MORGANTOWN -- Javon Small will walk off the team bus Saturday and head into Bramlage Coliseum. At that point, he is a young man who can move around freely. It will only be temporary. As the 23rd-ranked WVU men’s basketball team prepares to face struggling Kansas State at 6 p.m. ...
MORGANTOWN -- Let me tell you a story about a basketball team, and we assure you it’s all true. It’s a story of perseverance, of sorts, one that somehow has told a different tale than what the numbers say so far. If we went strictly by the numbers, this team could be referred to as ...
MORGANTOWN -- It was as if the mountains and hills within the state’s borders had magically been removed Tuesday. Those old West Virginia country roads now stretched for miles with no twists and turns to navigate. That’s how flat the 23rd-ranked Mountaineers were inside the ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia’s hiatus as an AP-ranked team lasted all of one week, with the Mountaineers moving back into the poll at No. 23 on Monday. Fitting, because WVU (13-4, 4-2 Big 12) has spent the entire season to this point bucking the trends. Label the Mountaineers as ...
MORGANTOWN -- First came the drive. It was followed by the steal. Then came some foul shots, a 3-pointer when No. 2 Iowa State refused to foul and then the dunk. All of it came from WVU’s Javon Small, who on a day when the school celebrated the life of legendary Jerry West, the point ...
MORGANTOWN -- At first glance, it would likely be the type of situation Jerry West would have loved. The WVU and NBA icon, who died last June at the age of 86, will be celebrated inside the Coliseum Saturday, as the Mountaineers host No. 2 Iowa State at 5 p.m. Expected to be in ...