To his credit, Josh Eilert is not changing his message, not even after watching West Virginia fall to St. John’s 79-73 on Friday night in the annual Big East-Big 12 Battle.That message is simple: Keep fighting, keep battling, keep improving.“We have challenges,” Eilert said. “We’re ...
There was enough contact Friday night inside the Coliseum that it seemed like the clock had been turned back some 15 years to an era now long gone by.“It was called like an old school Big East game,” WVU head coach said after West Virginia dropped a 79-73 game to St. John’s.At one ...
MORGANTOWN — If the game plays out like Josh Eilert expects, there will be some good and bad news today for WVU center Jesse Edwards when the Mountaineers host St. John’s. The good news: Edwards — the Mountaineers’ imposing man in the middle standing 6-foot-11 and 240 pounds — ...
MORGANTOWN — It would be easy to say Quinn Slazinski is playing with a chip on his shoulder, yet that doesn’t quite cover it all. The way the WVU senior forward sees his situation this season, it’s more than just simply trying to prove something to himself, another coach or to, well, ...
MORGANTOWN — In the span of few months, Ofri Naveh has had two different worlds turned upside down. The WVU men’s basketball forward is a native of Neot Golan, Israel, which is in the northern part of the country near the borders of both Syria and Jordan. On Oct. 7, the war between ...
MORGANTOWN -- The good news: West Virginia ended a two-game skid Sunday night with a 62-58 win against Bellarmine inside the Coliseum. The not so good news: The Mountaineers showed little life and came away with few answers to what’s been troubling them. “We wanted a little more,” ...
