{"id":851863,"date":"2026-10-06T02:03:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/851863\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T02:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:03:21","slug":"wvu-basketball-named-final-four-dark-horse-bycbb-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/851863\/","title":{"rendered":"WVU Basketball Named &#8216;Final Four Dark Horse&#8217; ByCBB Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WVU basketball team gained attention from NCAA college basketball analyst Andy Katz after being named one of 10 a \u201cFinal Four Dark Horses\u201d for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>WVU is ranked No. 7 on the list along with Big 12 foes TCU and Baylor.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountaineers have potential to make the NCAA Tournament. After a season where they were on the bubble consistently, WVU has increased depth with a <a href=\"https:\/\/wvsportsnow.com\/wvu-basketball-non-conference-schedule-announced\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tougher non-conference schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In head coach Ross Hodge\u2019s first year, West Virginia finished the season at 18-14 with a 9-10 Big 12 record, including 0-1 in the conference tournament. The Mountaineers finished with three straight wins, culminating in a <a href=\"https:\/\/wvsportsnow.com\/wvu-basketball-claims-crown-winning-ot-thriller-over-oklahoma\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Basketball Crown Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find more coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/wvsportsnow.com\/category\/wvu-basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WVU basketball<\/a> at WV Sports Now.<\/p>\n<p>Add WV Sports Now as a Preferred Source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=wvsportsnow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by clicking here.<\/a> You can also find us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wvsportsnow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> and check us out on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4mtB2t5Iq4IgEV5VX2dXGQ?view_as=subscriber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. And don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/wvsportsnow.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign-up<\/a> to get all of our articles delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WVU basketball team gained attention from NCAA college basketball analyst Andy Katz after being named one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[9309,7,217,2813,231,772,1544,2817,33390,33391],"class_list":["post-851863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-andy-katz","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-feature","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-wvu-basketball","tag-wvu-hoops","tag-wvu-mbb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117391510980551511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}