PORTLAND, Ore. — Tre Mitchell scored 16 points to lead West Virginia to a 89-71 win over Portland State in a Phil Knight Legacy tournament consolation game on Friday night, vaulting Bob Huggins into third place all-time for Division I coaching victories. Huggins, who was inducted into ...
MORGANTOWN -- Tre Mitchell’s power move through the paint was cut off Friday night, and so the WVU forward went strictly to his instincts. Or, in this case, Mitchell simply flipped the ball up over his head from just a couple of feet in front of the rim and it went in. As the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Given the opportunity to open up some eyes nationally, the WVU men's basketball team instead put itself behind the eight ball early and never fully recovered. Purdue's 7-foot-4 center Zach Edey played like a giant and finished with 24 points and 12 rebounds in just 27 minutes ...
MORGANTOWN — Erik Stevenson’s words were spoken as if he were wearing boxing gloves rather than a basketball jersey, but they rang true in either case. “No disrespect to our first four opponents — we’ve been waiting to play somebody big-time,” the WVU men’s basketball guard ...
MORGANTOWN — In 1984, Bob Huggins was a rookie Division I basketball coach at Akron and Nike was just another name in the shoe business. That’s when the relationship between the two began, when neither was a household name like they are today. “Back then, when you took a look at ...
MORGANTOWN — In sports, it’s called the change-of-scenery theory, in which some athletes suddenly perform better after a trade, or in the case of college athletics, a transfer. A number of things factor into it, including different circumstances, coaching and teammates, as well as the ...