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COLUMN: Fousseyni Traore wasn’t the ideal center, but WVU still had a hard time guarding him
With a heavy African accent, it was difficult to understand what exactly Fousseyni Traore was saying in BYU’s postgame press conference. It was even harder for West […]
Mountaineers put up a fight, upset No. 25 Texas, 76-73
With its back against a wall, West Virginia came out with a bout of toughness Saturday night it had yet to show all season. The heroes were […]
COLUMN: Pat Suemnick didn’t expect to be a basketball player, but he’s doing a pretty good job
Your thinking is Pat Suemnick is not supposed to be performing on the basketball court the way he’s been playing lately. To a degree, the senior from […]
Mountaineers put up a fight, fall to Ohio State in 78-75 overtime loss
CLEVELAND — You never would have known Roddy Gayle Jr. just had the game of his life Saturday.Cool, calm and collected, Gayle took a hectic moment Saturday […]
COLUMN: WVU’s numbers tell a much different story than its record
MORGANTOWN — If you knew nothing of the back story that goes along with the WVU men’s basketball team and simply looked at the Mountaineers’ stat sheet […]
WVU falls to Radford, 66-65, after buzzer-beater shot from DaQuan Smith
It was all set up Wednesday night for RaeQuan Battle to be the hero, yet in a season that has been one disbelief after another for the […]
COLUMN: Unusual season makes it hard to accurately judge Josh Eilert as a coach
An attempt was made to find some type of reference point, someone who would stand as a fair comparison to what Josh Eilert has experienced so far […]
WVU center Jesse Edwards to have wrist surgery, expected to miss ‘approximately four weeks’
MORGANTOWN — At some point, you have to wonder if someone made a voodoo doll of Josh Eilert and then stuck hundreds of pins in it. Just […]
Eilert certain WVU can be ‘dangerous team,’ but he’s got to build cohesiveness in a hurry
MORGANTOWN — If you throw in the fact that WVU forward Akok Akok is still working his way back to full form after missing seven games with […]