How does Bob Huggins get Daxter Miles Jr. to repeat what he did last Friday night against Iowa State when he scored 23 points and grabbed seven rebounds to help the Mountaineers lock up the No. 2 seed in this week’s Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship?
A boisterous crowd welcomed home the West Virginia University women’s basketball team on Tuesday at the Basketball Practice Facility, as the Mountaineers continued their celebration as the 2017 Phillips 66 Big 12 Tournament Champions.
The women’s basketball team overcame improbable odds to defeat top-seeded and No. 2 nationally-ranked Baylor 77-66 to hoist the program’s first Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship trophy Monday night (March 6) at Chesapeake Energy Arena. The team is expected to return to Clarksburg around 2 p.m. today (March 7), arriving in Morgantown around 2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Spencer, West Virginia, native Dylan Cottrell became the first ever West Virginia University wrestler to win a Big 12 title, as he defeated Oklahoma State’s Chandler Rogers in the 165-pound finals of the 2017 Big 12 Wrestling Championship at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sunday.
West Virginia University men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins has been named one of 10 national semifinalists for the 2017 Werner Ladder Naismith Men’s College Coach of the Year.
Former West Virginia University women’s basketball standout Bria Holmes was named the Connecticut Sports Writers’ Hank O’Donnell Female Athlete of the Year.
Huggins is one of 48 top college basketball coaches in the nation participating in the Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge. The program, sponsored by luxury automobile manufacturer Infiniti, in partnership with the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the NCAA, and ESPN, benefits the coaches’ favorite charities.
West Virginia University will hold the annual Gold-Blue Spring Game presented by U.S. Cellular on Saturday, April 15, at 1 p.m., at Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium.
The No. 2-ranked West Virginia University rifle team earned a bid to the 2017 NCAA National Championships, as announced tonight by the NCAA Rifle Committee.
Greenbrier County native Troy Clemons will hold on to his buckskins, coonskin cap and musket as he has been named again as the Mountaineer Mascot for the 2017-18 year.