WVU at its best, flattens Miami in first round

By Justin Jackson For the Observer-Reporter MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – If there were any nerves about hosting the NCAA tournament for the first time in 34 years, the 11th-ranked WVU women’s basketball team forgot to show it Saturday. Instead, the fourth-seeded Mountaineers played more the role of a conqueror. In front of a packed Hope Coliseum crowd of 13,504 – thousands of which were lined up outside and around the arena more than four hours before tip-off – WVU was relentless, determined and destructive on its way to an 82-54 victory against 13th-seeded Miami (Ohio). “I thought we...