CINCINNATI - Sixty days, 11 wins, five losses.
Two months ago, when West Virginia University began Big EastConference play, if you had told Coach John Beilein his Mountaineerswould go 11-5 in the toughest league in college basketball, hewouldn't have been satisfied.
He would have been ecstatic - or as much as coaches allowthemselves to get that way during a season.
See, Beilein never went to Vegas or Wheeling Island, Charles Townor even a Morgantown slots parlor, but he gambled big this season.
The veteran WVU coach gambled that a veteran team could handle notonly the rigors of a conference that could have been downrightunreasonable but also a testy …
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