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WVU’s linebacker room post Carrico and Wilson

MORGANTOWN — It was hard to be a leader of West Virginia’s 2025 team. The team was new in almost every aspect. There was a new coach, a new coaching staff and a bunch of new players. It’s hard to unite a team like that. There were two players on defense who stepped up, attempting to lead the group. Two players who gave it their all, banged up and fought through it, and were sent out to answer questions after losing a tough one. Linebacker Reid Carrico and Chase Wilson were WVU’s leaders on defense. They led the linebacker room and the defense. Now, the two are gone, creating ...

WVU women’s celebration after win was special

MORGANTOWN — If a picture is worth a thousand words, then today I am speechless and you can thank the photographer Dale Sparks for giving you this moment so many have prayed for over the years. As we begin here, let me refer you to Sparks’ post-game Facebook post following West Virginia’s conquest of Baylor on Sunday afternoon at Hope Coliseum, for he put into one frame the true essence of what a locker room celebration is all about. Coach Mark Kellogg had just entered the room, presumably following his post-game media session, and walked into a tidal wave of joy, encircled ...

WVU women notch win over No. 14 Baylor

MORGANTOWN — The numbers compiled by the 22nd-ranked WVU women’s basketball team were simply astonishing Sunday. They read: 23 offensive rebounds, 30 turnovers forced and a 36-8 scoring advantage in the paint. That’s not the amazing part, because they’re numbers you’ve seen ...

Baylor upends WVU

MORGANTOWN — This was one WVU had to have. Not just to extend a winning streak inside the Hope Coliseum. Not just to continue to inch its way up college basketball’s metrics with the hope of being in the conversation for the NCAA tournament come March. And certainly not just to be ...

Mountaineers set to host Baylor today

MORGANTOWN — We are told that slow and steady wins the race, that it’s how a team finishes rather than how it starts that determines most outcomes. Honor Huff and his WVU men’s basketball teammates are big believers in that theory, evident by how they’ve rarely shot out of the gate ...

No. 14 Baylor visits WVU women on Sunday

MORGANTOWN — There aren’t a lot of perfect women’s basketball teams this season. UConn is the only undefeated team left and is No. 1 in the AP Poll, rightfully so. There are a lot of teams that are close to perfect, rounding out the top 15, who have one, two, or three losses. West ...