1953

H/A/N	Games	Wins	Losses	%
All Games	26	19	7	.731
Home	13	13	0	1.000
Away	10	4	6	.400
Neutral	3	2	1	.667

Date	Opponent	Opp. Rank	Conf.	Site	Location	H/A	OTs	WVU	Opp	W/L	Attendance
Dec 1	Waynesburg			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		82	66	W	5,000
Dec 6	Washington & Lee		*	Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building	Fayetteville, WV	N		89	83	W	3,100
Dec 9	George Washington		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		84	83	W	6,400
Dec 13	Maryland		*	Ritchie Coliseum	College Park, MD	A		45	52	L	3,100
Dec 17	William & Mary		*	Blow Gymnasium	Williamsburg, VA	A	1	101	100	W
Dec 19	Richmond		*	Benedictine Gym	Richmond, VA	A		65	83	L
Dec 22	South Carolina		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		91	74	W	4,000
Dec 23	South Carolina		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		86	73	W	3,600
Dec 27	Syracuse			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		71	63	W	6,400
Dec 31	Cornell			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		70	65	W	3,500
Jan 3	New York University			Madison Square Garden	New York, NY	A		75	78	L	7,103
Jan 10	Virginia Tech		*	Memorial Gymnasium	Blacksburg, VA	A		92	55	W
Jan 14	Penn State			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		82	72	W	7,000
Jan 17	Pitt			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		95	70	W	7,000
Jan 24	Virginia Tech		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		86	62	W	4,500
Jan 31	Bethany			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		87	65	W	4,000
Feb 3	Duke		*	Cameron Indoor Stadium	Durham, NC	A		86	91	L
Feb 7	VMI		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		98	63	W	5,000
Feb 12	Pitt			Fitzgerald Field House	Pittsburgh, PA	A		65	67	L	2,234
Feb 17	Richmond		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		89	86	W	6,800
Feb 20	VMI		*	Cormack Field House	Lexington, VA	A		94	70	W	1,500
Feb 21	Virginia			Memorial Gymnasium	Charlottesville, VA	A		110	84	W
Feb 25	Penn State			Recreation Hall	University Park, PA	A		57	77	L
Feb 28	Washington & Lee		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		91	72	W	5,200
Mar 5	Furman			Reynolds Coliseum	Raleigh, NC	N		91	87	W	12,400
Mar 6	North Carolina State	12		Reynolds Coliseum	Raleigh, NC	N		80	85	L	12,000

Name	GP	GS	FG	FGA	FG%	FT	FTA	FT%	Reb	RPG	PF	Dq	Pts	PPG
	26		811	2183	37.2	540	855	63.2	1288	49.5	550	21	2162	83.2
Jim Sottile	26	26	203	512	39.6	95	131	72.5	156	6.0	93	6	501	19.3
Ralph "Red" Holmes	26	25	106	291	36.4	65	92	70.7	127	4.9	42	1	277	10.7
Eddie Becker	26	25	150	401	37.4	91	125	72.8	137	5.3	78	3	391	15.0
Willie Bergines	26	16	68	174	39.1	59	119	49.6	240	9.2	46	1	195	7.5
Mack Isner	25	18	125	386	32.4	89	136	65.4	260	10.4	91	6	339	13.6
Frank Spadafore	23	2	33	75	44.0	33	55	60.0	32	1.4	27		99	4.3
John Coil	20	10	51	128	39.8	40	69	58.0	145	7.3	60	1	142	7.1
Paul Witting	20	3	38	79	48.1	29	52	55.8	70	3.5	42	1	105	5.3
Pete White	15	3	17	59	28.8	15	23	65.2	58	3.9	21	1	49	3.3
George Davis	14	1	1	10	10.0	4	5	80.0	34	2.4	11		6	0.4
Ronnie LaNeve	10	1	8	25	32.0	1	7	14.3	4	0.4	3		17	1.7
Gary Mullins	9	0	3	9	33.3	7	15	46.7	9	1.0	5		13	1.4
Mike Holt	7	0	2	7	28.6	1	5	20.0	3	0.4	5		5	0.7
Charles "Dubby" Morris	7	0	2	8	25.0	5	10	50.0	7	1.0	15	1	9	1.3
Jim Reckard	6	0	1	6	16.7	4	8	50.0	1	0.2	5		6	1.0
Tony Hyde	5	0	1	5	20.0	1	2	50.0	1	0.2	1		3	0.6
Gussie Fisher	5	0	2	6	33.3	1	1	100.0	4	0.8	3		5	1.0
John Holt	4	0		2	0.0					0.0	2			0.0
TEAM	26									0.0				0.0

#	Name	Pos	Ht	Wt	Class	Letter	Captain	Hometown
	Jim Reckard	F	5' 10"	165	So			Huntington, WV
	Ronnie LaNeve	G	6' 2"	175	So	*		Newell, WV
	Mike Holt	G	6' 2"	170	Fr			Ft. Lauderdale, FL
	John Holt	G	6' 1"	168	Fr			Ft. Lauderdale, FL
	Frank Spadafore	G	5' 8"	155	So	*		Shinnston, WV
	Gary Mullins	G	6' 4"	200	Fr			Gassaway, WV
	Charles "Dubby" Morris	G	6' 2"	185	Fr			Huntington, WV
	Tony Hyde	G	5' 10"	160	Sr	*		Hazleton, PA
	Gussie Fisher	G	6' 1"	164	Sr	*		Elkins, WV
	George Davis	C	6' 5"	155	Sr	*		Fairmont, WV
22	Paul Witting	C	6' 7"	200	Fr	*		Union, NJ
24	Pete White	F	6' 5"	190	So	*		Clendenin, WV
25	Jim Sottile	F	6' 1"	178	Sr	*	*	Bristol, PA
30	Ralph "Red" Holmes	G	6' 1"	171	Jr	*		Charleston, WV
31	John Coil	C	6' 10"	215	Fr	*		South Amboy, NJ
32	Mack Isner	F	6' 4"	180	Jr	*		Elkins, WV
33	Eddie Becker	F	6' 0"	188	Jr	*		Wheeling, WV
34	Willie Bergines	F	6' 6"	185	Fr	*		Beckley, WV

Southern Conference Standings

#	Team	Conf. Games	W	L	%	Overall	W	L	%
1	North Carolina State	16	13	3	.813	32	26	6	.813
2	Wake Forest	15	12	3	.800	29	22	7	.759
3	Maryland	15	12	3	.800	23	15	8	.652
4	West Virginia	14	11	3	.786	26	19	7	.731
5	Furman	13	10	3	.769	27	21	6	.778
6	Duke	16	12	4	.750	26	18	8	.692
7	Richmond	18	13	5	.722	27	20	7	.741
8	North Carolina	21	15	6	.714	27	17	10	.630
9	George Washington	18	12	6	.667	22	15	7	.682
10	Clemson	14	6	8	.429	18	8	10	.444
11	South Carolina	19	7	12	.368	24	11	13	.458
12	William & Mary	19	6	13	.316	23	10	13	.435
13	Virginia Tech	17	4	13	.235	23	4	19	.174
14	Davidson	17	3	14	.176	21	4	17	.190
15	VMI	15	1	14	.067	24	5	19	.208
16	Washington & Lee	18	1	17	.056	22	2	20	.091
17	Citadel	11	0	11	.000	18	4	14	.222