1959

H/A/N	Games	Wins	Losses	%
All Games	34	29	5	.853
Home	11	11	0	1.000
Away	11	8	3	.727
Neutral	12	10	2	.833

Date	Rank	Opponent	Opp. Rank	Conf.	Site	Location	H/A	OTs	WVU	Opp	W/L	Attendance
Dec 1		Furman		*	Memorial Auditorium	Greenville, SC	A		76	67	W	3,000
Dec 2		VMI		*	Municipal Auditorium	Bluefield, WV	N		82	71	W	2,500
Dec 6		Penn State			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		78	63	W	6,800
Dec 9	4	Citadel		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		89	61	W	4,800
Dec 12	4	Duke			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		101	63	W	6,800
Dec 13	4	Virginia			Charleston Civic Center	Charleston, WV	N		72	75	L	6,400
Dec 16	7	Richmond		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		98	67	W	5,000
Dec 19	7	Oklahoma State			Memorial Coliseum	Lexington, KY	N		67	49	W	9,800
Dec 20	7	Kentucky	2		Memorial Coliseum	Lexington, KY	A		91	97	L	11,700
Dec 27	5	Northwestern	12		Chicago Stadium	Chicago, IL	A	2	109	118	L	12,775
Dec 29	5	Tennessee	11		Armory-Fieldhouse	Knoxville, TN	A		76	72	W	6,000
Jan 2	11	Yale			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		80	52	W	6,200
Jan 5	11	Furman		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		100	66	W	5,200
Jan 8	11	Penn State			Recreation Hall	University Park, PA	A	1	89	81	W	5,000
Jan 10	11	Canisius			Buffalo Memorial Auditorium	Buffalo, NY	A		77	66	W	3,716
Jan 13	10	William & Mary		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		88	76	W	5,300
Jan 23	10	Western Kentucky			Freedom Hall	Louisville, KY	N		74	72	W	4,500
Jan 26	10	George Washington		*	Uline Arena	Washington, DC	A		77	67	W	4,500
Jan 30	10	William & Mary		*	City Arena	Norfolk, VA	A		82	76	W	3,700
Feb 3	10	Pitt			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		73	64	W	6,800
Feb 7	10	Holy Cross			Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		96	90	W	5,600
Feb 12	9	New York University			Madison Square Garden	New York, NY	A	1	70	72	L	6,385
Feb 14	9	Richmond		*	Richmond Arena	Richmond, VA	A		64	62	W	4,002
Feb 16	9	VMI		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		99	55	W	4,000
Feb 18	11	Pitt			Fitzgerald Field House	Pittsburgh, PA	A		90	69	W	5,349
Feb 21	11	George Washington		*	Mountaineer Field House	Morgantown, WV	H		89	86	W	6,800
Feb 26	10	Davidson			Richmond Arena	Richmond, VA	N		100	65	W	2,737
Feb 27	10	William & Mary			Richmond Arena	Richmond, VA	N		85	82	W	4,775
Feb 28	10	Citadel			Richmond Arena	Richmond, VA	N		85	66	W	5,006
Mar 10	10	Dartmouth			Madison Square Garden	New York, NY	N		82	68	W	14,526
Mar 13	10	Saint Joseph's	14		Charlotte Coliseum	Charlotte, NC	N		95	92	W	11,513
Mar 14	10	Boston University			Charlotte Coliseum	Charlotte, NC	N		86	82	W	11,651
Mar 20	10	Louisville			Freedom Hall	Louisville, KY	N		94	79	W	18,619
Mar 21	10	California	11		Freedom Hall	Louisville, KY	N		70	71	L	18,498

Name	GP	GS	MIN	MPG	FG	FGA	FG%	FT	FTA	FT%	Reb	RPG	PF	Dq	Ast	Pts	PPG
	34		6900	202.9	1075	2355	45.6	734	1072	68.5	1563	46.0	681	17	357	2884	84.8
Jerry West	34	34	1210	35.6	340	656	51.8	223	320	69.7	419	12.3	100	2	86	903	26.6
Bob Smith	34	34	1064	31.3	165	408	40.4	100	140	71.4	180	5.3	60		112	430	12.6
Willie Akers	34	31	993	29.2	93	236	39.4	67	96	69.8	245	7.2	98	4	17	253	7.4
Bucky Bolyard	34	30	899	26.4	135	281	48.0	74	104	71.2	105	3.1	83	2	8	344	10.1
Bob Clousson	34	27	754	22.2	85	188	45.2	72	108	66.7	190	5.6	106	3	27	242	7.1
Jim Ritchie	34	7	654	19.2	84	187	44.9	77	121	63.6	169	5.0	80	4	23	245	7.2
Ronnie Retton	33	5	497	15.1	43	100	43.0	45	61	73.8	47	1.4	44	1	45	131	4.0
Lee Patrone	31	2	348	11.2	74	162	45.7	44	69	63.8	70	2.3	28		20	192	6.2
Joe Posch	28	0	274	9.8	23	60	38.3	22	25	88.0	77	2.8	51	1	5	68	2.4
Paul "Butch" Goode	15	0	83	5.5	16	28	57.1	3	11	27.3	19	1.3	11		9	35	2.3
Howie Schertzinger	14	0	58	4.1	4	17	23.5	2	5	40.0	25	1.8	5		2	10	0.7
Nick Visnic	13	0	43	3.3	10	25	40.0	4	10	40.0	13	1.0	11		2	24	1.8
Bob Davis	6	0	10	1.7		1	0.0				3	0.5	1				0.0
Jim Warren	5	0	7	1.4	1	4	25.0				1	0.2	2		1	2	0.4
Jay Jacobs	5	0	6	1.2	2	2	100.0	1	2	50.0		0.0	1			5	1.0
TEAM	34			0.0								0.0					0.0

#	Name	Pos	Ht	Wt	Class	Letter	Captain	Hometown
10	Nick Visnic	G	6' 0"	165	So			Wheeling, WV
11	Paul "Butch" Goode	G	6' 2"	175	Jr			Pineville, WV
12	Jay Jacobs	G	5' 8"	155	Jr			Morgantown, WV
14	Ronnie Retton	G	5' 7"	150	Sr	*	*	Fairview, WV
15	Lee Patrone	G	6' 1"	185	So	*		Bellaire, OH
21	Bob Smith	F	6' 4"	185	Sr	*	*	Charleston, WV
22	Howie Schertzinger	F	6' 4"	190	Sr			Morgantown, WV
24	Bob Davis	C	6' 4"	215	So			Morgantown, WV
25	Joe Posch	C	6' 7"	205	So	*		Riverside, NJ
30	Bucky Bolyard	G	5' 11"	175	Sr	*		Aurora, WV
31	Jim Warren	F	6' 2"	175	Jr			Clarksburg, WV
32	Willie Akers	F	6' 5"	195	Jr	*		Mullens, WV
34	Bob Clousson	C	6' 5"	195	Sr	*		Clarksburg, WV
35	Jim Ritchie	F	6' 5"	190	So	*		Drexel Hill, PA
44	Jerry West	F	6' 3"	180	Jr	*		Chelyan, WV

Southern Conference Standings

#	Team	Conf. Games	W	L	%	Overall	W	L	%
1	West Virginia	11	11	0	1.000	34	29	5	.853
2	Virginia Tech	12	10	2	.833	21	16	5	.762
3	Citadel	11	7	4	.636	20	15	5	.750
4	William & Mary	14	7	7	.500	24	13	11	.542
5	Richmond	14	6	8	.429	22	11	11	.500
6	Furman	12	5	7	.417	26	14	12	.538
7	George Washington	11	4	7	.364	25	14	11	.560
8	Davidson	10	2	8	.200	25	9	16	.360
9	VMI	13	2	11	.154	18	5	13	.278