MORGANTOWN — If confidence was sold in a bottle, Josh Eilert would have already bought every single one and stuffed his players’ lockers with them. That’s what the WVU men’s basketball coach sees when evaluating the Mountaineers’ shooting woes. It’s not forced shots that ...
Josh Eilert’s concerns with the status of guard RaeQuan Battle, as the WVU men’s basketball coach discussed Wednesday night, go much farther than the NCAA. In the aftermath of the Mountaineers’ 80-63 loss inside the Coliseum against rival Pitt, Eilert said there are other outside ...
MORGANTOWN — At first glance, it would seem like WVU forward Ofri Naveh is the least-likely candidate to speak on the WVU-Pitt men’s basketball rivalry that resumes again at 9 p.m. Wednesday inside the Coliseum. Naveh, a native of Israel, has only been in the United States less than ...
To his credit, Josh Eilert is not changing his message, not even after watching West Virginia fall to St. John’s 79-73 on Friday night in the annual Big East-Big 12 Battle.That message is simple: Keep fighting, keep battling, keep improving.“We have challenges,” Eilert said. “We’re ...
There was enough contact Friday night inside the Coliseum that it seemed like the clock had been turned back some 15 years to an era now long gone by.“It was called like an old school Big East game,” WVU head coach said after West Virginia dropped a 79-73 game to St. John’s.At one ...
MORGANTOWN — If the game plays out like Josh Eilert expects, there will be some good and bad news today for WVU center Jesse Edwards when the Mountaineers host St. John’s. The good news: Edwards — the Mountaineers’ imposing man in the middle standing 6-foot-11 and 240 pounds — ...