MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia’s final pre-Christmas game will take place on Monday night at the WVU Coliseum when the 20th-ranked Mountaineers take on Eastern Kentucky in a 7 p.m. game that will be televised nationally on ESPNU.
The Colonels are coming off an eight-point loss to East Tennessee State on Friday night and also show recent loses to Kentucky and Marshall.
Eastern Kentucky is 8-5 so far under first-year coach Dan McHale, a Kentucky graduate who replaced former WVU assistant coach Jeff Neubauer, now coaching at Fordham.
Neubauer had a successful 10-year run at Eastern Kentucky where he won 20 or more games in a season five times and made two trips to the NCAA tournament, most recently in 2014.