West Virginia Mountaineers

By: Justin Walker & Shanna Rose | WV Sports Chat After two consecutive losses, including one at home to Utah, who currently sits in last place in the Big 12, the West Virginia men’s basketball team split a pair of games last week. It started with their third consecutive loss. It came in overtime at…

By: Justin Walker & Shanna Rose | WV Sports Chat Home Loss to Utah A slow start proved too much to overcome for West Virginia on Wednesday night, February 18. The Mountaineers fell into an early double-digit deficit and couldn’t complete another comeback in a 61-56 loss to Utah at Hope Coliseum. The Utes hit…

By: Justin Walker & Shanna Rose | WV Sports Chat WVU Defensive Assistant Reportedly Leaving for Georgia  Per multiple media reports, including one from USA Today, the Georgia Bulldogs are hiring WVU football assistant Coach Larry Knight to coach outside linebackers in Athens. Knight just officially joined the WVU staff in January after the retirement…

By: Justin Walker & Shanna Rose | WV Sports Chat WVU Picked 15th CBS Sports’ Shehan Jeyarajah released his 2026 Big 12 Football Preseason Power Rankings. While not surprising, he ranked WVU football near the bottom of the conference. What was surprising, though, was how low he ranked the Mountaineers in year two of the Rich…

By: Justin Walker & Shanna Rose | WV Sports Chat Win Over Kansas State Honor Huff scored 17 points as West Virginia outlasted Kansas State 59-54 on Tuesday night, January 27, at the Hope Coliseum. The Mountaineers went scoreless for five minutes and fell behind 7-0 before Chance Moore’s dunk at 14:11 ended the drought.…

By WV Sports Chat  Transfer Portal Addition Though the transfer portal officially closed on January 16, teams are still allowed to recruit and sign players who remain in the portal. Players are just not allowed to enter past the January 16 deadline.  Rich Rodriguez and WVU football were one of those programs that were not…

By: Justin Walker, Jonathan Martin & Clark Johnson | WV Sports Chat Rich Rodriguez and the West Virginia Mountaineers are flipping the majority of the roster for the second consecutive year. Many of the new roster additions are coming from the high school and JUCO ranks, but WVU is still doing plenty of work in…

By Shanna Rose & Justin Walker | WV Sports Chat The West Virginia men’s basketball team again came up just short away from home. The Mountaineers let a 16-point second-half lead slip Saturday night at Rocket Arena, falling 89-88 in double overtime to Ohio State in the Cleveland Hoops Showdown. With WVU clinging to a one-point…

BY Justin “Couz” Walker | WV Sports Chat While WVU football is not eligible for a bowl game after its 4-8 season, there was some positive news from Morgantown last week.  Rich Rodriguez and his staff accumulated what experts say is the best recruiting class in program history, or at least since the inception of…

BY Justin Walker & Shanna Rose | WV Sports Chat Texas Tech left no doubt in its final regular-season outing, rolling past West Virginia 49–0 on Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium. The Red Raiders (11–1, 8–1 Big 12, No. 5 CFP) had already secured a spot in the Big 12 championship game when Arizona State lost Friday…