MORGANTOWN — The final second ticked off the clock Sunday, as Madisen Smith spiked the ball into the WVU Coliseum floor. Over the course of 40 minutes, […]
Tag: WVU women's basketball
Madisen Smith, WVU’s defense lead Mountaineers to rout of TCU
MORGANTOWN — The self chats, Madisen Smith admits, happen after every rough shooting night. Over the course of five seasons and 127 games, maybe no one on […]
Oklahoma’s offense too much for WVU to handle in Big 12 opener
MORGANTOWN — It’s not exactly frowned upon or even some type of new concept in college basketball to have an offensive-driven team, yet it’s a topic of […]
Kylee Blacksten shows off all parts of her game in leading WVU past Appalachian State
MORGANTOWN — As another example of how wild life can be in college basketball and the transfer portal, we offer up this story on WVU’s Kylee Blacksten. […]
West Virginia’s defense powers Mountaineers past Winthrop
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia has found a saving grace in its pressure defense. The rest, according to head coach Dawn Plitzuweit, is still a work in progress. […]
WVU defense leads the way, forces 41 turnovers in opening win against USC Upstate
MORGANTOWN — If nothing else, West Virginia’s pressure man-to-man defense made a good first impression. In her first regular season game as the Mountaineers’ head coach, Dawn […]
WVU, Dawn Plitzuweit roll in debut exhibition against Fairmont State
MORGANTOWN — Dawn Plitzuweit went to make a left turn into the WVU Coliseum on Sunday and sort of got a welcome-to-Morgantown moment. “I came two hours […]
Dawn Plitzuweit’s style is to have WVU play fast, be versatile
MORGANTOWN — The uniqueness to the style of play Dawn Plitzuweit wants to bring to the WVU women’s basketball team, she admits, is actually bits and pieces […]
Plitzuweit wastes no time in making connections with West Virginia and her team
MORGANTOWN — Dawn Plitzuweit knows she wasn’t brought to West Virginia to tear down foundations and rebuild. She knows she wasn’t brought to Morgantown to put WVU […]
Women belong in sports — and in coaching positions
Of the 16 teams under the West Virginia University athletics umbrella, there were only two female head coaches: Nikki Izzo-Brown, who heads the women’s soccer team, and […]
