Sometimes in sports, the story-book season has a cruel ending. West Liberty’s men’s basketball team endured that Saturday afternoon inside the Ford Cente
Sometimes in sports, the story-book season has a cruel ending. West Liberty’s men’s basketball team endured that Saturday afternoon inside the Ford Center in Evansville. Playing in their second NCAA Division II National Championship game in school history, the Hilltoppers fell short of achieving the ultimate goal, 111-101, and watched Nova Southeastern, which is coached […]
Sometimes in sports, the story-book season has a cruel ending. West Liberty’s men’s basketball team endured that Saturday afternoon inside the Ford Center in Evansville. Playing in their second NCAA Division II National Championship game in school history, the Hilltoppers fell short of achieving the ultimate goal, 111-101, and watched Nova Southeastern, which is coached […]
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – For the first time in nearly a decade, the West Liberty University men’s basketball team will be playing for an NCAA Division II national championship this afternoon. Coach Ben Howlett’s No. 5-ranked Hilltoppers (33-3) tips off against unbeaten and No. 1-ranked Nova Southeastern, Fla. (35-0) today at 3 p.m. (EDT) in the […]
Jim Crutchfield’s accomplishments as head coach of West Liberty University’s men’s basketball program are the stuff of legend. Ben Howlett’s resume as his protege quickly is nearing legendary status as well. When Crutchfield left West Liberty following the 2016 season and headed to Florida’s Nova Southeastern, Howlett stepped in and didn’t miss a beat. And […]