MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — Bob Huggins said Monday that junior guard Beetle Bolden will likely miss the rest of the season with a high ankle sprain.
“He’s probably done,” Huggins said. “We brought him back too soon the last time.”
Bolden has missed nine games this season to a variety of injuries that also include a knee, elbow and hand injuries earlier this season.
He suffered his ankle injury on Jan. 26, at Tennessee and has missed the team’s past seven games.
In 18 games, Bolden was the Mountaineers’ top perimeter player, averaging 12.2 points and 2.5 assists per game. He has knocked down 121 3-pointers over his first three seasons.
Summer trip
Taking advantage of an NCAA rule that allows basketball teams to take a foreign trip once every four years, Huggins said the Mountaineers will travel to Spain this summer.
“We’ll get to practice for two weeks [before going],” Huggins said. “We’ll go to Spain for 10 days.”
Final details are still being prepared, but Bryan Messerly, WVU’s director of communications, said the team could play between three and five games while overseas. The trip is planned for Aug. 3-13.
For the first time, the Mountaineer Athletic Club is making it possible for fans to travel with the team. At a cost of $5000, a package is available that covers round trip airfare, transportation to and from the airport in Spain, tour activity tickets, bus rides, admission to games and nine nights of hotel accommodations.
Huggins said that prized recruit Oscar Tshiebewe should be enrolled and eligible to practice and play with the team on the trip.
West Virginia’s last foreign trip was to the Bahamas in 2015.
Graduation dates
Former West Virginia forward Wes Harris, who was dismissed from the team earlier this month for a violation of athletic department policy, has entered his name into the NCAA’s transfer portal.
Huggins said Harris, a junior who redshirted one season while at Lawson State Community College, is on schedule to graduate this May and could be eligible at another Division I school next season as a graduate transfer.
Huggins also said that Bolden, Chase Harler and Lamont West are also scheduled to graduate this May, but did not say if any of them planned to move on.
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