MORGANTOWN -- This was one WVU had to have. Not just to extend a winning streak inside the Hope Coliseum. Not just to continue to inch its way up college basketball’s metrics with the hope of being in the conversation for the NCAA tournament come March. And certainly not just to be ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia’s 16-game home winning streak came to an unceremonious and difficult end on Saturday. Of course, it had to be against Baylor. It makes all the sense in the world that Bears’ head coach Scott Drew was on the opposite sideline. Drew has darned near built a ...
MORGANTOWN -- We are told that slow and steady wins the race, that it’s how a team finishes rather than how it starts that determines most outcomes. Honor Huff and his WVU men’s basketball teammates are big believers in that theory, evident by how they’ve rarely shot out of the gate ...
MORGANTOWN -- As it turned out Tuesday night, Treysen Eaglestaff’s best play was a missed lay-up. There were plenty of them to go around, as West Virginia held off a struggling Kansas State to improve to 13-0 at home following a 59-54 victory inside Hope Coliseum. BOX SCORE This ...
MORGANTOWN -- On a leaderboard filled with names who will likely be selected in future NBA drafts, Kansas State’s P.J. Haggerty looks down on them all. He’s the No. 1 scorer in a Big 12 that is suddenly filled with offensive firepower. “I think he’s the best point guard in ...
MORGANTOWN -- Somewhere between Brayden Burries’ relentlessness and his teammates’ ability to rebound and move the ball, West Virginia’s chance of pulling off a major upset Saturday was quickly extinguished. Burries, a freshman from San Bernardino, Calif., finished with 22 points and ...