It is well-known the coaches’ pre-season poll picked West Virginia to finish tenth in the Big East Conference standings.
It is also well-known what the Mountaineers often do when they are overlooked, underrated and not given deserving credit— they play with a chip on their shoulder.

Beilein - Oops MU was a bad choice

Former West Virginia head […]

Joe Alexander Last Year at MSG

Saturday, West Virginia (21-9, 10-7) heads to the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, for its final regular season game against St. John’s (11-18, 5-12).
The Mountaineers have found a home away from home in New York City in recent years, especially in March.
Rewind back to the 2004-2005 season under […]

The No. 9 West Virginia University Mountaineers made a statement to the nation Wednesday night by thrashing the overwhelmingly favored No. 4 Oklahoma Sooners 48-28 in the 2008 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
Just how good were the Sooners under head coach Bob Stoops? The OU leader boasts a striking 96-21 record since he took over the reigns […]

The entire Mountaineer nation suffered a heavy blow Dec. 16, 2007, delivered by West Virginia’s once fearless leader himself— Rich Rodriguez. Much like Pearl Harbor or the sinking of the Titanic, this day will forever live in infamy.
The once beloved coach of the underdog football team turned his back on all those that looked up […]

How big are these next two weeks for West Virginia’s football and men’s basketball teams? Take a look at what’s just around the corner.
Friday
Arkansas (7-4) heads to Baton Rouge to battle No. one LSU (10-1) Friday at 2:30 p.m. Darren McFadden and Felix Jones may be up to the tough task of running against LSU’s […]

SCHEDULE
SE Missouri State 59-3
Oregon State 34-3
at Miami (OH) 47-10
Marshall 40-14
at San Diego State 52-23
at Rutgers 28-23
Louisville 24-28
at Pittsburgh 17-24
at South Florida 38-33
Connecticut 27-3
West Virginia -
at Syracuse -
8-2 Overall; 3-2 Big East
TEAM STATS
Category / Natl. Rank / Average
Total offense / 31 / 428.5
Scoring offense / 18 / […]

Night games at Mountaineer Field are truly special.
Plummeting temperatures that dipped below 30 degrees didn’t stop over 60,000 fans from filling the stands to root on the Mountaineers against Louisville. The gold rush theme was evident and impressive. I could feel the energy radiating through the student section and all of Milan Puskar Stadium. Once […]

Gold Rush

The Gold Rush.
In the mid-1800’s, thousands of people from far away lands set out for Northern California in search of fortune in the form of gold. The scene quickly became a free for all place where seekers scavenged the streams in search of this get-rich-quick scheme.
The milestone in American history was monumental in the […]

Mountaineers Enter November ready to roll

With no. four Arizona State and no. two Boston College both losing, West Virginia has climbed back up to no. six in both the Coaches’ and AP polls. They are 7th in the latest BCS rankings. I’ve been one of the believers that WVU can sneak back into the national […]

[Editors Note] WVMountaineerSports.com is excited to welcome a new member of the team. Jeremy Curtis is a senior news-editorial major in the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University. He works as a sports correspondent for The Dominion Post, serving the greater Morgantown area. Jeremy is from Va. Beach, Va. and is […]