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The are the athletic teams of
West Virginia University . The school is a member of
National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and the
Big East Conference . The school's mascot is known as the Mountaineer. The two major sports at the university are football (played at the
Mountaineer Field ) and basketball (played at the
WVU Coliseum ), although many of the other sports have large followings as well.
:Playing Facility: Hawley Field
:Head Coach:
Greg Van Zant
:Most Victories: 40 in 1994
:NCAA Tournament Appearances: 22
:Last NCAA Appearance: 1996
:All-Americans: 20
:Drafted Players: 63
:Players In The Majors: 30
:Website: http://www.wvubaseball.com
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Babe Barna who played 3-sports
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Marvin Bolyard who also played basketball
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Zac Cline 2004 15th round draft pick of the Phillies
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John Doyle {Link without Title}
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Jack Gocke {Link without Title}
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Steve Harrick {Link without Title}
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Charley Hockenberry {Link without Title}
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Justin Jenkins
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Steve Kline
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Bill Marovic {Link without Title}
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Dustin Nippert
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Dale Ramsburg {Link without Title}
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Scott Seabol
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Charley Seabright {Link without Title}
:Playing Facility:
WVU Coliseum
:Head Coach:
Bob Huggins
:Most Victories: 29 in 1959
:NCAA Tournament Appearances: 20
:Last NCAA Appearance: 2006
:NIT Appearances: 15
:Last NIT Appearance: 2007
:NIT Championships: 2 (1942, 2007)
:All-Americans: 13
:Drafted Players: 28
:Players In The
NBA : 11
West Virginia men's basketball has competed in three basketball championship final matches: the
1959 NCAA Final , the 1942
NIT final (at that time, the NIT was considered by many to be more prestigious than the NCAA), and the
2007 NIT Championship . They lost 71-70 to
California in the 1959 final NCAA finals, while the Mountaineers won the
1942 NIT Championship by 47-45 over
Western Kentucky and the 2007
NIT contest over
Clemson 78-73, in what was supposed to be a rebuilding season.
The most points scored in a game was 132 points against
Alaska-Fairbanks in 1994, while the largest margin of victory was against
Salem College , with the Mountaineers winning 113-32 in 1945. The largest margin of defeat in Mountaineer basketball history came in 1978 against
Louisville , when the Cardinals beat the Mountaineers 106-60. http://mbb.mountaineerstats.com/rec_team.php?team_id=308
Other than the late 1950s teams of
Jerry West and such other greats, the senior squad of 2001-2005 was one of the greatest teams of the school's history, mainly in the 2005-2006 campaign. The starting lineup consisted of
Mike Gansey and Frank Young (Junior) at forward, while
J.D. Collins and
Johannes Herber played guards.
Kevin Pittsnogle started at center, though he led the team with three-point shots. Senior
Patrick Beilein (former coach
John Beilein's son) got considerable playing time as well. The senior class was led by team MVPs Gansey and Pittsnogle, who were both named to the All-Big East team. The team advanced to the
Sweet 16 of the
NCAA Tournament before losing to
Texas 74-71 due to a game-winning three-point shot at the buzzer. This loss marked the end of an era. It consisted of back-to-back Sweet 16 appearances, the first since the 1959 and 1960 teams of
Jerry West , and an overall record of 77-51.
The team that followed the 2001-2005 senior class was projected to be weak and undeveloped due to lack of experience.
Frank Young was the only senior that got considerable playing time from the previous year, although center Rob Summers was a senior as well. Young started at forward, along with Da'Sean Butler, Wellington Smith, and
Joe Alexander who all shared time. The guard position consisted of starter Darris Nichols and Alex Ruoff, although Ted Talkington got small action in a few games. Jamie Smalligan and senior Rob Summers split time at center as well. The only definite starts on the team were senior Frank Young and junior
Darris Nichols , although all other players shared fairly equal time.
The team, projected to have a bad year with a tough
Big East schedule, started out their season 5-0 with an easy early schedule. After a loss to
Arkansas , they posted an 8-0 record to make their season record 13-1 before suffering two losses to
Notre Dame and
Marquette to make their record 13-3. After a win against
USF and an overtime loss at
Cincinnati , the Mountaineers won four games to make their record 18-4. They were beaten by 13 at home to nationally ranked
Pitt , followed by one of the biggest upsets in school history. The upset of #2
UCLA 70-65 made the Mountaineers 19-5, although they lost to
Georgetown Hoyas the next week to make their record 19-6. After a win against
Seton Hall , they lost back-to-back against
Providence and
Pittsburgh both on the road. They then finished out the regular season with a home blowout of
Cincinnati to make their record 21-8.
The Mountaineers then beat Providence in the first round of the
Big East tournament. In the second round, the Mountaineers held with the
Louisville Cardinals for two-overtimes, but lost 82-71. The Mountaineers failed to be selected for the
NCAA Tournament , to the surprise of many West Virginia fans, but they managed to accept a #1-seed in the
NIT Tournament . The Mountaineers then posted an easy win against
Delaware State . The second round the Mountaineers won a shootout 90-77 against
UMass , then a nail biting win against
North Carolina State at home to win the East Region, making the first NIT-semifinal appearance since 1981. The semifinal contest against
Mississippi State was one of the great wins in Mountaineer history, in which
Darris Nichols hit the game-winning three-point shot to win the game 63-62 for the Mountaineers. Two days later in the
NIT Championship , the Mountaineers, led by Frank Young's 24 points and Da'Sean Butler's 20 points off the bench, beat
Clemson to win the club's
Second NIT-crown, 78-73.
A few days after WVU's winning the 2007 National Invitation Tournament, Coach Beilein announced he would be leaving the school to accept a head coaching job at the
University Of Michigan . His official departure on
April 4 ,
2007 was followed a day later by the announcement that Morgantown native
Bob Huggins was resigning his post at
Kansas State University to take the vacant head coaching job at WVU.
:
Willie Akers
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Rudy Baric helped WVU win the NIT Championship
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Babe Barna who played 3-sports
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Eddie Beach who was the first Mountaineer to be selected in the NBA Draft
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John Beilein who was coach from 2002-2007
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Dale Blaney
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Marvin Bolyard who also played baseball
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Leland Eugene Byrd who was also famous as athletic administrator
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Gale Catlett , who later became more notable as WVU's coach
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John Doyle
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Mike Gansey
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Marshall Glenn
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Jack Gocke
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Clyde Green
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Louis Guidi
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Johannes Herber
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Scott Hamilton who helped WVU win the NIT championship
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Roger Hicks who helped WVU win the NIT championship
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Charley Hockenberry
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Bob Huggins as a player from 1975 to 1977 and the present coach
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Rod Hundley
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Greg Jones
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Sam Mandich
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Jim McCormick
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Darris Nichols
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Lee Patton
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Kevin Pittsnogle
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Richard Raese
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Wil Robinson
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Lester Rowe
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Fred Schaus
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Charley Seabright
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Lloyd Sharrar
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Rod Thorn
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Russell Todd
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Jerry West
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Ron 'Fritz' Williams
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Mark Workman
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Frank Young
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Newton Grahm (Legandary Lincoln County Hoopster)
- March 2 , 1949 against Geneva in Morgantown, West Virginia with a 75-38 win when Fred Schaus scored 1000th career point.
- February 26 , 1951 at Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a 72-74 loss when the final basketball game played in Pitt Pavilion was held.
- February 9 , 1957 at Richmond in Richmond, Virginia with an 87-81 win when Rod Hundley scored 2000th career point.
- March 22 , 1959 California defeats West Virginia 71 to 70 for NCAA national title. Jerry West nearly wins the game with a last second shot from half court.
- February 11 , 1960 at St. John's in New York City with a 73-79 loss when Jerry West scored 2000th career point.
- February 7 , 1966 , West Virginia defeats #2 Duke 94-90 in Coach Bucky Waters most memorable win.
- January 14 , 1970 at Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a 67-66 Overtime win when a Pittsburgh fan threw a large dead fish onto the court after a technical foul against Pittsburgh.
- March 3 , 1970 against Pittsburgh in Morgantown, West Virginia with an 87-92 loss in the final game in Mountaineer Fieldhouse.
- February 19 , 1977 , West Virginia's 81-68 upset of the #17 Notre Dame Fighting Irish , who were led by Digger Phelps .
- March 2 , 1978 , West Virginia upset the #1-seed Rutgers 81-74 in Pittsburgh, with help from sophomore Lowes Moore.
- February 24 , 1982 , marked West Virginia's 82-77 win over Pitt in front of a school-record 16,704 fans.
- February 27 , 1983 , West Virginia defeated #1 UNLV at home, 87-78, in what is considered the greatest win in Mountaineer basketball history.
- March 9 , 1984 , West Virginia tallied a 67-65 win over #15 Temple in the semifinals of the Atlantic 10 tournament.
- December 12 , 1988 , West Virginia defeats the Pittsburgh Panthers in double-overtime, 84-81.
- December 9 , 1989 , 97-93 in favor of West Virginia against the Pittsburgh Panthers in an overtime classic.
- February 11 , 1998 , West Virginia's 80-62 win over #6 UConn .
- February 20 , 2001 , West Virginia walks away at WVU Coliseum with a double-overtime 107-100 win against Villanova .
- March 19 , 2005 in a 111-105 double overtime win against Wake Forest in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in Cleveland, Ohio .
- March 18 , 2006 , West Virginia defeats Northwestern State 67-54 in Kevin Pittsnogle , Mike Gansey , and the other seniors' last win as a Mountaineer. Five days later, in the Sweet 16 , the Mountaineers lost to #2-seed Texas , 74-71 on a buzzer beater three point shot.
- February 10 , 2007 , West Virginia defeated #2 UCLA 70-65 at the WVU Coliseum in front of a national television audience on CBS .
- March 29 , 2007 , West Virginia defeated Clemson 78-73 to win the University's second NIT Championship crown, the other in 1942. West Virginia was led by senior Frank Young's 24 points (6 of 7 for three pointers) and five rebounds and freshman De'Sean Butler's 20 points to win the championship.
:Playing Facility:
WVU Coliseum
:Head Coach: Mike Carey
:Most Victories: 26 in 1992
:NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4
:WNIT Appearances: 2
:Last NCAA Appearance: 2007
:All-Americans: 3
:Drafted Players: 2
:Players In The WNBA: 1
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Kittie Blakemore was the first women's basketball coach at WVU
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Rosemary Kosiorek member of the WVU Sports Hall of Fame
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Cathy Parson who was the first woman to be inducted in the WVU Sports Hall of Fame
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Georgann Wells who was the first woman to dunk in an NCAA Womens Basketball Game
:Head Coach: Jeff Huntoon
:NCAA Appearances: 2
:Last NCAA Appearance: 2004
:All-Americans: 2
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Carl Hatfield
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Mike Mosser
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Stan Romanoski who was one of the most successful coaches
See Also: West Virginia Mountaineers football
:Playing Facility:
WVU Coliseum
:Head Coach: Linda Burdette
:Most Victories: 26 in 1992
:NCAA Tournament Appearances: 3
:AIAW Appearances: 1
:Last NCAA Appearance: 2000
:All-Americans: 4
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Bill Bonsall first WVU gymnastic coach
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Shari Retton
:Playing Facility: WVU Shell Building
:Head Coach:
Marsha Beasley
:Most Victories: 19 in 1964
:NCAA Appearances: 24
:NCAA Team Championships: 13
:National Individual Champions: 20
:NCAA All-Americans: 65
:Olympians: 12
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Bruce Meredith
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Jack Writer
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Newton Grahm
:Playing Facility: Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium
:Head Coach: Marlon LeBlanc
:Most Victories: 15 in 2006
:NCAA Tournament Appearances: 9
:Last NCAA Appearance: 2006
:All-Americans: 5
:Mountaineer Professionals: 12
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Devon McTavish
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Nick Noble
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Joe Okhakhu
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Aaron Pitchkolan
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Jarrod Smith
:Playing Facility: Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium
:Head Coach: Nikki Izzo-Brown
:Most Victories: 18 in 2002
:NCAA Tournament Appearances: 7
:Last NCAA Appearance: 2006
:All-Americans: 3
:Academic All-American: 4
:Mountaineer Professionals: 2
:Playing Facility: WVU Natatorium
:Head Coach:
Sergio Lopez
:Most Victories: 13 in 2007
:Big East Conference Champions: 2007
:NCAA Qualifiers: 19
:NCAA All-Americans: 2
:Olympians: 1
:Playing Facility: WVU Natatorium
:Head Coach:
Sergio Lopez
:Most Victories: 9 in 1990
:NCAA Qualifiers: 14
:NCAA All-Americans: 4
:Olympians: 1
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Kim Kaufman
:Playing Facility: Mountaineer Tennis Courts
:Head Coach: Marc Walters
:Most Victories: 21 in 1990
:Head Coach: Jeff Huntoon
:Olympians: 2
:NCAA National Champions: 2
:NCAA All-Americans: 13
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Connie Ellerbe
:Playing Facility:
WVU Coliseum
:Head Coach: Veronica Hammersmith
:Most Victories: 35 in 1979
:NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
:Last NCAA Appearance: NA
:NIT Appearances: 1
:All-Americans: 0
:All-East: 2
:Playing Facility:
WVU Coliseum
:Head Coach: Craig Turnbull
:Most Victories: 14 in 1976 and 1990
:NCAA Individual Appearances: 67
:Best NCAA Finish: 6th in 1991
:All-Americans: 16
:National Champions: 3
:EWL Champions: 18
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Dominic Black
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Scott Collins
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Steve Harrick
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Floyd Schwartzwalder
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Greg Jones
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Vertus Jones
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Brandon Rader
: Matt Lebe
: Old Gold and Blue
: Hail West Virginia! (
Take Me Home, Country Roads is local song)
: Mountaineers
: The Mountaineer
: Mountaineer Marching Band, known as "The Pride of West Virginia." Well-known for their formation of the
West Virginia state outline.
