MORGANTOWN, W.Va — OK, his name is Kobe so by now, he has to know that brings a certain expectation with it even if the last name is Johnson, not Bryant.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia’s All-American center Zach Frazier has accepted an invitation to play in the Reese’s Senior Bowl, which apparently signals an end to his collegiate career after this season.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — As Saturday’s sun rises over Mountaineer Field, it symbolizes not only just another football game day but something the West Virginia program hopes to be far more significant in the long term.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va —West Virginia freshman receiver Traylon Ray didn’t get nearly as much preseason publicity as fellow freshman Rodney Gallagher coming into the 2023 football season, but he’s turned out to be more prepared to contribute as a traditional passcatcher in the duo’s first year.
The Big 12 is touting its close football conference race, with eight teams standing within two games of each other at the top of the league standings. Barring some real chaos at the bottom of that group, though, the battles to watch involve Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Iowa State and Oklaho…
A quick glance at Cincinnati’s results through the first 10 games of the 2023 season, and it would be easy to think that West Virginia is facing a pushover on Seniors Day in Morgantown Saturday. The Bearcats are just 3-7 overall and 1-6 in Big 12 play. One of their three victories came again…
In order to get better acquainted with the Big 12’s eight newcomers (both old newcomers and new newcomers), we’re doing a series to explore each.
Don Nehlen, the legendary former West Virginia University football coach, will be honored on Saturday with his name being displayed next to the six retired numbers on the Touchdown Terrace end of Milan Puskar Stadium.
The gap between entertainment and sports continues to narrow, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Big 12 Conference, which has just announced a collaboration with WWE for 2023 Dr Pepper Big 12 Football Championship.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Where has football season gone?
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Don Nehlen has long been an icon for West Virginia fans. Now he’ll be immortalized at Mountaineer Field, the football stadium where he strode the sidelines from 1980-2000, as his name will join other WVU greats on the Diversified Energy Terrace above the north end zone at…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Cincinnati features a strong rushing attack, but might not be equipped to attack West Virginia's simplified pass defense as previous foes have done. While WVU's defensive line isn't an overall dominant group, it should have the ability to cause the Bearcat ground game som…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Simple math tells you that two plus three equals five.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — It is an old, oft-told story but considering the state of West Virginia University’s athletics today it fits in nicely with the honor being bestowed on Don Nehlen during Saturday when his name will be immortalized among the all-time greats in a place of honor in…
West Virginia University's Dr. Robert Gerbo is one of 16 Faculty Athletics Representatives (FARs) across the nation who are being honored for the work they do in college athletics, and as representatives of FARs at every school. Each of the schools will receive a $5,000 donation from Fidelit…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Like society itself, college athletics often faces serious real-life issues.
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- More images from West Virginia's 70-57 win over Jacksonville State, which moved the Mountaineers to 2-1 on the season. WVU put four players in double figures and shot 51% from the field, including 42% (8-19) from 3-point range in the win.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia has been working on ways to stretch its bench, and it did so with a 2-3 zone for much of its 70-59 win over Jacksonville State. Mountaineers Quinn Slazinski and Kobe Johnson discussed the ways in which they have been learning the set, and interim head coach…
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- WVU shot 51% from the field and continued to get good rebounding up and down its shortened lineup in a 70-57 win over Jacksonville State on Tuesday evening at the WVU Coliseum.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Kobe Johnson put the point in point guard Tuesday night as West Virginia returned to its winning ways with a 70-57 victory over Jacksonville State of Alabama.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Mountaineer men’s basketball team bounced back from its disappointing loss to Monmouth (73-65) last Friday by securing a 70-57 victory over Jacksonville State Tuesday night at the WVU Coliseum.
Following a 3-0 performance in his WVU Coliseum debut, true freshman Ty Watters of the West Virginia University wrestling team has been named the WVU Student-Athlete of the Week.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — It is only fitting with West Virginia’s Hall of Fame football coach Don Nehlen being immortalized within Mountaineer Field on Saturday, that his legend reaches all the way into the team that will play on that field against Cincinnati, as it has through the last …
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Mountaineer defense has had both highs and lows through the first 10 games of the 2023 season.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Time in the film room seems to stretch out longer than the fourth quarter of ugly losses, and both were endured this week in the wake of West Virginia's 59-20 football loss to Oklahoma. There are points to be made, though, and perhaps a couple of lessons to be learned as…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — There were any number of things that went wrong for West Virginia in its 59-20 loss to Oklahoma on Saturday, but a couple of those came in areas where the Mountaineers have held an advantage for much of the year. Perceived to be the strength of the squad, both the offensi…
The West Virginia University men’s soccer team earned an at-large bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship, and was seeded fifth among the 48 schools selected to the event. Sixteen teams earned seeds and first round byes in the championship.
NORMAN, Okla. — Lets get one thing straight right off the bat. What follows is in no way excuse-making for West Virginia’s performance in Saturday’s 59-20 loss to Oklahoma. WVU was outplayed by the Sooners on every unit other than punt and punt return, and the former was pretty much a wash.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia coach Neal Brown has to feel like all the king's horses and all the king's men this week, trying to put the Humpty Dumpty Mountaineer football team back together to face new Big 12 rival Cincinnati in a Senior Day match up which will also include m…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Ever since suffering his first loss as a major college basketball coach, an unexpected one to underdog Monmouth, West Virginia basketball coach Josh Eilert has been reminding himself of the realities of life.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — In the rubble of every disaster there emerge heroes, and so it is that our quest today after a disaster of weekend that saw West Virginia’s football team annihilated by Oklahoma, 59-20, and the basketball team embarrassed by mid-major Monmouth, 73-65, on its Col…
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