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Article: West's only home-state loss came in Charleston Civic Center's opening game
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 26, 2009
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IN a glorious basketball career at West Virginia University,
Jerry West played only two of his team's 93 games over three seasons
in his home county.
The future NBA star, logo model, coach and executive didn't
disappoint the Kanawha County locals in those two dates at the
Charleston Civic Center ... even if he felt disappointment himself.
That pain came when the 6-foot-3 former East Bank High star and
his fourth-ranked WVU teammates lost 75-72 to Virginia in the first
basketball game in Civic Center history, on Dec. 13, 1958.
"We beat them badly that next year," said West by phone from his
suburban Los Angeles home when reached to talk about the 50th
anniversary season of hoops in the Civic ...