July 31 — The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced the 2024-25 men’s basketball nonconference schedule.
The non-conference schedule will feature eight games at the WVU Coliseum.
Coach Darian DeVries’ first official game at WVU will be at home on Monday, November 4 against Robert Morris. West Virginia and Robert Morris will meet for the 22nd time in school history, with the Mountaineers leading the all-time series 19-2. The two teams last met on December 7, 2010, an 82-49 Mountaineer victory at the Coliseum.
The Mountaineers will host UMass on Friday, November 8th. WVU and UMass, former Atlantic 10 rivals, will meet for the 43rd time in school history. It will be UMass’ first appearance in Morgantown since 2007, when WVU defeated the Minutemen in the NIT 90-77.
WVU will travel to Pitt for the Backyard Brawl on Friday, November 15th. The two teams will meet for the 191st time, with WVU winning the last six of the last seven meetings.
West Virginia will host Iona on Wednesday, November 20th. It will be WVU’s first meeting against the Gaels.
The Mountaineers will play three games at Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas, Nov. 27-29. The rest of that field includes Arizona, Davidson, Gonzaga, Indiana, Louisville, Oklahoma and Providence.
West Virginia and Georgetown will meet at the Coliseum on Friday, December 6 in the Big 12-Big East Battle. The former Big East foes will meet for the 54th time in school history. It will be Georgetown’s first appearance in Morgantown since a 74-62 loss on Jan. 7, 2012.
The Mountaineers will continue their four-game homestand on Tuesday, Dec. 10, when WVU and North Carolina Central meet for the first time in school history. WVU and Bethune-Cookman will meet for the second time in school history on Saturday, December 14. West Virginia will close out non-conference play in the first meeting against Mercyhurst on Sunday, December 22.
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WVU will play an exhibition game against the University of Charleston on Friday, Oct. 18, at the Coliseum. Charleston is coached by former Mountaineer basketball player James Long.
The Big 12 Conference’s 20-game schedule is scheduled to begin in late December or January first. The conference schedule will be announced in September. In conference play, the Mountaineers will host Arizona, Arizona State, UCF, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, TCU and Utah.
