MORGANTOWN – Willie Akers, a starting forward on WVU’s 1959 national runner-up men’s basketball team and an award-winning high school coach in West Virginia, died Tuesday in Logan at the age of 89. The Mullens native was inducted into the WVU Hall of Fame in 2002. He was a two-year ...
MORGANTOWN -- Turns out West Virginia head coach Ross Hodge didn’t have to travel very far to fill his final roster spot with the news that forward Brenen Lorient intends to play his fifth season with the Mountaineers this season. The news was first reported by Joe Tipton of On3 and head ...
MORGANTOWN -- It’s taken 61 years, but it appears North Carolina has finally gotten over Ron “Fritz” Williams and is set to play West Virginia once again. The two schools announced Thursday they would meet this season, on Nov. 27, at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte. The game is part ...
MORGANTOWN -- The case for WVU men’s basketball player Javan Buchanan to earn a fifth year of college eligibility now has a co-plaintiff in former WVU forward Brenan Lorient. Both players filed a complaint against the NCAA in the Northern District of West Virginia on Monday, with both ...
MORGANTOWN -- Ron Hunter is entering his eighth season as the men’s basketball coach at Tulane, but for the hoops junkies out there, most will remember him as the former Georgia State head coach who fell off his rolling chair in the 2015 NCAA tournament, just as his son hit a game-winning ...
MORGANTOWN -- The practice videos posted by WVU show the smoothness that comes with freshman point guard Miles Sadler. It’s seen in a cross-over move to the left side, only to bring it back to the right side for a lay-up. Another shows Sadler stopping on a dime and stepping back to knock ...
