West Virginia Features New York Flavor

NEW YORK – If you walked in to Madison Square Garden during the player introductions for the West Virginia basketball team, you might think the announcer was giving out the starting lineup for St. John’s, Rutgers or Seton Hall.

All five starters come from New York and New Jersey.

Asked how he lured so much metropolitan-area talent to Morgantown, West Va., Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins cracked, “My effervescent personality.”

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