Thursday, October 29
Morgantown, W.Va.
7 P.M.
West Virginia University
vs
Frostburg State (Exh.)
October 28, 2026 04:00 PM | Women's Basketball
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. –Mountaineer women's basketball fans will get their first opportunity to see head coach Mark Kellogg's 2026-27 Mountaineers on Thursday night when they play Frostburg State in an exhibition game inside Hope Coliseum.
Admission to the contest is free and live stats can be found on WVUSports.com. There will be no streaming or live radio coverage for the contest.
Kellogg has brought the Mountaineers into the national spotlight across his first three seasons in Morgantown. His leadership has led WVU to back-to-back-back NCAA Tournament runs and 45 appearances in the Associated Press Top 25 polls. This season, the Mountaineers open at No. 24 in the poll and are fresh off winning the 2026 Big 12 Women's Basketball Tournament and hosting the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament.
Kellogg boasts a 523-143 record and a .785-win percentage across 21 collegiate seasons. His win percentage is the fourth best in the nation among active coaches with 10 or more seasons at the DI level. Kellogg's 78 wins in Morgantown are the most in program history across the first three seasons of a head coaches' tenure and is tied for the most ever over a three-season span in program history.
The Mountaineer roster features two returners and 10 newcomers. West Virginia's 12-player roster breaks down into six seniors, one junior, three sophomores and two freshmen.
WVU is headlined by senior guard Gia Cooke, who was named to the Big 12 Conference Preseason Team. She enters the season off a breakout campaign in which she became West Virginia's leading scorer and one of the Big 12's most dangerous offensive threats. Cooke started 34 games and averaged a team-best 15.0 points per game while leading the Mountaineers with 525 total points. She reached double figures 30 times and highlighted her ability to score from all three levels, knocking down 59 three-pointers and converting 77.2% of her free-throw attempts.
Ten newcomers join the roster, including high-impact transfers like Skylar Forbes (Marquette), Zahirah Walton (George Mason), Khyala Ngodu (UCF), Kennedy Harris (George Mason), Marya Hudgins (BYU), Hawa Doumbouya (VCU), Alexis Bordas (Duquesne), Nylah Wilson (Pitt), and Divine Tumba (Pitt). The Mountaineers round out their roster with freshman Chante Murray.
The transfer class is touted as one of the best in the country, bolstering a combined 526 games played and 317 starts. Forbes and Walton are both listed as top portal gets this summer according to CBS Sports.
WVU's lineup this season features six double-figure scorers from last season. Walton (18.1) leads the way for the Mountaineers as Forbes (15.5), Bordas (15.5), Cooke (15.0), Harris (14.1) and Ngodu (10.8) join her in averaging double figures a season ago. West Virginia was recently picked 4th in this year's Big 12 Preseason Coaches and Media Poll behind Oklahoma State, TCU, and Baylor.
For the latest information on West Virginia women's basketball, visit WVUsports.com and follow @WVUWBB on social media.
Admission to the contest is free and live stats can be found on WVUSports.com. There will be no streaming or live radio coverage for the contest.
Kellogg has brought the Mountaineers into the national spotlight across his first three seasons in Morgantown. His leadership has led WVU to back-to-back-back NCAA Tournament runs and 45 appearances in the Associated Press Top 25 polls. This season, the Mountaineers open at No. 24 in the poll and are fresh off winning the 2026 Big 12 Women's Basketball Tournament and hosting the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament.
Kellogg boasts a 523-143 record and a .785-win percentage across 21 collegiate seasons. His win percentage is the fourth best in the nation among active coaches with 10 or more seasons at the DI level. Kellogg's 78 wins in Morgantown are the most in program history across the first three seasons of a head coaches' tenure and is tied for the most ever over a three-season span in program history.
The Mountaineer roster features two returners and 10 newcomers. West Virginia's 12-player roster breaks down into six seniors, one junior, three sophomores and two freshmen.
WVU is headlined by senior guard Gia Cooke, who was named to the Big 12 Conference Preseason Team. She enters the season off a breakout campaign in which she became West Virginia's leading scorer and one of the Big 12's most dangerous offensive threats. Cooke started 34 games and averaged a team-best 15.0 points per game while leading the Mountaineers with 525 total points. She reached double figures 30 times and highlighted her ability to score from all three levels, knocking down 59 three-pointers and converting 77.2% of her free-throw attempts.
Ten newcomers join the roster, including high-impact transfers like Skylar Forbes (Marquette), Zahirah Walton (George Mason), Khyala Ngodu (UCF), Kennedy Harris (George Mason), Marya Hudgins (BYU), Hawa Doumbouya (VCU), Alexis Bordas (Duquesne), Nylah Wilson (Pitt), and Divine Tumba (Pitt). The Mountaineers round out their roster with freshman Chante Murray.
The transfer class is touted as one of the best in the country, bolstering a combined 526 games played and 317 starts. Forbes and Walton are both listed as top portal gets this summer according to CBS Sports.
WVU's lineup this season features six double-figure scorers from last season. Walton (18.1) leads the way for the Mountaineers as Forbes (15.5), Bordas (15.5), Cooke (15.0), Harris (14.1) and Ngodu (10.8) join her in averaging double figures a season ago. West Virginia was recently picked 4th in this year's Big 12 Preseason Coaches and Media Poll behind Oklahoma State, TCU, and Baylor.
For the latest information on West Virginia women's basketball, visit WVUsports.com and follow @WVUWBB on social media.
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