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By COLBY McCARREN Athenaeum Sports Staff The 2000 football campaign for the West Virginia Mountaineers
is one that will not be forgotten anytime soon. It was a season that saw
one of the true legends in coaching step down and the 16-year bowl curse
lifted. A season that saw the legendary Fighting Irish of Notre Dame pay
a visit to Morgantown for the first time ever, as well as the first visit
from the less than legendary Idaho Vandals.
Basketball team makes a return to postseason By MATT GATEWOOD Athenaeum Sports Staff In a year that marked a return to the Coliseum, the WVU
men’s basketball team nearly made it to the NCAA Tournament for the first
time since 1997-98. The Mountaineers (17-12, 8-9) were considered to be
on the selection committee’s bubble until the squad dropped their last
two games of the regular season and bowed out of the Big East Tournament
in the first round.
Men and women’s soccer: a tale of two seasons By GEOFF POPE and KELLY CARR Athenaeum Sports Staff After shaking up the Big East men’s soccer league in 1999
by ending the season third with an 8-2-1 conference mark and a 13-5-1 overall
record, the 2000 preseason coach’s poll predicted West Virginia would finish
fifth, its highest ranking in the poll since joining the league.
By RONTINA MCCANN Athenaeum Sports Staff Leaning back in the rolling chair in his makeshift office,
three-time letterman at defensive back for the Mountaineers Rich Rodriguez
explained what’s been going on in his life the past four months and what
is going to happen in coming months.
By KELLY CARR Athenaeum Sports Staff Women’s head basketball coach Alexis Basil had one more
chance to achieve a goal she had been promising for four years.
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