It seems like just yesterday we were coming out of spring practice and counting down the days until the home opener against Marshall. Now in the blink of an eye, the season is over. The Mountaineers finished their season ranked in the top 20 of both major polls. They finished 17th in the AP Poll and 18th in the USA Today Coaches Poll. The only other team to finish in the Top 25 from the Big East was Cincinnati who finished 25th in the...
The WVU men’s basketball team did not have very high expectations to start this season. But after a rather strong start to the season the Mountaineers find themselves in a very good position. West Virginia is getting a good combination of senior play and the seniors are impacting the freshmen in a positive way. Sure they have some games where simple mistakes have been made, but the progress so far this season has been phenomenal, and think, it’s only January. With another two months...
Now that I’ve had a couple days to recover from my Orange Bowl celebration, I figured I would take a quick look back at what was one of the most memorable nights in WVU football history. What started out as a back-and-forth game in the first quarter, quickly turned to a one-sided beatdown of epic proportions. There isn’t a whole lot that can be said about the performance that our Mountaineers put on Wednesday night in Miami. 70 points! 70?? I think when WVU...
The sheik and swanky Miami is about to be paved over with Gold and Blue and Orange and Purple as West Virginia and Clemson fans begin to converge on Sun Life Stadium for the 78th Orange Bowl. The city, home to some of America’s hottest actors and musicians, must prepare the bars and beaches for the influx of two of college football’s most rabid fan bases. As proud Mountaineer fans, we too must prepare to prevent looking like rookies come bowl time. Of course,...
11. In the second quarter of the Friends of Coal Bowl the Mountaineers lined up in Coach Holgorsen’s notorious ‘Diamond Backfield’ formation facing 2nd and Goal from the Marshall four yard line. Geno Smith hit Ivan McCartney on a quick slant in the end zone. This was the Mountaineers’ first touchdown of the 2011 season, a score that put West Virginia on top for good against the Thundering Herd. 10. Maryland stormed back in the second half to erase a 27-10 West Virginia advantage....
The Clemson Tigers spent the 2011 season at the ACC amusement park riding the ups and downs, twists and turns on the roller coaster of college football emotions. The seasons started with a big 8-0 run that carried the Tigers as high as #5 in the nation and included monster wins in three consecutive weekends over Auburn, Virginia Tech, and Florida State. Those three teams were ranked #21, #11, and #11 respectively. Then the wheels fell off, a repulsive tradition despised by the orange...
Bob Huggins earned his 700th victory last week when his Mountaineers pulled out a tough win against a scrappy Missouri State team in Las Vegas. With the win, Huggins became just the 20th coach in Division 1 College Basketball history to win 700 games. He is the 4th winningest active head coach in college basketball and is surely a future Hall of Famer. Everybody knows Huggs is a great basketball coach and teacher of the game, but he’s an even better human being. He’s...
Senior guard Truck Bryant scored a career high 34 points and led West Virginia to a 83-69 win over Villanova. With the win, the Mountaineers improve to 10-3 overall and 1-0 in conference play. Villanova drops to 7-6 on the season and 0-1 in Big East play. West Virginia needed to bounce back from a tough overtime loss to 7th ranked Baylor, and they did just that against a solid Big East opponent. The game was tightly contested most of the way, but WVU...
West Virginia (9-3) kicks off Big East play tonight as they take on the Villanova Wildcats (7-5) at the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown. Villanova has been one of the top teams in the Big East for quite a few years now, but they are off to a rough start in 2011-2012. After starting out 4-0, Nova went on to lose 5 of their next 8 games. They’ve lost to every decent team they’ve played, and their best win is a 79-76 overtime win over La Salle. The...
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