MORGANTOWN -- There were more than 1,500 women’s basketball players in the transfer portal in 2025, so West Virginia’s Gia Cooke is not exactly facing a unique situation. As it stands, Cooke and the Mountaineers (10-2) will open up Big 12 play at 2 p.m. Sunday, when Houston visits the ...
MORGANTOWN -- The idea of college basketball coaches being able to challenge calls is not exactly new. It’s an idea that’s been kicked around for a few years by the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee, like that dirty half-flat basketball hanging out in your garage. When the notion ...
MORGANTOWN -- If it’s possible for a basketball team to have come up against an entire season’s worth of experiences before conference play begins, West Virginia just may be that team. It won a game with just five players available in the second half. It lost a shootout in The Bahamas ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia closed out its nonconference schedule Sunday with one of its roughest performances of the season. That’s the not-so-good news. The better news is the Mountaineers’ defense forced Texas A&M into its lowest-scoring game of the season, as WVU walked out of ...
MORGANTOWN -- The thought was there over the summer, as WVU women’s basketball coach Mark Kellogg relayed the story, that he just might have something in transfer guard Gia Cooke. “It might have been before that,” Kellogg said. “Obviously, when we got her committed and signed, we ...
MORGANTOWN -- Jordan Harrison surpassed 1,000 career points Monday in a West Virginia uniform. They didn’t all come in the Mountaineers’ 109-40 victory against Texas Southern inside the Hope Coliseum. It just seemed like they could have. “I knew at the beginning of the season I ...