WVU Sports

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The NCAA accused the University of Michigan of failing to comply with practice time rules under Coach Rich Rodriguez, who admitted making “mistakes” but will be back for a third try at bringing college football’s winningest program back into the national title hunt. Incoming UM Athletic Director David Brandon disclosed the NCAA [...]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — West Virginia was determined not to blow a double-digit lead the way it did in a triple-overtime loss just five days earlier. So, the eighth-ranked Mountaineers started aggressively, withstood a rally early in the second half and used their big height advantage to dominate inside and beat Providence, 88-74, on Wednesday night. “We haven’t [...]

By Dave Morrison Da’Sean Butler is no doubt one of the top players in the Big East. On stats alone (17.8 points per game, 6.2 rebounds, 80 assists, 47 threes) Butler is among the best. His scoring, assists and threes lead the team. But he is also the heart and soul of the squad — the captain — [...]

By Jim Workman It’s difficult to shake that image of the bloodied face of Owen Schmitt as he paced the sidelines in Morgantown. He had either just drilled an opponent with a head-on collision, claiming yet another broken facemask, or bashed his helmet against his own forehead in an attempt to motivate or admonish himself. Despite that, Schmitt [...]

West Virginia’s triple-overtime loss to Pitt hurt the Mountaineers in the college basketball polls released Monday. WVU went from No. 5 to No. 8 in the Associated Press media poll and from No. 4 to No. 8 in the USA Today/ESPN coaches’ poll. Four Big East teams remain in the top 10 of both polls – No. [...]

by Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Amid the disbelief over the way West Virginia gave away Friday night’s basketball game at Pitt was another unanimous emotion. The Mountaineers wanted badly to get over the defeat and begin that process by getting back to work. “I honestly can’t wait until our next practice and our next game,” WVU point guard [...]

PITTSBURGH — Gilbert Brown and Ashton Gibbs made two free throws each in the final 30 seconds after No. 25 Pittsburgh staged a frantic rally to tie it in regulation, then weathered three exhausting overtimes and West Virginia’s own comeback to beat the No. 5 Mountaineers 98-95 on Friday night. Gibbs and Brad Wanamaker scored 24 [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Prior to Monday’s showdown between No. 5 West Virginia and No. 4 Villanova, the WVU Coliseum scoreboard read, “The snow will not stop us.” The hot shooting of Villanova, though — that’s a different story. West Virginia shot 41 percent from the field while Villanova hit 56.9 percent of its shots in a 82-75 [...]

Depending on what the polls say, West Virginia’s game against Villanova tonight might be a first in WVU Coliseum history. The No. 6 Mountaineers (19-3, 8-2 Big East) stand to rise at least a spot in the polls, what with them completing a 2-0 week and No. 5 Michigan State and the No. 2 Wildcats losing [...]

By Bob Hertzel MORGANTOWN — Found it extremely interesting that on Saturday, when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported upon West Virginia University’s beginning steps at reining in boorish fan behavior at basketball games, they choose not a sportswriter to do the honors. In a fitting gesture, instead, they opted to have Ann Rodgers, a former colleague [...]