In what is as close to a must-win game as West Virginia will have all season, the Mountaineers (15-8, 5-5 Big East) will hit the road to take on the Providence Friars (13-10, 2-8) on Sunday afternoon. West Virginia is on a head-scratching three game losing streak in which it has dropped a 16-point loss at St. John’s, a controversial 2-point defeat at Syracuse, and a disappointing 6-point set back at home to Pitt. The Mountaineers have lost three games in a row for...
The 2012 basketball recruiting class has a new #1 ranked player. Nerlens Noel recently made his intention of graduating in 2012 public, which means he will be on a college campus next season. WVU fans hope to see him in the gold and blue next year, but face stiff recruiting battles against the top programs in the country such as Kentucky, Syracuse and UCONN. Noel said he enjoyed his visit for the Mountaineer Showcase high school tournament a few short weeks ago, and hopefully...
In what could potentially be the final Backyard Brawl in either men’s basketball or football to be hosted in Morgantown for quite some time, West Virginia (15-7, 5-4 Big East) will host the Pitt Panthers (13-9, 2-7) on Big Monday. The Mountaineers and Panthers have played at least once (and most of the time, twice) in every season since 1918. At that time, WVU had only ever beaten Pitt once in basketball. Now, they have done it 95 times, and they hold a 95-87...
Saturday was a tough day for Bob Huggins and his young team. For the third time this season, the officials took the game out of the hands of the players and decided they wanted to have the final input on the winner of a hard-fought game. Before I go any further, I want to make it clear that I know that generally speaking, one bad call or play does not decide the winner or loser of a game. However, in the three games that I am...
Nerlens Noel (6’10″, 210) is the top rated center in the class of 2013. Both Rivals.com and Scout.com rate him as a 5-star and one of the top five overall players in the country. In a recent interview with wvillustrated.com, Noel made it clear that he was definitely interested in West Virginia. The Massachusetts native was in Morgantown last weekend for the Prime Time Shootout at University High School. While in town, he was able to meet with the coaches, watch a practice, and take a tour of the...
The latest college basketball rankings came out Monday morning, and once again WVU was disrespected and left out of both Top 25 polls. It’s becoming more and more obvious that the Top 25 is nothing more than a popularity contest that is run by voters who either don’t know anything about basketball, or just don’t care enough to get it right. West Virginia (15-5, 5-2 Big East) has an RPI in the top 15 and currently has the second toughest strength of schedule according to realtimerpi.com....
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