WVU Sports

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia jumped three spots in the Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ polls released this morning. The Mountaineers are now sixth in both polls after last Saturday’s come-from-behind, 77-74 victory over Louisville. West Virginia reached sixth in the polls before the Purdue loss after starting the season ranked eighth. It is the highest [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – It was Hot Rod’s basket that did it for the Mountaineers. West Virginia outscored Ohio State 43-25 in the second half to defeat the 21st-rated Buckeyes, 71-65, at the WVU Coliseum on Saturday. Da’Sean Butler scored 21 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead No. 12 West Virginia to a 71-65 victory over [...]

MORGANTOWN , W.Va. — When times get tough and good teams have bad moments it’s not unusual to see an epidemic of finger pointing. Eighth-ranked West Virginia, just five days after a 15-point loss at No. 4 Purdue ended an 11-0 start, is only slightly different. Darryl “Truck” Bryant and Joe Mazzulla pointed their fingers right [...]

CLEVELAND — Here’s the choice you have. You can walk barefoot across a bed of red hot coals, sit naked in a freezer at minus-10 degrees for an hour, swim across a mile-wide lake filled with hungry piranhas and angry alligators or you can show up for Bob Huggins’ first practice this week. Not to influence you [...]

MORGANTOWN — There are days when West Virginia turns the ball over a lot. It drives Bob Huggins crazy, but he can live with it. There are days when they miss a lot of shots. That drives Huggins crazy, too, but he can live with that. Even turnovers don’t send him off onto a tirade. But play bad [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The more West Virginia and Rutgers play football, the more one thing becomes obvious: It matters little what actually happens between the lines. The Mountaineers are going to win and everything else is just minutiae. Call it fate or providence or destiny or what have you, but WVU isn’t going to lose, [...]

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Despite leaving town Sunday night with the 76 Classic basketball title, Bob Huggins would be the first to admit things did not go as planned. “If we were to be 100 percent honest, we probably thought we’d play Clemson (in the second round) and either Butler or Minnesota (in the final),” the West Virginia [...]

MORGANTOWN — This is about you, Mountaineer Nation. It’s about your passion, about your heart, about how you’ve changed over the years for the better and about how you haven’t changed, also for the better. A couple of weeks back SI.com did a survey on fans in the major conferences. They named you the rudest in the Big [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Tyler Bitancurt was tackled and mobbed by West Virginia teammates after he finished a Backyard Brawl and nationally ranked Pitt at Mountaineer Field on Friday night. To say that the redshirt freshman place-kicker was overwhelmed by his game-ending, 43-yard field goal for a 19-16 victory would be wrong – well, unless you were talking [...]

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Da’Sean Butler tied his season high of 26 points to lead No. 8 West Virginia to the 76 Classic championship with a 84-65 victory over Portland on Sunday night. Butler, who made 10 of 16 shots and grabbed six rebounds, was the tournament’s most outstanding player. Kevin Jones added a season-best 17 points for [...]