| Story of the Tape |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Factors Per Sport | 68.6 | 69.7 |
| Scoring Margin | +1.1 | +6.1 |
| Area Purpose Proportion | .422 | .428 |
| OPP Area Purpose Proportion | .435 | .400 |
| 3-PT Area Purpose Proportion | .313 | .332 |
| Opp 3-PT Area Purpose Proportion | .307 | .290 |
| Free Throw Proportion | .633 | .745 |
| Rebounds Per Sport | 34.3 | 33.7 |
| Assists Per Sport | 12.9 | 13.4 |
| Turnovers Per Sport | 10.9 | 10.9 |
| Steals Per Sport | 7.5 | 8.1 |
| Blocks Per Sport | 3.1 | 4.6 |
| Streak | W1 | W1 |
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia earned its third Massive 12 Convention street victory of the season final Sunday at Cincinnati and will probably be in search of a fourth on Wednesday evening at TCU.
WVU, a mixed 2-25 in Massive 12 street video games over the prior three seasons, final received 4 or extra league street video games through the COVID 12 months in 2021, which included a 74-66 triumph at TCU’s Schollmaier Enviornment.
The Mountaineers (14-7, 5-5) have received six instances there however have dropped their final two conferences in 2024 and 2023.
This 12 months, TCU has 10 of its 11 wins at dwelling, together with final Sunday’s 68-57 verdict over Massive 12 backside dweller Colorado to snap its three-game Massive 12 dropping streak.
The Horned Frogs, now 11-10 total and 4-6 in convention play, present league wins over Kansas State, BYU, Baylor and Colorado and losses to Arizona, Houston, Utah, Kansas, UCF and Texas Tech.
Utah and Kansas had been every victorious in Fort Price.
Veteran coach Jamie Dixon is in the course of a big rebuild this 12 months that required him to interchange 9 scholarship gamers off final season’s 21-win NCAA Match squad.
He introduced in 10 new gamers, six transfers and 4 freshmen, in a recruiting class that was thought of the 17th greatest within the nation by ESPN.com.
One among Dixon’s prime 100 freshman recruits, 6-foot-7 ahead David Punch, scored a season-high 19 factors in final Sunday’s come-from-behind victory over the Buffaloes. The Harker Heights, Texas, resident made seven-of-10 from the ground, together with three-of-three from 3-point vary, to spice up his season scoring common to six.2 factors per recreation.
TCU’s different prime 100 freshman recruit, 6-foot-6 ahead Isaiah Manning from Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, has appeared in all 21 video games and logged 11 minutes within the Colorado win.
Noah Reynolds, a 6-foot-3 guard who performed final season at Inexperienced Bay, leads TCU with a median of 12.4 factors per recreation. He was the one different Horned Frog to achieve double figures with 11 in opposition to Colorado.
Vasean Allete, a 6-foot-2 Previous Dominion switch, can also be averaging double figures at 11.1 factors per outing. He changed Arizona State switch Frankie Collins within the beginning lineup when Collins was misplaced for the season after breaking his left foot within the Vanderbilt loss in early December.
Dixon’s different key gamers are former Kansas switch Ernest Udeh Jr., the one returning contributor from final season, and 6-foot-8 Wyoming switch Brendan Wenzel.
Udeh, a 6-foot-11 junior middle, is averaging 7.0 factors and a team-best 7.9 rebounds per recreation, whereas blocking a team-high 27 pictures.
Wenzel exhibits averages of 8.7 factors and three.1 rebounds per recreation.
A key bench performer for TCU is 6-foot-6 senior ahead Trazarien White, a UNC Wilmington product who has began 18 video games and is averaging 8.9 factors and a couple of.9 rebounds per contest.
TCU compelled Colorado into 19 turnovers which resulted in 28 factors, together with 10 on fastbreaks. The Horned Frogs additionally bought 24 factors from their bench.
“We did what we needed to do,” Dixon stated afterward. “We needed to pressure turnovers; that was one thing that we needed to do, and we actually talked about. I did not need to get outrebounded like we did (34 to 22), however the turnover numbers alleviated a number of the rebounding differential.”
On the identical day TCU was snapping its three-game Massive 12 dropping streak, West Virginia was doing likewise at Cincinnati.
The Mountaineers bought 19 factors from the convention’s main scorer Javon Small, whereas senior guard Joseph Yesufu got here off the bench to contribute 16.
West Virginia fully smothered the Bearcats by limiting them to only 31.5% taking pictures and getting 20 factors off of UC’s 14 turnovers. WVU scored almost half (30) of its 63 factors within the paint, whereas ending its current 3-point taking pictures woes by making 9 of its 18 makes an attempt.
Yesufu was four-for-four and Small was four-for-seven from 3-point land.
“I assumed defensively, the fellows got here out with an excellent focus,” West Virginia coach Darian DeVries stated following the sport. “We put quite a lot of stress on beginning the sport off higher as a result of we had dug ourselves such huge holes that by the point we got here out of it, it was an excessive amount of.”
In West Virginia’s prior losses to Arizona State, Kansas State and Houston, WVU trailed by double digits within the first half. In opposition to Cincinnati, it was reversed with the Mountaineers main 40-25 on the break.
“Even after we made errors, I assumed our connectivity of masking for each other was actually good, and that led to some alternatives for our offense to get going,” DeVries stated.
WVU is 39th in the latest NCAA NET rankings whereas TCU checks in at 77th. This will probably be one in every of three totally different journeys to Texas within the subsequent 18 days for the Mountaineers.
West Virginia owns an 18-7 total benefit within the TCU sequence with all seven of its losses coming since Dixon took over. Dixon is now 7-9 versus West Virginia whereas with the Frogs and is 19-16 total, which incorporates his lengthy tenure at Pitt when each groups had been taking part in within the Massive East.
Tv protection for Wednesday evening’s recreation has been assigned to ESPN+ (Ted Emrich and Tim Welsh) and it’ll tip off at 8 p.m. ET.
Mountaineer Sports activities Community radio protection with Tony Caridi, Brad Howe and studio host David Kahn will get issues began at 7 p.m. on stations all through West Virginia, on-line through WVUsports.com and the Varsity Community and WVU Gameday apps.
