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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (Sept. 27, 2024) – The Mountaineer Ticket Office has announced a special WVU football bye week ticket offer that will be available Friday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Sept. 29.


All tickets in select upper-level and end zone sections for the Iowa State, Baylor and UCF home games are available for $10 off the current price. Fans interested in this special, limited-time offer can CLICK HERE to purchase.

Single-game tickets for all available inventory of WVU's remaining home games, including the Kansas State Homecoming game, are on sale at WVUGAME.com or by calling 1-800-WVU GAME.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (Oct. 3, 2024) – Senior guard JJ Quinerly of the West Virginia University women's basketball team has earned a spot on the 2024-25 Preseason All-Big 12 Team, as one of three unanimous selections, the conference announced Thursday.



Additionally, the Mountaineers we selected to finish fifth and received one first place vote in the preseason poll. League coaches voted on the awards and poll and were not allowed to vote for their own team.



The Preseason All-Big 12 selection is the second of Quinerly’s career. Last year she was also named to the preseason team before collecting her second straight first team all-conference and defensive team honor at the conclusion of the regular season.



During her junior campaign, Quinerly broke onto the national scene earning honorable mention All-American honors and becoming an Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard of the Year Finalist, a Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Semifinalist Player and to the WBCA Player of the Year Watchlist.



Additionally, Quinerly racked up a career-high 19.8 points per game while adding 97 steals. She finished with 20 or more points in a game 16 times and hit double figures in 32 games.



A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Quinerly has averaged 14.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.4 steals per game for her career. Her steals per game ranks inside the program's top 10 at No. 7 and her 231 total steals are No. 8.



Quinerly became the fourth Mountaineer to be named to the league's All-Freshman Team three seasons ago, joining Bria Holmes (2013), Tynice Martin (2016) and Madisen Smith (2019).



K-State was selected as the favorite in the league’s preseason poll for the first time in program history while Ayoka Lee is the Conference’s Preseason Player of the Year. Lee and Iowa State’s Audi Crooks join Quinerly as unanimous selections to the team.



2024-25 league action is set to commence Saturday, Dec. 21 as this year marks the Conference’s first with 16 members. The regular season will be followed by the 2025 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship, which will take place in Kansas City’s T-Mobile Center for the second consecutive season.



The current league members combined to go 8-0 in their first game of the 2024 NCAA Tournament while 15 of the 16 teams finished the 2023-24 season in the top 101 of the NET rankings. Four Big 12 teams are ranked in the top 16 of ESPN’s Women’s Basketball Way-Too-Early Top 25, tied for the most of any league.



2024-25 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Preseason Honors



Preseason Team:

Sarah Andrews, Baylor

Aaronette Vonleh, Baylor

Kaitlin Peterson, UCF

Audi Crooks, Iowa State*

S'Mya Nichols, Kansas

Ayoka Lee, K-State*

Serena Sundell, K-State

Hailey Van Lith, TCU

Gianna Kneepkens, Utah

JJ Quinerly, West Virginia*

*Indicates unanimous selection



Preseason Player of the Year

Ayoka Lee, K-State



Preseason Co-Newcomers of the Year

Aaronette Vonleh, Baylor

Hailey Van Lith, TCU



Preseason Freshman of the Year

Tabitha Betson, Colorado



2024-25 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Preseason Poll

1. K-State (7), 211 points
2. Iowa State (6), 209 points
3. Baylor (2), 194 points
4. TCU, 185 points
5. West Virginia (1), 184 points
6. Utah, 149 points
7. Arizona, 136 points
8. Kansas, 128 points
9. Colorado, 113 points
10. Texas Tech, 84 points
11. Oklahoma State, 80 points
12. BYU, 59 points
13. Cincinnati, 56 points
14. UCF, 54 points
15. Arizona State, 51 points
16. Houston, 27 points

(first-place votes)

Figured it deserved its own thread. My gosh how are they that bad!? He has to get fired right?

--Lot of good developmental work with the younger players and they got four good scrimmages in. Offensive lineman of the week for the developmental guys was Johnny Williams. Jacob Boyce is going to play himself into the rotation and he fit runs well and was defensive player of the week. Diore Hubbard was the offensive player of the week.

--TJ Crandall is questionable but everybody else will be up and ready to go.

--Oklahoma State is one of the toughest places to play in the league. Ollie Gordon is a special player and Alan Bowman has great stats and they have real speed at wide receiver. A couple guys will really go. Their nose guard is really good and their linebacker is as good as anybody in the league. Their safety is making good fits and stands out on film. It's going to come down to turnovers, who scores in the red zone and all that.

--What are their tendencies through four games and where are they being exploited is something that they do during bye weeks. Where are they not getting production and who can help them that's not playing right now. They did a lot of good on good work and self scouting.

--Brown said it really comes down to injuries. The guys that played through the first four games give them the best opportunity but they need guys that are ready to go. Boyce at safety is a guy that is going to play at safety. Diore Hubbard established himself and is a guy that an make plays. On the defensive line, Elijah Kinsler has done some nice things and he is the next guy up. DayDay Farmer is the next guy up at wide receiver and made some plays this week.

--Missed opportunities for Oklahoma State against Kansas State. They missed a field goal, they turned the ball over in the red zone and both of those opportunities it was close or they were ahead. That's a tough venue and the thing too is they're coming into this game off two losses. They had two losses last year early, too. They've dealt with adversity and came back before and Brown expects to get their best.

--Brown said he tries not to put former players in a bad situation like Jaden Bray who moved on from Oklahoma State. He doesn't want to put any pressure on him than he feels.

--Reid Carrcio will play, but Justin Robinson it will depend on practice. Preston Fox he will play and he practiced last night.

--Oklahoma State is an experienced staff and has proven that they can get their team back from losses.

--In football it's easy because you only play once a week, but Brown doesn't believe that there's real momentum from game to game but they can get confidence from it.

--The Oklahoma State corners are big strong guys that can play man coverage. They are physical within that.

--College football has a lot of issues off the field, but the product on the field is not one of them. The Alabama and Georgia game is an example of that. It's entertaining and Brown felt like Georgia was going to make a run. Kirby Smart did a really good job of handling the flow of the game and his confidence never wavered.

--Big long defensive ends and they run well. The stats are a little deceiving because of who they played. They always get take aways on defense and always getting stops in the red zone.

--Thought have to navigate NIL the best way you see fit. Brown feels comfortable with the processes here on that front.

--Ollie Gordon played well early in the game against Kansas State. They did some really nice things defensively but they missed some tackles on third down and in the fourth quarter West Virginia was trying to force the issue. Two of the runs by Gordon was against split zone and they didn't fit it well. They have to make sure they get multiple hats to the ball.

--Burks has played a lot of football and played his best game against Kansas.

--West Virginia has had most of the guys committed in the class so the earlier signing day hasn't changed a ton being moved to December. But the biggest thing holding over is what the rules are going to be.

--It doesn't do any good to look at the schedule they have one game a week and they need to compete and try to win the game then focus on the next week.

--Bowman is sneaky and they have hurt some people with the quarterback draw. The thing he does that's unique is he gets the ball out of his hands fast, that's more of a credit to him than the offensive line they've given up one sack all year. He gets the ball out of his hand and makes it difficult to get to him.

--Oklahoma State runs a lot of RPO. A lot of those plays when you throw it is you give up a lot of explosive passes. They're going to RPO a lot of runs to fit the seventh or eighth fitter. They've been throwing a lot of glances and slants to the deep part of the field. You have to be careful to try to entice him to throw.

--Brown said you have to play them trying to figure out how to contain Ollie Gordon and then everything in the game plan feeds off that. They have to figure out how to affect him.

what interim coach could we get that would do better? Unless you have a superstar number 2, that's almost an impossible situation in mid season.
A better scenario would be to fire our secondary coach and overpay someone to come in a fix it. I'm not sure who would be available, but I'd throw the bank at him.

And for those of you who have closely watched this defensive secondary, is it mostly schemes and coaching or is it our personnel that allow receivers to run wide open?
If we could magically fix that, we'd be able to stand toe to toe with teams in this Big12. I think we still have to get rid of Brown, but how do we salvage this year without going 4-8?

The fans at Wake f'ing Forest want him gone. To quote Phil Martelli, speaking about Ohio U. firing Larry Hunter about 10-15 years ago: You're Ohio U./Wake Forest. Who the f--k do you think you are?

Some of these posts are priceless:

https://athlonsports.com/college/wa...-to-dismiss-head-coach-following-week-5-upset

Haha!!! 😆 Of course Arizona is going to blitzkrieg our secondary. 😱

Probably not his fault since the tackle always taps him.


…maybe.