WVU, adjusting to life without Tucker DeVries, faces Bethune-Cookman

West Virginia will still be without one of its best players when it takes the court against Bethune-Cookman on Saturday in a nonconference game in Morgantown, W.Va.The school announced Tuesday that Tucker DeVries is out indefinitely due to an upper-body injury.DeVries, who is averaging 14.9 points and 4.9 rebounds per game, transferred in from Drake ahead of this season. He joined his father in making the move when Darian DeVries left his job as the Bulldogs’ head coach to take the same position with the Mountaineers.Tucker DeVries, who already has missed one game due to the injury, was a two-time Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year at Drake.”We have a great bunch of guys in the locker room who I know will rally around him during his absence,” Darren DeVries said.The Mountaineers (7-2) have won three in a row as they enter the third game of a four-game homestand.One player in particular who could step into a more prominent role is Joseph Yesufu, who played for Drake, Kansas and Washington State before landing in Morgantown.In the Mountaineers’ 79-45 win over North Carolina Central on Tuesday, the sixth-year senior guard scored a season-high 14 points off the bench. He is averaging 4.3 points per game.

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