January 1, 2019.
Whether we knew it at the time, or not, that date will live on as a critical turning point in West Virginia Mountaineer athletics.
Since joining the Big 12, West Virginia has always been an outsider but they’ve held their own. Basketball, since it began Big 12 play was 143-78 through December 31, 2018. From January 1, 2019, until today, the team is 62-53. The football team was 61-41 through December 31, 2018. Since then, the team is 17-18.
It isn’t supposed this hard to be a Mountaineer fan but since the calendar rolled over to 2019 it has been one punch in the gut after another.