WVU Sports

by Mike Casazza SYRACUSE, N.Y. – West Virginia flew here by plane Tuesday and took a bus to the team’s hotel, but the sixth-ranked Mountaineers will be without their Truck for the remainder of the season. Starting point guard Darryl “Truck” Bryant suffered a serious injury to his right foot in practice Tuesday just before [...]

by Mike Casazza BUFFALO, N.Y. – A day after insisting Missouri’s vaunted press wasn’t dramatically different than anything it had seen, West Virginia handled the Tigers better than any other opponent has this season. The Mountaineers committed just 10 turnovers against “The Fastest 40 Minutes in Basketball,” the fewest this season against Missouri (23-11), and contributed [...]

MORGANTOWN — Bob Huggins put together basketball’s version of the “Wildcat” offense Wednesday night in the Coliseum and used it score his first victory of the season over a nationally ranked team, beating Ole Miss, 76-66, for the Mountaineers ninth consecutive win. Huggins’ “Wildcat”, like the one in football, has no quarterback, or in this [...]

MORGANTOWN — Much of the nationwide publicity West Virginia has received this season has focused on the dynamic frontcourt duo of Da’Sean Butler and Devin Ebanks. On Wednesday night against Mississippi, though, it was one of the Mountaineer’ other forwards who made the biggest impact on the game. Wellington Smith scored a career-high 19 points [...]

CLEVELAND — West Virginia ended finals week with a failing grade from Professor Huggins. Da’Sean Butler’s layup with 1.2 seconds left, after No. 6 West Virginia finally — and luckily — handled Cleveland State’s full-court press for the first time, gave the Mountaineers an 80-78 win over Cleveland State on Saturday that left West Virginia [...]

Da’Sean Butler’s driving lay up with 1.2 seconds left lifted No. 6 West Virginia to an 80-78 victory over Cleveland State Saturday afternoon at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The Mountaineers improved to 8-0, but it was far from easy. Full court pressure really bothered West Virginia, particularly in the second half when the [...]

MORGANTOWN — The Associated Press poll would tell you that West Virginia sent the nation’s No. 6 basketball team onto the Coliseum floor on Wednesday night against Duquesne. The box score that the Associated Press sends with its story would tell you that they played like the No. 6 team in the country, beating Duquesne [...]

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 [...]

ANAHEIM, Calif. – The second of consecutive turnovers early in the first half Friday had West Virginia Coach Bob Huggins scanning his bench and pointing toward a familiar face. Devin Ebanks, who hadn’t played this season as he tended to personal issues, was finally called to stand up, remove his warmup and check into the [...]

MORGANTOWN — There comes a time when the question must be asked, no matter how absurd it might seem on the surface. Sometimes the apparent absurdity is reason enough to inquire. So it is we wonder whether West Virginia’s football team, which is 6-1 (2-0 in the Big East) and ranked 20th in the Associated [...]