After a brutal recreation in Lubbock, issues did not get significantly better to finish the Mountaineer’s week in Texas as they took one other dominating loss in opposition to Baylor, 79 -67.
After a pair of cut up free throws and gradual offense to begin the sport, Erik Stevenson and Tre Mitchell bought buckets, after which Emmitt Matthews hit a 3 for a 9-0 WVU run to leap out to a 9-3 lead.
West Virginia’s offense continued rolling with a 3 from Stevenson and alley-oop by James Okonkwo to take a 16-9 lead.
With eight minutes to go within the first, Baylor hit a 3 to take a 20-18 lead.
Two free throws on the six minute mark gave Baylor their largest lead of the night time with the rating at 24-20.
An enormous three by Baylor with six remaining bought the lead as much as 5 for the Bears.
Seth Wilson hit an enormous three with three minutes remaining to finish what was a big area purpose drought for the Mountaineers, the rating now at 27-31 in favor of Baylor.
The half ended with the Bears closing issues out at 36-29. They have been extremely environment friendly, capturing 54.5% from three level and 48% from change.
One minute into the second and Baylor elevated their result in 11 with two three balls from LJ Cryer.
A Tre Mitchell three introduced the Mountaineers inside eight.
LJ Cryer hit his sixth of seven three level makes an attempt to take Baylors lead again to double digits with 16 minutes remaining.
Yet one other three by LJ Cryer prolonged the result in 15. This three gave him 21 factors of off three pointers, in comparison with West Virginia’s 12.
At the halfway level of the second half, WVU confronted a 17 level deficit.
Joe Toussaint discovered his first area purpose of the sport on a 3 pointer to maintain West Virginia’s hopes alive.
With slightly below 5 minutes remaining nevertheless, the Mountaineers trailed by 14.
Three minutes later, they trailed by 19 after a couple of unproductive possessions and massive performs by the Bears, together with a 4 level play.
Baylor ending up coming away with the victory 79-67, making it the Bears fifth consecutive win in opposition to West Virginia.
Bob Huggins and his crew will get their subsequent likelihood to seize one other win on Saturday, February 18th in opposition to Texas Tech.
