West Virginia women's basketball pulls off wild upset despite losing more than half the team to ejections

The West Virginia women's hoops squad pulled disconnected a chaotic upset implicit No. 15 Duke connected Friday nighttime aft the likelihood became adjacent much stacked against them astatine halftime.

That's due to the fact that six Mountaineers were ejected aft a little skirmish, which led to WVU having conscionable 5 players near for the full 2nd half.

Duke's Jordan Wood blocked Jordon Harrison's three-pointer to adjacent retired the archetypal fractional and screamed successful her look successful celebration. 

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West Virginia Mountaineers defender Jordan Harrison during the 2nd fractional of a women's hoops crippled betwixt the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Arizona Wildcats connected Jan. 25, 2025, astatine McKale Center successful Tucson, Arizona. (Christopher Hook/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

When the 2 exchanged shoves, the Mountaineers’ seat emptied earlier the teams were separated. Departing the seat carries an automatic ejection.

It took officials 15 minutes to benignant done each the ejections. Of the ejections, 4 were WVU starters.

Trailing 23-20 astatine halftime, West Virginia emerged from the interruption and proceeded to outscore the Blue Devils 20-6 successful the archetypal six minutes of the third.

West Virginia Mountaineers caput manager Mark Kellogg looks connected from the sideline successful the archetypal 4th against the Kansas State Wildcats astatine T-Mobile Center. (Amy Kontras/Imagn Images)

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The Blue Devils drew wrong 53-49 with 37 seconds near earlier Sydney Shaw atoned for immoderate precocious turnovers and made 5 of six foul shots successful the past 43 seconds to clinch it.

"I'm disappointed successful the ending of the half," WVU manager Mark Kellogg said. "I deliberation we're amended than that — we’re going to larn a immense acquisition — but I'm truthful arrogant of that radical of five."

West Virginia Mountaineers defender Sydney Shaw drives with the shot successful the 2nd 4th of a women's Big 12 tourney quarterfinal crippled betwixt the Kansas State Wildcats and West Virginia Mountaineers connected March 7, 2025, astatine T-Mobile Center successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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Duke travels to South Florida connected Thursday. West Virginia hosts Appalachian State connected Thursday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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