The women’s basketball team overcame improbable odds to defeat top-seeded and No. 2 nationally-ranked Baylor 77-66 to hoist the program’s first Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship trophy Monday night (March 6) at Chesapeake Energy Arena. The team is expected to return to Clarksburg around 2 p.m. today (March 7), arriving in Morgantown around 2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
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Relentless effort and a 29-point performance from sophomore Tynice Martin propelled the sixth-seeded West Virginia University women’s basketball team to a 62-59 upset victory over No. 2-seed Texas to advance to the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship final on Monday.
The pairings are set and every team in the conference is ready to head to Kansas City for the 2017 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men’s Basketball Championship.
Spencer, West Virginia, native Dylan Cottrell became the first ever West Virginia University wrestler to win a Big 12 title, as he defeated Oklahoma State’s Chandler Rogers in the 165-pound finals of the 2017 Big 12 Wrestling Championship at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sunday.
Men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins has been named one of 10 national semifinalists for the 2017 Werner Ladder Naismith Men’s College Coach of the Year. The four finalists will be announced on March 16.
Former West Virginia University women’s basketball standout Bria Holmes was named the Connecticut Sports Writers’ Hank O’Donnell Female Athlete of the Year.