MORGANTOWN -- Steve Sabins has an additional 1.3 million reasons to continue to build on his opening success as WVU’s baseball coach. After leading the Mountaineers to a super regional in his first season as head coach, Sabins and the school finalized a one-year contract extension that ...
MORGANTOWN -- The question of the day: Do professional drafts accurately reflect the type of talent a college coach is collecting? We’re not exactly sure where college athletic directors or, more to the point, WVU athletic director Wren Baker lands on this subject. If his answer is ...
MORGANTOWN -- My first venture into studying the Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) came in 2007, after a WVU men’s basketball team that had gone 22-9 through the end of the Big East tournament with wins against UConn and UCLA had been left out of the NCAA tournament. And you thought the ...
MORGANTOWN -- After a second consecutive trip to a super regional, WVU baseball coach Steve Sabins stresses his recruiting pitch to recruits hasn’t changed. Other than the length of the pitch itself. “When you’re talking about going after guys who maybe have 15 different options ...
MORGANTOWN -- Three years ago, Logan Sauve enrolled at West Virginia as the top-ranked prep catcher from Pennsylvania. Sam White actually turned down the opportunity at a professional hockey career in Canada to play college baseball. The most successful season in WVU baseball history ...
BATON ROUGE, La. -- West Virginia baseball’s quest to kick down the Omaha, Neb. door will have to wait another year. For the second straight season, the Mountaineers dropped both games of a road super regional and ended the season one round shy of their first College World Series in ...