A football season to remember in 2000
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.
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Remembering four years with the Mountaineers

Michael Pehanich’s
Point of View
A search through the West Virginia archives jogged a few memories.  Here’s hoping those of you that have been here the last four years can remember too.
 
 
 
 

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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.
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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.
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Rodriguez steps in as the new WVU football coach 
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.
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Women suffer disappointing season 
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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