NEW YORK — As John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” blared over the speakers at Madison Square Garden and the West Virginia players, fans and cheerleaders enjoyed a prolonged celebration on the floor, it felt for an instant as if Morgantown, West Va., had moved to New York City.
And that seemed only fitting considering the basketball team has essentially transplanted to Morgantown from New York.
With 4.2 seconds left in a tie game, Da’Sean Butler, one of five West Virginia starters from the New York metropolitan area, drove the lane and hit a layup that ultimately gave the No. 3 Mountaineers a 60-58 victory over No. 8 Georgetown in the Big East championship.
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