MORGANTOWN -- The bar has been set now for the WVU men’s basketball team. Identities have begun to form. Trends have been set. No longer is this just a collection of new players who are coming together for first-year coach Ross Hodge. The Mountaineers (4-0) are now at the beginning ...
MORGANTOWN -- By the time his night was over, Harlan Obioha’s message was likely making its way out of the Hope Coliseum and up I-79 toward Pennsylvania. WVU’s 7-footer had just played 30 dominating minutes in front of 12,453 screaming fans, many of whom were hugging him and patting ...
MORGANTOWN -- It is a melody either filled with great anticipation or it is nails across a chalkboard, depending on which side of the Mason-Dixon Line one resides. Hands … Touching hands. It is a chorus modified by WVU fans to put an exclamation point on a lifetime’s worth of hatred ...
MORGANTOWN -- Amir Jenkins has already received an early college experience. The WVU freshman guard is about to receive a REAL college experience Thursday, when the Mountaineers (3-0) host rival Pitt (3-0) inside the Hope Coliseum. Here’s the thing, though, Jenkins could very well ...
MORGANTOWN -- Brenen Lorient pulled off the ultimate double-take Sunday. Or maybe it was simply the 6-foot-9 forward adding more to his game to force West Virginia’s future opponents to spend more time on scouting reports. In any case, Lorient was already the Mountaineers’ leading ...
MORGANTOWN -- If nothing else, Ross Hodge knows how to keep things interesting in these normally ho-hum days of November in college basketball. “We’ve played 80 minutes of basketball, and we’ve led for, like, 79 minutes,” the WVU men’s head coach said Thursday, after the ...
