MORGANTOWN — Finding a starting five when West Virginia’s opening day starting lineup included the names of Beetle Bolden, Sagaba Konate, Esa Ahmad and Wesley Harris has been a task for veteran coach Bob Huggins and his staff. Bolden and Konate hace missed multiple games while recovering ...
MORGANTOWN — While Saturday proved to be a tough day for the Mountaineers on the basketball court, West Virginia had plenty of success with its rifle and baseball teams. First up was Jon Hammonds and his No. 4 ranked rifle squad as it swept both the individual and team titles at the Great American Rifle Conference championships shot inside the University of Akron’s Stile Athletics Field House in Akron, Ohio. Saturday’s victory marked the 10th consecutive time the Mountaineers have brought the championship trophy back to Morgantown. Making the weekend even sweeter were the ...
WACO, Texas (AP) — The first time Baylor played West Virginia, it barely had to sweat in the final few minutes of a comfortable Big 12 road win. That wasn’t the case Saturday at home, when the game came down to those waning moments, but Baylor was up to the challenge. Mario Kegler was ...
MORGANTOWN — Returning from a season opening, three-game series in Atlanta, veteran WVU coach Randy Mazey and his staff looked at the advanced weather forecast for the area, made a call to Canisius College coach Matt Mazurek and elected to open the home half of the Mountaineers’ baseball season early. Just how early? Well, up until Tuesday’s 2 p.m. contest, WVU had never played a home game in the month of February. And, thanks to sophomore Tristen Hudson’s ninth-inning single that brought home pinch runner T.J. Lake with the winning run in the Mountaineers’ 5-4 decision ...
MORGANTOWN — Barry Brown scored 21 points and No. 23 Kansas State beat West Virginia 65-51 on Monday night to remain atop the Big 12 standings. A 14-0 run midway through the second half, led by a couple of 3-pointers by Xavier Sneed, gave the Wildcats (20-6, 10-3) their sixth straight ...
MORGANTOWN — As the losses continue to mount for the Mountaineers, the frustration of another disappointing setback was evident on every player that came into the interview room following WVU’s latest defeat, 65-51, to Big 12 leader Kansas State. But with the frustrations come hope that a freshman class which put three of its players in WVU’s starting lineup for the first time this season — Derek Culver, Emmitt Matthews Jr., and Brandon Knapper — would begin the slow process of bringing the Mountaineers back in 2018-19. One of those dealing with the frustrations from both a ...
