No Time To Celebrate For WVU

January 21, 2019

MORGANTOWN — Coming off its biggest win of the season, West Virginia (9-9, 1-5 Big 12) gets one day of rest before taking on a Baylor team fresh off a huge victory over No. 8 Texas Tech. “That’s the way it is in this conference,” WVU’s Chase Harler explained following the Mountaineers’ 65-64 come-from-behind win over No. 7 Kansas Saturday night in the Coliseum. “There are not easy games. There are no nights off. We deserved that one. “There were games this year where we didn’t deserve to win. But, there were also games where we played hard and the ball just didn’t ...

West Virginia Knocks Off No. 7 Kansas, 65-64

January 20, 2019

MORGANTOWN — Kansas coach Bill Self left his postgame news conference, saw West Virginia’s Bob Huggins down a hallway and stopped for a handshake. “Go win the rest of them,” Self said. Wishful thinking, perhaps. But Huggins will gladly take this one over his friend in what has ...

Much-Needed Win for Mountaineers

January 20, 2019

MORGANTOWN — If ever a team was in need of some luck, it was West Virginia — in an unusual place in the cellar of the Big 12 — as it played host to perennial Big 12 champion Kansas on Saturday afternoon at the Coliseum. Five losses, the most recent a 30-point embarrassment at TCU, to ...

Starting Five Up in Air as WVU Prepares for Kansas

January 19, 2019

MORGANTOWN — Bob Huggins has removed the kids’ gloves he has been wearing since West Virginia (8-9, 0-5 Big 12) tipped off the season. Now, the Mountaineers coach will hold no punches back as his team prepares to play host to perennial Big 12 champion Kansas (15-2, 4-1 Big 12). “That’s it,” Huggins exclaimed following Tuesday’s embarrassing 98-67 setback at TCU. “I think I know a little bit about what I’m doing and that’s defiance. That’s it. “If they (the players) think they are stronger-minded than I am, if they think they are tougher than I am, they’ve ...

Bane Scores 26 as TCU Routs WVU

January 16, 2019

FORT WORTH, Texas — Desmond Bane and TCU quickly got over the sting of consecutive tough road losses to Top 25 teams that knocked them out of the poll. The Horned Frogs returned home with their biggest margin of victory in a Big 12 game. And for West Virginia, which like TCU is in its ...

Brown Adds Three to WVU Coaching Staff

January 15, 2019

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University football coach Neal Brown has announced that Sean Reagan will join the Mountaineer coaching staff as an assistant coach on the offensive side. Brown will announce staff assignments at a later time. Reagan joins Chad Scott and Jordan Lesley as new assistants for the Mountaineers. “We welcome Sean and his family to West Virginia to be part of the Mountaineer Football family,” Brown said. “He was on staff at Troy, and we worked together at Texas Tech. He did an outstanding job with our quarterbacks; we had several passers who played at a ...