WVU Sports

West Virginia (8-3, 4-2) will have to find a way to win on the road when it visits Rutgers Saturday. The game will kick off at noon, and ESPN will televise the game live. The Scarlet Knights (8-3, 3-3) are 4-2 at Rutgers Stadium, losing to Cincinnati 47-15 in the season opener and Pitt 24-17 [...]

I was talking to a friend the other day (yes, I do too have one) and mentioned how nice it would be if West Virginia University fans welcomed all teams as they did Connecticut. The visitors could at least be greeted with polite applause. Mountaineer fans, I proposed, could take the lead nationwide in the [...]

CINCINNATI – Quarterback Tony Pike had X-rays Tuesday that showed his non-passing arm is healing nicely from surgery, another step toward getting him back to full practice with fourth-ranked Cincinnati. Pike expected to practice today wearing a special splint instead of a bulky cast on the left forearm, which was injured in an Oct. 15 [...]

CINCINNATI — In each of coach Brian Kelly’s first three seasons, No. 4 Cincinnati has accomplished a big breakthrough. Another one is only a victory away. The Bearcats (8-0) will match the best start in school history if they beat Connecticut (4-4) at home on Saturday night. The 1951 Mid-American Conference championship team also won [...]

Second-year running backs coach Chris Beatty will be the first one to say that Noel Devine is a much more complete running back this year. Devine is on a pace to rush for nearly 1,700 yards and score 18 touchdowns this season. What stands Devine apart, according to Beatty, are the little things Devine is [...]

TAMPA — Apart from a 27-0 lead against Syracuse earlier this month, West Virginia has had halftime leads of 4, 1, 1, and 13 points this year, the last one coming in the season opener against Liberty, a Football Championship Subdivision program. The Mountaineers have trailed by 4 and 3 points the past two games, [...]

TAMPA — Credit West Virginia for doing something this football season most opponents haven’t been able to do on their own. The Mountaineers slowed down Noel Devine. One large part of Devine’s emergence as one of the nation’s most prolific running backs is the added involvement of the I-formation in the running game. To make [...]

For the second straight week, Noel Devine was the Big East offensive player of the week. After his 178-yard performance against Connecticut, in a 28-24 win, including the game-winning 56-yard touchdown run with 2:10 left, it’s not surprising. Second is the operative word, since Devine looked like he was destined for a career-low day at [...]

MORGANTOWN – A lot was made of how Connecticut’s defensive plan against West Virginia last weekend forced the Mountaineers to change horses in the middle of the stream, and with good reason. The Huskies blitzed on almost every down, something they never showed before but which made it almost impossible for WVU to run laterally [...]

MORGANTOWN — From the opening kickoff, when West Virginia University’s 164-pound Tavon Austin gathered in the football and carried it 98 yards to a touchdown, until 300-pound Mountaineer nose guard Chris Neild, of all people, put an end to No. 22 WVU’s 28-24 victory over Connecticut, the 58,106 fans gathered knew they were witnessing something [...]