WVU Basketball Series Against ACC School Becomes Official

As previously reported earlier in the month, a new two-game series between WVU and Wake Forest has been officially announced.

This two-year series will be part of the Holiday Hoopfest presented by the Charleston, West Virginia Convention & Visitors Bureau and will start in 2025 in Charleston, W.Va. and then pivot to Greensboro, N.C. for the 2026-27 season.

Excited to be part of @holihoopfest with a two-game, neutral site series with Wake Forest beginning on Dec. 6 in Charleston‼️

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— WVU Men's Basketball (@WVUhoops) July 16, 2025

This provides WVU an opportunity to face a fellow Power Four program in addition to the Big 12 schedule and in-season tournaments. It also will offer a chance for fans outside of Morgantown to see the Mountaineers up close, at least that’s the expectation depending on where the game in West Virginia ends up being scheduled.

The series tipping off in West Virginia also adds a sense of WVU being viewed as the higher profile program, which is the case historically.

As far as some notable parts of the rest of the schedule, the Mountaineers will face UCF, Cincinnati, and Kansas State twice in Big 12 play, both at home and on the road.

They will host Baylor, BYU, Colorado, Kansas, Texas Tech and Utah at the WVU Coliseum. The Mountaineers will travel to face Arizona, Arizona State, Houston, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and TCU. Dates and times for each matchup have yet to be announced.

The 2025-26 season will mark the first for Ross Hodge. The Mountaineers missed the NCAA Tournament last season despite ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi listing them as a lock heading into the conference tournament. They last made the Big Dance in 2023 under Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Huggins.

College basketball programs typically play 31 games during the regular season: the Mountaineers’ conference schedule accounts for 18 of those games, leaving them with 13 out of conference matchups to boost their résumé. For one of those matchups, they’ll host the hated Pittsburgh Panthers on Thursday, Nov. 13 in the 192nd occurrence of the Backyard Brawl.

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