WVU Sports

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University men’s basketball team will play its first exhibition game of the season on Sunday against Beckley-based NAIA power Mountain State at the WVU Coliseum. Tipoff is set for 1 p.m. Reserved tickets are priced at $16, while WVU students will be admitted free with a valid ID. Season [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University men’s basketball forward Da’Sean Butler has been named as one of 60 candidates for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – classroom, character, community [...]

MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee Bucks General Manager John Hammond said Monday he’s decided not to pick up a $2.76 million option on forward Joe Alexander’s first NBA contract. Alexander, a former standout at West Virginia, was the eighth overall pick of the 2008 NBA Draft and Hammond’s first pick as general manager after replacing Larry Harris. [...]

MORGANTOWN — The way Bob Huggins tells the story it was 20 years ago now. He had coached basketball at Akron for five years, had built the program into a mid-major power, and was getting itchy. The job in Cincinnati had come open and he was looking into it. That’s when his athletic director made [...]

MORGANTOWN — Bob Huggins has added some wide bodies to his rugged brand of basketball. Huggins says No. 8 West Virginia has been outmatched physically the past couple of years, but that’s getting ready to change. West Virginia’s beefed-up roster includes five players at 240 pounds or more. When he arrived in 2007, Huggins did [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University freshman Deniz Kilicli will not participate in the first 20 regular season games of the 2009-10 basketball season, the school announced today. The NCAA determined that prior to his enrollment at WVU, Kilicli played on a team in Turkey during the 2007-08 season, which included a professional player. This [...]

ATLANTA – West Virginia University’s Da’Sean Butler and Devin Ebanks are among 50 players under consideration for the Naismith Trophy, awarded to college basketball’s top player. The initial list was announced today. Butler was named to the all-Big East preseason first team chosen last week by the conference coaches while Ebanks was picked to the [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia University’s men’s basketball team has been ranked No. 8 in the preseason Associated Press poll, announced today. WVU is behind just Kansas, Michigan State, Texas, Kentucky, Villanova, North Carolina and Purdue. The Mountaineers were one of five Big East teams included in the poll. Also, West Virginia was ranked No. [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University men’s basketball team is going to begin the 2009-10 season with a giant bulls-eye on its chest. That’s because for the first time since 1963, the Mountaineers are ranked in the preseason Top 10. West Virginia is eighth in the Associated Press preseason poll and ninth in the [...]

MORGANTOWN — During his coaching career, Bob Huggins has pulled off more than a couple of miracles, but try as he might, he can’t take two players and merge them into one. Just the other day he was talking about his point guard situation, where he possesses both Darrell “Truck” Bryant, his starter as a [...]