MORGANTOWN — Roughly nine months ago, Isaiah Cottrell’s season came to an abrupt and painful end. The 6-foot-10 forward tore his Achilles tendon on Dec. 29, ending his freshman season before it ever really began. He averaged about five and a half minutes per game in a reserve role, ...
MORGANTOWN — Entering the bye week with a 2-4 record is not the position that Neal Brown expected to find himself in. He didn’t anticipate being the head coach of an undefeated team, either, but what he did expect was growth. Despite the team’s struggles of late, which include three ...
MORGANTOWN — Neal Brown is in unfamiliar territory. He’s in his third season at the helm of the West Virginia football program and his sixth as a college head coach but, for the first time, his team has opened the season with a somewhat undesirable 2-3 record, and 0-2 in the Big ...
By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer Baylor wants to regain its swagger in the run game. West Virginia would be satisfied with any progress. The Bears and Mountaineers meet Saturday in Waco, Texas, after both lost games in which they failed to score in the first half. Baylor had averaged 272 ...
MORGANTOWN — It’s not easy to have a defense rank among college football’s elite for two consecutive years, especially with the hand West Virginia was dealt over the offseason. The losses of linebacker Tony Fields, the team’s leading tackler, and defensive lineman Darius Stills, were ...
MORGANTOWN — An arrow is pulled backward before it is launched forward. West Virginia linebacker Jared Bartlett followed a similar path this offseason. In June, Bartlett’s brother, Richard, was struck and killed in a hit-and-run accident in their home state of Georgia. He later died ...
