West Virginia Rallies to Down Georgetown in Large 12-Large East Battle – West Virginia College Athletics

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia rallied from a five-point second half deficit to down Georgetown 73-60 in a Large 12-Large East Battle recreation on the WVU Coliseum Friday evening.
 
The Hoyas, main 30-28 at halftime and 41-36 on Malik Mack’s 3-pointer with 14:46 left, acquired only a Drew Fielder layup over the subsequent six minutes because the Mountaineers went on a 17-2 run to take management of the sport.
 
Javon Small, who scored a game-high 26, started the run with a three-point play, adopted by an Eduardo Andre dunk after which two Ok.J. Tenner free throws tie the sport 43.
 
Consecutive Toby Okani baskets after which 3s from Small and Tucker DeVries constructed the Mountaineer result in 10, 53-43, with 9:28 left. One other DeVries basket pushed the result in 12 earlier than the Hoyas rallied with seven straight.
 
Small once more stopped the run with a jumper, and his largest shot of the sport, a bank-shot 3 with the shot clock winding down, pushed the margin again to 11 with 1:20 to go. Okani put the punctuation mark on tonight’s win with a breakaway dunk with a minute remaining.
 
Georgetown, taking part in its first street recreation of the season and simply its second towards an influence convention opponent, used altering defenses within the first half to hold round.
 
The Hoyas (7-2) took the lead six minutes into the competition and led for 20:11 of the sport.
 
“Within the first half we had been simply caught within the mud somewhat bit and could not get a lot going, however fortunately defensively we had been in a position to maintain it pretty tight going into the half,” West Virginia coach Darian DeVries mentioned. 
 
“We simply weren’t getting a whole lot of motion, and I assumed Georgetown did a pleasant job protecting us off-balance somewhat bit by switching defenses, and that is one of many issues we’ve not seen a whole lot of but,” DeVries added. “We have to higher in that space of flowing somewhat bit higher, however within the second half our motion was rather a lot higher, and we had been in a position to get into transition which additionally helped.”
 
DeVries contributed 15 factors on 5 of 10 capturing, together with 13 within the second half. Okani chipped in with 11.
 
Andre gave West Virginia an enormous elevate coming off the bench within the second half and completed the sport with 4 factors, 4 blocks and three defensive rebounds.
 
“I assumed he modified the sport with some actually huge rim-protection performs that will have been layups that he got here out and acquired after which acquired us into transition,” DeVries mentioned. “I really like the vitality he got here in and gave us an enormous spark that led to that huge run within the second half.”
 
West Virginia (6-2) held its personal on the glass towards the a lot larger Hoyas and truly outboarded them 34 to 33.
 
Guards Sencire Harris (9) and DeVries (seven) led the Mountaineers in rebounding.
 
“The second half I assumed we discovered our vitality and an enormous a part of that was the super crowd,” DeVries mentioned. “They actually rallied behind us and gave us an enormous enhance and we had been capable of finding a few of that vitality and enthusiasm. The gang was an enormous distinction within the recreation and I am grateful for everybody who confirmed up.”
 
WVU outscored Georgetown 28 to 22 within the paint and had a 19 to 12 edge on factors off turnovers. Different specialty stats in West Virginia’s favor had been fastbreak factors, 14 to 4, and bench factors, 9 to eight.
 
Georgetown acquired 17 from Jayden Epps and 13 from main scorer Thomas Sorber, who performed a great portion of the second half with 4 fouls.
 
West Virginia completed the sport out-shooting Georgetown 45.6% to 37.9%, and in addition had a 12 to 7 benefit in free throws.
 
WVU’s win tonight evens the long-standing sequence at 27 video games every, and ranges the Large 12’s file in its problem with the Large East 4-4.
 
A crowd of 11,522 watched tonight’s contest.
 
This was the primary of a 16-day, four-game homestand that features video games developing on Tuesday, Dec. 10 towards North Carolina Central, on Saturday, Dec. 14 towards Bethune-Cookman and on Sunday, Dec. 22 towards Mercyhurst.
 
Tickets for these video games are on sale by means of the Mountaineer Ticket Workplace and could be bought by logging on to WVUGAME.com.