It’s taken 21 years, but the Mountaineers are finally returning to the NCAA Tournament, a place they used to visit regularly in the 1960s when the legendary Steve Harrick was guiding the program.
Then, when Dale Ramsburg eventually got a budget comparable to his competitors in the 1980s and early 1990s, West Virginia once again made trips to the tournament in 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1994.
Greg Van Zant made the NCAAs once during his second season at WVU in 1996 and then saw the spigot to the program get turned off until Randy Mazey’s arrival in 2013 when West Virginia began competing in the Big 12 Conference.