WVU Sports

WVU is Content But Understands Work is Needed

MORGANTOWN — In a year as crazy as 2020 has been, it seems fitting that, despite being mid-November, the West Virginia football team is still in contention for a Big 12 Championship berth. The team matched its win total from a season ago with a 24-6 win over TCU on Saturday, and the Mountaineers are currently 5-3 with only two games remaining in the regular season. The team is on bye this week, a break after five consecutive weeks of action in a shortened season. The time off was “much needed” as head coach Neal Brown said in a press conference on Tuesday, with the team’s ...

WVU Runs Over TCU

MORGANTOWN — Jarrett Doege threw two touchdown passes and ran for one score, Leddie Brown surpassed 100 rushing yards for the fifth time this season and West Virginia beat TCU 24-6 on Saturday. The Mountaineers (5-3, 4-3 Big 12) used a balanced offensive attack to beat TCU (3-4, 3-4) for ...

Jarrett Doege Throws 2 TDs, WVU Runs Over TCU, 24-6

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Jarrett Doege threw two touchdown passes and ran for one score, Leddie Brown surpassed 100 rushing yards for the fifth time this season and West Virginia beat TCU 24-6 on Saturday. The Mountaineers (5-3, 4-3 Big 12) used a balanced offensive attack to beat TCU ...

WVU Will Try To Slow Duggan

Max Duggan pulled out his old bag of running tricks in TCU’s last game to give the Horned Frogs even more momentum in turning around their season. The mobile sophomore was impressive with his arm over the first month while averaging under three yards on the ground. Then came a rushing ...

Rebounding Tandem Back for Mountaineers

By JOHN RABY Associated Press MORGANTOWN — West Virginia coach Bob Huggins has one of the nation’s top rebounding tandems back, and if the team shooting accuracy and ball handling can improve, the 15th-ranked Mountaineers could be poised to contend for an elusive Big 12 championship. Sophomore Oscar Tshiebwe and junior Derek Culver return. Yet dominating on the glass might mean the Mountaineers’ own shots aren’t falling, something that was a problem a year ago. West Virginia went 11-1 to start the season, then struggled to find its scoring touch in league play and went ...

Garza, Butler Headline AP Preseason All-America Team

The coronavirus pandemic initially clouded Luka Garza’s decision whether to stay at Iowa or leave for the NBA. The uncertainty of the 2020-21 college basketball season and NBA draft made a tough choice even tougher. Once Garza decided to stay in Iowa City, he was all in. No doubts going ...