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 [...]

Meg Bulger and Yinka Sanni capped off Senior Day with 20 points each including 6 treys from Bulger as 13th-ranked West Virginia held on against star player Angel McCoughtry and the Louisville Cardinals 78-70 to clinch third-place in the Big East Conference. This win gives WVU the first-round bye for the second straight year. [...]

Joe Alexander scored a career-high 32 points for the West Virginia Mountaineers. Along with his 10 rebounds, Alexander arguably had one of the best individual performances a Mountaineer basketball player had in quite sometime. The same can’t be said for the rest of the team whose shoddy transition defense caused Husky point guard [...]

The West Virginia Mountaineers from the very start were ready to play. After trading some baskets with the Blue Demons they embarked on a 22-0 run to catapult the Eers to a 33-9 lead. But you as a Mountie fan know how it is when the Eers are up too big too soon. [...]

Well the clinching of the Big East Tournament first-round bye will have to wait another day. The Pittsburgh Panthers beat the 13th-ranked West Virginia Mountaineer women’s basketball tonight 77-75 in OT.
To look at the big picture in regards to the Backyard Brawl rematch the Panthers apparently wanted this game more than the Eers did. [...]

The first half of the game showed the casual basketball fan what Big East Basketball is all about. Physical play up and down the court for 20 minutes. The two teams nearly came to blows a couple times. In the second half, a Wellington Smith spike jump started a 21-4 second half run to throw [...]

West Virginia got the better end of the Villanova Wildcats this time around. The 13th-ranked women jumped out to a 22-2 lead and never looked back as they cruise to a 76-55 victory.
With the win West Virginia is now 11-2 in the conference. UPDATE: With the sPittsburgh Panthers losing to Marquette tonight 76-69 the Mountaineers [...]

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The West Virginia Mountaineers are playing their best offensive basketball all year. Sure it was over the likes of Jersey teams Rutgers and Seton Hall this week but one would think if they continue to play like this they may find themselves in the Big Dance a month from now.
Balance scoring for the [...]

Despite having a Coliseum-record attendance of 8,307 on Pack the House Day the Blue Demons led by Allie Quigley and Deidre Naughton had other ideas as they rained three after three to hold on to an 81-80 victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers.  DePaul made 14 3’s for the game, it felt like 20, as [...]

The 11th-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers finally exact revenge on the hated Pittsburgh Panthers are they held them to just over a frigid 20 percent from the field.  That was the story of the game as the WVU women dominated 18th-ranked Pitt 56-35.  Senior Yinka Sanni got the better of her adversary “Mo-Mo” Walker scoring a [...]