MORGANTOWN -- Some high school basketball coaches follow the maxim, “First team to 50 usually wins.” But at Thursday night’s girls' hoops battle between host Morgantown and University, it looked throughout the first half like that predictive number might’ve too big ... maybe by ...
MORGANTOWN -- By design, the University boys basketball team has what head coach Joe Schmidle calls an "unbelievably hard" schedule. The Hawks open Friday against East Fairmont and also face Bridgeport and Morgantown in December. Later this month, the team travels to Charleston for the Par ...
HUNTINGTON -- Helping University to an unbeaten regular season and 11-1 overall record, linebacker Donald Brandel and running back Daminn Cunningham were named to the Class AAA all-state first team, voted on by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association. Brandel was the undoubted leader ...
MORGANTOWN -- Bob Huggins credited WVU associate head coach Larry Harrison with the defensive idea that made a big impact in the Mountaineers 56-53 victory on Wednesday. “Larry said last week that maybe we should bring the 1-3-1 out,” Huggins said. It was a thought that peaked ...
Gabe Osabuohien was summoned to the sideline with 12 minutes left to go and all Bob Huggins could muster at the time was throwing his hands up in the air, as to ask his forward, “What the heck was that?” In reality, “I don’t think I can really what I said to him,” Huggins said ...
MORGANTOWN -- Taz Sherman scored 23 points and West Virginia held on for a 56-53 victory over No. 15 UConn on Wednesday night. The Mountaineers (8-1) were terrible at the free throw line but made enough in the closing minute to beat a ranked opponent in their first try this season. Sean ...
