West Virginia Mountaineers NCAA Basketball News

There are those who would have you believe that it starts today, with a 1 p.m. exhibition game at the Coliseum against a Mountain State team that features the world's tallest basketball player at 7 feet, 8 inches.

In 2008-09, the Big East was the best and deepest conference in America, sending 7 teams into the NCAA Tournament, including three teams that garned a #1 seed.

The Mountaineer Men's Basketball team opened its season Sunday afternoon, at the Coliseum, with an exhibition win over Mountain State University.

The NCAA's decision to issue a 20-game suspension to West Virginia F Deniz Kilicli has had the impact one might expect on the freshman from Turkey.

It is truly the tale of two recruits, two freshmen, and two very different results.

Despite a bevy of new faces dotting league rosters in the 2009-10 season, WVIAC men's basketball coaches are calling for more of the same by making defending regular season champion West Virginia State the overwhelming favorite to repeat.

Devin Ebanks can admit it. His freshman year at the University of West Virginia had plenty of ups and downs.

West Virginia University's men's basketball team has been ranked No. 8 in the preseason Associated Press poll, announced Thursday.

You may now officially call West Virginia's men's basketball team a Top 10 team.

According to the university, the new recruit will wait to play for the Mountaineers.

West Virginia University forwards Da'Sean Butler and Devin Ebanks are two of 50 players named to the Naismith Trophy preseason watch list.

West Virginia University's men's basketball team has been ranked No. 8 in the preseason Associated Press poll, announced today.

During his coaching career, Bob Huggins has pulled off more than a couple of miracles, but try as he might, he can't take two players and merge them into one.

A national magazine recently published its preseason Top 25 college basketball rankings and the list is headed by the traditional powers - Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, North Carolina, West Virginia .

Bob Huggins has made West Virginia an elite team in three seasons. That's what was expected once he arrived at his alma mater after a one-year stint at Kansas State.

West Virginia has enjoyed its share of NCAA tournament success over the years. There was the 1959 Final Four team starring Jerry West that came within a point of beating California for the national championship.

Villanova Coach Jay Wright wasn't able to recruit West Virginia star Da'Sean Butler, but the Wildcats may get the last laugh in the new Big East men's basketball season.

Just for the record, let's get a couple of things straight regarding West Virginia's newest marksman, junior college transfer shooting guard Casey Mitchell.

West Virginia 's compliance office is reviewing the possibility secondary NCAA violations were committed Friday at Mountaineer Madness.

It wasn't midnight, but it was madness. Basketball returned Morgantown Friday night with the annual Mountaineer Madness, and it was a spectacular evening of fashion and frolic, topped off when John Flowers edged Devin Ebanks.