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PHILADELPHIA — Da’Sean Butler scored 21 points, including the decisive basket with 5.8 seconds left in overtime, leading No. 10 West Virginia to a 68-66 victory over No. 9 Villanova today. Butler grabbed 10 rebounds and finished 13 of 14 from the foul line for the Mountaineers (24-6, 13-5). Butler’s winning drive came after the Mountaineers had [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP)—Kevin Jones scored 10 of his 15 points in the second half and No. 8 West Virginia came from 13 points down to beat Cincinnati 74-68 on Saturday. West Virginia (22-6, 11-5 Big East) can earn a bye in the first two rounds of the conference tournament with a win over No. 11 [...]

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 do [...]

Deniz Kilicli, the 6-foot-9, 270-pound inside presence, will make his long-awaited debut for West Virginia tonight when the Mountaineers host Pitt at 7 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum. The game will be televised on Fox Sports Pittsburgh. Kilicli was ruled ineligible for the first 20 games when it was discovered he played on a team in his [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Da’Sean Butler scored a season-high 27 points, including the go-ahead basket with 16 seconds remaining, and No. 9 West Virginia rallied from a big second-half deficit to beat Louisville 77-74 on Saturday. The Mountaineers (17-3, 6-2 Big East) came from 12 down midway through the second half to snap a four-game losing streak [...]

by Mike Casazza ROSEMONT, Ill. – It was three weeks ago when Wellington Smith played a third consecutive game without scoring and West Virginia Coach Bob Huggins explained away the struggle thusly: “We don’t really need him to score, to be honest,” Huggins said, which was no stretch seeing as if Smith, the 6-foot-7 senior from Summit, [...]

By Dave Hickman ROSEMONT, Ill. – If Da’Sean Butler’s confidence in his own ability to put the ball in the basket was wavering, the beginning of Tuesday night’s 62-46 win over DePaul should have shaken him out of his crisis. OK, so maybe the rest of the night wasn’t lights out. In fact, it was fairly atrocious from [...]

Mountaineers get past DePaul for third straight victory ROSEMONT, Ill. — Da’Sean Butler, Devin Ebanks, Darryl “Truck” Bryant and Wellington Smith scored 14 points apiece to lead No. 9 West Virginia University to a 62-46 win over DePaul on Tuesday night. West Virginia (16-3, 5-2 Big East) has won three straight after a 72-71 loss to Syracuse [...]

ROSEMONT, Ill. — Wellington Smith has solidified West Virginia’s starting lineup. Now someone needs to do the same for the Mountaineers’ bench. Smith and Da’Sean Butler scored 14 points apiece to lead No. 9 West Virginia to a 62-46 win over DePaul on Tuesday night. Devin Ebanks also had 14 points for West Virginia (16-3, 5-2 Big [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The questions arrived expectedly. The answers came emphatically. Yes, West Virginia can beat a ranked opponent. Yes, the 11th-ranked team in the country is still prone to slow starts and dramatically uneven stretches. Yes, the Mountaineers can be exploited by a star player and, yes, they can then lock down against the same opponent. Yes, this group [...]