West Virginia University | |
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City: | Morgantown, WV |
Type: | Public |
Sports: | baseball, basketball, football, rifle, soccer, swimming, wrestling, cross country, gymnastics, rowing, tennis, track, volleyball |
Colors: | old gold and navy blue |
Mascot: | Mountaineers |
Website: | http://www.wvu.edu/ |
West Virginia University was ranked a third tier school in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Top Schools" list.[1]
Its sports teams are members of the Big 12 Conference (the only current conference member in the Eastern Time Zone). A tradition after every win is the (illegal, but the law is rarely enforced) symbolic burning of a couch.[2]