WVU category, Page 9

To fully and fairly assess the 2023 sports year at Pitt, you need to go back to the end of 2022. The metamorphosis of coach Jeff Capel’s men’s basketball program began to take shape Dec. 30, 2022, when Pitt upset No. 25 North Carolina, 76-74, at Petersen Events Center. The...

CHARLOTTE N.C. — North Carolina coach Mack Brown has a new moniker for the Duke’s Mayo Bowl. He’s calling it the “New Opportunity Bowl.” With highly regarded quarterback Drake Maye and 11 other starters from the beginning of the season not playing because they’re preparing for the draft, entering the...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — DaQuan Smith scored 15 of his 18 points in the second half, including a go-ahead jumper with 1.5 seconds left, and Radford edged West Virginia, 66-65, on Wednesday night for its fifth straight victory. Radford (10-4) picked up its first win over a Power 5 opponent since...

Ric’Darious Farmer committed to three schools during the past year. West Virginia was the final, and official, one. The four-star wide receiver from Melbourne Central Catholic in Florida signed a letter of intent with West Virginia on Wednesday, part of a 22-player class for the Mountaineers. “Day Day” Farmer (5-foot-11,...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Josh Cohen scored 19 points, and Robert Davis Jr. hit six 3-pointers and finished with 18 points to help Massachusetts survive a furious rally by West Virginia and beat the Mountaineers, 87-79, on Saturday night at the Basketball Hall of Fame Classic. Rahsool Diggins scored 15 points,...

Heisman Trophy winner Jayden Daniels from LSU was one of seven players in either their fifth or sixth season of college football selected to The Associated Press All-America team announced Monday. Daniels, a fifth-year quarterback, won the Heisman and AP player of the year honors last week after accounting for...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va — Many players were catalysts behind Pitt’s 80-63 victory Wednesday night against West Virginia in the 190th version of the basketball Backyard Brawl. • Blake Hinson scored a career-high 29 points, breaking his personal best (27) set only three days ago. He also broke a Pitt record with...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia received some good news for its depleted roster hours before its game against Pitt on Wednesday night when fifth-year forward Akok Akok was cleared for play. Akok, a 6-foot-10 transfer who previously played at UConn and Georgetown, collapsed Oct. 27 during a charity exhibition game...

Josh Eilert’s plans to prepare his Mountaineers for Pitt’s intrusion into the West Virginia Coliseum on Wednesday night didn’t start with the first day of basketball practice in October. Go back another month. Eilert, the WVU interim head coach, demanded that every player attend the Pitt football game at Milan...

Members of the West Virginia football team will spend some of the holiday season in Charlotte. The Mountaineers on Sunday night were selected to play North Carolina in the 22nd annual Duke’s Mayo Bowl. The game will be 5:30 p.m. Dec. 27 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.,...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Joel Soriano scored a career-high 24 points to lead St. John’s to a 79-73 victory over West Virginia on Friday night in the Big East-Big 12 Battle. Chris Ledlum added a season-high 17 points and Nahiem Alleyne had 12 of his 14 points in the second half...

Coach Neal Brown will get another chance at West Virginia after finishing with his best regular-season record despite being mired in the program’s worst stretch in four decades. West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker said Friday that Brown will return in 2024, putting to rest any speculation on the fate...

West Virginia (7-4, 5-3 Big 12) at Baylor (3-8, 2-6), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET (FS1) Line: West Virginia by 8½, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Series record: West Virginia leads 6-4. What’s at stake? Bowl-bound West Virginia can get to eight wins for the first time since 2018, when the Mountaineers...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Ryan Dunn scored 13 points and grabbed a rebound off teammate Reece Beekman’s missed free throw with 2.3 seconds left to secure No. 24 Virginia’s 56-54 victory over West Virginia in the third-place game of the Fort Myers Tip-Off on Wednesday night. Beekman hit the first...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Quinn Slazinski and Kobe Johnson scored 19 points apiece to lead West Virginia to a 70-57 victory over Jacksonville State on Tuesday night. Slazinski sank 6 of 10 shots from the floor with three 3-pointers for the Mountaineers (2-1), adding seven rebounds and three assists. Johnson made...

NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma believes it still has plenty to play for, despite dropping out of first place in the Big 12 and likely falling out of the race for a College Football Playoff berth. The 17th-ranked Sooners won their first seven games before close losses to Kansas and Oklahoma...