 got their first home win over a Top 10 team in nearly five years on the same day they dropped out of the Top 25 to end an eight-week run as a ranked team. Jevon Carter had 16 points and Sagaba Konate 14 for West Virginia (16-4, 5-3), as all five starters scored in double figures while losing for the third time in four games. Daxter Miles Jr. had 12 points, Lamont West 11 and Wesley Harris 10. Alex Robinson had 17 points, nine assists and seven rebounds for TCU, and Kouat Noi had 13 points with three 3-pointers before being ejected because of a flagrant foul with just over 10 minutes left. Vladimir Brodziansky had 14 points, and Kenrich Williams had 14 rebounds. Bane's quick burst, with two 3-pointers and a heady layup between those long-range shots, pushed TCU ahead 47-34 with 15:28 left. That capped a 12-1 run to start the second half after the Frogs finished the first half on an 11-2 spurt in which Bane made the go-ahead shot. And that is even with Bane's long 3 going into the break getting taken off the board after officials determined the ball was still on Bane's fingertips when the clock hit zero, negating the 35-foot shot and leaving TCU's lead at two instead of five. Bane's two-handed slam dunk with 1:15 left broke a 31-all tie. He then made a putback when JD Miller couldn't convert on an alley-oop pass from Robinson, but the ball went right into Bane's hands. BIG PICTUREWest Virginia: The Mountaineers trailed by 20 with 5 1/2 minutes left and made somewhat of a dent in that. But overall, WVU shot only 33 percent from the field (25 of 75) and made 7 of 27 on 3-pointers, with Carter going 0 for 6 and Miles 1 for 8 from long range. TCU: The Frogs last home win over a Top 10 team was against No. 5 Kansas on Feb. 6, 2013. Their only win over a Top 10 since had been over the then-No. 1 Jayhawks in the Big 12 Tournament last March. UP NEXTWest Virginia is home to play Kentucky in the Big 12/SEC Challenge. TCU plays the first of consecutive road games Saturday for its Big 12/SEC Challenge matchup at Vanderbilt, the SEC's only team with a losing record.---More college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/-Top25)
Time: 9:00 PM EST West Virginia and TCU will square off Monday night at Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, after combining to lose three of five games they played last week while both were ranked in the Top 25. The two teams return to the Big 12 gauntlet, where nearly every game comes down to a handful of possessions. West Virginia, ranked sixth in last week's Associated Press poll, walloped Texas 86-51 on Saturday to snap a two-game losing streak. Jevon Carter led the Mountaineers with 22 points and Beetle Bolden hit 5 of 6 shots from 3-point range to tie a career high with 19 points." I thought we ran better offense in the second half," West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said. "The first half I don't know what we were. Everyone was a little out of character doing things they shouldn't do." West Virginia outrebounded Texas 45-29 and owned a 14-6 advantage on the offensive glass that led to 21 second-chance points. Sophomore forward Sagaba Konate had a career-high 14 rebounds, 10 points and six blocks, and Esa Ahmad added seven blocks in the win over Texas. But it was Logan Routt in particular who stood out to Huggins. He totaled five blocks in 10 minutes and was helping find ways to keep the ball out of the Longhorns' hands." We work at it," Huggins said. "Logan was terrific. He not only got some rebounds for us, but he kept Texas from getting rebounds, which is really critical. (Konate) was really good, too." The Horned Frogs head home after a 73-69 loss at Kansas State in which they fell behind by double digits early in the game and fought back to within five points in the waning moments. TCU coach Jamie Dixon was ejected for the first time in his career with 5:23 remaining and the Frogs trailing by seven." I'll take full responsibility for the loss. It's on me," Dixon said after the game. "I gave (Kansas State) points, and in a close game that just killed the team. First time it's ever happened to me." Vladmir Brodziansky led the Horned Frogs (14-5, 2-5 Big 12) with 15 points. Kenrich Williams had 11 points and 10 rebounds. TCU, which was ranked 24th in the Associated Press poll last week before beating Iowa State and losing at Kansas State, will likely see its eight-week, record-setting streak of being ranked come to an end. The Horned Frogs have dropped five conference games, including two in overtime, by a combined 16 points. TCU point guard Alex Robinson, who has moved into the starting lineup for the Horned Frogs after a knee injury to Jaylen Fisher, had 13 points, five rebounds and six assists. He said the team's near misses have brought the players closer together rather than pulled them apart." We just stay together," Robinson said. "We're focusing on our next game, putting this one behind us. Just keep it moving." West Virginia leads the all-time series with TCU 11-0, and the Horned Frogs lost the last meeting between the two, 61-60 last February in Fort Worth. While coaching at Pitt, Dixon was 12-7 against West Virginia.
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