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Mountaineer Men and Women to Perform Publicly on Sunday at Hope Coliseum
October 24, 2025 03:00 PM | Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University basketball fans will get their first opportunity to watch the men's and women's teams in person on Sunday at Hope Coliseum.
First-year coach Ross Hodge's men's squad will take on Wheeling University in an exhibition game set to tip off at 4 p.m. and to be televised on ESPN+ (Andrew Caridi, Warren Baker and Amanda Mazey).
Mountaineer Sports Network from Learfield radio coverage with Tony Caridi and Brad Howe will also be available on network stations throughout West Virginia, online via WVUsports.com, and on the Varsity Network and WVU Gameday apps.
Tickets for the men's exhibition game are priced at $10 and are also part of the regular season ticket package still available for sale through the Mountaineer Ticket Office by logging on to WVUGAME.com.
The men, who defeated Maryland during last Saturday's closed scrimmage in Morgantown, took part in Wednesday's Big 12 Media Day at the T-Mobile Center in downtown Kansas City.
Joining Hodge in Kansas City were senior players Honor Huff, Jasper Floyd and Brenen Lorient.
Last week, West Virginia was predicted to finish 11th in the Big 12 preseason media poll announced by the conference, picked ahead of Oklahoma State, Utah, UCF, Colorado and Arizona State.
USA Network, in its preseason Big 12 predictions revealed Thursday, had West Virginia one spot lower, selecting the Cowboys ahead of the Mountaineers.
The 45th edition of the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, considered the bible of men's college basketball, is now available and had this to say about a Mountaineer men's program that has had four different coaches in the last four years:
"This will be an interesting season in Morgantown, as Hodge tries to replicate the type of play he was able to implement at North Texas. If WVU can stay healthy, it should be competitive in most games, but Floyd, (Treysen) Eaglestaff, (Chance) Moore and Lorient must produce consistently for that to happen. Hodge was a good hire. He may need some time to get West Virginia into the upper echelon of the Big 12," according to Blue Ribbon correspondent Michael Bradley.
Meanwhile, coach Mark Kellogg's Mountaineer women's team will battle Fairmont State immediately after the men's contest in the nightcap. There will be no streaming or live radio coverage for the contest.
The women, too, were in Kansas City earlier this week to take part in Big 12 media day activities at the T-Mobile Center. Kellogg, returning players Jordan Harrison and Sydney Shaw, and touted Norfolk State transfer Kierra Wheeler represented WVU.
"Sustained success is something we talk about, and something I've talked about throughout my whole coaching career," Kellogg said on Tuesday. "I think in college athletics it can get very cyclical. You have an older group and maybe they graduate, and you take a few years off to kind of regroup and get back up there, and we've never wanted that to be a part of our program."
The women were predicted to finish fifth in the Big 12 Preseason coaches' poll behind only TCU, Iowa State, Baylor and Oklahoma State. The Mountaineers, 50-16 over the last two seasons under Kellogg, finished just outside the recently released preseason Associated Press and USA Today coaches' polls.
The men will tip off regular season play at Hope Coliseum on Tuesday, Nov. 4, against Mount St. Mary's, while the women's regular season gets underway in Morgantown a day earlier on Monday, Nov. 3, against Purdue Fort Wayne.
First-year coach Ross Hodge's men's squad will take on Wheeling University in an exhibition game set to tip off at 4 p.m. and to be televised on ESPN+ (Andrew Caridi, Warren Baker and Amanda Mazey).
Mountaineer Sports Network from Learfield radio coverage with Tony Caridi and Brad Howe will also be available on network stations throughout West Virginia, online via WVUsports.com, and on the Varsity Network and WVU Gameday apps.
Tickets for the men's exhibition game are priced at $10 and are also part of the regular season ticket package still available for sale through the Mountaineer Ticket Office by logging on to WVUGAME.com.
The men, who defeated Maryland during last Saturday's closed scrimmage in Morgantown, took part in Wednesday's Big 12 Media Day at the T-Mobile Center in downtown Kansas City.
Joining Hodge in Kansas City were senior players Honor Huff, Jasper Floyd and Brenen Lorient.
Last week, West Virginia was predicted to finish 11th in the Big 12 preseason media poll announced by the conference, picked ahead of Oklahoma State, Utah, UCF, Colorado and Arizona State.
USA Network, in its preseason Big 12 predictions revealed Thursday, had West Virginia one spot lower, selecting the Cowboys ahead of the Mountaineers.
The 45th edition of the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, considered the bible of men's college basketball, is now available and had this to say about a Mountaineer men's program that has had four different coaches in the last four years:
"This will be an interesting season in Morgantown, as Hodge tries to replicate the type of play he was able to implement at North Texas. If WVU can stay healthy, it should be competitive in most games, but Floyd, (Treysen) Eaglestaff, (Chance) Moore and Lorient must produce consistently for that to happen. Hodge was a good hire. He may need some time to get West Virginia into the upper echelon of the Big 12," according to Blue Ribbon correspondent Michael Bradley.
Meanwhile, coach Mark Kellogg's Mountaineer women's team will battle Fairmont State immediately after the men's contest in the nightcap. There will be no streaming or live radio coverage for the contest.
The women, too, were in Kansas City earlier this week to take part in Big 12 media day activities at the T-Mobile Center. Kellogg, returning players Jordan Harrison and Sydney Shaw, and touted Norfolk State transfer Kierra Wheeler represented WVU.
"Sustained success is something we talk about, and something I've talked about throughout my whole coaching career," Kellogg said on Tuesday. "I think in college athletics it can get very cyclical. You have an older group and maybe they graduate, and you take a few years off to kind of regroup and get back up there, and we've never wanted that to be a part of our program."
The women were predicted to finish fifth in the Big 12 Preseason coaches' poll behind only TCU, Iowa State, Baylor and Oklahoma State. The Mountaineers, 50-16 over the last two seasons under Kellogg, finished just outside the recently released preseason Associated Press and USA Today coaches' polls.
The men will tip off regular season play at Hope Coliseum on Tuesday, Nov. 4, against Mount St. Mary's, while the women's regular season gets underway in Morgantown a day earlier on Monday, Nov. 3, against Purdue Fort Wayne.
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