“Ben McCollum appears to be WVU Athletic Director Wren Baker's leading candidate, according to most reports on the program's coaching search,” Joseph Smith wrote. “It makes plenty of sense too—McCollum was rumored to be on Baker's shortlist during the coaching search last spring that landed Darian DeVries.”

Following the departure of the men’s basketball coach Darian DeVries for Indiana, West Virginia University Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker i

He is taking over for outgoing coach Mike Woodson, who had announced in February that he would be stepping down at the end of the Indiana season.