Much thanks go to our new superstar Joe Alexander. He had a career-high 34 point performance yesterday which  included a poster-worthy dunk over Stanley Robinson in the final minutes of the game to seal the Eers 78-72 win.
Tonight, at the world’s most famous arena, West Virginia and Georgetown will face off at 7pm. In the [...]

Ok I thouhgt I would try this since I took a looooong lunch and have my fingers crossed going into the last 7 minutes of the game vs. UCONN.
7:45 4th Quarter: Smalligan fouled out after a nice dunk.
Missed a simple ass layup, too much time left and now we just went down and gave them [...]

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 [...]

West Virginia from the very start forgot how to play good basketball as the 7th seeded Louisville Cardinals jumped out to a 20-3 lead and never look back as they upset 3rd seeded and 18th ranked WVU Mountaineers by the score of 67-60.  After the Cards had a 20 point halftime lead and where up [...]

Before the WVU men play their 1st round game Wednesday afternoon against Providence let’s not forget that the women are involved in a potential Big East Tournament run of their own.  After last night’s crusin’ over South Florida they now advance to play the Louisville Cardinals who upset the 2nd seeded Rutgers Scarlet Knights last night.  The tipoff [...]

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 [...]