<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=318iUQ_0vly18b200" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=318iUQ_0vly18b200" width="1210" height="806" ></figure>Welcome to The Shotgun/Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup (that we didn’t already talk about in another article) with some sophomoric humor and daily distractions thrown in for good measure. And if there’s something we missed, be sure to talk about it in the comments.The Preseason is here! The Big 12 schedule is here (It’s A Longer Gauntlet)! Let’s talk about the scheduling hand dealt to WVU. Let’s also look at the shooting stats for Drake under DeVries. Have DeVries’ guys made shots?FOOTBALLWest Virginia University senior quarterback Garrett Greene has been named to the watch list for the eighth annual Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award as announced by the organization.WVU has produced some highs, some lows and some stats in between during the first four games of the 2024 season.How players are grading out so far this season.One of the great joys of sports today is to attend a baseball game at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, an old-style stadium situated on the Allegheny River with a backdrop of downtown Pittsburgh laid out before you, sitting in an area of bars and restaurants and hotels. It is what you might imagine Old Mountaineer Field was to Morgantown from the time it opened a hundred years ago until it was replaced by the new Mountaineer Field in 1980.BASKETBALLWest Virginia’s men’s basketball team will play an expanded 20 Big 12 Conference games this season, along with 11 nonconference games. The Mountaineers’ schedule released Thursday includes 18 games at WVU Coliseum, including the season-opener Nov. 4 against Robert Morris.The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Big 12 Conference have announced the 2024-25 men's basketball schedule.West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the women's basketball team, in conjunction with the Big 12 Conference, released the 2024-25 league schedule on Thursday.BASEBALLWagener Field at Kendrick Family Ballpark is located at 2040 Gyorko Dr. in Granville. Jedd Gyorko, arguably the greatest player in WVU baseball history, has returned to the program that plays at his address.FÚTBOLBehind a pair of first half, set-piece goals, the West Virginia University women's soccer team remained undefeated in Big 12 Conference play and earned a 2-1 victory over Arizona State at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, on Thursday night.The No. 6 West Virginia University men's soccer team is back home this Friday, Sept. 27, to take on Kentucky in Sun Belt action. Kickoff from Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium is set for 7 p.m.WVU ATHLETICSFour student-athletes from the West Virginia University tennis team will compete in the Thunder in the Mountains tournament at the Schoenbaum Tennis Courts in Charleston, West Virginia, from Sept. 27-29.As DK Metcalf detailed Wednesday, the chemistry between him and Geno Smith, built over several seasons together, is showing up for Seattle’s offense this season.Peter Schrager named C Zach Frazier to his top-five rookies list of Week 3 after another dominant performance against the Chargers.The Mountain West, after receiving signed commitments Thursday from its seven remaining member schools to stay in the conference, is already looking at adding more.With both teams entering Saturday's game with an 0-1 record in Big 12 play, Oklahoma State vs. Kansas State feels like a Big 12 title elimination game.Here are the top storylines that you need to be following in Big 12 football heading into Week 5 of the 2024 season.On the most bizarre relocation campaign in modern sports history—and the fan base that fought backThe film Hollywood doesn’t want you to see tries to cohere into something genuinely transcendent, but ultimately amounts to a banal vanity project<div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KZnPOEJL7jk?rel=0" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-dnt="true" align="center">The West Virginia Mountaineers have held the Black Diamond Trophy for 1,104 days. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HailWV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HailWV</a>— The Black Diamond Trophy (@blkdmndtrophy) <a href="https://twitter.com/blkdmndtrophy/status/1839622442479681913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4Y1yCz_0vly18b200" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4Y1yCz_0vly18b200" width="940" height="788" >ALUMNI HALLHave any tips, suggestions or requests for what you want to see in The Shotgun/Throwdown? 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Welcome to The Shotgun/Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup (that we didn’t already talk about in another article) with some sophomoric humor and daily distractions thrown in for good measure. And if there’s something we missed, be sure to talk about it in the comments. The Preseason...