JJ Quinerly (11) of West Virginia will attempt to film Lexie Donalski (20) of North Carolina to defend in the second half of the NCAA College Basketball Tournament on Monday, March 24, 2025, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Morgantown – With a high-pitched cry of the whi’s cry echoing through my ears. As a basketball muffled crank bounced off the rim, JJ Quinerly’s celebrity career in West Virginia appeared in a picture book that ends Monday night in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Unfortunately, it was a horror story that had to come from Stephen King’s typewriter as the climbers advanced to Sweet 16 with a 21-point performance from the North Carolina basketball team from the NCAA Tournament (58-47).
Quinerly spent four years at WVU for three different coaches, engaging the scorer who became the third bathroom in the program’s history with 2,016 points. Unfortunately, only eight people came to this frustrating game. She shot just two in 12 shots as she was handcuffed by a foul police wearing a mercilessly powerful Tar Heels defense and a striped shirt who could call three fouls within 10 seconds in the second half.
When shots by her and her teammates went everywhere, and the endless tweets were from whistles rather than social media posts, she went everywhere.
This game never erases the legacy she left behind, as she accomplished almost everything she tried to achieve.
“I was hoping I remembered as one of the best security guards to play at WVU. I left here like a legacy and left the program better than when I came in,” she said.
You can’t blame the person in charge for the 22 fouls that you called the climber, like you called 20 in Carolina, but it was how the fouls were distributed as they fouled Kylie Blacksten and Jordan Thomas, placed four fouls and on the ice, even if one Caroline player was caught in four fouls, so that was how the fouls were distributed.
“There wasn’t much of a flow into that game. I don’t think we were necessarily going our way. I think it was on the floor of others. I don’t think it had anything to do with the outcome,” coach Mark Kellogg said.
For the majority of the game, WVU threatened his team record with the fewest points in the NCAA tournament game. This was 43 points against LSU in 2007. The Sydney Show late free throw and the last three passed the infamous record of the climber.
The show’s 3 was the second match in 21 matches, saving the climbers’ faces, but performance of 9.5% above the ARC was better than the 8.3% (8.3%) that it managed in that LSU game.
The climbers also contributed to their own end mise by turning the ball over 16 times, earning 28 points from sales against Colombia and managed to score two points throughout the game, just 11 from the 17 turnovers that were kicked out of Carolina.
“To be honest, I thought it was a bit of that kind of game,” Kellogg said. “It was two elite defensive teams. I thought it might be a bit of a slugfest. We certainly thought we had a good offensive performance and it wasn’t our night in the offensive end. Certainly they had a lot to do with it.
It was a horrifying performance from the start as Quinerly missed her first two shots, leaving 2:41 in half and didn’t get her first of two baskets in the game until WVU was delayed 6-0.
In a sloppy first quarter, they gathered for the final eight points to enter a 12-12 tie when the second quarter began.
In the second quarter, WVU managed two baskets out of 11 shots, but somehow hanged down and it was a little different as halftime went 24-21.
Then midway through the third quarter, they set fire and ran up a 35-33 lead with 3:02 left in the half.
Was this the squirt they were waiting for?
It doesn’t seem like it will happen.
North Carolina has Utsey pointed the way, scoring 16 of the next 19 points, with Quinerly trying to nurse the foul situation at Bench.
At that point, North Carolina took an 11-point lead 49-38, and the way WVU was filming could have played without catching up until next Monday.
“They scored 58 points. I don’t think that was our defense. It was our offense,” Kellogg said. “We shot 24%. What did you shoot, 24? We shot 3 to 24% and 9.5%. It would be hard to win when you score 47 points.
“We can win a game that keeps the team at 58. We thought the effort on the defense was really good,” the coach continued. “We thought we had a race. We held it down long enough to see if we could run. We didn’t run. We don’t know where the kills or stops, but if we let someone hold the 58, we’d have some pretty good defensive possessions.”
This became a typical second round game in WVU’s NCAA tournament.
