Yesterday was a great day for the Big East as all of the favorites won, and of course it was a great day to be a Mountaineer. Joe Alexander is starting to turn into an exciting guy to watch and the definate leader in this team that seems to be maturing at the perfect time [...]

While it was tough to watch at times, budding superstar Joe Alexander and Da’Sean Butler carried the rest of the Eers to the second round. WVU beat the pesky Providence Friars 58-53. WVU will now face the 4th seeded Connecticut Huskies tomorrow.
Alexander led the team, yet again, with 22 points including making all four foul [...]

The 5th seeded West Virginia Mountaineers will face a familiar Big East Tournament foe this afternoon. The 12th seeded Providence Friars and the Mountaineers are no strangers to each other in the world’s most famous arena Madison Square Garden. They’ve played each other in 4 of the past 6 seasons the Big East [...]

We here at wvmountaineersports.com would like to congratulate Joe Alexander on making the All Big East first team. Alexander’s 93 point barrage in the final three regular season games was just enough for the voters to catch up what we already know. For the season Alexander averaged 16.2 points per game to go [...]

UPDATE: Let’s make the prizes even sweeter. I would like to be able to make the First Place, Runner-Up prizes better and I would like to have enough prizes for a Third Place and a Dead Last Sucker prize. So I was thinking, if you own a business, have something you have two of, or [...]

Knowing that St. John was not going to go to the Big East Tournament next week not to mention they were playing in front of a sparse crowd at the world’s most famous arena you would think the West Virginia Mountaineers would stomp them all day. When WVU was up 23-12 with about 10 minutes [...]

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 former head coach John Beilein. [...]

StatSheet.com has some awesome game stat and charts about every bball game. It’s a great way to graphically see how the game breaks down. Enjoy.
College Basketball Stats by StatSheet.com

College Basketball Stats by StatSheet.com

West Virginia knew they had to win this game in front of an ESPN Big Monday audience on Senior Night with Darris Nichols, Jamie Smalligan, and Teddy Talkington playing their final game at the WVU Coliseum.
In front of 13,960 fans, including a vocal jammed pack student contingent, the Mountaineers pounded Pittsburgh inside and out [...]