West Virginia Mountaineers NCAA Basketball News

West Virginia University sophomore point guard Darryl "Truck" Bryant was suspended indefinitely Wednesday for an unspecified violation of basketball team rules, Coach Bob Huggins announced through a university release.

West Virginia University student-athletes Liz Repella and Alex Ruoff have been named recipients of the 2008-09 BIG EAST Conferencea s Scholar-Athlete Sport Excellence Awards, which recognize academic and athletic achievement as well as community service.

Bob Marcum finished his tenure at Marshall University Tuesday, packing up seven years worth of memories at the Shewey Athletic Building.

CALL IT the long arms race. It's the race to land blue chip basketball recruits.

No matter how many schools lined up to fetch her basketball services, Taylor Palmer decided her final decision could wait.

According to the Washington Wizards and his agent, Alex Ruoff has not signed a pro contract.

Picked to finish in the bottom half of the league in six of the seven seasons with John Beilein or Bob Huggins on the sidelines, the 2009-10 Mountaineers are going to play through rarefied air usually occupied by the Connecticuts, Louisvilles and Pitts.

Mountaineer nets 20 in come-from-behind win. COURTESY: WVU SPORTS INFORMATION Da'Sean Butler scored a team-high 20 points to lead the 2009 USA Men's World University Games Team to a come-from-behind victory over Canada 85-81 in the 2009 Serbia International Invitational on Saturday night in Belgrade.

Ever feel like it was you against the world? West Virginia University basketball forward Da'Sean Butler feels that way today and believes it's a good feeling.

Considering Elijah Macon just completed his freshman season of high school basketball , there remains plenty of time to get himself ready for his freshman season in college.

West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins and women's hoop coach Mike Carey made there second annual trip to the area for Coalton Days on Saturday.

Sometimes even the most objective of us get blinded by the light, and so it has been at West Virginia University with its basketball team.

WVU's Da' Sean Butler will travel overseas while Joe Mazzulla is taking to right steps to play for the Mountaineers next season.

Shrinking sponsorships because of the recession jeopardized the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Pro-Am League this summer, but, after fans got wind the league might fold, thousands of dollars poured in from sponsors and donors to make sure that it would continue for a fourth consecutive year.

West Virginia University's women's basketball team picked up what Coach Mike Carey calls "truly one of the premier post players in the country" on Monday when it was announced that Ayana Dunning is transferring from LSU to WVU.

Now that Devin Ebanks is coming back to West Virginia for his sophomore year, he has a specific plan for what to do this summer.

Although fund-raising continues and architectural plans are in place, West Virginia University won't begin work this year on its proposed basketball practice facility.

Now that the NBA Finals are set and the dream matchup of Kobe Bryant vs. LeBron James failed to materialize, perhaps the biggest disappointment since the NCAA Final showdown between West Virginia University's Jerry West and Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson fizzled 50 years earlier, it is time to reflect upon something far more relevant to us at this ...

A week from today, Danny Jennings will arrive at West Virginia University. He is, as he says with emphasis, "pumped" to begin a college basketball career he believes will be beyond anything he could accurately predict.

At the College Basketball Roundtable each week, we ask each member of the college basketball coverage staff for his opinion about a current topic in the sport.