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Article: Hilltoppers can't handle UC inside
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 9, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright 1999 Charleston Daily Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The University of Charleston is not afraid to win with the swarm
method.
In recent games, however, it is not the opponents who are being
surrounded and harassed. It has been the rims.
"It's so difficult to match up with us," UC Coach Jayson Gee
said.
At least on the inside. The Golden Eagles have the West Virginia
Conference's largest team. Four players - 6-foot-10 Andy Kanzig, 6-
6
Willie Jones, 6-5 Shawn Thigpen and 6-5 Emory Ogletree - can
bludgeon
an opponent if the pace and style of the game allow.
Improved play there is one reason UC has won five straight to stay
within sniffing distance of the WVC's duo in the NCAA Division II
poll, No. 2 Salem-Teikyo and No. 8 Fairmont State. It is ...