Archive for November, 2009
Sands, Bitancurt Honored By Big East
Robert Sands Tyler Bitancurt MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia football players Robert Sands and Tyler Bitancurt were honored by the Big East for their performances in WVU’s 19-16 win over Pitt last Friday evening. Sands was tabbed as the conference’s defensive player of the week for his efforts in limiting the ninth-ranked Panthers to a [...]
WVU fans get bad rap nationally
MORGANTOWN — This is about you, Mountaineer Nation. It’s about your passion, about your heart, about how you’ve changed over the years for the better and about how you haven’t changed, also for the better. A couple of weeks back SI.com did a survey on fans in the major conferences. They named you the rudest [...]
Bitancurt kick adds to Brawl history
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Tyler Bitancurt was tackled and mobbed by West Virginia teammates after he finished a Backyard Brawl and nationally ranked Pitt at Mountaineer Field on Friday night. To say that the redshirt freshman place-kicker was overwhelmed by his game-ending, 43-yard field goal for a 19-16 victory would be wrong – well, unless you were [...]
WVU wins 76 Classic
ANAHEIM, Calif. – One of the streets near the Anaheim Convention Center is Disney Way. During the 76 Classic, it was the West Virginia Mountaineers’ way – especially Sunday night. In the prestigious tournament filled with upsets of ranked teams, WVU outclassed the field – and the nation’s – surprise team, Portland, 84-66 in the [...]
Butler helps West Virginia beat Portland
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Da’Sean Butler tied his season high of 26 points to lead No. 8 West Virginia to the 76 Classic championship with a 84-65 victory over Portland on Sunday night. Butler, who made 10 of 16 shots and grabbed six rebounds, was the tournament’s most outstanding player. Kevin Jones added a season-best 17 [...]
Butler scores 26
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Da’Sean Butler tied his season high of 26 points to lead No. 8 West Virginia to the 76 Classic championship with a 84-65 victory over Portland on Sunday night.Butler, who made 10 of 16 shots and grabbed six rebounds, was the tournament’s most outstanding player.Kevin Jones added a season-best 17 points for [...]
Pitt football team won’t be pointing fingers
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — In the aftermath of a 19-16 defeat in the Backyard Brawl, Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt conceded that perhaps the eighth-ranked Panthers weren’t properly prepared for their 102nd meeting with rival West Virginia. If numbers speak the truth, then Wannstedt is right. The Panthers were a woeful 2 of 13 on third-down conversions. [...]
Playing with more at stake helped WVU?
MORGANTOWN — The tipoff, really, came out of Las Vegas, along with the betting line on Friday night’s Backyard Brawl. You had the game listed anywhere from a pick to Pitt by just 2 points, which was showing a total lack of respect for the Panthers. True, they were on the road, but they had [...]
The Times West Virginian – Sands comes up huge in Brawl
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia placekicker Tyler Bitancurt carved his name among the legends of The Backyard Brawl history on Friday night with his last-second, game-winning 43-yard field goal. Noel Devine’s 88-yard touchdown run will be talked about by Mountaineers when great moments in the WVU-Pitt series are discussed 20 years from now. But there was [...]
Bitancurt had feeling about his winning kick
MORGANTOWN — Tyler Bitancurt had a premonition. It started Thursday night and the West Virginia redshirt freshman kicker couldn’t shake it Friday. “I just had this feeling,” he said. “I was walking around the hotel today and I kept thinking, ‘I think I’m going to kick the game-winner.’ I just kept thinking that. It was [...]
