MORGANTOWN — Granted, these preseason interviews came in July rather than late September, as the WVU men’s basketball team prepared for their international journey to play some exhibition games in Italy later this week. There is a ton that’s new, beginning first with the head coach ...
MORGANTOWN — It is a game of misdirection of sorts in the summer, that being college basketball. What you see one day may totally be different the next. So it is with Darian DeVries, who is attempting to bring together an entirely new WVU men’s basketball roster in his first season ...
The numbers game does not favor the recent history of the WVU men’s basketball team, and therefore Darian DeVries’ present. The Mountaineers have not had a 20-win season since 2020. There hasn’t been a 25-win season since 2018. There have been two last-place finishes in the Big 12 ...
MORGANTOWN — It was the part of Darian DeVries’ welcoming gift basket that was tucked down underneath all the good stuff, so to speak. On top was the fan base, the Power Five Conference, the facilities, the NIL funding and the likes. Then underneath all of that was an oh-by-the-way ...
MORGANTOWN — It was the 1956 state boys’ basketball championship game when Jay Jacobs got his first introduction to Jerry West. As the story goes, then-Morgantown High coach Jack Roberts was in the midst of his pregame speech, telling his players that East Bank was a one-man team, and ...
The latest addition to the West Virginia basketball roster in Washington State guard Joseph Yesufu is one that head coach Darian DeVries is already plenty familiar with from his time at Drake. That’s because Yesufu started his career under DeVries where he spent two seasons with the ...