West Virginia Wesleyan earned the No. 2 seed for next week’s MEC Women’s Basketball Tournament at WesBanco Arena, finishing 18-6 overall and 15-5 in league play. Regular-season champion Glenville State leads the field, with the 10-team, five-day tournament tipping off March 4.
Shawnee State University has been accepted into the NCAA Division II expedited provisional membership process and will begin competing in the Mountain East Conference in 2026-27.
WVSSAC has approved girls wrestling as a preliminary sanctioned sport starting in 2026-27, creating an official girls-only state championship with regional qualifiers separate from the boys tournament.
Charleston was picked No. 1 in the 2026 Mountain East Conference men’s tennis preseason poll, earning six first-place votes after a 21-4 season and MEC and NCAA Atlantic Regional titles.
Charleston is the preseason favorite in the 2026 MEC women’s tennis poll, earning six of seven first-place votes after a 21-5 season, a perfect 6-0 league mark, and MEC, Atlantic Regional and Sweet Sixteen runs. Fairmont State is second, with West Virginia Wesleyan picked third.
Fairmont State and Charleston are the preseason favorites to win the MEC’s North and South divisions, respectively, in the 2026 softball coaches poll. West Virginia Wesleyan was picked fourth in the South, earning one first-place vote.
Wesleyan was picked fifth in the MEC South Division preseason baseball poll, which ranked Charleston first and was compiled from votes by the conference’s 11 head coaches.
Frostburg State was picked preseason favorite in the 2026 Mountain East Conference women’s lacrosse poll, receiving five first-place votes while West Virginia Wesleyan was picked sixth.
West Virginia Wesleyan’s Emma Witt and West Liberty’s Jameka Brungard share the MEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week honor. Witt had 20 points and 16 rebounds in a win over Wheeling, while Brungard posted 22 points and 12 boards against Davis & Elkins.
West Virginia Wesleyan’s Emma Witt and Concord’s Alexis Frazee share MEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Week honors after big scoring performances, including Witt’s 30-point double-double in a win over West Liberty.
