– If there were any nerves about hosting the NCAA tournament for the first time in 34 years, the 11th-ranked WVU women’s basketball team forgot to show it Saturday ... “I thought we settled in pretty quickly,” WVU head coach Mark Kellogg said.
CHICAGO (AP) — Nick Kurtz and DrakeBaldwin made a smooth transition to the major leagues last season. Kurtz was rewarded with the AL Rookie of the Year award, and Baldwin took home the NL honor ... PIRATES, KONNOR GRIFFIN ... BLUE JAYS, TREY YESAVAGE ... .
The Mountaineers’ program was just 15 years old when Kosiorek – now RosemaryMeyer – first walked onto WVU’s campus in the fall of 1988... 11 in the national rankings, and WVU hosted the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament.
RossHodge became the fifth first-year men’s basketball coach at WVU to lead the Mountaineers to a postseason tournament on Monday ... The WVU-Stanford winner will face the winner of Rutgers-Creighton in the tournament’s semifinals.