The Mountaineers will play 13 non-conference contests, including
four games in the Las Vegas Invitational. As part of the Las Vegas
Invitational, West Virginia will play Longwood at home and Delaware
State in Charleston before traveling to Las Vegas to play two games
against either Iowa, Kansas State or Kentucky.
West Virginia will open the regular season Nov. 15 at home
against Elon and will also play Longwood, Cleveland State, Miami
University and Radford at the WVU Coliseum.
WVU will play road games at Mississippi, Duquesne and Ohio State. The Mountaineers will play two games in Charleston – Delaware
State and Marshall. One additional non-conference game will be confirmed
at a later date. Memphis is one possibility for the final out of conference contest.
In 2009-10, Mississippi and Ohio State will return the games to
Morgantown.
“We are striving for a more competitive non-conference
schedule,” says head coach Bob Huggins. “We believe our schedule has
enough balance to prepare us for a tough Big East schedule.”
The Big East portion of the schedule will be announced in September. WVU is again expected to have home and home games with Pittsburgh and Cincinnati as part of the Big East schedule.
2008-09 WVU Basketball Schedule