MORGANTOWN -- It was just one step in the right direction, that was how WVU men’s basketball guard Erik Stevenson classified West Virginia’s victory against rival Pitt last week. It was a step, head coach Bob Huggns said, that began to take form this summer, as nine new players rolled ...
MORGANTOWN -- It was a collection of the unknowns and maybe the rarely seen. Just two games into this season, though, WVU’s bigs are becoming, well, a big story. Take Friday’s 81-56 victory against rival Pitt inside the Petersen Events Center, for example. The Mountaineers (2-0) ...
MORGANTOWN — It is a rarity, where it concerns the WVU-Pitt men’s basketball series, but one that will become more common as college basketball dives deeper into the era of the transfer portal. The Mountaineers (1-0) will travel to the Petersen Events Center at 7 p.m. Friday with a ...
MORGANTOWN — It is said history is written by the winners, which in the world of sports, makes a lot of sense. Vince Lombardi, Bob Knight, Bill Belichick, Phil Jackson, Sparky Anderson — all of them legendary coaches based on the fact they won under different conditions over a long ...
MORGANTOWN -- By most accounts, Albert Einstein never needed a basketball to come up with his theory of relativity and he certainly never suited up for a college basketball game. But, leave it to the it the genius physicist to sum up what the WVU men’s basketball team could use the most ...
The spark was unexpected and was one of those moments that if you blinked, you probably missed it. For the better part of 30 minutes, West Virginia’s 76-58 victory over Mount St. Mary’s was not exactly what you would call a thrill ride. That’s the moment James Okonkwo made his ...