Mountaineers to Battle Oklahoma State on Saturday – West Virginia College Athletics

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Recent off their historic upset victory at seventh-ranked Kansas on Tuesday afternoon, the 10-2 West Virginia Mountaineers ring within the New Yr with a Saturday afternoon Massive 12 conflict towards Oklahoma State.
 
The Cowboys started convention play with a 60-47 residence loss to Houston on Monday.
 
In that recreation, Western Kentucky switch Brandon Newman, a 6-foot-5 senior guard, got here off the bench to steer Oklahoma State with 12 factors. Former Texas Tech participant Robert Jennings, a 6-foot-7 junior ahead, contributed 10.
 
Marchelus Avery additionally comes off the bench and leads the Cowboys in scoring (12.3 ppg.) and 3-point area targets (21). 
 
Avery, a 6-foot-8 ahead, performed final season at UCF and briefly thought of getting into the NBA draft earlier than transferring to Oklahoma State.
 
The Cowboys’ different double-digit scorer is Abou Ousmane, a 6-foot-10, 245-pound senior who performed final season at Xavier. He’s averaging 11.5 factors per recreation and knocking down a team-best 5.5 rebounds per contest.
 
Senior guard Bryce Thompson is one among three holdovers from final yr’s workforce and is averaging 9.7 factors per recreation.
 
Ahead Patrick Suemnick is a well-known title to Mountaineer followers. He performed at WVU final yr earlier than placing his title into the switch portal and touchdown in Stillwater. Suemnick reveals averages of two.6 factors and 1.7 rebounds in 11 video games.
 

Coach Steve Lutz is in his first season main the Oklahoma State program after temporary head teaching stops at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and at Western Kentucky, the place he led the Hilltoppers to a 22-12 document final season and first-round recreation within the NCAA Match.
 
Lutz has gained 20 or extra video games in each season he is coached.  
 
Up to now at Oklahoma State, Lutz has led the Cowboys to an 8-4 document with early wins over Inexperienced Bay, St. Thomas, Southern Illinois, Miami, Tulsa, Seton Corridor, Tarleton State and Oral Roberts.
 
OSU additionally misplaced 86-78 to Florida Atlantic and reveals double-digit defeats to Nevada and Oklahoma.
 
Final yr, Oklahoma State used 15 factors and 12 rebounds from Javon Small to defeat West Virginia 70-66 at Gallagher-Iba Enviornment.
 
Now, Small is enjoying for the Mountaineers and is main the Massive 12 in scoring with a mean of 19.2 factors per recreation. He scored 13 factors, together with the workforce’s last seven, grabbed 11 rebounds and handed out six assists in Tuesday’s victory at Kansas.
 
It was Small’s free throw with 1.8 seconds left the offered the successful margin for the Mountaineers.
 
West Virginia is now 3-0 towards nationally ranked groups underneath coach Darian DeVries. The Mountaineers additionally collected early-season victories towards third-ranked Gonzaga and 24^th-ranked Arizona.
 
West Virginia is looking for its first 2-0 begin to convention play since 2018.
 
Saturday’s recreation will tip off at midday and will probably be televised nationally on the CBS Sports activities Community. Mountaineer Sports activities Community radio protection with Tony Caridi, Brad Howe and David Kahn ideas issues off at 11 a.m. on stations all through West Virginia, on-line through WVUsports.com and the Varsity Community and WVU Recreation day apps.
 
Tickets are nonetheless accessible and could be bought via the Mountaineer Ticket Workplace by logging on to WVUGAME.com.