RaeQuan Battle, Pat Suemnick lead West Virginia over No. 3 Kansas
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — RaeQuan Battle scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds, Pat Suemnick added a career-high 20 points and West Virginia beat No. 3 Kansas, 91-85, on Saturday. Fans stormed the court after the Mountaineers (7-11, 2-3 Big 12) improved to 7-5 against Kansas in Morgantown and broke a...
West Virginia can’t hold early lead, stumbles on road to No. 15 Oklahoma
NORMAN, Okla. — Jalon Moore scored 16 points and Javian McCollum and Rivaldo Soares each added 13 to help No. 15 Oklahoma defeat West Virginia, 77-63, on Wednesday night. Otega Oweh added 12 points and 10 rebounds for Oklahoma (14-3, 2-2 Big 12), which shot 63.6% in the second half...
Pat Suemnick, Kerr Kriisa, RaeQuan Battle help West Virginia beat No. 25 Texas 76-73
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia’s Pat Suemnick was a ball of nerves in his first career start earlier in the week. In his second start, he took an assistant coach’s advice: Go have fun. Suemnick set career highs of 16 points and six rebounds, West Virginia built a double-digit lead...
Cam Carter scores 23 points, helps Kansas State pull away in 2nd half to beat West Virginia 81-67
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Cam Carter scored 15 of his 23 points in the second half to help Kansas State pull away and beat West Virginia, 81-67, on Tuesday night. Kansas State (12-3, 2-0 Big 12), which snapped a four-game losing streak against West Virginia in Morgantown, has won nine of...
No. 3 Houston too much for West Virginia men
HOUSTON — L.J. Cryer scored 20 points, Damian Dunn added 14 points and No. 3 Houston improved to 14-0 with an 89-55 win over West Virginia in the Cougars’ inaugural Big 12 contest Saturday. Patrick Suemnick had 12 points and five rebounds, and Noah Farrakhan added nine points for West...
Roddy Gayle Jr. scores 32, Ohio State beats WVU 78-75 in OT at Legends of Basketball
CLEVELAND — Roddy Gayle Jr. scored a career-high 32 points, Jamison Battle added 17 points and nine rebounds and Ohio State held on to beat West Virginia, 78-75, in overtime Saturday night at the Legends of Basketball Showcase. Gayle made 11 of 21 from the field, 7 of 10 from...
2023 in Pittsburgh college sports: Pitt men’s basketball ended 5-year NCAA Tournament drought
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...
Garrett Greene helps West Virginia beat North Carolina 30-10 in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Garrett Greene threw for 204 yards and a touchdown, Beanie Bishop Jr. returned a punt 78 yards for a score and West Virginia closed a season in which it exceeded expectations with a 30-10 victory over North Carolina on Wednesday night in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl. Traylon...
West Virginia, North Carolina to battle for all the mayo in bowl game
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...
Battle scores 29 points, Kriisa adds 12 and 10 assists; WVU beats Toledo 91-81
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — RaeQuan Battle scored 22 of his 29 points in the first half, and West Virginia blew most of an 18-point lead before holding on to beat Toledo, 91-81, on Saturday in the first meeting between the programs since World War II. The Rockets beat West Virginia, 43-35,...
DaQuan Smith sinks go-ahead jumper with 1.5 left, Radford edges West Virginia
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...
West Virginia lands 4-star WR to highlight 2024 recruiting class
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,...
UMass blows 18-point lead before beating West Virginia
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,...
AP All-America team loaded with 5th- and 6th-year players; Penn State pair honored
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...
Edwards helps West Virginia hold off Drexel 66-60
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Jesse Edwards scored 16 points to help West Virginia hold off Drexel, 66-60, on Saturday. Edwards made 7 of 10 shots and grabbed five rebounds for the Mountaineers (4-5). Quinn Slazinski finished with 14 points and six rebounds. Seth Wilson came off the bench to score 11...
Blake Hinson, Will Jeffress lead Pitt to 1st Backyard Brawl victory since 2012
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...
WVU’s Akok Akok cleared by physicians, will play against Pitt
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...
WVU coach Josh Eilert makes sure players feel ‘passion’ generated by Backyard Brawl with Pitt
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...
West Virginia to play North Carolina in Duke’s Mayo Bowl
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.,...
West Virginia falls short vs. St. John’s in Big East-Big 12 Battle
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...
West Virginia retains football coach Neal Brown after 8-4 regular season
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...
WVU gets winning TD pass from Greene to White with 23 seconds left to beat Baylor
WACO, Texas — Garrett Greene threw for 269 yards with two touchdowns, including the winning 29-yard score to running back Jahiem White wide open down the left sideline with 23 seconds left, as West Virginia beat Baylor, 34-31, on Saturday night. The Mountaineers (8-4, 6-3 Big 12) were out of...
Bowl-bound West Virginia seeks 8th win while Baylor tries to avoid 9th loss
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...
Ryan Dunn, Reece Beekman power No. 24 Virginia past West Virginia at Fort Myers Tip-Off
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...
Jahiem White, Garrett Greene run wild in West Virginia’s romp over Cincinnati
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia freshman Jahiem White rushed for a season-high 204 yards, Garrett Greene ran for a career-high 154 and the pair combined for five touchdowns in a 42-21 victory over Cincinnati on Saturday. West Virginia (7-4, 5-3 Big 12) turned a matchup of two of the league’s...
