With 184 games played between 1906 and 2012 , West Virginia 's rivalry against Pittsburgh , whose campus is roughly 80 miles north of WVU , is West Virginia 's most-played men 's basketball rivalry . This was an in-conference rivalry for many years : 1976 to 1982 in the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League and Eastern Athletic Association ( predecessors to the Atlantic 10 Conference ) and 1995 to 2012 in the Big East Conference . Following the conference realignment , West Virginia moved to the Big 12 Conference in 2012 , and Pittsburgh moved to the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013 and the series was put on hold until the 2017 – 2018 season . West Virginia has a 97 – 88 series lead
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