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Washington Post
20-02-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
West Virginia survives final frantic seconds to beat Cincinnati 62-59
MORGANTOWN, — Amani Hansberry scored 17 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and West Virginia pulled out a 62-59 win over Cincinnati on Wednesday night after nearly blowing a nine-point lead in the final seconds. Trailing by six midway through the second half, the Mountaineers (16-10, 7-8 Big 12) went on a 21-6 run led by seven points from Hansberry to lead 62-53 with 7.9 seconds left. Cincinnati's Dan Skillings Jr. banked in a long 3-pointer then grabbed a tipped inbounds pass and threw in another 3. Jizzle James forced a turnover on the next inbounds pass and Tyler Betsey got loose for an open look from straightaway, but his shot bounced off the front of the rim.
Reuters
20-02-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Behind Amani Hansberry's double-double, WVU downs Cincinnati
February 20 - Amani Hansberry scored 17 points and grabbed career-high 13 rebounds to help West Virginia rally past Cincinnati 62-59 on Wednesday in Morgantown, a critical victory for the Mountaineers' at-large NCAA Tournament hopes. In a battle of the 44th and 45th teams in the NCAA's NET Rankings, Hansberry notched the second double-double of his college career. The sophomore scored seven of his points during a 17-3 run over a six-minute span of the second half that helped the higher-ranked Mountaineers (16-10, 7-8 Big 12) snap a two-game skid. Cincinnati (15-11, 5-10) trailed 62-53 with 34 seconds remaining, but Dan Skillings Jr. sank a pair of 3-pointers just three seconds apart to make it a one-score game. After calling their final two timeouts, the Mountaineers still failed to get the ball inbounds, giving the Bearcats a chance to tie. However, Tyler Betsey's 3-point attempt hit the front iron, and Cincinnati lost its second straight and saw its record in Quad 1 games go to 1-9. West Virginia's Javon Small finished with 16 points, including 10 in the first half. Jonathan Powell contributed 12 points and nine rebounds. Jizzle James, who scored at least 24 points in each of the previous three games, led Cincinnati with 13 on Wednesday. He shot 6-for-20 from the floor and battled foul trouble. Day Day Thomas added 13 points on 5-of-15 shooting. West Virginia made 12 of 14 free throws, while Cincinnati sank just two of its seven foul shots. Cincinnati played without Simas Lukosius. The senior guard, the team's second-leading scorer (11.4 ppg), sustained a shoulder injury during the team's loss at then-No. 10 Iowa State on Saturday, the Bearcat Journal reported. West Virginia led 25-16 just past the midpoint of the first half before Thomas sank a jumper and a 3-pointer and teammate Dan Skillings Jr. followed with a layup to cut the gap to two points. The Bearcats' Dillon Mitchell sank a last-second layup off an inbound lob to cut the halftime deficit to 29-27. Cincinnati's first-half rally came as James, the team's leading scorer, sat for the final 7:50 after picking up his second foul. The Bearcats took a 31-29 lead less than 90 seconds into the half second after a James jumper. The lead went back and forth until Mitchell's jumper gave Cincinnati a 47-41 lead midway through the half. That's when West Virginia went on a decisive run. Small's free throws with 5:41 left gave the hosts a 48-47 lead. Hansberry and Powell connected on back-to-back treys and Hansberry finished the surge with a layup that made it 58-50 with 1:29 remaining.
Associated Press
15-02-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Omier earns 81st career double-double, Baylor holds the line in OT, outlasts West Virginia 74-71
WACO, Texcas (AP) — Norchad Omier posted his 81st career double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds and Baylor did all of its scoring from the free-throw line in overtime as the Bears held off West Virginia, 74-71 on Saturday. Baylor led for more than 30 minutes, but the game featured 10 lead changes and was tied 11 times. Langston Love gave Baylor the lead in overtime with two free throws and freshman Robert Wright III added two more with 1:31 left. Hansberry knocked down a jumper with 1:15 left, but Love made two more free throws with just under a minute remaining. Omier made 1 of 2 foul shots with 40 seconds left, and Wright made the first of two to make it 73-69. After Javon Smalls made two free throws for the Mountaineers, Jalen Celestine hit the first of two to set the final margin with :05 left. Amani Hansberry rebounded a miss by Baylor's VJ Edgecombe with 36 seconds left in regulation, who committed a foul under the Baylor basket, allowing Hansberry to tie the game with 24 seconds left to force overtime. Love was 12-for-12 at the line and finished with 17 points for Baylor (16-9, 8-6 Big 12). Wright finished with 16 points, four rebounds and three assists and Celestine converted 4 of 5 at the line to add 10 points. Smalls finished with 22 points and six assists to lead West Virginia (15-10, 6-8). Toby Okani added 19 points, seven rebounds and three assists. Baylor hosts No. 13 Arizona Monday. West Virginia hosts Cincinnati Wednesday. ___
Chicago Tribune
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Review: ‘A Raisin in the Sun' gets an extraordinary, close-to-home production at Court Theatre
The boy named Travis is asleep on the couch. Bodies occupy almost every available space in the cramped apartment. The bathroom is way down the hall. The sound and sights of Chicago's roiling South Side, circa the late 1950s, can be heard and felt outside. Even as you walk into the Court Theatre, you know that the director Gabrielle Randle-Bent and her designer, Andrew Boyce, understand 'A Raisin in the Sun,' the greatest play ever written by a Chicagoan about the city of her youth. This cannot be taken for granted. Many productions, including the most recent Broadway revival, have shorn this play from its Chicago roots, seemingly forgetting the references to Walter Lee Younger standing at the corner of 39th and South Park, or even that it was based on Lorraine Hansberry's own father's decision to try and move his family into Washington Park, a white neighborhood in 1938. Carl Augustus Hansberry's act of rebellion had a lot to do with a subsequent 1940 Supreme Court decision involving a covenant restricting Black families from purchasing or leasing land in a particular Chicago neighborhood such as the one to which the elder Hansberry aspired. When his daughter Lorraine, as formidable an artist and intellectual as Chicago ever produced, wrote 'Raisin,' her dad, who became so disillusioned with America he had gone to Mexico, already was dead. Maybe that is how she injected so much passion and intensity into her masterpiece about an ordinary, hard-working Black family who just want to move to an affordable home that just happens to be in a white neighborhood. To my mind, 'Raisin' is the poetic and structural equal of any American play of the 20th century. 'A Raisin in the Sun' was first seen in Chicago (prior to New York) at the Blackstone Theatre in 1959 with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeill and Sidney Poitier. This newspaper's Claudia Cassidy called it 'a remarkable play' with a 'proud backbone' and sent it on its way, even though Hansberry's diaries indicate she had been terrified of the Tribune review. Court Theatre is the closest professional American theater to the setting of 'A Raisin in the Sun,' and one of this Hyde Park theater's most memorable moments came when a 2006 staging of the musical version, 'Raisin,' intersected with the rise of Barack Obama, something Hansberry certainly could not have anticipated. So there is a lot of local history. 'A Raisin in the Sun' is best known as a play about the characters' desire to move to a white neighborhood and, indeed, that's the choice around which Hansberry structured her work. But one of the great pleasures of this revival is now well it teases out the other aspects of a work that offered an incomparably rich portrait of Black life in Chicago in the middle of the 20th century. Hansberry once told Chicago's Studs Terkel she split herself in two in the play: one half of her is Ruth Younger (here, the magnificent Kierra Bunch, body pulsing with stress and empathy), the wife of Walter Lee Younger (Brian Keys, like a coiled spring) who wants nothing so much as air to breathe for her family and who understands that holding that together is what matters most in the world. Hansberry's other, more radical side is found in the 'college girl' Beneatha (Martasia Jones, whose live-wire performance peers forward to the 1960s), torn between two lovers, Joseph Asagai (Eliott Johnson) and George (a droll Charles Gardner), one offering African rebirth, the other a pathway to Chicago's Black middle class. Simply put, Hansberry baked into her play most of the concerns of Black Chicago at the time, whether that was fighting off Chicago-style racism, often most perniciously expressed through real estate restrictions; the struggles of Black men to assert themselves within matriarchal families; economic repression all around and even the glimmers of a nascent civil rights movement. It's all here and, in this production, all living and breathing before your eyes in the home of Lena Younger, played by Shanésia Davis, who understands the demands of this role because she understands Mama is the flawed but resilient leader of a roiling ensemble, a Chicago family, ordinary, extraordinary. Randle-Bent has choreographed this production with great style. Pacing sags a little toward the end, which is generally less detailed than the near-flawless Act 1 (I suspect rehearsal time got shorter) and occasionally she goes a little far, adding to the running time of what already is a substantial work. But those are very minor quibbles in what is the best show of the young year here so far, a richly staged, moving and superbly cast, designed, and acted rendition of an incomparably precious work to Chicago. It's not to be missed, even if you think you already know the play. Chris Jones is a Tribune critic. cjones5@ Review: 'A Raisin in the Sun' (4 stars) When: Through March 9 Where: Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave. Running time: 2 hours, 50 minutes Tickets: at $58-$100 at 773-753-4472 and
Associated Press
09-02-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Amani Hansberry scored 17 points, West Virginia cruises past Utah 72-61
MORGANTOWN, (AP) — Amani Hansberry scored 17 points to lead West Virginia to 72-61 victory over Utah on Saturday night. Hansberry made three 3-pointers and finished 6-of-10 shooting from the field. Javon Small added 14 points and eight assists for West Virginia (15-8, 6-6 Big 12). Joseph Yesufu also scored 14 points and Jonathan Powell had 11. The Mountaineers have won two of its last three since ending a three-game skid. Keanu Dawes scored 14 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for Utah (13-10, 5-7 Big 12). Jake Wahlin added 10 points. West Virginia closed the first half on a 12-3 run for a 36-27 advantage. Toby Okani scored all nine of his points in the first half to pace West Virginia. The Mountaineers had their largest lead, 53-39 with 12:38 left. The Utes cut the deficit to 64-59 with 3:00 remaining before Powell answered with a 3-pointer to help the Mountaineers pull away. It was the first meeting between the teams since Utah beat the Mountaineers 65-62 in a Sweet 16 matchup at the NCAA Tournament on March 19, 1998. On Tuesday, West Virginia hosts BYU while Utah plays at Cincinnati.
