MORGANTOWN -- It went from almost heaven to simply paradise, West Virginia. That was the feeling for the WVU men’s basketball team inside the Imperial Arena in the Bahamas on Wednesday, as the Mountaineers pulled off the biggest shock of the early college hoops season with an 86-78 ...
MORGANTOWN -- They are meant to be the sacrificial lambs in the Bahamas, a simple warm-up for No. 3 Gonzaga, as the Bulldogs move on to bigger and better things. That’s not exactly the message Darian DeVries has passed along to his WVU men’s hoops team. “Our mindset is pretty much ...
MORGANTOWN -- It would seem like a dream, of sorts, maybe a nightmare, depending on your position. Darian DeVries sort of fits somewhere in the middle. “It’s an opportunity,” the WVU men’s basketball coach said of what may await the Mountaineers when they travel to the Bahamas for ...
MORGANTOWN -- It would be easy to write up West Virginia’s 86-43 victory over Iona on Wednesday night with a tip toward the Mountaineers’ defense. After all, the Gaels were held to just 23.7% shooting, and over 40 frustrating moments, Iona was held to just 14 baskets. “I thought ...
MORGANTOWN -- The gut feeling, if you were to ask any member of the WVU men’s basketball team, was the Mountaineers were prepared to face their first challenge of the season. It only took a portion of the first half of last week’s 86-62 loss against Pitt to figure out that wasn’t the ...
PITTSBURGH — Somewhere in between badly air-balled free throws, throwing passes to no one in particular and amid a number of other errors, one thing became mightily clear inside the Petersen Events Center on Friday: Jeff Capel and the Pitt men’s basketball team have taken control of ...
