MORGANTOWN -- Every trick in the book was attempted. Every possibility was exhausted. Yet WVU point guard Javon Small could not shake free Tuesday, as BYU came into the Coliseum and pulled out an entertaining 73-69 victory. Entertaining to everyone but maybe Small and the Mountaineers ...
MORGANTOWN -- There are hundreds of times more miles of separation — about 1,900 of them to be exact — between West Virginia and Provo, Utah that you won’t find in the Big 12 men’s basketball standings. A league spread out across three time zones has become a jumbled clutter in the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Toby Okani possibly did some of his best work of the season Saturday. Big things. Little things. They all mattered to WVU, which got a much-needed win over Utah, 72-61, in front of 13,166 fans inside the Coliseum. It was the type of victory that keeps the Mountaineers ...
MORGANTOWN -- Even after a 15-0 start and in the midst of putting together one of the best records in the NBA this season, Cleveland Cavaliers’ general manager Mike Gansey is still a rather novel figure in his hometown. “This will always be a Browns town,” the former WVU hoops ...
MORGANTOWN -- It’s as if the WVU men’s basketball team has suddenly become a flip of the coin within the Big 12. If it lands heads, the Mountaineers have the ability to beat the likes of Iowa State and Kansas, as well as Arizona in a nonconference matchup. Those three schools make ...
MORANTOWN -- Vasean Allette’s and-one drive to the bucket with 43 seconds remaining Wednesday night was good enough to hand TCU head coach Jamie Dixon a bit of history. Dixon, the former head coach at Pitt when WVU and the Panthers battled in the old Big East days, picked up his 500th ...