After a thrilling win over TCU last Saturday, No. 17 West Virginia will now shift its focus to Kansas State, another conference opponent.
Kansas State (12-8, 5-2) is coming off a 63-53 victory against Oklahoma State. The Wildcats had three players score in double-digits against the Cowboys.
Nino Williams paved the way, scoring 20 points on the contest. Behind Williams were guards Marcus Foster and Justin Edwards who both chipped in with 14 points.
Foster is leading the team in scoring on the season, averaging 13.7 points per game. He?s shooting 42 percent from the field and 41 percent from beyond the arc.
Williams is second best in scoring ? he?s averaging 12 points a contest and is shooting over 50 percent from the floor. Williams is leading the team in rebounds, snagging 5.1 boards a game on average.
The Wildcats? two Big 12 losses come from Oklahoma State, a team which they found redemption against in their last outing, and the other at the hands of Iowa State, a team the Mountaineers also came up short against.
West Virginia (16-3, 4-2) is coming off a nail-biting 86-85 win versus TCU. It took heroics from two freshman players, Daxter Miles Jr. and Jevon Carter, for the Mountaineers to down the Horned Frogs.
Despite the win, Head Coach Bob Huggins still thinks his team needs to improve, particularly in passing and shooting the ball.
?We had shots. We just didn?t make shots,? Huggins said following the TCU game. ?(If) you make shots, it looks like you?re running good offense. If you don?t make shots, it looks like you can?t run offense.?
?I don?t lie. I could tell everything?s rosy and wonderful, but I?d be lying. We?ve got to pass it better.?
Against TCU, the Mountaineers went 29-71 (40.8 percent) from the floor, 6-25 (24 percent) from behind the 3-line and missed 10 free throws, some of which came in crucial moments.
On the season, West Virginia is shooting nearly 42 percent from the floor and just 28 percent from 3-point land.
Juwan Staten is averaging 15. 2 points per game, and the Mountaineers? leading scorer finally seemed to have snapped his skid of low scoring.
In the TCU game, Staten muscled up 18 points, tying with Devin Williams for leading scorer against the Horned Frogs.
In the end, it was a clutch play from Miles and Carter that lifted the Mountaineers over TCU, but Huggins can?t say just yet that this is a ?season-changing event? for his young guards.
?Ask me Tuesday (when we play Kansas State),? said Huggins when asked if this was a career-changing game for Miles and Carter. ?I don?t know. Season changing? I don?t know, I guess if we win Tuesday and Saturday (against Texas Tech) then yes. But, if we go to Kansas State and lay an egg, I would tell you, no, it hasn?t changed a bit.?
Kansas State (12-8, 5-2) is coming off a 63-53 victory against Oklahoma State. The Wildcats had three players score in double-digits against the Cowboys.
Nino Williams paved the way, scoring 20 points on the contest. Behind Williams were guards Marcus Foster and Justin Edwards who both chipped in with 14 points.
Foster is leading the team in scoring on the season, averaging 13.7 points per game. He?s shooting 42 percent from the field and 41 percent from beyond the arc.
Williams is second best in scoring ? he?s averaging 12 points a contest and is shooting over 50 percent from the floor. Williams is leading the team in rebounds, snagging 5.1 boards a game on average.
The Wildcats? two Big 12 losses come from Oklahoma State, a team which they found redemption against in their last outing, and the other at the hands of Iowa State, a team the Mountaineers also came up short against.
West Virginia (16-3, 4-2) is coming off a nail-biting 86-85 win versus TCU. It took heroics from two freshman players, Daxter Miles Jr. and Jevon Carter, for the Mountaineers to down the Horned Frogs.
Despite the win, Head Coach Bob Huggins still thinks his team needs to improve, particularly in passing and shooting the ball.
?We had shots. We just didn?t make shots,? Huggins said following the TCU game. ?(If) you make shots, it looks like you?re running good offense. If you don?t make shots, it looks like you can?t run offense.?
?I don?t lie. I could tell everything?s rosy and wonderful, but I?d be lying. We?ve got to pass it better.?
Against TCU, the Mountaineers went 29-71 (40.8 percent) from the floor, 6-25 (24 percent) from behind the 3-line and missed 10 free throws, some of which came in crucial moments.
On the season, West Virginia is shooting nearly 42 percent from the floor and just 28 percent from 3-point land.
Juwan Staten is averaging 15. 2 points per game, and the Mountaineers? leading scorer finally seemed to have snapped his skid of low scoring.
In the TCU game, Staten muscled up 18 points, tying with Devin Williams for leading scorer against the Horned Frogs.
In the end, it was a clutch play from Miles and Carter that lifted the Mountaineers over TCU, but Huggins can?t say just yet that this is a ?season-changing event? for his young guards.
?Ask me Tuesday (when we play Kansas State),? said Huggins when asked if this was a career-changing game for Miles and Carter. ?I don?t know. Season changing? I don?t know, I guess if we win Tuesday and Saturday (against Texas Tech) then yes. But, if we go to Kansas State and lay an egg, I would tell you, no, it hasn?t changed a bit.?
