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WVU set to host BYU and standout Dybantsa tonight

MORGANTOWN — It is not the ideal situation for the WVU men’s basketball team. It’s certainly not the way WVU head coach Ross Hodge would want to picture it. Yet here it is. Coming off the heels of one of the Mountaineers worst defensive performances of the season, WVU (16-12, 7-8 Big 12) now has to figure out a way to slow down quite possibly the best college basketball player on the planet. That challenge comes to pass at 5:30 p.m. today inside Hope Coliseum. He is BYU freshman A.J. Dybantsa, a scoring machine who averages 25.1 points per game and shoots 53% from the field, ...

Montesa fans 11 to lead WVU over Kennesaw State

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia baseball coach Steve Sabins talked about the legend of Dawson Montesa. In the first game of the series against Kennesaw State, the legend was on full display. Montesa pitched seven dominant innings to help WVU beat Kennesaw State 12-4 on the road, securing the first win of the series. The Mountaineers are now 7-1 on the season, and the Owls fell to 4-4 on the year. The second game of the series is on Saturday, Feb. 28, starting at 2 p.m. The final game of the series is Sunday, March 1, at noon. Both games are on ESPN+. This was the third start for ...

WVU’s lineup experimentation pays off

MORGANTOWN — If you were in attendance for West Virginia baseball’s home opener against Ohio, or you were watching on TV, or if you just looked at the lineup card, you might’ve noticed something odd. The Mountaineers’ long-time outfielder, Armani Guzman, was taking ground balls at ...

WVU rolls to victory in home debut

MORGANTOWN — It might not have seemed like baseball weather in Morgantown, especially if you looked out your window in the morning and saw snow falling. But West Virginia baseball had its first home game of the season Wednesday afternoon against Ohio. The Mountaineers had two homers in a ...

Late scoring burst lifts WVU women by UCF

MORGANTOWN — The scoring burst came later than expected, but it eventually happened. The end result was the 17th-ranked WVU women’s basketball team walked out of Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Fla. on Wednesday with one collective “whew.” Behind a dominating third-quarter performance that saw the Mountaineers shoot nearly 77% from the field, WVU avoided what would have been a major upset with a 74-62 victory against struggling UCF. Gia Cooke scored 19 points and Jordan Harrison added 16 points and seven assists, as WVU (23-6, 13-4 Big 12) won its eighth true road ...

Injuries continue to mount across the Big 12

MORGANTOWN — He should have been jumping up and down with joy. After all, Parsa Fallah had just slam dunked the final two points down that had given Oklahoma State a 91-84 overtime victory over West Virginia to end the Cowboys five-game losing streak. But instead of celebratory shouts ...