The men's soccer team hosts Wright State today (Sept. 1) at 7 p.m. in the home opener at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. In support of Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, WVU coach Marlon LeBlanc will donate $1 for every fan in attendance Friday night. Fans will be able to donate money at the match to help the relief efforts, and the Mountaineer Maniacs will match LeBlanc's donation to Houston.
Athletics
WVU will open the regular season on Friday, Nov. 10 in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, against Texas A&M in the Armed Forces Classic on ESPN, marking the first college basketball game of the season. In the Big 12/SEC Challenge, Kentucky will make just its third visit to Morgantown and first since 1970, while Virginia will make its first visit to the WVU Coliseum since 1985.
The reigning Big 12 Conference Tournament champion Mountaineers will play 16 regular-season games inside the WVU Coliseum in addition to a hosting a December matchup in Charleston. They will hit the road for four non-conference tilts, including a tournament in the Caribbean, before embarking on a conference slate that features nine road contests.
Beginning tonight (Sept. 1), WVU's home schedule is highlighted by three dollar days, giveaway items that include t-shirts, soccer balls and texting gloves and theme days such as Military and First Responder Night, Youth Soccer Day and Social Media Night.
The network will continue its commitment to Wild & Wonderful Sports® coverage this fall with an extensive schedule of West Virginia football and basketball games plus ancillary programming.
Two nationally ranked football teams, two head football coaches with Southwestern football backgrounds, two new starting quarterbacks and a pair of attacking defenses provide interesting sub plots to the revival of the West Virginia-Virginia Tech series taking place Sunday night at FedExField in Landover, Maryland.