Breaking News

WVU faces many tough questions heading into rematch against No. 14 Baylor

MORGANTOWN -- If there are two sides to the WVU men’s basketball team, a “Jekyll and Hyde,“ if you will, then the Mountaineers find themselves on the bad side at the moment. That became clear, as Texas dismantled WVU’s defense for a 34-point victory on Saturday, the Mountaineers’ ...

Homecoming for Kedrian Johnson gives WVU a shot at beating first-place Texas

MORGANTOWN — Kedrian Johnson is headed back home today, well, sort of. His family’s home in Dallas is about a three-hour drive from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, where the WVU men’s basketball team will be at noon Saturday to face the fifth-ranked Longhorns. To be sure, there ...

WVU begins to thrive while playing with its backs against the wall

MORGANTOWN — Kedrian Johnson has been in this position before, and to that point, so has the WVU men’s basketball team. “Except for my first year here, it seems like our backs have always been against the wall,” Johnson said. “I think that’s when we thrive the most, when people ...

NOTEBOOK: Emmitt Matthews Jr. focused on winning, not scoring big

In his own words, Emmitt Matthews Jr. is a sort of reluctant scorer. It’s a sense of unselfishness the 6-foot-7 forward plays with, in that he would rather find other ways to contribute other than just scoring the ball. “We won,” Matthews said after WVU held off No. 11 Iowa State ...

COLUMN: WVU made the moves that counted this time around

It was just a day earlier when Joe Toussaint sat in front of a microphone and said offense is not what would lead the WVU men’s basketball team back to national relevance. This coming from a point guard — a New York-born point guard at that — the one position on a basketball team who ...