Stock Up, Stock Down: Eaglestaff Heats Up, Mountaineers Finish The Job + More

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The location winning streak stays live for West Virginia, pushing it to 15 pursuing tonight's double-digit triumph complete nan Colorado Buffaloes.

As always, our updated look astatine nan WVU hoops banal report.

Stock Up: Treysen Eaglestaff

Have yourself a night, kid! My goodness, Eaglestaff was successful a groove tonight. Even from nan jump, it felt for illustration thing he put up was going to spell in. He played pinch awesome control, sewage squared up, and moved a small differently, arsenic successful pinch much confidence. Honor Huff having a crippled for illustration this, wherever he was fundamentally taken retired of nan game, would person doomed WVU connected astir nights. Eaglestaff's shotmaking kept things afloat.

Stock Down: Three-point shooting

WVU vanished nan nighttime conscionable 6/22 from downtown, which is 1 of their lowest outputs of nan season. That, of course, was successful ample portion owed to nan protect gameplan Tad Boyle had connected Honor Huff, making it incredibly difficult to find abstraction and get unfastened looks. If you region Treysen Eaglestaff's 3/8 nighttime from range, nan Mountaineers went 3/14 (21%).

Stock Up: Harlan Obioha

I'm not going to knock him excessively overmuch for nan Houston crippled because nary 1 played good successful that one, and it's 1 of nan champion teams successful nan country. But successful nan Kansas crippled and tonight, he stepped up and answered nan doorbell successful respective cardinal moments that will get overlooked. He kept a fewer violative possessions live pinch his activity connected nan solid and past did a bully occupation of sliding backmost down aft helping connected nan elbow to return distant nan lob aft Colorado converted a fewer of those successful nan early going.

Stock Up: Closing ability

Since West Virginia blew its leads against Clemson and Ohio State, it's thing everyone who watches this squad anticipates. When does nan large tally come? Can they flooded it? Can they adjacent retired nan deal? In nan past 2 competitory games (not Houston, obviously), nan Mountaineers did precisely that. They stiff-armed some Kansas and Colorado successful their comeback attempts, keeping a comfortable lead down nan stretch.