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Football:
Must-win and trap games of 2017: West Virginia Mountaineers | ESPN
Virginia Tech in the season-opener is a must-win for the Mountaineers as the level of their competition makes a jump up by the first week of October.
Basketball:
Magical Mountaineers Claim Big 12 Title | WVU Athletics
The sixth-seeded West Virginia University women’s basketball team overcame improbable odds in a three-day span en route to defeating top-seeded and No. 2 nationally-ranked Baylor 77-66 to hoist the program’s first ever Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship trophy Monday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena.