woodburn, according to the tale.

Horror movies of WV

BY RACHEL JOHNSON ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR With the Halloween season in full swing it is time to bring out the horror movies.

West Virginia is no stranger to genre and has had some movies filmed in or set in WV. Here are some scary good movies that have roots in West Virginia.

Movies filmed in West Virginia:

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Blow pops were West Virginia’s most popular candy for the third year in a row.

Pops at number six on their top 10 Halloween candy list.

The Week has them at No. 10, saying, “Sure, the hard candy shell is arguably mediocre. But it teaches children a valuable lesson in perseverance.” Finally, Thrillist has West Virginia’s

favorite sweet at 26 on their “The 30 Best Halloween Candies Ever” list. Thrillist calls Blow Pops the “best of the lollipop options” even while admitting that “neither the gum nor the candy is particularly good.”

The identities and fates of the alleged pranksters are unknown, but their mistake continues to haunt the campus.

“The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) An FBI-agent-in-training tries to catch a crazed serial killer with the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal. According to IMDB parts of this film were shot in Clay County, West Virginia.

“Salvage” (2006) A movie about reliving your murder. Claire Parker is going to die at the hands of a terrifying killer. After being brutally

beaten and stabbed, Claire wakes up at work unscathed.

But her crazed killer is back and out for blood. According to IMDB it was partially Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Movies set in West Virginia: “Wrong Turn” (2003) Six people find themselves trapped in the woods West Virginia after making a wrong turn. They are then hunted down by grossly disfigured cannibals. Although this moving was set in the backwoods of West Virginia, it was filmed in Canada.

“The Mothman Prophecies” (2002) After reporter John Klein loses his wife, he investigates the strange happenings connected to a moth shaped creature. The film is set in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, but was actually filmed in parts of Pennsylvania.

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The spookiest class on campus: Vampire: Blood and Revolution “We, as humans, like the idea of immortality and longevity, power, those kinds of things, and vampires let us indulge in that fantasy in one way or another.”

BY CODY NESPOR CULTURE EDITOR They look like they are dead, they only go places when they are invited, they dislike the sun and are most active during the night. They are not college students; they are vampires.

The legend of the vampire began in the 18th century, with stories and myths of evil beings spreading around Eastern Europe.

Since then, vampires have remained in popular culture, in some form.

Throughout their long history, many different people in many different time periods all around the world have been telling their own vampire stories and adding to the legend and myths. Through examining how vampires are portrayed throughout history and in different cultures, one can learn things about what those cultures were going through at that time, as explained by WVU professor, Dr. Lisa Di Bartolomeo.

“Each era gets that vampire that best expresses its anxieties, its tensions, its concerns,”

-Professor Lisa Di Bartolomeo

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Dr. Lisa Di Bartolomeo wears a costume while teaching about vampires.

Di Bartolomeo said. “[Vampires] change over time, they’re not just always the same thing.”

Di Bartolomeo teaches a foreign cultures class called

Vampire: Blood and Revolution during the Fall semester every other year that looks at vampires through history as a way to examine different cultures and time periods.

‘Halloween’ (2018) disappoints

BY SEAN TANSKI STAFF WRITER In the spirit of this wonderful time of the year, one of the best things you can do is watch scary movies, and one of the best movies to watch is “Halloween.”

“Halloween” was a catalyst in which modern-day slasher-films are made of, and while “Psycho” was the original, “Halloween” was the more influential of the two in terms of modern-day slasher flicks.

The story of “Halloween” is well-known. One fateful Halloween night in1963, sixyear-old Michael Myers horrendously murdered his older sister Judith. Myers was then sentenced for 15 years and was “taken care” of by Dr. Brackett. However, 15 years later, on Oct. 30, 1978, Myers escaped while being transferred and returned to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he stalks his prey, including Laurie Strode, played by Jamie Lee Curtis.

While this is similar to practically any other slasher film in history, the way John Carpenter, the director, establishes the tone for this film differentiates itself from every other

slasher film including the 2018 “Halloween.”

“Halloween” 2018, the latest film in the long-standing “Halloween” series, is directed by David Gordon Green and recasts Curtis as her famous character.

However, unlike the other films in the series, this “Halloween” completely erases every other film in the franchise and establishes this film as the only sequel.

The story of “Halloween” 2018 picks up in modern day, 40 years after the events of the original film Myers is back after a bus transfer goes horribly wrong. He returns back to Haddonfield so he can finally murder Strode; however, unlike last time, Strode has been waiting for this to happen, and she’s waiting for Myers to show up so she can finally end his reign of terror.

Now while this seems like a great premise, this film frustratingly underperforms.

While the dynamic between Stroud and Myers is fantastic, what this film fails to do is establish a real tone.

The reason “Halloween” 1978 works and is a masterpiece in the horror genre is because it leaves audience members on edge whenever Myers shows up. And while there are

a few moments in the new film, it never can consistently put the audience in a state of anticipation.

Another dynamic this film could have done greatly is the dynamic between Strode and her family. It is expressed in the film that the events of the original have put Strode on the edge 24/7. She has been waiting for the day when Michael shows up again.

This puts a toll on everyone close to her, including her daughter, who believes Strode is estranged. This is a great dynamic and has proven to work before in films like “Terminator 2: Judgement Day.” However, the mother-daughter dynamic is interrupted

by Laurie’s granddaughter, who unfortunately fills the role of the stereotypical highschooler portrayed in every other slasher film.

“Halloween” 2018 is a very frustrating film, especially since it showed signs of greatness. It could have finally been the sequel in this troubled series to finally close this story out. Unfortunately, it didn’t.

It just joins the list of failures in this series, and while it isn’t the worst film in this franchise, the fact is it could have been better.

“We concentrate a lot on critical thinking skills by looking at traditional and popular cultural images of vampires,” Di Bartolomeo explained.

“Basically, looking at the fig-

ure of the vampire from a cultural lens.”

Di Bartolomeo said that the class starts with looking at vampires in Slavic folklore and the real-life Vlad the Impaler, moving through Bram Stoker’s novel, “Dracula,” and eventually coming to modern adaptations such as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Blade” and “Twilight.”

Di Bartolomeo began the class at WVU in 2016 and said it has changed a lot since then. In the current 140-student class, she has students read literature and watch movies about vampires and then apply the central troupes that they find from those into different works. For example, some of the projects in the class include finding a song with vampiric themes, obvious or not, finding and creating memes about vampires

and even writing a paper from the perspective of a vampire.

Di Bartolomeo said she does not think interest in vampires will ever really go away.

“People are always going to be interested in and hung up on the idea of death and what happens after death,” Di Bartolomeo said. “We, as humans, like the idea of immortality and longevity, power, those kinds of things, and vampires let us indulge in that fantasy in one way or another.”

The class will next be taught during the Fall 2020 semester, most likely sometime in the afternoon because, as Di Bartolomeo put it, “what self-respecting vampire class would be at 8:30 in the morning?”

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For the past few nights, it’s been quite common to come across college students dressed in all different costumes walking about the campus.

Halloween is here, the time of year everyone in America loves for a different reason.

For children, it’s to go out and get bucketloads of free candy.

For parents, it’s getting to eat out of their children’s buckets of free candy. The holiday is a time for people to have fun together as a community and be a little goofy.

That fun doesn’t seem to be stopping in college.

College is always held up as a point of crunch and responsibility in the lives of people, that dreaded hour in your glory days when you have to bear the weight of overwhelming classwork and balance them with your dwindling wallet.

And while that is certainly a reality for some people, for a good deal of others, college is a time to party it up. Partying is, to no surprise, what often comes to mind when people think about the holiday on campus. It’s an excuse to dress up in a revealing or hilarious costume and go enjoy yourself. In other words, it’s a typical Saturday night at Morgantown, with some extra hassle in terms of your appearance.

Costumes have been getting some recent attention though. With the surge of political correctness in our modern culture, many Halloween costumes are seen as the cul-

tural appropriation or simply insensitive and racist. Usually, it’s divided in the forms of the innocent and unintentional, and the purposeful and maliceful.

Harmless, unintentional cultural appropriation can come from simply wearing costumes that display traits, outfits or customs of a race or cultural body that is not your own. This can be something as simple as a young boy wearing a stereotypical Native American costume.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, some costumes can be purposely offensive or racist for the purpose of humor. The most well-known and common example of this is blackface, which has deep roots in many colleges across America, stemming from blackface routines all the way back in the pre-civil war days of the United States.

Concern over costumes and their potential offensive nature has reached such a critical peak that some college campuses are taking actions to punish students for offensive costume choices.

The University of Michigan enforces infractions on students whose costumes are deemed as offensive. An older example comes all the way back from 2010 when university police at Syracuse University patrolled the streets on Halloween night and forced students to remove offensive costumes.

Despite the concerned eyes lingering over the holiday, many universities have Halloween as part of their longtime traditions. For example, Georgetown University

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Bogey and his WVU alum parents pose in their “Nightmare Before Christmas”-themed Halloween costumes. His brother is also a Hearts of Gold service dog. has the Healy Howl, an event where students watch “The Exorcist” at the cemetery near Healy Hall, where parts of the film where filmed. At midnight, all the students gathered there howl at the moon together.

At the end of the day, Halloween at its core is a celebration of the weird and the rebellious. It’s a time where anyone can dress up as anything they want, whether it be

to express an idea or represent a cause they triumph, or to simply look like their favorite book, movie or video game character. There’s a reason why the hobby of cosplaying has peaked in the last decade.

Eat some candy, dress up as your favorite monster and go have some fun. Make your experience here at WVU just a little scarier before the real terror starts kicking in — finals.

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Baylor win builds momentum for challenging November slate

BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS WRITER

FOOTBALL After the 30-14 loss at Iowa State earlier this month, West Virginia knew things needed to change.

For the 10 quarters leading up to the Iowa State game, the offense was inconsistent. The defense ended up missing 31 tackles during the game, unable to find a way to corral Iowa State running back David Montgomery to the ground. A team with such lofty preseason expectations saw its national respect fly out the window after that pitiful 152-yard performance in Ames, which is the lowest output in the Dana Holgorsen era.

But WVU got back to the basics. The leaders on the team met. They met as a team without the coaches. They said what needed to be said.

“We felt we lost a little respect,” said WVU redshirt junior linebacker David Long.

“As a team, I feel like we lost a little respect. I feel like we

went out there just to take that back.”

WVU surely earned most of that respect back. It absolutely throttled Baylor in every aspect with the 58-14 win at Milan Puskar Stadium, getting back into the win column and showing that the Mountaineers are still a force to be reckoned with. They were not going to let one loss define their season and derail everything they had worked for all offseason.

It took 40 plays in the first half to score 41 points. It took 64 plays to score 58 points for the entire game, an astounding average of 0.906 points per snap. Not only that, but the defense forced Baylor quarterback Charlie Brewer into a 1-of-8 passing mark with three interceptions before he left with an injury. Baylor did not even cross midfield until its 31st play of the entire evening. “[They were] pretty determined after 12 days ago,” said WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen. “[We] thought at the time that wasn’t who we are, and that’s not who we are.”

The Mountaineers still

control their own destiny. All along, their goal was to play for a Big 12 Championship, and right now they are still in line to play in Arlington, Texas, on Dec. 1.

That was the leaders’ message from the beginning. One loss will not crush your hopes for a conference title. Your first defeat will not ruin all of your dreams of playing at AT&T Stadium in early December in your attempt to hoist the crown. Two teams make it to that game, and since everyone plays each other in the schedule, one of those teams will assuredly have at least one loss on their resume.

Look at what happened to Oklahoma last year. It lost to Iowa State in early October but recovered by winning a Big 12 title and then playing in the College Football Playoff. The same thing happened with Georgia in the SEC, who despite losing to Auburn, went on to win the conference title like Oklahoma and played in the national championship.

“We have to come together as a team,” said WVU senior receiver David Sills. “We

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West Virginia defensive line opposing Baylor during the football game on Oct. 25. can’t let something like that define us.”

Now, WVU will look to continue fighting for a Big 12 title with a 3:30 p.m. eastern showdown in Austin, Texas, against the No. 15 Longhorns. Texas is in a three-way tie with WVU and Oklahoma for first place in the Big 12 standings with

four regular-season contests remaining.

Those two teams — Texas and Oklahoma — both remain on the schedule, highlighting a daunting November stretch.

After Texas, it’s a home tilt against TCU, followed by a trip to Oklahoma State in Stillwater on Nov. 17 and then a

Nov. 23 night game against No. 7 Oklahoma.

“They’re in a really good spot right now,” Holgorsen said. “It’s going to give us some momentum for what we know is going to be a tough November, but it’s the Big 12. Everybody else has got a tough November.”

Q&A with The Daily Texan sports editor Alex Briseño had lost. They’re really good at moving forward when they lose.

There were guys spilling their life story and laughing with the media. They know that they can still win the Big 12, and I think that’s the biggest thing this team has going for them right now because if it’s any other season in recent memory, this is where other Texas teams would fall apart.

BY JOHN LOWE SPORTS EDITOR

FOOTBALL The West Virginia University football team heads out to Austin, Texas to face their toughest opponent so far this season.

Texas, along with West Virginia and Oklahoma, stands atop the Big 12 standings and is ranked 17th in the College Football Playoff rankings. The Mountaineers sit at 13th in those rankings.

West Virginia leads the alltime series with Texas 4-3. Three of the Mountaineers’ wins come in Austin (a 7-6 win in 1956, a 48-45 win in 2012 and a 24-20 win in 2016).

UT won last year’s meeting in Morgantown, 28-14.

Alex Briseño, sports editor for The Daily Texan, talked to the Daily Athenaeum about some of the strengths and weaknesses of the Longhorns ahead of Saturday’s game.

Who’s going to win on Saturday and why?

After the Oklahoma State loss, I had West Virginia by about nine or 10 [points], which sounds like a lot, but that was right after I saw what Texas put out on Saturday night. But you

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What’s the mood been like in and around campus since UT’s lost at Oklahoma State?

The mood around campus and Austin heading into Saturday, Texas fans knew that this would be the gauntlet of the second half of the season. You got Oklahoma State on the road at night on ABC, you got West Virginia and you got a road game against Texas Tech. That’s not easy play by any means of the imagination. I think heading into Oklahoma State, people were kind of wary of this inflated ranking. I don’t think anyone

had them at the sixth-best team in the nation. I had them at 15, which is funny because that’s where they ended up at. Saturday just kind of served as a bit of a wake-up call. Also, just taking a shot at how everybody’s expectations fell apart after seven weeks of football. People were talking about the playoff, which was ridiculous to me. I think the realistic goal would be 9-3. Depending on how it shakes up, Alamo Bowl or a New Year’s Six (bowl). The mood with the team, we talked to them today, you couldn’t really tell that they

What do you think are the Longhorns’ biggest strengths coming into Saturday?

If you had asked me this before Saturday, I would’ve said the defense. Now I can’t really say the same thing. They gave up 45 against Oklahoma, including a complete collapse in the fourth quarter where [Sooners quarterback] Kyler Murray just drops 21 points in the blink of an eye. You’ve got [Oklahoma State quarterback Taylor] Cornelius just blowing up the defense for 31 points in the first half. It’s strange because for that game, they had two weeks to prepare and they pull out that.

At this point, I think it has to be [quarterback] Sam Ehlinger and the Texas wide receivers.

Most West Virginia fans I think remember the pick-six that Ehlinger threw last year. This brutal, awful decision. That was really the epitome of the type of player he had been all year. We

haven’t really seen that at all this season. We talked to him about it, and he kind of laughed and said, “Yeah, I try not to do that anymore.” He’s a lot smarter. If he had that maturity and that decision making last year, Texas would’ve won eight or nine games.

How do you think Ehlinger and the Texas wide receivers are going to respond to the West Virginia defense?

The defenses that this team has faced haven’t been spectacular. They really struggled at Oklahoma State, who doesn’t have a great defense at all. I think defenses are finally starting to figure out that if they have a cornerback who can lock down [Texas wide receiver] Collin Johnson, that really takes away the heart of this offense. They don’t have a tremendous running game. It will get the job done if the wide receivers are clicking, but with Tre Watson and Keaontay Ingram, they’re really a top back. There’s not really a one and two. If Ehlinger struggles finding Johnson or Lil’Jordan Humphrey, which is very possible because this is probably the best defense they’ll face all season, I don’t see any way for this team to come out with a win.

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Second-seeded Mountaineers looking to wrangle Longhorns again

BY JARED SERRE SPORTS WRITER

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WOMEN’S SOCCER After defeating the Oklahoma Sooners on Sunday, this is the sixth straight season in which the WVU women’s soccer team has advanced to the semifinals in the Big 12 Tournament.

“We felt that we had unfinished business against Kansas. We were disappointed in the loss,” head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown said in a phone interview on Monday when asked about bouncing back from the regular season finale. “It was really important for us to take care of business and do what we needed to do this [past] Sunday.”

Up next for Izzo-Brown’s squad (12-4-3) are the Texas Longhorns in a battle that pits the second and third seeds of the tournament together.

The two teams last met on Oct. 7 in Morgantown. Despite an early goal from sophomore Texas midfielder Haley Berg, senior WVU defender Bianca St. Georges was able to add two scores in the second half and send the Longhorns back to Austin with a 2-1 loss.

“I think both of us got a little bit of a sense of each other and a feel for each other,” Izzo-Brown said about the season’s earlier matchup. “It’s one thing to play Friday [or] Sunday — everybody is a little bit tired or a step behind — but we have a good feel for [Texas]. We also know both teams will be fresh Friday, and Texas has a great side, so it’s going to be a huge battle.”

The Longhorns (13-3-3) come into this match having defeated No. 6 Kansas on Sunday

1. Texas (4-1, 6-2) 2. W. Virginia (4-1, 6-1) 3. Oklahoma (4-1, 7-1) PHOTO BY TEMITAYO ADESOKAN

Lauren Segalla boxing out her opponent during the Oklahoma game. in penalty kicks. They entered the conference tournament having gone undefeated in games at home, and they have scored three or more goals in seven games so far this season.

“They move the ball extremely well. It’s definitely going to be a different game than what we saw in Morgantown,” Izzo-Brown said about Texas.

She later added, “It’s definitely going to be a very, very tight game. It’s going to be a great soccer match.”

Both teams have the talent for a good battle. The Big 12 Conference recently announced awards for the season, giving the Mountaineers four players named to the All-

Big 12 first team. Texas has two. The game will also be a matchup of the conference’s Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year—Texas’ Cyera Hintzen and WVU’s Bianca St. Georges, respectively.

Additionally, in the United Soccer Coaches poll that was released on Tuesday, the Mountaineers sit at No. 14. Texas is only a few spots behind at No. 18.

The Mountaineers will be spending the current week in Kansas City, Missouri — the location of the tournament — due to travel concerns.

Regardless, the Mountaineers won’t be able to compete for a championship if they ar-

en’t running like the well-oiled machine that they have shown at times during the season.

“Everybody needs to just do their job,” Izzo-Brown said.

“That’s been my battle cry all year long. Just do your job, worry about your job. If everybody does their job and does their positions, we’re going to be fine.”

“I don’t think one player has to outperform another,” she said. “I think everyone has to get a little bit better as the week goes on and just do their job on Friday.”

The matchup will take place in Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, with kickoff slated for 7 p.m.

WVU well positioned for NCAA bid heading into final game at NIU

BY COLE MCCLANAHAN SPORTS WRITER

MEN’S SOCCER Less than two weeks away from Selection Monday, the West Virginia University men’s soccer team is in prime position to make their first NCAA Tournament since 2011.

WVU earned the two-seed in the Big East Tournament in 2011, their final season as a member of the Big East Conference, but lost in the quarterfinals to St. John’s.

Despite losing early in the Big East Tournament, WVU was still chosen for the NCAA Tournament as an atlarge bid because of their impressive 10-6-1 regular season record.

The Mountaineers ad-

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vanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament before a loss to Maryland knocked them out.

It was the fourth NCAA Tournament appearance for WVU since 2006, but the Mountaineers have not made another appearance since they switched conferences.

Now in the Mid-American Conference (MAC), West Virginia clinched their first regular-season MAC championship Friday night with a win over Bowling Green and will receive the top seed in the MAC Tournament once the regular season is over. Also, the Mountaineers are ranked 16th in the United Soccer Coaches Poll.

As regular season champions, West Virginia will host the MAC Tournament at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium on Nov. 9 and 11.

If the Mountaineers are to win the MAC Tournament,

they will automatically qualify for the NCAA Tournament and not have to worry about being one of the 24 at-large bids selected.

Before the MAC Tournament begins, though, WVU (12-5, 4-0 MAC) has to face its final opponent of the regular season Saturday night at Northern Illinois.

Th e Huskies (8-7-1, 1-3) are currently in the last place in the MAC with only three points and have lost five of their last seven matches. They also have six freshmen with at least 13 starts this season.

Although Northern Illinois has struggled lately, their Rating Percentage Index (RPI), the ranking system used to select and seed teams for the NCAA Tournament, has not.

Th ey continue to hold a strong RPI of 42nd, much of which can be credited to the league they play in. The MAC is the third-ranked RPI con-

ference behind only the ACC and PAC-12.

The Huskies are led in points, goals and shots by freshman forward Nick Markanich with eight, 16 and 53, respectively, and senior midfielder Kevin Rodriguez paces the team with eight assists.

A win for WVU over Northern Illinois could greatly improve the Mountaineers’ RPI of 22nd and could secure them a place in the NCAA Tournament even if they do not win the MAC Tournament.

And if West Virginia has already sealed an NCAA Tournament berth, a win Saturday night could further help their seeding in the tournament.

WVU faces Northern Illinois Saturday night at 8 p.m. and will be looking for their 13th win of the season, which would be their most in a season since 2007.

4. Iowa State (3-2, 4-3) 5. Texas Tech (3-2, 5-3) 6. Oklahoma St. (2-3, 5-3) 7. Baylor (2-3, 4-4) 8. Kansas (1-4, 3-5) 9. Kansas State (1-4, 3-5) 10. TCU (1-4, 3-5)

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Matchup cont. from p. 1 Ehlinger has plenty of weapons and help on the outside for him to throw to. The Longhorns have two talented wide receivers in Collin Johnson and Lil’Jordan Humphrey. Johnson is 6-6, 220 pounds and Humphrey is 6-4, 225 pounds.

Big, physical receivers are nothing new for the WVU defense. Texas Tech receiver Antoine Wesley is 6-5, 200 pounds and had 110 yards and one touchdown catch against West Virginia. Two weeks ago, Iowa State’s Hakeem Butler had 107 yards on six catches with a TD. He is 6-6, 225 pounds.

“They’ve got great ball skills, a lot like what we’ve played the last few weeks,” said defensive coordinator Tony Gibson.

“They’re big play guys and they do a really good job of moving them around. We’re going to have to do a good job of knowing where they’re at.”

On the season, Johnson and Humphrey’s stats are almost identical on the season. Johnson has 628 yards and five scores, while Humphrey has 645 yards and four touchdowns. They each have 46 receptions.

Gibson noted that one of the main differences between Texas’ wide outs and ISU’s and TTU’s is that the Longhorns have two, while the Red Raiders and Cyclones have one.

Keaontay Ingram leads the ground attack. He has rushed for a team high 544 yards averaging just under six yards per attempt. Tre Watson leads the

team in carries with 94, but has rushed for 346 yards. Ingram and Watson both have two touchdowns.

Safety Kenny Robinson said playing an offense like this “gives us pressure to do our job. Make sure everyone is doing the right thing and in position to make the plays they are supposed to.”

On defense, Texas allows opponents to convert 39 percent of the time on third down, a down in which WVU has struggled with at time this season.

UT allows 245.2 yards through the air per game, whereas WVU averages 331.3 passing yards per game on offense.

Senior linebacker leads the Longhorns with 56 tackles, including a season high effort of nine against Baylor. He has recorded 11.5 tackles for loss and three sacks.

Junior DB Brandon Jones is right behind with 52 and has two interceptions to go along with it.

Charles Omenihu leads the team with seven sacks and Caden Sterns has a team-high four INTs. West Virginia’s Will Grier broke his finger in last season’s 28-14 home loss to Texas.

That result has stuck with Holgorsen and this team.

“Didn’t quite end the way we wanted to last year, and we haven’t forgot about that,” Holgorsen said. “This is one that we have been looking forward to for a while.”

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