Mountain East Conference basketball tournament fields set
By From staff reports Seeding and pairings are set for this week's Mountain East Conference basketball tournaments at the Charleston Civic Center. On the men's side, West Liberty and Wheeling Jesuit,...
View ArticleMEC tourney gives teams new lease on life
By Derek Redd As good or bad as the 2015-16 season has gone for the Mountain East Conference's men's and women's basketball teams, the chance to wipe the slate clean begins Tuesday. The MEC's 12 men's...
View ArticleMEC tournament's first round tips off today
By Derek Redd The University of Charleston men's basketball team is marching into today's first round of the Mountain East Conference tournament. West Virginia State's gait has a noticeable limp. The...
View ArticleYellow Jackets begin defense of MEC baseball title
By Derek Redd West Virginia State baseball coach Sean Loyd has been able to consolidate the hats he has worn in Institute down to one, that of the Yellow Jackets' skipper. Loyd had been the...
View ArticleUC women top Shepherd, advance to MEC quarterfinals
By Derek Redd The University of Charleston women's basketball team's seasons of ups, downs, bumps, bruises, injury and adversity still led to a spot in the Mountain East Conference quarterfinals. The...
View ArticleUC men get past Urbana to reach MEC quarters; State ousted
By Derek Redd The University of Charleston men's basketball team got a taste of the unpredictability of the Mountain East Conference tournament Tuesday night. The Golden Eagles, the tournament's fifth...
View ArticleMEC basketball tournament a star-studded affair
By Derek Redd Jarrod Calhoun oversees the No. 5 men's basketball team in the NCAA's Division II. The only three losses on Fairmont State's schedule this season came at the hands of teams seated higher...
View ArticleUC women fall to Wheeling Jesuit in MEC quarterfinals
By Derek Redd Entering Thursday's Mountain East Conference women's basketball tournament quarterfinals, University of Charleston coach Adam Collins predicted at least one lower seed would pull off an...
View ArticleNotre Dame cruises past Urbana into MEC women's semis
By Tom Bragg March is often thought of as the time of year when "drama" and "college basketball" are synonomous. In Thursday's Mountain East Conference women's quarterfinal between third-seeded Notre...
View ArticleNo. 17 West Liberty cruises past UVa-Wise in MEC women's tourney
By Derek Redd West Liberty women's basketball coach Lynn Ullom wasn't looking for anything flashy in his Hilltoppers' Mountain East Conference tournament quarterfinal matchup against the University of...
View ArticleFairmont State women stifle Glenville, advance to MEC women's semis
By Chuck McGill Glenville State entered Thursday's Mountain East Conference tournament quarterfinals as the league's top scoring team. Fairmont State found a way to stop the Pioneers from scoring...
View ArticleWheeling Jesuit cruises past Wesleyan in Mountain East quarterfinals
By Derek Redd It was a long wait for the Wheeling Jesuit men's basketball team to erase the sting of a regular season-ending loss to West Liberty. It only took about five minutes for the Cardinals to...
View ArticleNotre Dame College upsets Fairmont State men in MEC quarterfinal
By Tom Bragg The Mountain East Conference men's basketball tournament's 2016 edition got its first major upset Friday. Kyauta Taylor made two foul shots with 6.5 seconds to play as sixth-seeded Notre...
View ArticleRoundup: UC baseball falls to Alderson Broaddus
By From staff reports The University of Charleston saw an early lead slip away and a late rally thwarted in dropping a 7-5 home decision to Alderson Broaddus in college baseball Friday. UC (2-5)...
View ArticleSmith out as WVSU women's basketball coach
By Derek Redd After four seasons at the helm of the West Virginia State women's basketball program, David Smith was out of that role Friday. WVSU interim athletic director Nate Burton said he met with...
View ArticleNo. 1 West Liberty survives against Glenville in MEC quarterfinals
By Chuck McGill Seger Bonifant, the Mountain East Conference's Player of the Year, sat on the bench for three minutes and 42 seconds midway through Friday's second half. The 6-foot-7 senior was...
View ArticleConcord overpowers Charleston to reach Mountain East semifinals
By Derek Redd The Concord men's basketball team's performance Friday on the Charleston Civic Center floor against the University of Charleston was much different than the one it gave last week. That...
View ArticleBalanced scoring carries Wheeling Jesuit to MEC women's title game
By Tom Bragg Notre Dame College fought back from big deficits multiple times Saturday in the Mountain East Conference women's basketball semifinals against Wheeling Jesuit, but in the end the...
View ArticleFlowers leads West Liberty women to MEC title game
By Derek Redd With more than 2,000 points in her West Liberty women's basketball career, senior guard Liz Flowers obviously knows how to score. The Hilltoppers needed - and got - that talent Saturday...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Reed's story one of most compelling in Civic Center history
The finest 3-point shooter in NCAA history was in Charleston Saturday night. West Liberty's Seger Bonifant has hit 359 of 679 treys in his career for a stunning 52.9 percent conversion rate. Stephen...
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