WVU Basketball
Timeline of Chaotic Calendar Year for WVU Basketball
WVU Basketball has had quite the last calendar year of good news and bad news, a rollercoaster as Josh Eilert called it on Tuesday. With West Virginia moving on from Eilert and conducting a national search, let’s see how we got here.
3/2/23: Manhattan transfer Omar Silverio commits to WVU
3/16/23: West Virginia falls to Maryland in first round of NCAA Tournament
3/20/23: WVU F Jamel King enters transfer portal
3/24/23: WVU G Josiah Davis enters transfer portal
4/2/23: Jose Perez opts-in for fifth season, returning to West Virginia
4/5/23: Arizona transfer Kerr Kriisa commits to WVU
4/7/23: Joe Toussaint opts-in for fifth season, returning to West Virginia
4/12/23: Tre Mitchell opts-in for fifth season, returning to West Virginia
4/16/23: Syracuse transfer Jesse Edwards commits to WVU
4/26/23: Montana State transfer RaeQuan Battle commits to WVU
4/28/23: WVU C Jimmy Bell enters transfer portal
5/8/23: Bob Huggins says anti-gay slur on Cincinnati radio show
5/10/23: Bob Huggins suspended for three games, contract reduced by $1 million
5/28/23: WVU still recruiting transfer portal, hosts Tennessee transfer Olivier Nkamhoua and others
6/16/23: Bob Huggins arrested in Pittsburgh for driving under the influence
6/17/23: Bob Huggins resigns as head coach
6/22/23: WVU F Tre Mitchell enters transfer portal
6/23/23: WVU G Kerr Kriisa re-enters transfer portal
6/23/23: WVU G Joe Toussaint enters transfer portal
6/24/23: West Virginia University promotes then-assistant Josh Eilert to interim HC
6/25/23: Kerr Kriisa exits transfer portal, committing to Josh Eilert
6/26/23: WVU F Mohamed Wague enters transfer portal
6/26/23: WVU F James Okonkwo enters transfer portal
7/2/23: Josh Eilert announces new assistants Da’Sean Butler, Alex Ruoff and Jordan McCabe
7/5/23: WVU G Jose Perez re-enters transfer portal
7/9/23: Florida State transfer Jeremiah Bembry commits to WVU
7/20/23: Iona/St. John’s transfer Quinn Slazinski commits to WVU
7/22/23: Jose Perez exits transfer portal, returning to West Virginia
7/28/23: Ofri Naveh commits to WVU from the 2023 class
8/10/23: WVU G Omar Silverio’s transfer waiver denied by NCAA
8/11/23: Georgetown transfer Akok Akok commits to WVU
8/17/23: Eastern Michigan transfer Noah Farrakhan commits to WVU
9/30/23: Jose Perez and WVU part ways, Perez re-enters transfer portal
10/23/23: WVU G RaeQuan Battle’s transfer waiver denied by NCAA
10/27/23: WVU F Akok Akok collapses on floor in exhibition game, out with medical issue
10/31/23: WVU G Kerr Kriisa suspended nine games for receiving impermissible benefits while at Arizona
11/2/23: 2024 G Carmelo Adkins commits to WVU
11/6/23: West Virginia begins regular season with eight scholarship players available
11/10/23: WVU loses buy game to Monmouth, 73-65
11/21/23: WVU G RaeQuan Battle’s transfer waiver appeal denied by NCAA
12/6/23: Akok Akok returns to floor, makes WVU debut
12/6/23: West Virginia loses to Pitt in the Backyard Brawl for the first time since 2012
12/13/23: RaeQuan Battle takes stand in court for multi-time transfers vs. NCAA
12/13/23: Judge John P. Bailey issues temporary restraining order against NCAA’s transfer eligibility rules, RaeQuan Battle and Noah Farrakhan are now eligible to play
12/16/23: Kerr Kriisa and Noah Farrakhan make West Virginia debut
12/16/23: WVU C Jesse Edwards fractures right wrist vs. UMass
12/20/23: RaeQuan Battle makes West Virginia debut
12/20/23: WVU loses buy game to Radford with last-second shot
1/13/24: WVU upsets then-No. 25 Texas, 76-73
1/20/24: WVU upsets then-No. 3 Kansas, 91-85
1/27/24: Jesse Edwards returns from injury off the bench vs. Oklahoma State
3/9/24: West Virginia loses to Cincinnati for 22nd loss, most in single season in program history
3/12/24: Cincinnati ends WVU’s season in opening round of Big 12 tournament
3/13/24: WVU AD Wren Baker announces national search for new head coach, moving on from interim Josh Eilert
3/24/24: WVU selects Drake’s Darian DeVries as next head coach
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