MORGANTOWN -- Before there was jubilation felt after upsetting Gonzaga and before the historic feeling that came with West Virginia’s road win at Kansas, there was the meeting. In part, it was a getting-to-know-you type of meeting, as 16 WVU players who had never met came together over ...
MORGANTOWN -- Maybe it was somehow fitting the way West Virginia’s 72-65 victory against UCF played out inside the Coliseum on Saturday. Great start. Then some adversity popped up in the middle, just before the Mountaineers made enough key plays at the end to pull it out. If that ...
MORGANTOWN -- They came in as a collection of strangers, and in terms of basketball prowess, they were a group of unheralded individuals. It’s still been less than a full calendar year that Javon Small, Toby Okani, Joseph Yesufu and Eduardo Andre have been on campus, yet they seemingly ...
MORGANTOWN -- Javon Small came to pass Tuesday night. And score. And rebound a little, too. Having put the WVU men’s basketball team on his shoulders for the majority of the season, Small did it one more time in what may have been the most critical of times. Needing a win to pad ...
MORGANTOWN -- It’s a story that maybe could have been dreamt up in some creative think tank, but very few would have ever imagined Josh Eilert’s story would play out the way it has in real life. In the span of two years, Eilert has been named an interim head coach twice. It happened at ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia traveled 1,928 miles to Provo, Utah for an old-fashioned butt kicking Saturday night. By the time No. 25 BYU put the finishing touches on its 77-56 victory inside the Marriott Center, the Mountaineers’ jet lag had turned into full-blown disorientation. “I ...
