WVU Sports

by Mike Casazza HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut made the statement needed to alert the NCAA Tournament’s selection committee. West Virginia Coach Bob Huggins made the statement to official Mike Stuart that earned an early exit from Monday night’s loss. Publicly, Huggins explained away the 73-62 defeat to the Huskies in a matter that speaks for the box [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The good news – as West Virginia heads to play the highest-ranked football team it has faced in a regular season since October 2003 – is that the Mountaineers have won two of their last three games against top 5-ranked teams. The bad news is that WVU is 0-19 all time on the [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Given the way South Florida has defended the West Virginia offense, Coach Bill Stewart could have done without two things preceding Friday’s 8 p.m. ESPN2 game at Raymond James Stadium. One was the decision by defensive end George Selvie to delay his NFL career and return to USF for his senior season. “I wish [...]

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 the half, [...]

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 [...]

MORGANTOWN – One day, years from now, I’ll reflect on Saturday’s 28-24 West Virginia win over Connecticut. My memory has a limited capacity, so I won’t remember much. I probably won’t recall how the pressure applied by West Virginia’s Sidney Glover on UConn quarterback Cody Endres sealed the game. I may not remember Tavon Austin’s electrifying 98-yard [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Noel Devine’s 56-yard touchdown run in the closing minutes lifted No. 22 West Virginia to a 28-24 win over Connecticut on Saturday in the Huskies’ first game since the fatal stabbing of cornerback Jasper Howard. Devine ran for 171 of his 178 yards in the second half as West Virginia (6-1, 2-0 [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University and the BIG EAST have announced the television schedule for the 2009-10 men’s basketball season. The Mountaineers will have at least 29 of their 30 regular season games broadcast, including 17 regular season games on national television. WVU will have three games on CBS (at Seton Hall, Ohio State, at [...]

MORGANTOWN – West Virginia’s football team is doing what anyone else would do in a tough situation – hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. In this case, that concerns playing without quarterback Jarrett Brown for possibly another week. Coach Bill Stewart on Sunday said he couldn’t update Brown’s medical condition. The fifth-year senior quarterback [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – No. 5 Connecticut’s inside game was just too powerful for No. 25 West Virginia Tuesday night in Morgantown. The Huskies (13-1, 2-1) got 17 points from Jeff Adrien and 13 points and 13 rebounds from 7-foot-3-inch center Hasheem Thabeet to pull out a 61-55 victory over the Mountaineers. Stanley Robinson grabbed a game-high [...]