WVU offers NYC point guard Tavon Sledge

Tavon Sledge made a real impression with the WVU basketball coaching staff when he came to their Elite Camp in the summer of 2009. So much so that Bob Huggins decided to offer the pint-sized point guard a scholarship for the 2011 season.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Devine Award Watch: Mountaineer Running Back Could Bring Home Some Trophies in 2010

The summer is a time of speculation for many WVU sports. The basketball team is still saying goodbye to their seniors and those who are entering the NBA draft, while also still gathering recruits for when school begins in August. CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Rules Made to be Broken

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Everyday, NCAA guidelines are reinterpreted, misunderstood, and often bent to their breaking points. Sometimes they snap, and the shattered pieces are swept under the rug. Other times, the NCAA or some do-good whistleblower pieces together what is left behind and emerges with a completed puzzle of a program’s black eye.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

An Early Look at the NBA Draft

With the NBA Playoffs going hot and heavy, many people are focused on what two teams will be going head to head to take home the NBA championship. For the rest of the NBA teams on the outside looking in, it is a time to solidify their NBA draft pick.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Phil Greene Prepping for Elite Camp

Those who know him say he is Chicago’s best kept secret. One of Illinois’ top guard prospects, Phil Greene has made a name for himself locally through electric play on high school and AAU courts. This summer, his plan is to let out his secret, and start gaining more national recognition.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

WVU Basketball Recruit: Angel Nunez Adds WVU to Summer Plans

If you haven’t heard the name Angel Nunez much in high school basketball recruiting circles, don’t worry – you will. The talented rising senior forward has been limited in his AAU appearances the past few years after transferring from Cardinal Haynes in the Bronx to the Winchendon (Mass.) School.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Hopkins, Harrison Have History: 2011 prospect Mikael Hopkins' relationship with WVU coach give Mountaineers rave reviews

Mikael Hopkins has been watching letters from colleges pile up on his kitchen counter since he was a freshman at DeMatha High School. He has talking on the phone with a multitude of coaches from those and other schools since last June. Soon, he will begin taking visits to a select few of the schools who have made real impressions on him.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

VIDEO: Exclusive Interview with WVU Strength and Conditioning Coach Mike Joseph

Strength and conditioning coach Mike Joseph talks to WVillustrated.com about the early arrivals to summer workouts and the conditioning process in the offseason.  CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO

WVU Sports Hall of Fame Class Selected

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Seven outstanding contributors to Mountaineer athletics make up the 20th class of honorees in the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame, announced today by Director of Athletics Ed Pastilong.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Freshman Trio Barry Brunetti, Travis Bell, and Ishmael Banks Get Leg Up on Competition

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The WVU football team is just wrapping up its first week of summer classes and workouts. While classroom attendance may be mandatory, the opportunity to improve in the offseason is on a volunteer basis.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Da'Sean Butler Signs Autographs at the Waterfront Place Hotel

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What's Next for WVU? Off Season is Anything but Rest for the Mountaineer Football Team

With the Gold/Blue game signaling the swan song of spring football, the Mountaineers are now without official team practice until late July.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Noel Devine & Robert Sands Named to Phil Steele's All-American List

Phil Steele recently published his 2010 College Football Preview edition, where he names his preseason picks for all-conference and all-American teams.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Quinton Spain's Morgantown Countdown

While a number of bright-eyed freshmen football players get their start at WVU this week, even more are still at home finishing school before they can make the trek to Morgantown and become college student-athletes.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Predetermined for Success: Jerry West Discusses His Life

Graduation ceremonies across the country always try to find the quintessential speaker that will inspire graduates to go out and do great things. West Virginia University is no different, getting 42nd president Bill Clinton to speak at the entire university’s graduation, but they got a man perhaps even more famous in the state of West Virginia than slick Willy to speak at the College of Physical Activity and Sports Science Commencement.  
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Jerry West Speaks at Son, Jonnie West's Graduation

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - When Jerry West gave the Commencement speech at West Virginia University in 2006, he did so simply as a distinguished alumnus. On Sunday, he was again welcomed back as the keynote speaker for the WVU College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, but this time, he was also attending as a proud father of one of WVU’s newest graduates.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

WVU Thin at Wide Receiver for 2010

When the Mountaineers take the field in the fall, they will do so with a quarterback who didn’t play at all during the spring and only two wide receivers that saw playing time last season. Many people would believe this to be a problem. WVU is trying to turn it into an advantage by developing new talent at the wide out position.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Conference Guessing Game: WVU Must Wait To Find Out BIG EAST's Future

The trending topic as of late in the BIG EAST is the proposed expansion of the Big Ten Conference and what complications that raid could cause. The only fact we have at this point is that in the next year or more the Big Ten does officially plan on extending its conference to as many as 16 teams. Who those teams will be remains the mystery.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Jimmy Gary, Jr. - From the Field to the Big Screen, Part 2

Jimmy Gary, fresh off his brief stint in the NFL, found himself back in the hills of West Virginia pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the same university he had been playing football for just years before.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Jimmy Gary, Jr. - From the Field to the Big Screen, Part 1

In the late 1980s, the WVU football team welcomed its first player from Okeechobee, Fla., Reggie Rembert. While the 6-foot-6 receiver was thrilling Mountaineer fans across West Virginia, he was also planting a seed back in his hometown.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Ben Councell Waiting on Mountaineers

Ben Councell is watching as the offers continue to come in heading into the summer before his senior season at A.C. Reynolds High in Asheville, N.C. He is open to listening to whichever team expresses interest in him, and he says he is sure he would be interested in West Virginia as well.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

NCAA ranks 3 Final 4 teams in top academic ranking

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Allan Wasonga is Wide Open

Allan Wasonga has no intentions of picking a college any time soon. He does not want to even begin narrowing down his choices to a group of finalists, nor is he ready to admit which schools have made a significant positive impression on him throughout the recruiting process so far.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Matt Lindamood Uses Faith to Succeed

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - When Matt Lindamood was a senior at Parkersburg High, he had college wrestling coaches beating down his door to get him interested in joining their team the next season. He had his choice of many of the top programs and could have made one.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

WVU Recruit Kent Turene

The West Virginia University football team is not worrying about depth at the linebacker position this season, but that is not stopping them from taking a serious look at some of the top high school prospects to ensure the cupboard never runs bare.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Grant Buckner Has Career Day

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (May 8, 2010) - In a day that featured a resurgent Mountaineer offense scoring 28 combined runs, it was redshirt junior Grant Buckner’s career performance that stood above the rest in a doubleheader sweep over Notre Dame on Saturday at Hawley Field.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

WVU Recruit Shaun Ward

This time of year is such a crapshoot when it comes to evaluating the recruiting process. Players make commitments, but as we all know, commitments can be broken. How can anyone be certain that a high school junior will not change his mind in the close to a year between committing and making it official in February?  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Jedd Gyorko Award Finalist

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (May 8, 2010) - West Virginia University baseball player Jedd Gyorko has been named a quarterfinalist for the Brooks Wallace Award, announced today by the College Baseball Foundation.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE NEWS RELEASE

Da'Sean Butler and Wellington Smith bid farewell to Morgantown

It was a night set up to celebrate a season of amazing accomplishments. Diners laughed, smiled, and wined and dined next to their favorite Mountaineer basketball players.  CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE STORY

Safety in Numbers: Sidney Glover and Robert Sands

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. To be fair, there are a few positions on the WVU football team that are looking solid now that spring practice is over with. Perhaps no position garnered the same praise from Bill Stewart than the safeties.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE STORY

UCONN's Jim Calhoun Signs Multi-Year Contract

UConn's Calhoun signs 5-year, $13M contract

STORRS, Conn.(AP) Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun, coming off a year marred by health problems, an NCAA investigation and a disappointing performance on the court, signed a five-year, $13 million contract, the school announced Friday.  CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

Tim Tebow Helps Mold Barry Brunetti

Tim Tebow Helps Mold Brunetti: Incoming WVU quarterback Barry Brunetti has been working out with Tim Tebow this week in preparation for high school graduation and his arrival in Morgantown in just over a week.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE STORY

Video Interviews Including: Bob Huggins, Da'Sean Butler, Wellington Smith, Truck Bryant, and John Flowers

Players talk about the accomplishments of last season and the outlook for the future.  CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEOS

Ebanks has Fantastic Reality

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - I was a little kid with a basketball one time. You remember being a little kid with a basketball, right?   CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY - VIDEO INCLUDED

Da'Sean Butler, Wellington Smith, Jonnie West and Cam Payne say their goodbyes

Farewell Speeches:  Da'Sean Butler, Wellington Smith, Jonnie West and Cam Payne say their thank yous and goodbyes at the conclusion of Tuesday's Final Four Celebration dinner at the Morgantown Events Center.  CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY

Jonnie West leaves WVU basketball team with a lifetime of memories

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Jonnie West stood behind the podium at Tuesday night’s Final Four Celebration to give a farewell that many in attendance likely were not expecting. The decision to skip his final season at WVU may have surprised some, but he has been planning it for some time now.
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Pitt coach: 'Zero' talk about Big Ten expansion

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.(AP) Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt is staying away from questions about Big Ten expansion.

Wannstedt and Penn State coach Joe Paterno addressed reporters Wednesday in State College after the two met with Pennsylvania high school football coaches.

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WVU Final Four Celebration

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The WVU men’s basketball game and its fans gathered at the brand new Morgantown Events Center to celebrate the season’s accomplishments Tuesday night.
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WVU VIDEOS: Player Interviews

VIDEO INTERVIEWS:  Robert Sands, Stedman Bailey, Jock Sanders and Chris Neild talk to the media following the 2010 Gold-Blue Game at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, W.Va.
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Stable of Backs: Noel Devine, Shawne Alston, Ryan Clarke

With a running back like Noel Devine, the West Virginia Mountaineers know they have amazing talent in the backfield. Devine is one of the most high profile recruits WVU has ever gotten and his impact was instant.
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West Virginia places three players on the NationalChamps.net 2010 Preseason All-American Team

Three Mountaineer football players the have been selected All-Americans by the website. 
Junior defensive back Robert Sands has been chosen as a Second Team honoree. Senior defensive back Brandon Hogan and senior running back Noel Devine have been chosen as Third Team honorees.
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10 Mountaineers to Watch in 2010

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - With spring behind us, it’s time to take a look at some players of intrigue to watch for once the fall season rolls around. Most of the players who made our list are there because of what we expect from them in 2010, while others we aren’t quite sure what to expect – but solid springs put them on our radar.
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BIG EAST Team Reports

Catch up with the teams in the BIG EAST Conference. View injury updates, Notes, Quotes and Strategy and Personnel.

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VIDEO: Aaron Beasley Interview

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