West Virginia's Leading Scorer Casey Mitchell Suspended Indefinitely

West Virginia Men’s Basketball coach Bob Huggins announced that leading scorer senior Casey Mitchell has been suspended indefintely due to an unknown violation of team rules.

For the 2010-2011 season, Mitchell was averaging nearly 17 points per game in addition to almost four rebounds per game this season for West Virginia.

As the rest of the team moves on, West Virginia will be with only eight scholarship players for their contest on the road with No. 23 Louisville as they try to extend their five-game Big East winning streak.

For Mitchell, this is the second violation of team rules within the span of nearly four months as he was sat down in mid-October by Huggins before the regular season began in November.

After the suspension announcement today and the Dan Jennings walkout during the South Florida game on the 23rd in Morgantown, the chances of a deep run in the Big East tournament and/or NCAA tournament have been gashed for the Mountaineer faithful this season.

As more information of this situation comes up, Sports Haze will update you on the situation facing West Virginia for the remaining portion of the schedule.

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