Sports - January 09 2006 Charleston Area

‘March’ play helps WVU shock ’Nova

VILLANOVA, Pa. — The calendar may say it’s January, but to West Virginia’s basketball team it sure is beginning to feel a lot like March. March of last year, that is.

Doug Smock: Mark it down: Marshall will finish eighth

WITH THE latest-starting league season in America ready to begin in the new Conference USA, I have a confession.

WVU ‘made intelligent plays...executed better’

Notebook

VILLANOVA — Jay Wright wasn’t about to make any excuses, not that there were any that would have seemed plausible.

Norman Chad

Married life taking its toll on Tiger Woods

TIGER WOODS did not play in the PGA Tour’s season-opening Mercedes Championship over the weekend. Why? He’s, uh, tired.

Roundup: Herd women hold off UAB

Marshall recruit killed in automobile crash

Marshall University football recruit David Gibson was killed Saturday night in an automobile accident near Atlanta.

West Virginia boxscore

West Virginia 91, Villanova 87 One for the resume The Mountaineers' 91-87, come-from-behind win against No. 3 Villanova at the noisy, soldout Pavilion will look mighty good to their prospective employer, a.k.a., the NCAA Tournament selection committee Gansey knew what to expect West Virginia forward used knowledge gained from Villanova coach to his advantage Sunday Making their marks Kanawha County stars are playing big roles for the nation's premier programs, Connecticut and Tennessee Hornbuckle shines, Montgomery struggles in matchup The parents knew what to expect before their daughters, Tennessee's Alexis Hornbuckle and Connecticut's Renee Montgomery, stepped onto the basketball court here Marshall recruit dies in accident David Gibson was in en route to Huntington to enroll at Marshall and join Herd football team Marshall plays to its opponents' abilities Herd gives No. 20 George Washington a scare Top of the Second Gwaltney headed to Nassau, coach confirms