WVU Basketball and Football

CHARLOTTE - Pat White finished his career just like he started it - standing atop the winners podium hoisting another bowl trophy over his head.
White passed for 332 yards and three touchdowns to lead West Virginia to a 31-30, come-from-behind victory over North Carolina in the 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl at Bank America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.
"He's the greatest winner to ever wear the old Gold and Blue," said West Virginia coach Bill Stewart. "The whole key to the game was our number five managing the game."
White, the NCAA's all-time leading rusher for quarterbacks with 4,480 yards, became the first quarterback in NCAA history to win four bowl games as a starter. White engineered bowl victories over Georgia in the 2006 Nokia Sugar Bowl, against Georgia Tech in the 2007 Toyota Gator Bowl, over Oklahoma in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and now over North Carolina in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
The senior was named game MVP, the third time in his career he was earned that honor.
Today, West Virginia overcame first-half trickery from North Carolina and later needed an interception from sophomore linebacker Pat Lazear at the North Carolina 45 to finally put away the Tar Heels.
Trailing 30-24 with 8:40 remaining in the fourth quarter, White went to the air, completing a 40-yard first-down pass to Jock Sanders to the North Carolina 29. Two plays later, White fired a 20-yard touchdown pass to Alric Arnett - his second TD catch of the game.
Alric's first touchdown catch was a pretty, 44-yard one-handed grab to put the Mountaineers ahead, 14-7.
White also completed a 35-yard touchdown pass to Bradley Starks in the first quarter after Noel Devine began the game with an 18-yard TD run on West Virginia's opening drive.
Heading into the game West Virginia had the 65th rated offense in the country while North Carolina's offense was rated 95th. Naturally, by the end of the first quarter the two teams had 35 points, 387 total yards and both quarterbacks were a combined 13 of 13 for 271 yards and four touchdown

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