MORGANTOWN — They aren’t exactly ready to be termed the twin towers just yet, but West Virginia forwards Jordan Thomas and Kierra Wheeler certainly made their presence felt Monday.

Their combined 26 points and 12 rebounds paved the way for WVU to open the season with an 83-47 victory against Purdue Fort Wayne inside the Hope Coliseum.

The final score wasn’t the surprise. It was how the Mountaineers (1-0) got there.

“We could play through the paint last year, but we did it differently,” WVU head coach Mark Kellogg said. “We did it off the dribble with the guards. Now, we have some bodies we can throw the ball into, which I thought we did a good job of early.”

Those bodies are Thomas and Wheeler, a wrecking crew down low the Mountaineers simply didn’t have a season ago. Thomas was just a

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