MORGANTOWN -- The self chats, Madisen Smith admits, happen after every rough shooting night. Over the course of five seasons and 127 games, maybe no one on the WVU women’s basketball roster knows quite like Smith how to take the good with the bad. “I just tell myself to keep ...
MORGANTOWN -- It's not exactly frowned upon or even some type of new concept in college basketball to have an offensive-driven team, yet it's a topic of conversation that is usually drowned out by a majority coaches who are passionate about defense. Oklahoma women's coach Jennie Baranczyk ...
MORGANTOWN -- As another example of how wild life can be in college basketball and the transfer portal, we offer up this story on WVU’s Kylee Blacksten. When the 6-foot-3 forward decided to enter the portal out of Colorado this spring, Blacksten said one of the first coaches to contact ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia has found a saving grace in its pressure defense. The rest, according to head coach Dawn Plitzuweit, is still a work in progress. The Mountaineers ran past Winthrop on Thursday morning, 70-48, in front of 6,640 fans and energetic elementary school children ...
MORGANTOWN -- If nothing else, West Virginia’s pressure man-to-man defense made a good first impression. In her first regular season game as the Mountaineers’ head coach, Dawn Plitzuweit saw her players force 41 turnovers on Thursday, as WVU ran past USC Upstate 81-31 inside the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Dawn Plitzuweit went to make a left turn into the WVU Coliseum on Sunday and sort of got a welcome-to-Morgantown moment. “I came two hours before the game today, and I was in a traffic jam,” Plitzuweit said after guiding the WVU women’s basketball team to an 83-49 ...
