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The Charleston Gazette: No. 20 WVU hits the gas, beats TCU

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No. 20 WVU hits the gas, beats TCU

MORGANTOWN — Perhaps the Olympics kept WVU fans at home Monday evening.

Tickets for the No. 20 Mountaineers’ home game with TCU at the Coliseum were plentiful. On secondary ticket markets like Stubhub, they were going for the minimum $6.

Yet on this night, West Virginia put on at least a medal-winning performance, defeating the visiting Horned Frogs 82-66, and in doing so avoided a second straight loss before what was announced as a crowd of 11,773 and an ESPN2 audience.

Mountaineer forward Teddy Allen led a balanced offensive attack with 16 points, while James “Beetle” Bolden added 14, Dax Miles had 13 and Wes Harris had 11.

“We were taking what the defense gave us,” Bolden said. “We were reading the defense. We saw they watched film a little bit on us from the last game and were cheating on us. So a lot of back-door plays were open.”

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