MORGANTOWN -- For just a split second Saturday, history nearly repeated itself for the WVU women’s basketball team. Not the good kind, either. For a second consecutive game, the Mountaineers started off slow in the second half, but this time they survived. Jayla Hemingway and J.J. ...
MORGANTOWN -- The final second ticked off the clock Sunday, as Madisen Smith spiked the ball into the WVU Coliseum floor. Over the course of 40 minutes, the WVU women’s basketball team survived a strong rally from Baylor and ended up spiking the No. 18 Bears, too, to the tune of a 74-65 ...
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 ...
