SALT LAKE CITY – The University of Utah fired men's basketball coach Craig Smith on Monday, making assistant coach Josh Eilert an interim head coach for a second consecutive season. Smith’s firing came a day after a 76-72 loss at Central Florida that dropped the Utes to 15-12 this ...
MORGANTOWN -- Somewhere in the back of his mind, as Darian DeVries prepares the WVU men’s basketball team for its final four games of the regular season, there is a magic number of victories the Mountaineers need to reach in order to be selected for the NCAA tournament. “Deep down, I ...
MORGANTOWN -- Javon Small just didn’t have it. Amani Hansberry had something cooking for about 21 minutes before No. 9 Texas Tech put the wraps on him, too. When it was all said and done, West Virginia wasn’t half bad in trying to pull off some magic against another top 10 ...
MORGANTOWN -- Amani Hansberry is a young man with options on a basketball court. As the WVU forward began to describe some of them, the reaction from teammate Javon Small was priceless. “The way most teams play ball screens with Javon, they either try to blitz it or isolate him to one ...
MORGANTOWN -- In the span of eight minutes Wednesday, West Virginia saved its season and nearly lost it at the same time. If you ever wondered just how chaotic Big 12 basketball can get, we offer you up the second half of WVU’s 62-59 victory over Cincinnati inside the Coliseum. The ...
MORGANTOWN -- When it comes down to it, there are just three reasons why college basketball coaches strive to earn a shot at taking over a Power Five Conference school. The first two are obvious: The pay is substantially higher and there is more access to the better recruits. The third ...
