WVU Sports

NEW YORK — The St. John’s players could hear West Virginia coach Bob Huggins yelling at his team from down the hall during halftime. “It was the usual stuff,” Mountaineers star guard Da’Sean Butler said with a laugh. “He was telling us what we needed to do — and what would happen if we didn’t [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Where West Virginia’s basketball team once had issues with productivity in the backcourt and how to properly use its two point guards, it has now found a solution. Play both point guards together. For the second consecutive game, the Mountaineers used Darryl “Truck” Bryant and Joe Mazzulla simultaneously and for the second consecutive [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia’s postgame locker room scene Saturday was a wild one and wildly different than what the Mountaineers experienced after an Oct. 30 loss at South Florida. Coach Bill Stewart scanned the room and looked everyone in the eye that night some five weeks ago, and saw tears and combinations of angry and [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Brian Goin, the chairman of the Gator Bowl’s selection committee, entered West Virginia’s locker room Saturday afternoon to extend an invitation to his game Jan. 1. The 24th-ranked Mountaineers had just defeated Rutgers, 24-21, to finish the regular season 9-3 and 5-2 in the Big East. That, apparently, was all that mattered to [...]

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 — Bob Huggins’ homecoming Thursday night went just as planned. OK, so maybe it wasn’t what West Virginia planned, but it certainly worked out well for Cincinnati. On a night when the Bearcats honored Huggins and his 16 years as the coach at that school with a brief video tribute before the game, his [...]