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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- With a big lead in the season opener, West Virginia coach Bob Huggins got a chance to get his youngest players some valuable experience.Nathan Adrian scored 13 points and No. 20 West Virginia cruised past Mount St. Marys 87-59 on Friday night to win its fourth straight opener.Sagaba Konate had 11 points and six rebounds in 12 minutes during a matchup of schools both nicknamed the Mountaineers. He was one of five West Virginia freshmen to play.I thought some were pretty good and some werent very good, Huggins said. I thought Sags played well and was active. Weve just got to throw him in there and help him get his feet wet, but some of our older guys werent very good. Theyve got to be a whole lot better for us.Jevon Carter had 10 points in 27 minutes for West Virginia. Tarik Phillip and Brandon Watkins each scored nine, and Huggins put his teams depth on display by giving at least 10 minutes of time to 11 players.Another freshman who had an impressive debut was Lamont West, with seven points and eight rebounds. Konate, however, expected more of himself.Not really satisfied with my first game, the forward said. We need to improve on the defense side and with our press. We need to roll to the ball better.West Virginia scored the first seven points and led by as many as 21 in the first half.Greg Alexander led Mount St. Marys with 15 points. Elijah Long had 14 and Miles Wilson scored 11.Well, you know, were always big believers in challenging our team, coach Jamion Christian said. I was just talking to our team about it in the locker room there and (if) we learn from these experiences along the way, were going to be right where we need to be at.You know, were not in the Big 12. So, everything for us in our league is going to be measured at the end of the season. Weve always done a great job at getting better at it. Well use this experience here and this road trip to really continue to improve.BIG PICTUREMount St. Marys: Coming off a 13-19 season, the Mountaineers open with nine road games before returning to play at home in Emmitsburg, Maryland, on Dec. 7. The trip includes games at No. 24 Iowa State, Minnesota, George Mason, Michigan and Arkansas.West Virginia: Coming off a 26-9 record last season and an early exit from the NCAA Tournament, the Mountaineers have two more home games before playing in the NIT Season Tip-Off in Brooklyn on Thanksgiving weekend.PRESS VIRGINIAWest Virginias full-court press helped generate 26 points off 21 turnovers.Mount St. Marys, third in the country in creating turnovers last season, scored 11 points off 13 turnovers.UP NEXTMount St. Marys plays at Iowa State on Monday.West Virginia hosts Mississippi Valley State on Monday. 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Cook and Virat Kohli reflect on the drawn first Test The 31-year-old still has quite some distance to go, though, to match the achievements of Tendulkar who rattled up 51 Test centuries over a 200-Test career.Nevertheless, Botham says Cook - Englands most-capped Test captain and leading Test run-scorer of all time with 10,839 in 136 Tests - is not out of the running.He just breaks records, said Botham, speaking to Sky Sports in Rajkot.I was here in India when he flew halfway around the world to play in Mohali and got a hundred after 30-odd hours travelling, having arrived the night before.Hes now got 30 hundreds and is the one player currently playing in world cricket who I believe could get close to Sachin Tendulkar.Hes not yet 32 and batsmen can go on for a bit longer than the hard-working bowlers and all-rounders. He could bat until hes 36 or 37. Mike Atherton says the drawn first Test will feel like a win for England Cook, in leading England for a 55th time in the Test in Rajkot, broke Michael Athertons record of 54 Tests as skipper.ddddddddddddIn the wake of his sides 1-1 series draw in Bangladesh, several bookmakers slashed the price of England suffering a 5-0 whitewash at the hands of world No 1 side India, but Botham said they could not have got it more wrong.England were written off before they even started this game by just about everybody, said the former all-rounder.Theyve come here and theyve dominated the game, putting runs on the board in the first innings which is crucial in this part of the world, and the bowlers stuck to their task.If you look at the scores up until the fourth innings youd have thought we were playing on a road but I thought it was an extremely good cricket wicket. Haseeb Hameed describes his Test debut as surreal I thought England out-played India for 90 per cent of this match and thats big news over here. They will take a lot from that.If our spinners bowl as well in the next Test as they have done here, then they can out-bowl India again - because I thought our spinners were better!Watch the second Test between India and England at Visakhapatnam live on Sky Sports 2 from 3.30am on Thursday. Also See: India hold out for draw Five things: Rajkot Day five highlights Cricket videos ' ' '