Monday’s heroes are Joe Alexander and Tom Crean.

Joe Alexander tied a career high with 32 points. I was totally wrong (as usual). He showed up big time and West Virginia dominated Pittsburgh 76-62. A few of the pundits have Pittsburgh in no matter what, but I don’t buy that. If that’s really the case and if WVU wins two more games, it would be wrong for the Big East to get any less than seven teams into the tournament: Louisville, G’town, UConn, ND, Marquette, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia. That would be awesome.

Highlights of the WVU-Pitt game, courtesy of ESPN.

And a few links from the blogosphere: The Mountain Top, and Pitt Blather.

Why is Tom Crean a hero? Look who Marquette is playing Tuesday: Florida Gulf Coast, currently 10-20 (and 6-10 in the Atlantic Sun conference). Why schedule a gimme game so late? Charles Rich breaks it down for us: Tom Crean scheduled a game in March against Florida Gulf Coast to game the system on the “last 10 games.”. And for that, Tom Crean is our hero.

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