MORGANTOWN — WVU women’s basketball coach Mark Kellogg confirmed Tuesday that star guard J.J. Quinerly is practicing again with the 15th-ranked Mountaineers.
For Jordan Harrison, that means she has her running mate back again.
“I’m glad she’s back, for sure,” Harrison said. “She’s doing the same things she always does. She’s looking good out there.”
Quinerly sat out last week’s victory against East Tennessee State with an injured left wrist, an injury that occurred at the end of the Texas game on Dec. 1.
“We didn’t know how it was going to look without her,” Kellogg said. “We wanted to see who else could step up and get us points and compete at the level that we needed to.”
It ended a streak of 103 consecutive games played by Quinerly, dating back to the beginning of her freshman season.
“She’s doing much better,” Kellogg said. “We feel good. It happened near the end of the Texas game. We got the imaging and needed to wait until we felt a little bit better about it. We didn’t want to do anything silly.”
Quinerly is averaging 18.6 points this season and is just four points shy of passing Olivia Bradley for 12th on the school’s all-time scoring list and one steal away from passing Dionne Morris for seventh on the school’s all-time thefts list.
The Mountaineers (9-1) travel to Temple (5-3) at 2 p.m. Sunday, in what will be WVU’s first true road game of the season.
