The Baylor Bears enter Wednesday evening’s recreation with the West Virginia Mountaineers outdoors the highest 25 for the primary time since March 2019, losers of three straight video games. Final week, Baylor defeated two heartthrobs by a mixed three factors in opposition to top-25 opponents TCU and Kansas State.
Whereas the Bears’ struggles have been well-documented, the Mountaineers have additionally hit a tough patch after a promising begin, going Zero-Three in convention. West Virginia will welcome a well-recognized face to the sector, as Bears ahead Jalen Bridges performed 52 video games for Bob Huggins over two seasons in Morgantown earlier than transferring within the offseason.
Whereas Baylor’s soccer program has by no means received at Morgantown, the basketball program has been profitable at Mountain State, going 6-Four on the West Virginia Coliseum and a 14-Eight total document over the Mountaineers.
The struggles have come on protection for Baylor, permitting over 80 factors in every of the final three video games. Offensively, their guard recreation nonetheless carries them, with Keyonte George and Adam Flagler named within the Picket Award’s Midseason Prime 25, being the one program outdoors of final 12 months’s nationwide championship contenders Kansas and North Carolina, which has a number of gamers on the roster.
WEST VIRGINIA STARTERS
G Kedrian Johnson
Erik Stevenson
emmitt matthews
F Tre Mitchell
jimmy bell
BAYLOR STARTER
Jorge Keyonte
G L J Cryer
Adam Flagler
F-flo Thamba
Bridges F Jalen
FIRST HALF
UNDER-16: Baylor leads Four-2. Jalen Bridges scores the primary factors of the sport at 2:03 with a layup and one, however misses the free throw. Bears 1-5 from the bottom and Zero-2 from three.
UNDER-12: Baylor leads 13-9. Keyonte George rattled off 5 straight factors with a step-back Three-pointer to place it up 9-2. Mitchell hits a transition layup to finish an Eight-Zero run for Baylor. Johnson scores a transition layup on the following possession and ends the prospect and one to make it 10-7. George responds with a straight three.
UNDER-Eight: Baylor leads 18-16. Seth Wilson hits a fadeaway to chop Baylor’s result in one. Cryer responds by driving from three-point line for the layup after which hits a step again from three on the following possession.
UNDER-Four: Baylor leads 27-23. Flagler comes on the board with a 3 to carry the result in seven. After lacking their first 10 Three-pointers, WVU hits their first to chop the result in two. Bridges responds with offensive rebounding and kicking.
Flagler hits a three-fadeaway with :37 to play and George hits a circus-like fadeaway three within the nook on the buzzer.
HALF TIME: Baylor 33, West Virginia 27
SECOND HALF
UNDER-16: Baylor leads 46-40. Stevenson hits a triple on the primary possession of time. George hits his fourth Three-pointer and scores six in a row for the Bears, giving him 21 factors. The Mountaineers hit back-to-back Three-pointers to chop the result in one level.