West Virginia Mountaineers

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Notre Dame enters the biggest game of the regular season with its two best players playing their best basketball. Skylar Diggins scored 28 points and Kayla McBride added 24 as the second-ranked Irish clinched a share of...

When his game is good, it resembles a guy whose face hasn’t seen a razor for weeks, who hasn’t showered for days and who just rolled around the yard in the rain. When his game isn’t in gear, he plays like someone who spends too much...

  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Darrell Hazell spent most of his coaching career telling others to "be great." Now he'll try to live up to that mantra in his new job at Purdue. On Friday, Boilermakers athletic director Morgan Burke hired the 48-...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The struggling Big East Conference came up short again in the latest round of expansion. The conference lost its fifth member in the past 18 months with Rutgers bolting for the Big Ten Tuesday. Now the league could lose...

Pittsburgh (4-4) at No. 4 Notre Dame (8-0) 3:30 p.m. (NBC) Line: Notre Dame by 16 1-2. Series Record: Notre Dame leads 46-20-1 WHAT'S AT STAKE The Fighting Irish are hoping to keep alive the chance of winning their first national championship since...

Breaking down the AP college football poll after Week 7 of the regular season. ___ MAKING A STATEMENT Don't get comfortable, Florida. Same goes for you, Kansas State. Notre Dame, too. For the second straight week, multiple top-five teams in The...

I wanted to wait a few days to see how I really felt about Notre Dame’s new association with the Atlantic Coast Conference. After all it really did come out of the blue, the Vatican and the CIA working together could not have kept the big news...

When the 2014-2015 Big East women's basketball season tips off, the league will boast 18 teams. Pittsburgh, Syracuse and West Virginia will be gone. Central Florida, Houston, Memphis, Southern Methodistand Temple will be on board. Planning ahead for an...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Fans wearing the blue and gold of the home team started heading up the aisles and for the exits at WVU Coliseum with 51.7 seconds still remaining in Wednesday's game. They had seen enough from a Notre Dame team that figured out yet...

SOUTH BEND -- Once sophomore guard Jerian Grant turned Purcell Pavilion into his personal high-wire showplace, a trip into the school history books was all but certain for the Notre Dame men's basketball team. For a good stretch of a dominant second...

SOUTH BEND -- On a night when the Notre Dame women's basketball team was looking to get its swagger back, it mattered more that the Irish worked up a sweat in dispatching pesky Providence, 66-47, Tuesday night in Big East Conference action. Skylar...

Binkies, blankets and bottles may have been of some solace the last time it was such a struggle for the Notre Dame men's basketball team. Winners of six consecutive Big East games since that long night up and down the New Jersey Turnpike 30 days ago, the...